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The Waste Management fleet of trucks each are assigned to pick up specific types of waste: non-recyclable materials, recyclable materials, and green waste. They service 48 states within the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
"Waste Management, Inc., doing business as WM, [ is a waste management, comprehensive waste, and environmental services company operating in North America. Founded in 1968, the company is headquartered in the Bank of America Tower in Houston, Texas."
"The company's network includes 346 transfer stations, 293 active landfill disposal sites, 146 recycling plants, 111 beneficial-use landfill gas projects and six independent power production plants. Waste Management offers environmental services to nearly 21 million residential, industrial, municipal and commercial customers in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. With 26,000 collection and transfer vehicles, the company has the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry. Together with its competitor Republic Services, Inc, the two handle more than half of all garbage collection in the United States."
"As of 2017, Waste Management, Inc. employed more than 42,300 people."
"In February 2022, Waste Management announced the company would be rebranding to be referred to simply as WM. This comes with an increased emphasis of WM's strategy to focus on sustainability and environmental services and not just waste collection and disposal." (Wikipedia)
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I think I have become one of the hollow men
As I shine on the outside more these days
I can feel the outside feeding on my inside
Leaves a growing darkness in it's place
I think I have become one of the hollow men
I think I have become one of the lonely
Now that everybody talks to me
I feel I have become one of the empty
Hollow men can stop you with the twinkling of an eye
Hollow men can take you without even reaching out
Hollow men have got you long before you realise
The poison paralyses
I think I have become one of a pair of men
It's a feeling I've been having for some time
I look down upon myself and watch my movements
A blind eye sees the fragile vandalised
Watch this cold world dishing up these endless hollow men
Find us anywhere you look
Come and meet our friends
Stand us in our silly clothes
Put our batteries in
Line us up like fairground ducks
Watch us grin and grin
See the lies behind our eyes
See the will to win
We'll buy you and we'll sell you
But perhaps we'll save your skin
Sit quietly and listen to the breeze
The hollow and the lonely listen too
Sniff the air for something we can use
We're tin-hard and we rattle when we're shaken
(Marillion - The Hollow Man)
...aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.”
- Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/curiosity
Illustrate the rule of thirds using a busy background. www.todaysposting.com/TPAssignment.php?TP=677
I spend some hours together with the two Berlin-based street artists Think and Prost while setting up our walls for the Bright Trad Show 2011...
National Gallery of Art , Washington DC, USA
The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work shows a nude male figure of over life-size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought, and is often used as an image to represent philosophy. There are about 28 full size castings, in which the figure is about 186 centimetres (73 in) high, though not all were made during Rodin's lifetime and under his supervision, as well as various other versions, several in plaster, studies, and posthumous castings, in a range of sizes. Rodin first conceived the figure as part of another work in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings did not appear until 1904.
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Nikon D7000 + Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8ED
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10 December 2011
The Thinker (le penseur) by Auguste Rodin
Bronze
H. 180 cm ; W. 98 cm ; D. 145 cm
Cast made by Fonderie Alexis Rudier in 1904. Transfered to the musée Rodin in 1922.
When conceived in 1880 in its original size (approx. 70 cm) as the crowning element of The Gates of Hell, seated on the tympanum, The Thinker was entitled The Poet. He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which had inspired The Gates, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on his work.
The Thinker was therefore initially both a being with a tortured body, almost a damned soul, and a free-thinking man, determined to transcend his suffering through poetry. The pose of this figure owes much to Carpeaux’s Ugolino (1861) and to the seated portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici carved by Michelangelo (1526-31).
While remaining in place on the monumental Gates of Hell, The Thinker was exhibited individually in 1888 and thus became an independent work.
Enlarged in 1904, its colossal version proved even more popular: this image of a man lost in thought, but whose powerful body suggests a great capacity for action, has became one of the most celebrated sculptures ever known. Numerous casts exist worldwide, including the one now in the gardens of the Musée Rodin, a gift to the City of Paris installed outside the Panthéon in 1906, and another in the gardens of Rodin’s house in Meudon, on the tomb of the sculptor and his wife.
www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/thinker
The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. It displays works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.
While living in the Villa des Brillants (in Meudon, suburb of Paris), Rodin used the Hôtel Biron as his workshop from 1908, and subsequently donated his entire collection of sculptures (along with paintings by Vincent van Gogh and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that he had acquired) to the French State on the condition that they turn the building into a museum dedicated to his works.
The Musée Rodin contains most of Rodin's significant creations, including The Thinker, The Kiss, Monument to Victor Hugo, The Burghers of Calais, La Cathedrale, Monument to Balzac, Study for the Naked Muse, without Arms and The Gates of Hell. Many of his sculptures are displayed in the museum's extensive garden.
The museum is one of the most accessible museums in Paris. The gardens around the museum building contain many of the famous sculptures in natural settings.
Behind the museum building is a small lake and casual restaurant.
The Musée Rodin collections are very diverse, as Rodin used to collect besides being an artist, some paintings by Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh which were in Rodin's personal collections are also presented. The museum has also a room dedicated to works of Camille Claudel.
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A shot taken so long ago that I can't recall the details. Must be a local car wash.
Leica M3 Wetzlar DS, Summarit 50/1.5, Agfa APX400, Home-Development, Kodak HC110, Stand Development, 1hr 15 minutes, 30d Celcius, Rapidfix 10 minutes, Canonscan 8400F, 600DPI
When the Butterflies are made we will be auctioning on EBAY to raise money for Breast Awareness.
I will be doing an official 'Ta - Dah!'
Growing up in a family of atheists and science geeks and then becoming one myself I decided to get this tattooed on me to signify not only a little heritage but my personal question to always be thinking and asking...
"Weg mit den Fremdwörtern! Denke deutsch! Rede deutsch! Schreibe deutsch! Sei stolz darauf, daß du ein Deutscher bist!"
'Get rid of the foreign words! Think German! Speak German! Write in German! Be proud to be a German!'
A nationialist postcard of the Austrian Deutscher Schulverein. Mailed as Austrian Feldpost in 1916.
I'm assuming that this huge horse is a clydesdale, right where it should be about 100m from the river clyde, it was taller than me anyway, and I'm 6"3. We agreed on exchanging a photo for a peppermint and everyone was happy.
Taken with a Helios 44m-4 wide open
Have you ever thought about
What you are going to leave for your children?
Hefty bank balance….
Luxurious cars and houses…
Polluted AIR
Polluted WATER…
And a polluted ENVIRONMENT
Have you ever thought about GLOBAL WARMING?
Why are we behaving like chumps?
Why are we destroying our own planet?
Do we really love our FAMILY?
I know,
You have no time….
You are very BUSY…
But PLEASE, THINK ONCE
COULD OUR PROGENY FORGIVE US??????