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another for utata's "take two" diptych project. this week... diptychs with a message.
however odd that message might be.
digital 2025
Continuing the journey of exploring experimental digital art effects..!
entered in The Award Tree's ~ Art With Text. ~
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In the tradition of the best laid plans oft failing, parts of my rather sweet-smelling scheme have shriveled up and died, but all is not lost. It may require some extra effort on my part, but I think the fruits it will eventually bear will be a bit sweeter for it.
Also today I hit 500,000 views on my photostream. Thanks to all of the flickrees who have stopped by to smell my proverbial roses!
© laura kicey
This is from the elevator of the bar on the top floor of the hotel... from the movie, Lost In Translation...
or, Park Hyatt.
©Allison White
Little Hills translates to Cerrillos.. an area dotted with small hills hiding wonderful treasures..
Beginning around the year 1,000 the area has been mined for turquoise, making it a vital part of many prehistoric civilizations. It is still being mined today. Cerrillos turquoise, when bought from the source, is pure and unadulterated .. no resins, no fillers ... not many other varieties of turquoise can boast this... It is definitely worth your investment.
Ha I tried to track something on a Thai site because its not updated on the US Side yet.... and the Google Translator just totally Cracked me up!
I can see they have made real Progress on sending my Package hahah
The very poor and rather bizzare translation of language from Mandarin to English seems to be a rather common occurence in China, even in bigger cities like Shanghai. It makes for a good laugh at times!
Kathy Toth || Toronto Graffiti Archive
I keep reading this in Ms. Swan's voice inside my head. Extremely bizarre name for a diner....I assume it can be blamed on bad translation.
Feilai Feng, or "the Peak that Flew Hither", also commonly translated as "Flying Peak" (Traditional Chinese: 飛來峰石窟; Simplified Chinese:飞来峰石窟), is located in front of the temple proper. The peak is so-named because it is made of limestone, giving it a craggy appearance very different from the surrounding mountains. Legend holds that the peak was originally from India (with some versions suggesting that it is Vulture Peak), but flew to Hangzhou overnight as a demonstration of the omnipotence of Buddhist law. A large number of grottoes can be found on the peak, such as Qinglin Grotto, Yuru Grotto and Longhong Grotto. Many rock reliefs dot the peak surface, and more are located in the various caves and grottoes throughout the peak. Within the main cave, dedicated to the bodhisattva Guanyin, there is a crack in the ceiling of the cave that stretches up to the surface, so that a person standing at a certain position can see a sliver of sunlight. This is known as the "one thread of heaven" (Traditional Chinese: 一線天; Simplified Chinese: 一线天; Pinyin: Yīxiàn Tiān).
The stone carvings on Feilai Feng are located in an area measuring 600 meters long and 200 meters wide. In total, there are 153 shrines and more than 470 pieces of carvings, among which 338 are relatively well-preserved, 96 carvings from the Yuan Dynasty as well as several from the Ming Dynasty.
Around 11 carvings date to the late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. These carvings dot the top of the peak and the mouth of Qinglin Grotto and they all prominently feature the “Three Saints of the West”, which refers to the triad of Amitābha Buddha and the Bodhisattvas Guanyin and Mahasthamaprapta from Pure Land Buddhism.
A total of 222 carvings were produced in the Northern Song Dynasty period, which feature a diverse range of Buddhist figures including the Six Patriarchs of Chan (or Zen) Buddhism, various arhats, Bodhisattvas and Buddhas such as Vairocana. One of the more prominent carvings from this period is a shrine to Budai, a monk who is traditionally regarded as an incarnation of Maitreya, surrounded by the Eighteen Arhats. This shrine stands at 3.6 meters high and 9.9 meters long, making it the largest shrine on Feilai Feng.
Most of the nearly 100 carvings produced during the Yuan Dynasty are located on the southern bank of Lengquan Stream and on the cliff near Qinglin Grotto and Yuru Grotto. The carvings from this period resembles the art styles of the Tang and Song dynasties, while also reflecting influences from Tibetan and Mongolian art.
www.viajeachina.com/atracciones-de-hangzhou/templo-lingyi...
www.thechinaguide.com/es/sight/lingyin-temple
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingyin_Temple
Feilai Feng, o "el pico que voló hasta aquí", también traducido comúnmente como "pico volador" (chino tradicional: 飛來峰石窟; chino simplificado:飞来峰石窟), está situado frente al templo propiamente dicho. El pico se llama así porque está hecho de piedra caliza, lo que le da un aspecto escarpado muy diferente del de las montañas circundantes. La leyenda sostiene que el pico era originario de la India (algunas versiones sugieren que se trata del Pico del Buitre), pero voló a Hangzhou de la noche a la mañana como demostración de la omnipotencia de la ley budista. En la cima hay un gran número de grutas, como la Gruta Qinglin, la Gruta Yuru y la Gruta Longhong. Numerosos relieves rocosos salpican la superficie de la cima, y hay más en las diversas cuevas y grutas que la recorren. En la cueva principal, dedicada al bodhisattva Guanyin, hay una grieta en el techo que se extiende hasta la superficie, de modo que una persona situada en una determinada posición puede ver un resquicio de luz solar. Esto se conoce como "el hilo del cielo" (chino tradicional: 一線天; chino simplificado: 一线天; pinyin: Yīxiàn Tiān).
Las tallas de piedra de Feilai Feng se encuentran en un área de 600 metros de largo y 200 metros de ancho. En total, hay 153 santuarios y más de 470 tallas, de las que 338 están relativamente bien conservadas, 96 tallas de la dinastía Yuan y varias de la dinastía Ming.
Unas 11 tallas datan de finales de la Dinastía Tang y del Periodo de las Cinco Dinastías y los Diez Reinos. Estas tallas salpican la cima del pico y la boca de la gruta de Qinglin y en todas ellas destacan los "Tres Santos de Occidente", que hacen referencia a la tríada del Buda Amitābha y los bodhisattvas Guanyin y Mahasthamaprapta del budismo de la Tierra Pura.
En el periodo de la dinastía Song del Norte se produjeron un total de 222 tallas, en las que aparecen diversas figuras budistas, como los Seis Patriarcas del budismo chan (o zen), varios arhats, bodhisattvas y budas como Vairocana. Una de las tallas más destacadas de este periodo es un santuario dedicado a Budai, un monje que tradicionalmente se considera una encarnación de Maitreya, rodeado de los Dieciocho Arhats. Este santuario mide 3,6 metros de alto y 9,9 metros de largo, lo que lo convierte en el más grande de Feilai Feng.
La mayoría de las casi 100 tallas producidas durante la Dinastía Yuan se encuentran en la orilla sur del arroyo Lengquan y en el acantilado cercano a la Gruta Qinglin y la Gruta Yuru. Las tallas de este periodo se asemejan a los estilos artísticos de las dinastías Tang y Song, aunque también reflejan influencias del arte tibetano y mongol.
The Glencoe Mountains. Taken from Stob Coire Raineach (the peak of the bracken filled corrie), one of the two Munro peaks of Buachaille Etive Beag (the little Herdsman of Etive or the wee shepherd of the glens). Its a great viewpoint and from this height you can make out the curvature of the Earth. The peak centre middle is the other Munro of Buachaille Etive Beag, Stob Dubh (the dark peak). Centre Right is the Bidean nam Bian massif (the peaks of the animal pelts), with its several Munro summits including Stob Coire Sgreamhach (the peak of the horrible corrie). On the far right is Glencoe (the glen of weeping) and the Aonach Eagach (the notched ridge) with its peaks including Sgorr nam Fiannaidh (the peak of the Fingalian Warriors). This is the deadliest ridge walk in Britain. In the far distance on the left is Ben Starav (the hill of the rustling noise). To give a sense of scale, if you look closely bottom middle you can just make out some climbers approaching the Mam Buidhe bealach.
finally got colton to model for me! He is an amazing model. Check out my facebook page for more outtakes and information on the concept behind the photo!
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certainly something different for me. photo occured by accident and reminds me of the film 'lost in translation' which i love.
part of my 365 project
straight from the camera, no editing.
listen:
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Taking the knowledge he had obtained by watching the birds, he attempted to be like minded. Taking whatever fabric he could find, he fashioned what appeared to be wings. Jumping up at the burst of wind, he was taken up into the sky.
This was a sequel to yesterday's photo. It was so foggy up on the hill that this was taken, it was lovely. It was, in a sense, the most alone that I have felt in a while. No cellphone service, just me, the rolling fog, and the quiet dew that was resting all around me. I stayed up there for a while and just took in the natural scape.
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A new trio of examples of ‘data sonification’ from NASA missions provides a new method to enjoy an arrangement of cosmic objects. Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions -- such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope -- into sounds.
This image of the Bullet Cluster (officially known as 1E 0657-56) provided the first direct proof of dark matter, the mysterious unseen substance that makes up the vast majority of matter in the Universe. X-rays from Chandra (pink) show where the hot gas in two merging galaxy clusters has been wrenched away from dark matter, seen through a process known as "gravitational lensing" in data from Hubble Space Telescope (blue) and ground-based telescopes. In converting this into sound, the data pan left to right, and each layer of data was limited to a specific frequency range. Data showing dark matter are represented by the lowest frequencies, while X-rays are assigned to the highest frequencies. The galaxies in the image revealed by Hubble data, many of which are in the cluster, are in mid-range frequencies. Then, within each layer, the pitch is set to increase from the bottom of the image to the top so that objects towards the top produce higher tones.
NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
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Translated as Altar of the Fatherland and also known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II. Chiesa del Gesù dome in the foreground. Shot from atop the Castel Sant'Angelo using a Nikon 300mm lens, f/14, 25 seconds at 100 ISO (no crop).
This shot is for the FlickrFriday group
Challenge of the week was to upload some from your favorite movie.
Well I have a lot of favorite movies...very hard to decide and even worse to have to take a photo that could remind the movie.
Lost in translation was my pick.
for the simplicity, for the atmosphere, the wonderful soundtrack and for the "real life story" that you find in the characters that touch me so much.
P.s: Sorry about deleting the other photo but It wasn't accepted by the group. That's the second option I have. Hope it works.
P.s2: Thanks my love for going out around the city with me last night under the cold just to take this shot.
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Here’s another MAD Magazine job (October 1991) that I really enjoyed doing. Back in the early 1990s there was an inane American television game show called “Studs.” Perfect for MAD to do a spoof. Basically two “hunks” go on blind dates with the same three “babes.” Then they all appear on the show together and the “hunks” answer questions about their dates. Each correct answer get them a “stuffed heart” which is stuck on their body. The “hunk” that has the most hearts at the end is crowned “Ultimate Stud.” No surprise the questions relied heavily on sexual innuendo and double entendre. Today this show is so not PC. It was pretty bad back then too! I enjoyed doing this job, but remember, I had to watch the show for a number of weeks to do the drawing. That was painful! When I brought in the sketch for this job I never thought that I’d get an okay with no changes. I did!
I put a short link, from Youtube, to the show as a comment. Just in case you don’t know it.
Skulptūra „Baltijos aušra“ -- Translation to Lithuanian.
I wish I could get a higher viewpoint, the background had a lake, a lot of lush green areas, trees & even a tower... but for a tiny human, this is all I could do!😞
A series of found translations using the Instant translation feature of my phone's Google Translate app, while aimed at one of Catherine Silks' recent photos: www.flickr.com/photos/129762096@N03/51459004174/in/photos...
....Or is it pink?
Taken in our garden earlier this spring....
The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae.
The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China. The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.
Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 4 inches (10 cm) and 28 inches (71 cm) high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in color. Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colorings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colors, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).
The flowers have six distinct, basifixed stamens with filaments shorter than the tepals. Each stigma has three distinct lobes, and the ovaries are superior, with three chambers. The tulip's seed is a capsule with a leathery covering and an ellipsoid to globe shape. Each capsule contains numerous flat, disc-shaped seeds in two rows per chamber. These light to dark brown seeds have very thin seed coats and endosperm that does not normally fill the entire seed.
Etymology
The word tulip, first mentioned in western Europe in or around 1554 and seemingly derived from the "Turkish Letters" of diplomat Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, first appeared in English as tulipa or tulipant, entering the language by way of French: tulipe and its obsolete form tulipan or by way of Modern Latin tulīpa, from Ottoman Turkish tülbend ("muslin" or "gauze"), and may be ultimately derived from the Persian: دلبند delband ("Turban"), this name being applied because of a perceived resemblance of the shape of a tulip flower to that of a turban. This may have been due to a translation error in early times, when it was fashionable in the Ottoman Empire to wear tulips on turbans. The translator possibly confused the flower for the turban.
Tulips are called laleh (from Persian لاله, lâleh) in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bulgarian. In Arabic letters, "laleh" is written with the same letters as Allah, which is why the flower became a holy symbol. It was also associated with the House of Osman, resulting in tulips being widely used in decorative motifs on tiles, mosques, fabrics, crockery, etc. in the Ottoman Empire
Cultivation
Tulip cultivars have usually several species in their direct background, but most have been derived from Tulipa suaveolens, often erroneously listed as Tulipa schrenkii. Tulipa gesneriana is in itself an early hybrid of complex origin and is probably not the same taxon as was described by Conrad Gesner in the 16th century.
Tulips are indigenous to mountainous areas with temperate climates and need a period of cool dormancy, known as vernalization. They thrive in climates with long, cool springs and dry summers. Tulip bulbs imported to warm-winter areas of are often planted in autumn to be treated as annuals.
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils, normally from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 cm) deep, depending on the type. Species tulips are normally planted deeper.
Propagation
Tulips can be propagated through bulb offsets, seeds or micropropagation. Offsets and tissue culture methods are means of asexual propagation for producing genetic clones of the parent plant, which maintains cultivar genetic integrity. Seeds are most often used to propagate species and subspecies or to create new hybrids. Many tulip species can cross-pollinate with each other, and when wild tulip populations overlap geographically with other tulip species or subspecies, they often hybridize and create mixed populations. Most commercial tulip cultivars are complex hybrids, and often sterile.
Offsets require a year or more of growth before plants are large enough to flower. Tulips grown from seeds often need five to eight years before plants are of flowering size. Commercial growers usually harvest the tulip bulbs in late summer and grade them into sizes; bulbs large enough to flower are sorted and sold, while smaller bulbs are sorted into sizes and replanted for sale in the future. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercial tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, the majority for export.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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very busy with tree work and then away till the end of the week. Look forward to catching up with you all soon . . .
“When Christians in later centuries translated Aramaic and Hebrew sources into Greek and Latin, the gendered connotation of the word "spirit" was lost. Those translating various forms of “ruah”—the feminine term for "spirit" in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac into Latin, translated it as “spiritus,” a word gendered masculine. Greek speakers translated it as “pneuma,” a word gendered neuter—effectively, however, erasing the vision of divine Mother, an interpretation of the Holy Spirit, whose presence resonates through many of the earliest sources.” —Elaine Pagels, Miracle and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus, p. 51