I need to go 'off road' and distract myself with a bit of fun (processing photos and doing something other than academic work). Was trying out a combination of cross-processing and HDR on this plain subject although I'm not too sure if i can pull this off. LOL.

There's just too much Company Law and Business Taxation clogging up my brain right now. The stress of trying to cram all that knowledge and being limited by time is killing me slowly. My exams are just 2 weeks away and I still seem so far behind in my revision. Now on my Company Law revision and next up, International Financial Management! (argh!)

Ok, back on the road....

Due to a car knocking our mailbox off of the post we had to construct a temporary mailbox. Another use for Tidy Cat Litter.It actually doesn't work out too bad if the U.S.P.S. would allow it (and the HOA)

this one is actually pretty sweet. left arm.

taking pictures of my bleeding gums on a bart train

Inside the offices for Universal Studios. These rooms are huge.

... in Nairobi Airport. I love the way the entrance has been decorated with some African art.

Dal 1° al 24 dicembre: ARPANet Temporary Store per il Natale 2009.

Luci, arte, segni, narrazioni, suggestioni sensoriali in uno store per lo shopping natalizio, dove provare tante esperienze speciali: in un ambiente in continuo movimento, con una differente installazione luminosa e sonora ogni sera, è possibile prendere parte agli eventi e alle presentazioni letterarie che si susseguiranno giorno dopo giorno, oppure sostare negli spazi di lettura su comode poltroncine per scorrere la nuova narrativa contemporanea, o ancora soffermarsi nella contemplazione delle opere della mostra "Fotografie", di Gianluca Chiodi.

Edizioni di narrativa ARPANet a tiratura limitata, oggetti di design per la casa e il lavoro, tecnologia innovativa per immergersi in un'atmosfera tutta particolare. Perché ogni parola ha un suono che inventa mondi!

Until the circuits in the hall get fixed, this is my lighting solution. It's tied to the conduit, leaning against the wall, and plugged in two rooms away.

Phacops rana crassituberculata Stumm, 1953 - fossil trilobite from the Devonian of Ohio, USA. (Dave Mielke collection; temporary public display, Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio, USA)

This fossil is also known as Eldredgeops rana crassituberculata.

Trilobites are extinct marine arthropods. They first appear in Lower Cambrian rocks and the entire group went extinct at the end of the Permian. Trilobites had a calcitic exoskeleton and nonmineralizing parts underneath (legs, gills, gut, etc.). The calcite skeleton is most commonly preserved in the fossil record, although soft-part preservation is known in some trilobites (Ex: Burgess Shale and Hunsruck Slate). Trilobites had a head (cephalon), a body of many segments (thorax), and a tail (pygidium). Molts and carcasses usually fell apart quickly - most trilobite fossils are isolated parts of the head (cranidium and free cheeks), individual thoracic segments, or isolated pygidia. The name "trilobite" was introduced in 1771 by Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch and refers to the tripartite division of the trilobite body - it has a central axial lobe that runs longitudinally from the head to the tail, plus two side lobes (pleural lobes).

Seen here is a famous trilobite whose remains are relatively common in the Middle Devonian-aged Silica Formation of northeastern Ohio. This is Phacops rana crassituberculata (also known as Eldredgeops, an unnecessary genus name based on taxonomic oversplitting). Phacops trilobite fossils occur with other typical Middle Paleozoic shallow marine invertebrates: brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, and corals.

Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Trilobita, Polymerida, Phacopidae

Stratigraphy: Silica Formation (also known as the Silica Shale), Givetian Stage, upper Middle Devonian

Locality: quarry northwest of the town of Paulding, northern Paulding County, northwestern Ohio, USA (41° 10' 52.55" North latitude, 84° 37' 19.32" West longitude)

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See info. at:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilobite

and

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacops_rana

I am using one of our bedrooms in the new house as a temporary home office until we finish out the basement.

Holland

These temporary street signs have been spotted all around downtown. (photo credit: Danielle Bauer)

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We set out to observe Vancouver as it prepared for the 2010 Olympics. This is part of a photo journal of our observations. We focused on the newest installations in the city including: signage, pageantry and public/street art. Note: the Cygnus team were observers only, we were not involved in the Vancouver 2010 Wayfinding or signage program(s).

Temporary Handrails securing a steep stair descent.

Beautiful downtown Portland, Oregon.

Outside Multnomah Defenders, Incorporated

TATs 4 All

Temporary Airbrush Tattoo

Raj Atwal

Fresno, CA

by Richard Truhlar.

[Toronto], Curvd H&z, 12 october 1982. 5o numbered & signed copies issued as Curvd H&z 154 & Hangnail 8.

6 x 8-1/2, rubberstamp broadsheet.

a poem.

15.oo

Because what else do you do on a rainy Bank Holiday?

"That time last summer when I ran around with a temporary tattoo atop my foot, to see what it would be like to have a TLR camera tattooed there"

A shot from the west side of Marietta Ohio looking across the Muskingum River and the pontoon bridge built after the Putnam Street Bridge was swept off its piers during the March 1913 flood. Some of the piers and bridge decking can be seen across the river to the left.

This photo was taken from a group given to me by my mother.

Dal 1° al 24 dicembre: ARPANet Temporary Store per il Natale 2009.

Luci, arte, segni, narrazioni, suggestioni sensoriali in uno store per lo shopping natalizio, dove provare tante esperienze speciali: in un ambiente in continuo movimento, con una differente installazione luminosa e sonora ogni sera, è possibile prendere parte agli eventi e alle presentazioni letterarie che si susseguiranno giorno dopo giorno, oppure sostare negli spazi di lettura su comode poltroncine per scorrere la nuova narrativa contemporanea, o ancora soffermarsi nella contemplazione delle opere della mostra "Fotografie", di Gianluca Chiodi.

Edizioni di narrativa ARPANet a tiratura limitata, oggetti di design per la casa e il lavoro, tecnologia innovativa per immergersi in un'atmosfera tutta particolare. Perché ogni parola ha un suono che inventa mondi!

For more about the artist, visit: temporaryservices.org/served/

Temporary Services (Collective), and Philagrafika (Organization). Public Phenomena: Informal Modifications of Shared Spaces. Chicago, Ill.: Temporary Services, 2010.

(Temporary Services is Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer.)

See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.

intranet.mcad.edu/library

whats up metal snake!

beyond this beautiful horizon

lies a dream for you and I

this tranquil scene is still unbroken by the rumors in the sky

but there´s a storm closing in

voices crying on the wind

this serenade is growing colder

breaks my soul that tries to sing

and there´s so many, many thoughts

when I try to go to sleep

but with you I start to feel a sort of temporary peace