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Entrega de los Premios Think Big, el concurso de ideas empresariales organizado por la Universidad del PaÃs Vasco UPV/EHU. Los ganadores de la edición 2011 son:
Araba: Instituto de Nutrición Deportiva (Aritz Urdampilleta Otegui, José Miguel MartÃnez, Sanz y Javier Guerrero)
Gipuzkoa: Egin On (Ganiz Illarramendi Etxabe, Ekhi Diez y Arkaitz Arbide Aguirre)
Bizkaia: Trolley (Imanol Valderrama RodrÃguez, Borja GarcÃa Fernández, Marta Fernández Ortiz y Felipe Aitor Salsidua)
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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Entrega de los Premios Think Big, el concurso de ideas empresariales organizado por la Universidad del PaÃs Vasco UPV/EHU. Los ganadores de la edición 2011 son:
Araba: Instituto de Nutrición Deportiva (Aritz Urdampilleta Otegui, José Miguel MartÃnez, Sanz y Javier Guerrero)
Gipuzkoa: Egin On (Ganiz Illarramendi Etxabe, Ekhi Diez y Arkaitz Arbide Aguirre)
Bizkaia: Trolley (Imanol Valderrama RodrÃguez, Borja GarcÃa Fernández, Marta Fernández Ortiz y Felipe Aitor Salsidua)
Provocative title aside, the question, for me, would be Can Asians Think of Anything But Economic Growth? If I didn't have the example of the leader of Bhutan and his Gross National Happiness index and the King of Thailand and his Sufficiency Economy and Vandana Shiva and her Earth Democracy, I would say that this former diplomat from Singapore, turned professor of public policy, typifies the thinking of Asia.
Kishore Mahbubani is still intriguing to read because he challenges Western sacred cows i.e.: democracy and human rights policies. Not all nations are ready for democracy or a free press he argues and neither necessarily leads to good government. Instead nations should be judged on how effective a government is at governing and bringing economic prosperity to its people.
He thinks the West could do more good if it considered keeping diplomatic relationships open with countries rather than refusing to speak to them at all on moral grounds. It being better for the countries population than not to negotiate at all. Also trade embargoes hurt the people too and change nothing ie: Burma.
His first book Can Asians Think? is a collection of articles and speeches given separately to Asian audiences and Western audiences. He addresses each frankly and that makes it more fun to read as he reports on the reactions of each. So as not to insult anyone he uses his own picture on the cover. He argues both yes and no sides to his title. No because Asians allowed their minds to be colonized and thus could no longer think for themselves. And yes because when they did wake up (Japan first) they were very pragmatic in doing whatever it took to develop and modernize.
In his latest book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irrestistible Shift of Global Power To The East, Mahbubani describes how Asia bought the myth, that the US and EU have managed to propagate, that Western Civilization is the be and end all in civilizations. This due to its freedom, democracy, science, rational thought and belief in God. While in the eyes of the West all other nations were barbaric. Asians then proceeded to adopt a "March to Modernity" copying the West.
More telling is Mr. Mahbubani's own story about how the experience of growing up using an odiferous bucket toilet impressed upon him the notion that the lot of humanity would be vastly improved if everyone had a flush toilet. Thus, rather than improving the recycling of human waste as humanure, as our ancestors did, civilization is deemed to hinge on this vastly unsustainable "modernization". But Mahbubani never allows any thought that development has limits and is ultimately wrong headed.
He describes how Asia made the switch to modernizing following Western development by tossing idealogies aside and adopting, in pragmatic fashion, the best practices of the West. This meant the free market vs central planning; (localization not being an option mentioned). Asian countries encouraged students to study science & technology in the West to modernize the brain pool and adopted meritocracy to broaden the brain pool. That the formerly agrarian societies had tilled the land in peace and relative happiness for centuries does not count for much given the material wealth and opportunities displayed by the West. Jobs in Nike factories, he claims, liberated youth from drudgery in fields. The author claims that only by modernizing the world's poor would we have a Culture of Peace that abides by the Rule of Law, another Western principle.
And now that Asia is well on its way to doing that, it is gaining confidence to take leadership away from the US. This by talking among themselves and strengthening ties as trading partners. Thus China with Southeast Asia despite ideological differences in governments.
He then describes, in carefully diplomatic terms, how the West has lost credibility. Burdened with the baggage of ideology i.e.: freedom and social justice the West tries to influence policy of other nations, but it is clear to all that it only does so where it benefits itself. And while the Western dominance of the global economy gives it leverage especially in banking, Western incompetence with the Middle East and its refusal to maintain diplomatic relationships with Iran and other muslim nations is seriously undermining its leadership. And more confusing, when the West presents the issue of global warming it resists global cooperation on the issue. Likewise the nuclear armament issue.
Never once does he mention that the US is an empire that will flush down the metaphorical toilet in pursuit of resources. He gives the US a big benefit of the doubt and seems to act puzzled that it can't seem to get its act together to work towards the benefits of globalization. He is a big believer in the UN and thinks it is high time that Asian nations were given a seat with the big boys and not just let the G7 run everything. He also notes that nations so distrust the IMF now that they are resisting assistance from those loans weakening the IMF and thus globalization. Good for them I say.
You might think that 591 horsepower would be enough for the Audi RS6 Avant, but apparently it was not. For 2024, Audi decided to crank the dial, adding a new Performance model that promises a ludicrous 621 ponies.
The new variant also weighs less, so acceleration should prove sufficiently brutal. And yet, the RS6 Avant's search for more power changes nothing about its impressive practicality, comfortably seating five in an interior replete with rich materials and plenty of trendy technology.
This model sports a 8 speed gearbox, neutral and reverse - designed by @anto_lego_creations - coupled with a new compact paddle shifter I designed to fit in a narrow space between the engine and the dash.
Ultra Compact 8+N+R-speed Sequential Gearbox designed by Anto:
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The car has 2 suspension height options, manually adjusted for a sporty look or off-road. Loaded with gearbox / paddle shifter, V8 engine, steering by HOG and working steering wheel, front and rear lights, opening doors, hood and hatch.
PLEASE NOTE:
1. Only the daytona rim size will fit on the car. Smaller Sian / Bugatti rims will not fit.
4 different colour options:
1. All black interior / exterior
2. Lime exterior, red seat
3. Red exterior, LBG (light grey) seats
4. White exterior, black interior
Partlists avail below:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RbLweMJqEiLIh91HJlWovwjA8...
The framework is designed rigidly and can be lifted from the roof. This widened version with body kit will be sure to turn heads, not your average 5 door Audi creation!
I think, it has been the third time now, giving this chinese Lucky SHD 100 film a chance and the results are still disappointing. I have seen better pictures of the american civil war and people, who are not believing, that photographs need to look like crap to be art, should refrain from using it.
All shots taken with my trusted Bencini Koroll 24s, which is usually capable of taking better pictures.
I will await the astronomy solver to pin down the surrounding stars but I think it's the one I put a box around, bottom left (AAARGH, Flickr removed this facility so you cannot see anything!!!!). OK, so it's about 1/6th up from the bottom margin on the left and about 1/9th right of the left margin. It's distinctly bluish and now outshining some of the nearest stars so it's around mag 5 I think (up from 6 yesterday as reported). The next image is a tight crop of the bottom left so you can see the Nova more clearly.
Taken with a D7000 and a 180mm F2.8 Nikon lens, ISO 2000 at f2.8 for 30s. Why is the nova bottom left? I had to locate it by putting part of Sagitta in the frame (top right) because only the brighter stars show in the camera viewfinder or live-view. The next shot should have been centred on the Nova but the cloud rolled in....typical. BTW, I now realise that the star I could see in the left of the viewfinder was the nova itself so it may be even brighter than I thought.
Gaby Diaz Interviewed at So You Think You Can Dance #SYTYCD250 #SYTYCD #NextGeneration
Mingle Media TV and Red Carpet Report host Denise Salcedo were invited to cover FOX's SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: THE NEXT GENERATION live show competition on Monday, August 22nd at CBS Television City. We spoke with several of the contestants and judges after the taping.
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Host Cat Deeley and judges Nigel Lythgoe, Paula Abdul and Jason Derulo return for the next generation of the Emmy Award-winning dance competition series. This season features dancers ages 8-13. Their styles range from tap to hip-hop and ballroom to break dancing. During nationwide auditions, the contestants vie for a place at "The Academy," and the best dancers advance to the next round. The top 10 dancers partner with all-stars and move on to the SYTYCD studio. One contestant is eliminated each week until the winner is named during the season finale.
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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.
For my video: youtu.be/Z-iHAsZCO6w
Everyone should think green a bit more often. Go on, think green. Check out this Green Hairstreak and think green.
At Denbies I watched this female egg laying, then pausing to rest, then egg laying again. Back in May.
#71440, d
I recently got myself a Retrospective 10. Head out to my blog for more photos.
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Nikon D7000 + Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8ED
1/50 sec at f/5.6, ISO 1600
10 December 2011
I think even Rodney and Del Boy would have turned their noses up at a Reliant Regal Super Van as heavily modified and outrageous looking as this! The Hot Wheels Poppa Wheelie is quite the head turner though maybe not for the right reasons, a plastic van body which has undoubtably being unofficially based on a Reliant Supervan perched on top of a huge pair of wheels pointing skywards. So dreadful its actually addictive! ;-p
This is a recolour from a few years ago recently sent to me as part of a charity shop haul.