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Norway is peppered with fjords. Each and every one is unique. Just like Voldsfjord in Skien, Vallesverd is one of the fjords I've lived close to long enough to see as my own. They say it's full of beautiful trout, but all I've got here are mackerels. Nevertheless, this is a great escape when I need to clear my mind.
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Camera: Kiev 88
Film: Kodak Portra 160
Lens: Volna-3 80mm/f2.8
I've uploaded pictures of this building before, but I had never seen it at night. I could say my photos are bad because I didn't have a tripod, but they would turn out bad anyways. As I really want to share them with you, here they go. This night it was lit to mark "Pink October".
According to the National Park Service:
"The Niagara Hudson Building in Syracuse is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture and a symbol of the Age of Electricity. Completed in 1932, the building became the headquarters for the nation’s largest electric utility company and expressed the technology of electricity through its modernistic design, material, and extraordinary program of exterior lighting. The design elements applied by architects Melvin L. King and Bley & Lyman transformed a corporate office tower into a widely admired beacon of light and belief in the future. With its central tower and figurative winged sculpture personifying electric lighting, the powerfully sculpted and decorated building offered a symbol of optimism and progress in the context of the Great Depression."
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4 panel Mosaic consisting of RGB+H-Alpha data, 6792x4188 pixels.
Captured from my backyard observatory in Fremont, Michigan between August and October 2014 using QHY11/Takahashi E180
Total Integration Time 14 Hours
Bottom left is part of lesser known emission Nebula SH2-202
7000-7500 light-years distant in the constellation of Cassiopeia lie the emission nebulae colloquially known as the Heart and The Soul Nebulae. The gasses (mostly hydrogen) that comprise the nebulae are being ionized by the stars within the region and as a result, the gasses glow, much like a neon sign.
The pressures exerted upon the material by the stars nearby are causing the material to become compressed. When enough of the gas becomes highly compacted, it triggers the birth of new stars. In effect, this is a beautiful snapshot of a multimillion-year process of an enormous cloud of dust and gas transforming itself into new stars.
This is the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) "Holiday Train", which I spotted crossing the Chicago River in December 2019. I gave the shot a tilt-shift treatment using Snapseed.
The Holiday Train is a Chicago 'L' train which traditionally runs during the winter holidays, from November to December. Six cars are traditional passenger cars adorned with seasonal decorations and bright lights. The interior of these cars are adorned with multi-color lights, red bows, garland, and red and green overhead lighting. The hand poles are transformed into inedible candy canes. Santa Claus rides on an open-air flatcar and waves to the passengers coming aboard from his sleigh.
"So the river ends
In this calamity we call heaven
Is this perfection
Are we spinning into the grey again
And transforming into the insane
Within the cold absolute
The cold brutal truth
There is a pained angel"
- Warrel Dane
Something simple for tonight. I have not been out shooting most of the winter. We finally had a nice week and I got a couple days in. For tonight, just a picture.
My original painting (24" x 20" vertical) was in yellow with patches of pink and light blueish green. I transformed it into this mixed media horizontal image with the magic of Photoshop. Copyright © 2010 ArtsySF . LINK to the ORIGINAL painting:
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Düsseldorf Flingern Süd,
Kiefernstrasse
Viele Künstler*innen haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten daran gearbeitet, dass der Straßenzug ein lebendiges Kunstwerk wird.
Düsseldorf Flingern Süd, Kiefernstrasse
Many artists have worked over the past decades to transform this street into a living work of art.
the Apricot Kernels Nonsense
In November, 1921, a great English physician, Sir Robert McCarrison (after whom the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health is named), visited the USA at the invitation of the University of Pittsburgh, to deliver the annual sixth Mellon Lecture before the Society for Biological Research.
The subject of his paper was “Faulty Food in Relation to Gastro-Intestinal Disorders,” and its salient points centered on the marvelous health and robustness of the Hunzas, who dwell on the northwestern border of what was then British India (now Pakistan).
The sturdy, mountaineer Hunzas are a light-complexioned race of people, much fairer of skin than the natives of the northern plains of India. They claim descent from three soldiers of Alexander the Great who lost their way in one of the precipitous gorges of the Himalayas. They always refer to themselves as Hunzukuts and to their land as Hunza, but ignorant modern writers insist on calling the people Hunzas.
Most of the people of Hunza are Ismaili Muslims, followers of His Highness the Aga Khan. The local language is Brushuski. Urdu and English are also understood by most of people.
The Hunza valley is one of huge glaciers and towering mountains, below which are ice-fields, boulder-strewn torrents and frozen streams.
The lower levels are transformed into verdant gardens in summertime. Narrow roads cling to the crumbling sides of forbidding precipices, which present sheer drops of thousands of feet, with many spots subject to dangerously recurrent bombardments of rock fragments from overhanging masses.
The Hunzas live on a seven-mile line at an elevation of five or six hundred feet from the bottom of a deep cleft between two towering mountain ranges. Some of the glaciers in this section of the world are among the largest known outside the Arctic region. The average height of the mountains is 20,000 feet, with some peaks, such as Rakaposhi, which dominates the whole region, soaring as high as 25,000—a spectacle of breath-taking beauty, too steep to hold snow and usually scarfed by clouds.
Because of the scarcity of food, supplies and transport, the region is closed to the general public and special permission is required to enter it. Travellers to the region have thus been few but those who have seen the wonder of Hunza have returned with glowing tales of the charm and buoyant health of this people.
Snow is a constant factor; long winters keep the entire population more or less housebound for several months at a time. Yet in summer the mercury may climb to 95 degrees in the shade.
For months in the winter the landscape is all one drab, monotonous, monochromatic stretch of grey houses, apricot trees, fields and walls, all are of a uniformly dingy and depressing gray, with lifeless, low-hanging clouds.
Then in life miraculously returns and color is reborn in the rich greens and yellows of the crops and trees. Leading the explosion of awakening, the apricot blossoms in spring stud the landscape with a riot of pastel-tinted pink and white, in vast profusion.
However, it’s not all about the landscape and crops; Sir Robert McCarrison and other travelers who have visited the Hunza-land, have all been particularly impressed by its atmosphere of peace and by the splendid health and amiability of its people.
Cancer researchSo vibrant was the health of those Hunzas with whom McCarrison came into contact that he reported never having seen a case of asthenic dyspepsia, or gastric or duodenal ulcer, of appendicitis, mucous colitis or cancer. Cases of over-sensitivity of the abdomen to nerve impressions, fatigue, anxiety or cold were completely unknown.
The prime physiological purpose of the abdomen, as related to the sensation of hunger, constituted their only consciousness of this part of their anatomy.
McCarrison concluded this part of his lecture by stating, “Indeed, their buoyant abdominal health has, since my return to the West, provided a remarkable contrast with the dyspeptic and colonic lamentations of our highly civilized communities.”
In fact the Hunzas are not perfect: there is one tiny aspect of ill-health. They seem to suffer from eye disorders that are due to the lack of stoves and chimneys. A fire is made in the middle of the floor and the smoke escapes from a small hole in the roof. The gathering smudge in the air is a constant irritant to their eyes.
McCarrison was otherwise amazed at the health and immunity record of the Hunzas, who, though surrounded on all sides by peoples afflicted with all kinds of degenerative and pestilential diseases, still did not contract any of them.
Travelers who have lived and worked with the Hunzas are unanimous in praising their general charm, intelligence, and physical stamina.But the Hunzas were not entirely a benign or benevolent people, by our standards. There is a paradox here.
In his Mellon Lecture McCarrison told us, “They (the Hunzas) are unusually fertile and long-lived, and endowed with nervous systems of notable stability.
Their longevity and fertility were, in the case of one of them, matters of such concern to the ruling chief that he took me to task for what he considered to be my ridiculous eagerness to prolong the lives of the ancients of his people, among whom were many of my patients.
The operation for senile cataract appeared to him a waste of my economic opportunities, and he tentatively suggested instead the introduction of some form of lethal chamber, designed to remove from his realms those who by reason of their age and infirmity were no longer of use to the community.”
But there is no questioning the physical fitness and stamina of this race of men. One writer, R. C. F. Schomberg, commented, “It is quite the usual thing for a Hunza man to walk sixty miles at one stretch, up and down the face of precipices to do his business and return direct.” This author passed through the Hunza country many times. He describes how his Hunza servant went after a stolen horse “and kept up the pursuit in drenching rain over mountains for nearly two days with bare feet.”
Schomberg also tells of seeing a Hunza in mid-winter make two holes in an ice pond, repeatedly dive into one and come out at the other, with as much unconcern as a polar bear.
Sir Aurel Stein records a trip of 200 miles made on foot by a Hunza messenger, a journey that imposed the obstacle of crossing a mountain as high as Mont Blanc. The trip was accomplished in seven days and the messenger returned fresh looking and untired, as if it had been a common, everyday occurrence. The word “tired” does not seem to exist in their lexicon.
In the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts for January 2, 1925, Sir Robert McCarrison wrote: “The powers of endurance of these people are extraordinary; to see a man of this race throw off his scanty garments, revealing a figure which would delight the eye of a Rodin, and plunge into a glacier-fed river in the middle of the winter, as easily as most of us would take a tepid bath, is to realize that perfection of physique and great physical endurance are attainable on the simplest of foods, provided these be of the right kind.”
Now we are getting down to the real message.
McCarrison postulated four main reasons in explanation of their fabulous health. I think it both interesting and advisable to give them all in his own words. He said:
1) “Infants are reared as Nature intended them to be reared–at the breast. If this source of nourishment fails, they die; and at least they are spared the future gastrointestinal miseries, which so often have their origin in the first bottle.”
McCarrison is absolutely in tune with (or rather modern holistic and food experts like me are in tune with HIM!), in saying that if anything other than Mother’s colostrum is put in the infant’s mouth at birth, disastrous food intolerances follow, as night follows day.
2) “The people live on the unsophisticated foods of Nature: milk, eggs, grains, fruits and vegetables. I don’t suppose that one in every thousand of them has ever seen a tinned salmon, a chocolate or a patent infant food, nor that as much sugar is imported into their country in a year as is used in a moderately sized hotel of this city in a single day.”
I’m surprised at the dairy but raw milk fans will make a lot of this. But the number one here is, without question, NO SUGAR and not the apricots!
No manufactured food is also crucial. Never never eat anything that doesn’t look the way Nature created it (and never never eat anything that Monsanto and similar biotech companies have had their dirty hands on).
3) “Their religion (Islam) prohibits alcohol, and although they do not always lead in this respect a strictly religious life, nevertheless they are eminently a tee totalling race.”
(Colonel Lorimer says that the Hunzas occasionally drink a little wine at festivals. Alcohol is not forbidden to Ismalai Mohammedans, but in Hunza the distilling of alcohol has been prohibited in recent years, since McCarrison’s time). So a little quiet wine drinking seems to be no big hazard, if everything else is in place.
4) “Their manner of life requires the vigorous exercise of their bodies.”
No surprise here; we know that staying active is an essential part of health and definitely does protect from cancer.ers take note.
As ever we had a wonderful evening at the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba.
Great friends, wonderful dance music and over the top hospitality.
Transformal number nine was a great success.
The Conservatory - Bellagio’s Opus
Each season, a team transform the Botanical Gardens into a showcase of inspiring sights, sounds, scents and colors. Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter are all featured—along with a special display for Lunar New Year. When the seasons change so do the displays. (Bellagio website)
Bellagio is a resort, luxury hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. It is owned by Blackstone Inc. and operated by MGM Resorts International.
Bellagio opened on 1998, with 3,005 rooms. It was the world's most expensive resort up to that point. A 33-story hotel tower, with 928 rooms, was opened in 2004.
The resort's signature attraction is the Fountains of Bellagio, a dancing water fountain synchronized to music. Other attractions include the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, and a conservatory and botanical gardens. The hotel lobby features Fiori di Como, a sculpture by glass artist Dale Chihuly. It is the world's largest glass sculpture. (edited from Wikipedia)
This is the one touch transformable LEGO RC tank. It tranforms with just one touch from a tank to a robot, and vice versa. Also, this vehicle can be driven by LEGO RC controller, whatever its form is, a robot or a tank.
if you want to watch the transform process, visit my youtube channel below
Sara Pantuliano, Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom, speaking during the session, Transforming Humanitarian Finance, at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
These old barges on the river normally look quite dull and uninteresting (unless you particularly like old barges!) but yesterday's morning light and mist transformed them into something of real beauty.
"Light Transformed"
The cool thing about a camera sensor is that it captures light over time, which we cannot do since we observe light in real time. This is a composite of at least 4 long exposure images involving pond ice, a plastic snowflake, a laser pointer, various flashlights and an evening moon photo from last year. What does it conjure in your mind?
Back in 1959-60 this was part of the last 1/3 of my High School Cross-Country course. It was just barren rolling hills of hard-packed adobe clay.
The 23'' Brave Mama Bear Plush Toy, released by the Disney Store online and in stores in the US and Canada on May 14, 2012. The price is $39.50 US. She is the transformed Queen Elinor, has a soft crown on her head, articulated arms and legs, soft black fur, faux leather nose and paws, and embroidered eyes.
Her legs rotate 360 degrees about the hip joint, and her arms are bendable, with internal wiring. When her legs are rotated so she is standing, they are not sturdy or stiff enough for her to be stable free standing, so she needs a bit of support to stand. However, she is very stable sitting down. She is a hefty doll, weighing in at 3 pounds 2 ounces (1.417 kg). Her fur is VERY soft, and looks and feels like real fur, and her body is soft and cuddly. As she is handled, some individual hairs come loose, but there is very minimal shedding.
She is a very accurate depiction of the mama bear in the Brave trailers shown so far. The tag on the bear actually says ''Mum Bear'' which the (mostly) British way of saying Mother (or Mama) Bear.
after a good rain the desert will transform into green space, taken with Leica M240 and Zeiss 50mm f/1.5
Sonnar T*
transform, 2001, 60"w x 40"h, mixed media painting on canvas
transform = transformation = transmute = transubstantiate = metamorphose = translate = convert = change = mutate = reform = modify = revolutionize = tweak
*Exhibited at Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal, Canada, group show. Nov15-26.05.
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A received a reissue G1 Snarl for my birthday recently, so Sludge has a pal to hang out with now. I was surprised as Snarl has a die cast torso, whereas Sludge doesn't. Very cool feeling that weight again. I have to finish his stickers off; I think I put his rubsign in the wrong spot (isn't it usually on the vehicle mode?)
"My healed chest wound
Transformed into a gate
Where I receive love from
Where I give love from…"
*Björk*
He's so big, guess he needs a little help.
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It's Christmas time, and there's no need to be afraid
At Christmas time, we let in light and banish shade
And in our world of plenty
We can spread a smile of joy
Throw your arms around the world
At Christmas time
But say a prayer and pray for the other ones
At Christmas time, it's hard but while you're having fun
There's a world outside your window
And it's a world of dread and fear
Where a kiss of love can kill you
And there's death in every tear
And the Christmas bells that ring there are the clanging chimes of doom
Well tonight we're reaching out and touching you
Bring peace and joy this Christmas to West Africa
A song of hope they'll have is being alive
Why is comfort deadly fear
Why is to touch to be scared
How can they know it's Christmas time at all
Here's to you
Raise a glass to everyone
Here's to them
And all their years to come
Can they know it's Christmas time at all
Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Feed the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world, let them know it's Christmas time again
Heal the world
P.S.
What is love❗️⁉️
I believe that love, in all its forms, is a powerful energy. As humans, we have the ability to transform it into something radiant. It is an understanding that we are all small particles of time and the universe. Love means caring about the well-being of others more than just focusing on our own interests. If someone is in need, ill, or hungry, it becomes our shared responsibility. It’s a problem we all face together! There's no “I” only “WE”.
If I had to choose my favorite photo of the year that would be this one. Not Italy, not Las Vegas or even Brooklyn Bridge. When I saw this vinyl it was an instant love at first sight. I ask myself often when I travel what if people live differently? What if they terminally ill? What if they don’t have enough strength to move or travel or even to drive 45 minutes to see another location? What if they are unhappy? What if they made irresponsible mistakes? What if their situation is not something that can be reversed? What if they are 95 or 99 years old? What if everything is behind. What if your dreams failed you? What if there’s no happy ending?
What inspires you? Music? Music that has a meaning?
When I look at this vinyl… It’s name, colors; yellow, black & red heart. The name “Band-Aid”… There’s no “happy ending” or “ending”… One just has to apply a band-aid over its own heart and continue making this world a better. Maybe that’s what keeps this planet still moving not just happiness & smiles but billions of small band-aids on the hearts of billions just like yours. Are
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Les Jardins de Doris - Has 4500 different plants, 25 small animals, 24 different facilities (buildings), the gardens have many things to amaze people of all ages.
In the summer of 1926 Elsie Reford (1872-1967) began transforming her fishing camp on the Metis River into a garden. Hundreds of miles from the nearest nursery, Elsie Reford was faced with challenges that would be difficult to imagine today. Where experienced specialists had failed, she succeeded in turning her spruce forest into a gigantic garden that would become one of the largest plant collections of its time. Elsie hired and trained people from the region, like farmers and fishing guides in order to turn them into master gardeners. Over three decades, they’ve built a magnificent garden together.
The Reford Gardens are a National Historic Site of Canada. Some 3,000 species and varieties of plants, including the famous Himalayan blue poppy, are spread over fifteen gardens.