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The extremely talented Jerry Builds Bricks came up with the wonderful idea of remaking classic LEGO sets last year and is running a 2021 season too.
For 2021 I chose the super-cute taxi set from 1971 - 50 years on, could I come up with a build that demonstrates both how much vehicle design has changed, as well as how sophisticated @lego has gotten?
The original set has just 17 pieces, no curves and is built 100% studs-up, proudly showing 32 of its total surface area of 40 studs, yet has wonderfully simple and elegant proportions. Onto my build, which has a few more pieces at around 130; how could an EV taxi look? I kept the colour scheme of the original set, including the wheels, but thought a mash-up of the original red, but with a nod to the checker graphics often seen on taxis. Of course the side graphics say TAXi, not TAXI as everything hi-tech has to have a lower-case i, right?
Two years ago a talented and kind-hearted artist Brooke Shaden gave me a portfolio review. The review included information on Brooke’s opinion about my photography, list of my strong photography points and suggestions on how I can further develop my style.
At that time Brooke characterised my style with such words:
* Storytelling
* Cinematic
* Character
* Theatrical
* Haunting
To be honest, I was pleased to read such words as they described vividly what I want my photography style to be. One of the suggestions I was given was to create a triptych to show the character’s life in different moments. The idea was to create a character and show its struggles and development of a plot in a sort of a cohesive mini-series.
I have already created storytelling series, which depict characters in development. They are more of cinematic nature and serve as a short story, but I have never created concepts with one particular character, appearing in several separate images.
When I was thinking what kind of triptych I want to create, I decided to create images with one character, which interacts with nature. I wanted to show the relationships between a man and the nature. I definitely wanted to have a bold and distinctive color in images and a very easy-to-collaborate model (read: available whenever I have inspiration to create something for triptych). This is how I came up with an idea to use me as a model in these images (I told you I want availability:) and this vintage red dress.
Today I present the third picture of my triptych 'Numb'. Full triptych can be seen in the blogpost.
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We're copy catting the amazingly and awesomely talented Apionid today.
I had to do this shot.
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How on earth she managed to keep his whiskers in the blend I don't know- i have much to learn in Photoshop but this is my first actually layering attempt and I am chuffed I managed it without too much swearing.
(this is Ozzy Osourne, the Prince of Darkness, in his true self)
also - i am off the Barcelona tomorrow for a 3 day break (get me!) with himself so may not be posting until I get back.
A shot with a soundtrack in the comments
Well its never dull in Hull as you know
I spent the last weekend listening to a wide variety of new music as the 2019 New Music Biennial arrived in Hull. A total of twenty new works by a variety of composers were held at various venues in the city . Whilst most of the music was at the serious end of the spectrum and inside buildings . This piece was just a bit of fun as a fleet of seven ice cream vans call out to one another. The vans, each with their own individual harmony, weave in and out of each other to create a mesmerising symphony of different clustered sounds. It was created by Dan Jones who is a multi award-winning composer and sound designer working in film, television and theatre. The vans toured the estates of Hull which must have been quite surprise .
If you live in up market locations you might never have seen one of these incredibly tacky vans. I remember as a kid you could hear the vans coming down the street usually playing Greensleeves for some reason. I would have to try and beg thruppence of my mother to go and buy a cornet
A short video the first I have posted on flickr including sound is available at the top of the comments
As was the case in 2017 the 2019 New Music Biennial is being held in Hull and London. The New Music Biennial 2019 is a PRS Foundation initiative that supports and provides a platform for talented organisations and music creators who are pushing the boundaries of new music in the UK. It creates a world class programme of commissions, performed across the UK, broadcast by BBC Radio 3. New Music Biennial presents new music across all genres, from classical and chamber opera, to jazz, folk and electronic. We aim to reach new audiences for contemporary music and encourage ideas for short works no longer than 15 minutes duration which could be performed in a range of settings. A great deal of the music can be heard on the Radio 3 website
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I know i normally do these on a friday but i had so many favourites over the past few days i just had to share.It sucks that you might not be able to see some of these amazing shots as a few people have gone f&f...all thanks to orkut - ugh!!
Thanks to everyone for your amazing talent you share with us,
354/365 Work with textures
I borrowed this image from my friend Philip Dunn an extraordinary and super talented photographer. Thank you so much Philip for your generosity !!
A work in progress: Phiddy1's Birds in texture
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Rearrange, boy, make yourself strong
You're not the first or last who's lost everything
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You know we all live for once
Using is a part of living your life
Daylight always follows the night
Looking at life as it's always been
It will be that way here
'Til the world ends
(...)
Black-capped chickadee
by Francis Stella
A friend of mine, a friend to all,
We named him for his cheerful call
And the handsome little cap of coal
He wears on neighborhood patrol.
And when I’m in his woods he’ll fly
To some low branch I happen by,
Though if he were just somewhat bolder
I think he’d light upon my shoulder.
He offers me a friendly greeting
Then hops about throughout our meeting;
In his white and gray and sable
That tiny bird is always able
To raise my spirits when I’m low
And force my hurried step to slow.
And on the topic of the day
There’s so much that he comes to say!
Though what that topic really is—
Well, the topic’s only ever his;
For though I’d like to say I heard
Something from this little bird,
I’ve yet to understand a word,
And I really would agree
With those who’d shared his company
And aptly named him chickadee.
A friend of mine, a friend from youth,
But friend as well to fact and truth,
For when I’m passing by his wood
And ask if she is gone for good,
Ask if she’ll come back to me,
I hear him answer, plaintively:
No, never.
No, never.
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Texture with my deepest gratitude to: Playingwithbrushes: Softness Hardness Thank you Renee!
and
SkeletalMess: SomeWould2 Thanks a lot Jerry!!
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Very little is known about Bullseye's past because he is a habitual liar.
He claims to have grown up in the Bronx with a brother and an abusive father. The only time they spent with one another as a family was when they would shoot air rifles together. Even at a young age, Bullseye had excellent accuracy. This was demonstrated when he killed a pigeon by throwing a yo-yo.
Later, he and his brother, still at a young age, attempted to kill their father by setting the apartment on fire. As a result, the two were split up placed in foster homes. While in high school, Bullseye became a talented pitcher and was offered a college scholarship. He instead chose to join minor league baseball. With a perfect pitching record, it is possible that he was on his way to be a Major League Baseball player.
Eventually, however, he became bored and killed a batter who mocked him. This was a watershed moment for Bullseye, revealing the pleasure that killing brought him.
The Punisher & Daredevil
After serving in juvenile hall and prison, he joined the army. He claims he encountered The Punisher during this era. The Punisher attempted to shoot him, only to miss. Bullseye then returned fire with a knife, hitting The Punisher directly in the chest. Bullseye even mocked him by making a Bullseye on his own forehead made of mud. He allegedly went on working for the United States National Security Agency and then went on to become a freelance killer for hire. His rise to notoriety came in New York City where he wanted to make a name for himself by defeating Daredevil. He threw a grenade at the hero, and quickly defeated him in an alleyway. He then lured Daredevil into a carnival and defeated him again. Daredevil later returned the favor and bested Bullseye.
Kingpin & Elektra
Being beaten bothered Bullseye and destroying Daredevil became his new passion. When Bullseye was hired to kill the Kingpin, Fisk gave him a better offer. Bullseye was now under his employ.
After serving some jail time Bullseye began to suffer from his brain tumor. He began to kill innocent people after they all appeared to look like Daredevil to him.
He manages to get the upper hand over Daredevil in a fight, and says he will let Daredevil live, knowing that everyone Bullseye kills will be his fault. Daredevil regains his strength and defeats him.
Bullseye was angered to discover that the Kingpin had replaced him with Elektra. Bullseye managed to escape from jail during a televised interview and then searched to kill Elektra. In a battle with the female ninja, he slit her throat with a card and then severely injured her with her own sai.
Adamantium
It transpired that Elektra was Daredevil's lover and this added fuel to their mutual hatred.
After obtaining medical records from Daredevil's childhood accident, Bullseye believes Matt Murdock is Daredevil, and was granted superhuman powers by the incident that blinded him.
Bullseye then tries to sneak behind Matt and kill him in his own apartment, but Daredevil ambushes him. Daredevil tricked him by having a dummy pose as Matt with a tape recorder for audio.
Daredevil battled Bullseye and the fight moved onto a telephone wire across the rooftops. Bullseye lost his balance and fell, but Daredevil grabbed his hand. Bullseye refused to let Daredevil save him and tried to stab the hero. Daredevil released his grip, allowing Bullseye to plummet.
Bullseye's spine was shattered and he was left paralyzed. Bullseye was then taken to Japan, where Dark Wind replaced various bones with adamantium and laced others. It is unclear exactly what bones have been laced, but it has been confirmed that his spine, fists, and skull have adamantium.
Later, Bullseye posed as Daredevil when he was away from New York for some time. Again, he is defeated by Daredevil.
Bullseye also faced against Captain America and Crossbones during a battle between Kingpin and Red Skull's empire in New York.
Bullseye battles Captain America in a construction zone at night, and is able to keep the Avenger at bay. The fight is interrupted and Bullseye leaves unharmed. Crossbones later attempts to kill Kingpin, but fails due to Daredevil interfering.
Annoyed, Kingpin sends Bullseye to kill the Red Skull. Bullseye manages to shoot the Red Skull in the head, but it turns out to be a robot. He then battles Crossbones. Crossbones quickly obtains the upper hand, but Bullseye spits a fake tooth in his eye, stabs him in the bicep and then flees.
Mercenary
He also encountered Gambit when there was a price on Gambit's head. Bullseye stabs Gambit in the chest and defeats him, however Gambit is saved due to interference.
He also joined forces briefly with Deadpool, Vulture, Sandman, Sabretooth and Juggernaut to obtain the identity disc from A.I.M.
Bullseye attempts to leave the group, and battles the entire roster in a bar. He holds them back briefly with a volley of tooth picks, but is quickly defeated and remains on the team.
Bullseye battles Daredevil again and wins, and then injures Daredevil's girlfriend, Karen Page, with his own baton in a church. He also battled Elektra and Daredevil in the streets of New York. He was able to stalemate the two, but when he tried to flee, he is struck by a vehicle.
While in jail, he is released as chaos breaks out. Daredevil and Kingpin form an alliance in the prison. When Daredevil is told Bullseye is working with them, he refuses and attacks Bullseye.
While working foe Gen.Kato, he had faced Hit-Monkey at a wedding. The monkey was disguised as the ring bearer and tried unsuccessfully to kill Kato, but escapes by throwing cake in Bullseye's face.
Bullseye kills a man who laughed at this and fails to protect Kato, so he kills those who witnessed him failing. He ran after Hit-Monkey to a model's house and causes a fight involving three gangsters. Bullseye escapes unharmed.
Thunderbolts
After the Super-Human Registration Act, several villains were captured and offered a chance to redeem themselves by hunting down heroes and villains not in compliance with the Registration.
Bullseye became part of a new team of Thunderbolts along with the likes of (the new) Venom, and Norman Osborn. Each member has a safe-fail implanted in them, so if they go out of line, the device can be activated, electrocuting the user.
Bullseye serves as the one member of the Thunderbolt's that the public does not know about. Norman informed him he wants to let Bullseye kill, but only with targets Norman sees fit. When the team was unable to capture Jack Flag, Bullseye took him out by shoving a sai into his lower back.
This was done in a warehouse, away from the public. Later, Songbird tricks Bullseye into thinking his security features are disabled. Bullseye kills the two guards he is with and attempts to battle American Eagle. American Eagle makes quick work of Bullseye, and his device is set off, electrocuting him. As he is suffering, American Eagle slugs him across the face, apparently cracking his spine yet again.
Later on, telepaths that were being held captive in the base were using their powers to turn the team members against one another. Bullseye walks away from the operating table, apparently recovered, and uses the telepaths for practice, unaware he is actually saving the team.
Powers and Abilities
Bullseye's superhuman powers are centered on his skills. He is in fact more dangerous than many people that possess more robust physical superhuman powers.
Weapons Proficiency: As a result of his naturally perfect athletic gift for hand-eye coordination, Bullseye can quickly learn how to wield most forms of weapons even if he has never seen them before. Aside from throwing projectiles, he is also skilled with knives, swords, and other forms of edged weapons.
Bullseye has also used conventional firearms, bows and arrows, knives, shuriken, whips, sais, darts, and plastic explosives.
Bullseye can also use any item imaginable to kill and has been seen using normal everyday objects as either thrown projectiles such as: pen, pencils, vases, hairbrushes, golf balls, paper clips, tooth picks, peanuts, and playing cards. He once used a yoyo to kill a bird, Bullseye can throw arrows without using a bow, has used a single tooth knocked loose from his mouth, paper airplanes, a flashlight, an angry poodle, and a bullet without a gun. Bullseye once threw a gun right though someone’s chest, and has also shown being able to kill cockroaches by spitting orange seeds at them.
For close combat, Bullseye has been seen using a spoon to stab someone’s neck, he’s cut a person’s throat with a straw, a coffee cup, a pen and a clipboard and has shown being able to use other abnormal methods such as driving vehicles into a target, jamming a gun with a shard of glass, causing it to backfire and has even manipulated and used people to kill on his behalf for him.
Expert Marksman: Bullseye possess an innate ability to throw any projectile with great and unerring accuracy from either of his hands with a deadliness that borders on the uncanny. Bullseye has trained rigorously for many years with almost every type of throwing weapon that is imaginable, allowing Bullseye to develop an uncanny ability to use virtually any object as a lethal projectile.
Bullseye can throw an object with the size and mass of a baseball at over 105 miles per hour (168.981 kilometers per hour) and is also very skilled at ricocheting thrown objects towards targets as well.
Because of that, Bullseye can and has accomplish many incredible feats with thrown projectiles some of which are considered impossible. Because of Bullseye’s uncanny ability to use virtually any common object as a lethal projectile or weapon.
Hypercognitive: Bullseye’s brain can instinctively or with little effort perform certain complex operations beyond the capability of a normal human mind. This allows him to aim and throw with the perfect accuracy he’s known for while having little to do with deliberate cognitive thought.
Olympic Physical Conditioning: Bullseye is an Olympic-Level Athlete and weightlifter. Bullseye is in overall exceptional physical condition, with the agility, dexterity, balance, bodily coordination, reflexes, reaction time, endurance, stamina, bodily tissue durability, and speed all of which is equal to that of a professional or Olympic level athlete.
As a result of Bullseye’s naturally perfect athletic gift for hand-eye coordination, his reflexes and reaction time are actually honed to a level well beyond that of any normal human.
Bullseye has dodged gunfire on several occasions, has blocked a bullet and has even broken out of handcuffs by moving the chain of the handcuffs in the bullet‘s flight path.
Bullseye’s balance and bodily coordination is great enough to once even allow Bullseye to fight Daredevil on telephone wires. Bullseye’s metabolism is also conditioned to a higher human level which allows his body to heal at a faster rate than normal, allowing him to survive injuries that would be fatal to most normal humans. His stamina and endurance have also been reported to be at peak human condition.
Skilled Acrobat: Bullseye is a skilled acrobat capable of performing many difficult feats and is even capable of matching the feats of some of the finest human acrobats and due to the Adamantium implants fused to parts of his skeleton including his spine.
Bullseye is also able to utilize a range of motion in his acrobatic maneuvers which would be considered impossible for normal humans as his bones are protected from skeleton fracture. Bullseye has even shown being able to shot a gun with perfect accuracy while being in a mid-air backflip.
Skilled Pilot: Bullseye has shown to be capable of driving and piloting planes and other types of air based vehicles to the point where even being tracked by a heat seeking based missile, Bullseye was able to make it fly back to its source by having it follow him.
Escapologist: Bullseye has shown that he is a skilled escape artist capable of breaking out of high security facilities and prisons often using methods of intimidation to aid him.
Interrogation Expert: Bullseye is well versed in various forms of interrogation methods including torture and intimidation. Bullseye once tortured and interrogated someone by flicking toothpicks into their body.
Stealth Skills: Bullseye has shown when he wants to that he can be very skilled in the areas of stealth and is capable of breaching high facilities without being detected. He even snuck on to Genosha to kill a mutant with invulnerable rock-like skin by throwing a poisoned dart into its ear in broad day light just to show he could.
Master Martial Artist: Aside from Bullseye’s ability to throw projectiles with lethal and unerring accuracy, Bullseye is also a master of a wide verity of different forms of martial arts disciplines in both armed and unarmed combat with Bullseye’s knowledge of every pressure point and vulnerable spot on or in the human body and is also extremely talented in the use of edged weapons and conventional firearms.
Bullseye is considered by some to be overall one of the top all-around fighters on the planet.
Bullseye has easily beaten Gambit, has shown of being able to kill multiple Hand ninjas with almost ease, and has fought and even toyed with Elektra, who is arguably one of the most skilled ninja on at least two separate occasions.
In fights, Bullseye has consistently held his own and has even won multiple times against Daredevil and even Daredevil has stated that Bullseye’s skill set could even rival his own.
Often, Bullseye’s outspoken attitude during physical combat about using his abilities seems to have become one of his favorite weapons of intimidation. As such, Bullseye believes that his attention in the media grants him more effectiveness in combat with a near flawless reputation, rather than an assassin who often uses fear of the unknown.
Expert Assassin: Bullseye possess knowledge of every pressure point and vulnerable spot on or in the human body and is capable of turning virtually any object into a deadly weapon capable of incapacitating or killing any enemy. Bullseye is a deadly assassin often hired by the likes of the Kingpin for covert assassinations making him one of the world's greatest assassin. Bullseye has a compulsive need to study his targets' histories, abilities, and relationships before engaging them. Bullseye employs this information in attempts to anticipate many of his opponents' movements and reactions in combat. This compulsion often crosses from the professional line of work into personal, such as Bullseye's obsession with Elektra or Daredevil.
Body System Control: Bullseye does have some degree of control over his bodily function as he was once able to break out of S.H.I.E.L.D. hold by giving himself cardiac arrest by making his heart stop beating and making himself flat line, forcing the guards to take him out of his straps and chains whom Bullseye then killed as they tried to perform CPR. When questioned by one of the guards about it Bullseye stated “the heart is a muscle which can still be controlled”.
Wealth: According to Bullseye himself; he has amassed a fortune from the large number of hits he has done in the past, and yet has spent very little of his money once saying that it wouldn’t surprise him if he had more money than Norman Osborn and once even paid off Deadpool in order to save his own life while pretending that it was Norman Osborn’s money he was giving.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: "Lester"
Publisher: Marvel Comics
First appearance: Daredevil #131 (March 1976)
Created by: Marv Wolfman (writer)
John Romita Sr. (artist)
Bullseye was last seen in BP 2021 Day 11:
Picture taken by my lovely and talented friend Miss Evangeline Miles, thank you for that!!
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Where else than at the Angel Manor would we want to have a wonderfull time like this, look:
My brother's band, The Weak Need, has it's debut show at the Starlight Lounge in Waterloo during their cd release party. I was very impressed, and am so proud of him. He plays back-up guitar and does back-up vocals.
It took years for me to get the colors of the bufflehead, and the first day of 2015 was MY day and my only day for accomplishing it. They disappeared from inland ponds for almost 10 months, and now they're back, but I think I'll save my next attempts for the newer year.
To some extent what sets this buffle off from the other one posted is that this one shows those broad tail feathers used in diving. Such a little duck and so talented.
Last week I had the pleasure and honor to photograph Arisleyda Dilone, an incredibly talented filmmaker and educator whose amazing documentary work will soon be featured in several film festivals. This is one of the first images we took during the portraiture sitting, on Fujifilm-FP100C instant film using a radioactive lens from1944, the aero ektar.
This image is dedicated to the multi-talented artist Sigi Kolbe... for writing and sending me the most amazing testimonial today! Thanks Sigi... this one is for you!!
Yes... I know... it's yet another Vertorama of some sunset clouds over Table Mountain from one of Cape Town's west-coast beaches... yawn! But this was actually quite a magic moment that I almost managed to miss. I was so intent on capturing the setting sun with the waves breaking over the rocks in front of me... that I really only noticed this by chance... when I happened to look over my left shoulder. This was definitely an "Oh Wow" moment for me... I didn't stop to appreciate it though... I immediately turned my camera around on the tripod... and shot off a dozen or so frames. I know that this is a subject that I've photographed to death already... but hey... this looked so good that I just couldn't resist!! :)
Nikon D300, Sigma 10-20mm at 14mm, aperture of f11, with a 1/60th second exposure.
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This is my brother, Singh, a very talented musician living in NY. While visiting Los Angeles, we organized a very cool urban shoot for him to display his rocker side and possibly get some great shots for his upcoming cd and/or promo materials. What I love most about my shoot with Singh is that we covered much ground in a short amount of time and produced some killer shots. More pictures from Singh's photo shoot will be displayed in my new & upcoming portfolio. Stay tuned.
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Sirya is a very young talented artist with Vietnamese origins. She was born in Turin on January 23rd 2002, she has been practising artistic gymnastics the age of four. She has already achieved very good results both in Italy and internationally, also in circus arts and particularly in aerial acrobatics.
Sirya, together with her family, is a street artist: she dances, recites and amuses passers-by with her amazing acrobatics. Sirya became aware very quickly that being an artist is really what she wants to be in her life. What she desires most is “delivering” her art in the streets, theatres, circuses of the whole world, with the aim of making people smile. When she was nine, she took part in the second edition of the Italian television program “Italia’s Got Talent”. After having gone through all the preliminary steps she eventually got to the final. Sirya, thanks to this television program lept to fame for some time and this gave her the possibility to meet important people in this field.
In December 2002, Sirya was admitted to “L’Accademia di Arte Circense” in Verona, where she attended with very good results. Despite her young age she decided to take on a big challenge, and moved to a new and far away town, miles away from her family, though she still managed to often meet her sister Nicole and her mother Marja for street art events.
Sirya’s specialised in different fields: acrobatics, handstand, aerial, dance and contortion. But she has also took part in the 2013 “European Juggling Convention” in Toulose, as a juggling performer.
On the street, unfortunately, “ tools” are very rarely available when you need them, therefore with a wheel on the ground and a crowd in a circle, the show can begin...
Sirya is young but a very determined artist, very mature for her age, but above all, very sentitive towards those who are less lucky then herself. In fact, The “Tip hat” money, apart from little expenses, goes entirely to local charities in Vietnam, where Sirya lived and performed for a year and had the opportunity to witness poverty and misery and to support the project
"Il Sogno di Marja".
Sirya is ambitious: her dream is to develop her skills as an artist and eventually join a big companies like the “Cirque du Soleil”. This will also hopefully enable her to help, in a more substantial way, her Vietnamese friends.
Being an artist means being part of a magical world, a world that you can create and edit according to your likings. It allows you to paint your days with the colours of your mood, to dance and sing at work, to play the music you like and to be yourself. It sounds so incredible, doesn’t it? Yes, it is. And every artist has their own story, here is mine... TBC
~ Sirya Luongo (Sya)
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London 🇬🇧 June 2018
I was pushed by the multi-talented Patti Hayes
"Find the most favorite photograph of yourself from when you were a child. Think about what that photo means to you, what it says about your personality, and apply it now in a reenactment through this self portrait -as if in soul, connecting the then and now of yourself."
What an amazing challenge, right?
In a perfect world my mom would be with me and I could recreate a mother daughter portrait. The reason I chose the photo below is because I'm with my mom and I clearly recall this moment. I remember taking the picture and being very happy. I forget where I was going but I loved my red hat. I smiled the entire day in all my redness. Maybe this is where my love for hats and the color red began. I don't really know. I have very few pictures from my childhood. I cherish the few I do have and love that I can transport myself back to a moment in my past by looking at an image.
Thanks Patti for this awesome challenge. I hope you like the end result.
There is something about old windows with their suggested interiors, the linear rhythms of unchecked growth and the clutter of rural yards appeals to me - not as a place I would like to live, but as arrangements of visual wealth. Watercolor
Seonag is a Creatures Dolls Bactro, created by the wonderfully talented Mewie Fish.
She's wearing a dress from Alice's Collections and a wig from For My Doll.
I would like to share with you this Christmas song by the talented Ukrainian bard and kobzar Vasyl Zhdankin (1958–2019), which he recorded based on a poem by the brilliant poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (1909–1937).
The fragment featuring the song is part of the documentary film “My Kobza” (1989), dedicated to the revival of the kobzar tradition in Ukraine — a tradition that suffered total destruction under Soviet rule. Kobzars were itinerant musicians (usually blind, accompanied by a young guide) who for centuries traveled between Ukrainian villages, introducing people to various forms of folklore, including 'dumy' - songs about historical events, Cossack songs, and more.
Vasyl Zhdankin was one of the enthusiasts of this cultural revival, although his kobza was somewhat modernized and tuned similarly to a modern six-string guitar. Zhdankin was the first person to publicly perform the song “Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished” (our current official national anthem), doing so at the Chervona Ruta festival in Chernivtsi in the summer of 1989. It was still the USSR at the time, and this act was quite courageous.
He was also a deeply religious man, which is why spiritual songs make up a significant part of his artistic legacy. Sadly, the renowned bard died in a car accident in 2019.
The brilliant poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych lived a short life — he was weakened by tuberculosis, which at that time could not yet be treated effectively. Nevertheless, the final years of his life were marked by an extraordinary creative output, mainly lyrical in nature. He came from Lemkivshchyna, an ethnic Ukrainian mountainous region that today is divided between Poland and Slovakia.
The song is symbolic, since we all know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. I believe Antonych wanted to bring this event closer to local people — to his fellow countrymen and to their traditions.
I would also like to note that in Ukraine, until 2023, Christmas was officially celebrated on January 7. Immediately after the Baptism of Rus’ in 988, the feast was celebrated on December 25 according to the Julian calendar. In 1582, Europe switched to a new calendar — the Gregorian one — but the Orthodox Church of Rus’ (Ukrainian) remained on the Julian calendar.
Muscovy also stayed on the Julian calendar — not only the Church, but the entire state system of timekeeping — as did the Russian Empire later on. In 1918, the Bolsheviks finally adopted the Gregorian calendar, but the Church did not recognize this change and continued to celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar (that is, December 25 in the Julian calendar falls on January 7 in the Gregorian calendar).
And now, in 2023, due to the war and for reasons that are more political than religious, the Ukrainian parliament decided that Christmas would be officially celebrated together with Europe. However, ordinary people celebrate it in different ways: some according to the new calendar, some according to the old one, some celebrate both, and some do not celebrate at all.
Since Flickr provides only three minutes for free, the end of the song was slightly cut. At the end, Zhdankin proclaims: “Christ is born — let us glorify Him!” In Ukraine, Orthodox Christians greet each other in this way, and on the eve of Christmas they say when meeting: “Christ is being born!”
The full documentary film 'My kobza' can be watched on YouTube. Here is one of the links: youtu.be/oUCPKsa_Lpk?si=yAvKRBd1TnkGc8sh
the talented singer/songwriter Schuyler Rae.
You can check out her music here: www.youtube.com/user/SchuylerRae?feature=watch
This is a shot from a photoshoot with Sarah, a very talented and beautifull model.
I'm a location shooter but since the weather in Belgium isn't allways fun to work in, I decided to transform my office into a (very) small studio. Just so I have a plan B when the weather is too bad. At the moment the studio is far from finished and I only have one studiolight and a couple of speedlights. Time to see what I can do with this (lack of) equipment and some imagination.
The model is lit with my cheap Chinese studiolight (a 300ws on 1/32 power) and a big softbox (placed horizontally) from above and right in front. My assistant for the day (Thanks Ake) held a white reflector under Sarah's face to get some classic beauty light.
The background was lit with a single SB-24 (I think at 1/16) on a Nano stand behind and to the right of the model. I zoomed the SB-24 in and placed it close to the grey wall to create a ray of light.
Triggered with PW's.
In the RAW-converter I choose a cooler whitebalans and desaturated the image slightly
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Another talented singer songwriter in the Cincinnati area, Elia Burkhart. This portrait was taken in the pilot’s lounge at Lunken Airport. I was taking pics of Elia in the lobby on a Friday afternoon at 5. A gentleman came out of an office and I was worried we might get in trouble for not getting permission first. This man introduced himself as Fred, and he’s the manager of this tiny airport. Fred then asks us if we would like to take pics in some cooler spots, which included the tarmac and this groovy ass lounge. You could still smell the cigarette smoke in the carpet and the leather. Fred hung out with us and showed us around, on a Friday when he was supposed to be home after a long week by then. He told us the only other musician that had their picture taken in that lounge was a young fella that he hadn’t heard of at the time, one Jack White. Elia and I hot a kick outta that. Fred was awesome. We need more Freds in our lives.
This image was made on the first morning of a photographic weekend away with a bunch of obsessive, but talented landscape photographers. Dav Thomas, Rob Hudson, Hamish Roots, Tim Parkin, Adam Clutterbuck and David Baker, Russell Turner, Jon Swainson. Not only did we talk (and drink) to the early hours, but we also effortlessly dragged our hung-over beings out each morning at dawn! Being with other photographers, in such a wondrous location was a real pleasure! Not only did we all obsessively talk about each and every type of interesting topic you can imagine, but we also put the talk into practice and squeezed every last drop of light out of each day!
I’m sure we all took different interpretations away from the weekend, but the special thing for me ironically was not the location, but the company! Thanks guys for such a cracking time!
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