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This Wild Boar, Sus scrofa, was photographed in China, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
EnviroCenter is a green office building in Jessup, Md., that utilizes environmentally friendly technologies such as solar panels, rain gardens, rain barrels, green roofs, and permeable pavement to reduce stormwater runoff. "And now we're expanding that to a 16,000 square-foot office with 8,000 feet of integrated agriculture," said Stanley J. Sersen, EnviroCenter CEO. The property includes a 1905 farmhouse that Sersen said was made sustainable using mostly off-the-shelf components. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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In addition to choosing cleaner, greener fuels, utilizing onshore power supply service (also known as "cold ironing", "alternative maritime power" and "shore-side electricity), is another solution to reduce air pollution and emissions from ships, as well as limiting local noise. IMO is addressing the need for global standards for the process of providing shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth, while its main and auxiliary engines are turned off. Draft guidelines on safe operation of on-shore power supply to ships are set to be finalized by the Sub-Committee on Ship Systems and Equipment (SSE), which meets this week (2-6 March).
urning to passenger and crew safety matters, the Sub-Committee is expected to finalize draft amendments to the Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code on ventilation requirements for survival craft and related draft amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, to ensure a habitable environment is maintained in such survival craft.
The Sub-Committee is also working to prevent accidents related to lifting appliances and anchor handling winches, which have caused harm to operators and damage to ships, cargo, shore-based structures and subsea structures, as well as to the marine environment. The session is set to complete draft guidelines for lifting appliances, as well as draft guidelines for anchor handling winches. The guidelines will complement draft SOLAS regulations which are due to be submitted to the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) for approval and adoption.
On fire safety, the Sub-Committee will continue its work to minimize the incidence and consequences of fires on ro-ro passenger ships, following a number of serious accidents that occurred recently. The session is expected to further develop draft amendments to the SOLAS Convention and associated codes to enhance fire prevention, detection and extinction.
The SSE 7 meeting was opened by IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim and is being chaired by Mr. Umut Senturk (Turkey).
Aaron utilizes his sound guy skills to put the mics on himself. This was a first for the news guys who were super glad to not have to put their hands up a strangers shirt for once.
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Topic:Kid Finders Network to Assist in Missing
Persons Case Utilizing Innovative Mobile
Billboard
Date & Time:Friday, July 11th at 11:00 AM at NMBPD,
16901 NE 19 Av.
Narrative: Kid Finders Network will be assisting us with a missing person case where a young female, Heather Riggio, went missing on May 6, 2007 and the public’s help is paramount to helping us find her or find out what happened to her as foul play may be involved. Kid Finders Network is providing an innovative way to assist law enforcement with the recovery of missing persons by providing a mobile billboard that will feature vital information such as photographs of the victim, the areas she frequented, etc. which will be deployed in the area Heather was last seen.
Kid Finders will be at the North Miami Beach Police Department on Friday, July 11th at 11:00 AM with the billboard provided for this case. Representatives from Kid Finders Network as well as NMB Chief Rafael P. Hernandez, Jr. and Lead Case Detective Rich Rand will be present to speak about the case and unveil the highly effective and innovative billboard that will profile this case.
The original missing person flyer that features pictures of Heather Riggio will follow this press release and for information regarding Kid Finders Network you can visit their website at www.kidfindersnetwork.com. For more information regarding this press release please call Detective Rich Rand at 305-218-1234 or Sergeant Warren Hardison.
NMBPD case #: 2007-0519-25
Heather Riggio was last seen on May 6, 2007. It is believed that Heather may be in the South Dade Area. She is known to frequent Kendall, Homestead and the Redlands area.
If anyone has seen Heather or has any information pertaining to Heather’s whereabouts please contact North Miami Beach Police Department at (305) 949-5599 or Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS.
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
This pic was taken in al Moqattam, in Cairo. It is a hill overlooking the city, populated mostly by the zabaleen, a cast of people who generation after generation provide one of the best recycling systems of the world, utilizing the tiny little fingers of kids as young as four ...
This kiddo saw me coming from down the alley and started posing. He stared right into the camera and never smiled. I refused to sell this pic.
Shot with film in 2003 (probably ... or 2002?).
:Of Treasures:
This delightful little wonder is a Gris Gris Bag, also known as a Mojo Bag, JouJou Bag or Sachet. Gris Gris Bags are magnificent little talismans and can be utilized to bring about desired outcomes, protect one against ill will or they can just simply be unique little handmade oddities to decorate your vanity or alter with. Some simply adore the smell alone and use them as pin cushions or sachets to keep linens and lingerie smelling down right mystical.
This one in particular was hand crafted and blessed to be a Prosperity Gris Gris; meant to bring its keeper much in the way of good fortune and overall prosperity when it comes to wealth (material and/or spiritual).
It's dapper mix of green color shades denotes its use in rites and rituals involving luck, money and assets.
It is hand stuffed with a mix of lavish and witchy goodies: a small coin, a tag with runic symbols hand written upon it, fine cotton fiber, various flower petals and parts, cinnamon, allspice and vanilla. All in all, a variety of fine magical ingredients have been combined to make this Gris Gris Sachet a potent tool for drawing both luck and happiness.
:Oodles of Magitastic Accessories:
This Prosperity Gris Gris also has a wonderment of accessories that accompany it: a length of green ribbon for binding, a peacock feather, 3 pieces of parchment paper onto which you write your wishes & desires... 2 beautifully designed envelopes for tucking your wishes into... Both the parchment paper and the envelopes are emblazoned with Zodiac symbols and such. The larger envelope pictured (with Alice of Wonderland on it) contains a 2.75 Oz. bag of practically divine ritual dead sea bath salts whose aroma is a heady mix of warm Cinnamon and Bergamot. This Gris Gris care package will also come to you with a hefty 1 Oz. bottle of "The Patronus Charm" fine Artisan Perfume Oil.
:Of "The Patronus Charm" Artisan Perfume Oil:
Dreamed up by the fireplace as the moon was waxing full, The Patronus Charm perfume oil was also created with the idea of luck and prosperity. In that regard, care was taken to utilize essential oils from plants and herbs which folklore suggests bring just such results. This particular variety of the Patronus Charm is composed of rich and luxurious Cinnamon & Vanilla essential oils, melded with Oakmoss, All spice and a touch of Cedar.Other components of The Patronus Charm (the Luck and Prosperity batch): sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, hazelnut oil, amber glass bottle and a parchment paper label. It is completely natural, organic and vegan friendly. This perfume oil is also perfect for aromatherapy, meditation, rites and rituals alike.
:Other Details:
My Large Gris Gris Bags Measure 5" x 5".
It is suggested that you add your own meaningful items to your Gris Gris when you receive it. A lock of hair, a fingernail, a small picture, a favorite rock or shell...Whatever you might like to meditate on. I put a pocket on my Gris Gris sachets for a reason... so the pocket is nice and big to accommodate any manner of trinkets or personal charms you'd like to tuck into it. The Prosperity Gris Gris will come to you with more detailed instructions on its use, 3 small green tea light candles (not shown) and will be packaged in gift-style wrappings with love and care.
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Yonder was laid up in 1928 at the Hoffar-Beeching Shipyards in Vancouver, BC originally as a fishing boat. As such she has a deep entry forward and is a heavily built full-displacement cruiser. During construction, she was changed from a working fish boat to a yacht. She is a fine seaworthy boat and economical to run.
In 1928 Henry Hoffar was about to sell his company to the Boeings of Seattle. It is rumored that Yonder was used for a time as a test bed for engines that were being installed in a variety of boats. This could be the reason for so many fittings in the engine room. During the refit (in 1959 ?), she had twenty five through-hull fittings replaced or plugged.
Yonder was sold to W.S. Day with a two hundred horsepower Hall-Scott engine that would propel the vessel in excess of twelve knots. She was christened Northern Light. Day enjoyed his power yacht from 1928 to 1936 when he sold the vessel to C.P. Schwenger. Day became the fourteenth Commodore of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club in 1937.
There is a lapse in Yonder’s history until 1944 when the Sangster family purchased the vessel and installed a Buda diesel engine. These engines were being used in the buses that the Blue Line Bus Company operated. Since Mr. Sangster owned the company, certain economies for parts and maintenance suggest themselves. The Sangsters were avid yachters and used the vessel each summer to travel to their Twin Island retreat. Monty Love was an adopted son of the Sangsters and he passed along much of the early history that is known about Yonder.
Yonder’s history from 1948 to 1951 is again obscure except for the fact that her name was changed from Northern Light to Trasnagh II.
In 1951 a local barrister by the name of Claude Lionel Harrison purchased the vessel and renamed her Yonder. Claude was a bit of a local character – he often wore a full cape with a maroon lining. He enjoyed the boat to its fullest and many good tales from these years are still told. One alleged incident occurred while a group was enroute to Desolation Sound. The group left Victoria in the late afternoon, intending to travel all night with the aid of some liquid nourishment. As the evening drew on, the adventurers drifted off to sleep, leaving no one at the helm. As the light of day dawned, they were greeted by the sight of the south face of the cliffs off James Island. They had run aground on the previous night’s tide and sat there, the engine idling gently. Fortunately, the sloping sandy approach precluded any damage to the vessel. The only casualties were wounded pride and some aching heads.
In 1959 Yonder was repowered again with a British-built diesel, a B&W Dawe. This engine was known as a Tunney “Empress” and one of a trio of engines named respectively as the “Empress,” the “Queen,” and the “Princess.”
Ted and Elsa Cox of Sidney became the owners of Yonder in 1969. During the next eighteen years they were seen cruising up and down the coast, utilizing the vessel as much as they possibly could. The vessel was sold to Ron van Stolk of Sidney, who quickly resold it to Joe Wood of Pacific Western Airlines. Captain Wood purchased the vessel with the intention of retiring on board and began an extensive refit of the boat. During the five years that Woods owned the vessel, most of the time was spent doing work to improve the onboard amenities. He practically rebuilt the entire interior.
Joe Wood regretfully sold Yonder to Terri and Rick Soley of Sydney, who continued the task of restoration. Yonder’s mechanical systems were redone, and additional hot water heaters for winter cruising were installed. The aft deck was fitted with a canopy that can be heated by her big Dickinson stove when the curtains are let down. Yonder also received a new mast and boom.
In 1999 Peter and Meredith Wagner of Port Ludlow, WA became the first U.S. owners of Yonder. Coincidentally, former owner Ron Van Stolk brokered the sale between the Wagners and the Soleys. Shortly after the purchase of Yonder, the Tunney Empress threw a rod and she needed to be repowered once again. A Volvo 200 horsepower turbo engine was chosen with a nod to the original 200 horsepower Hall Scott engine. For the next several years the Wagners, along with Ted and Audrey Wagner, worked through a full overhaul of Yonder. With the help of a knowledgeable team of marine tradesmen in the Port Townsend area she has been refastened and re-caulked. In addition, all her handrails have been replaced and several other systems have been upgraded.
The Wagners cruise throughout the Puget Sound and enjoy running into boaters who have known Yonder through the years. Today Yonder is a solid and seaworthy vessel.
I took these three Photos on February 16, 2015 with my Panasonic DMC Lumix FZ200 Digital Camera in Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida.
This photo shows a Public Art Sculpture entitles "O WAVE" by Gordon Huether of Napa, California. It utilizes Natural Light to create "Visual Effects" Photo Number 3 contains a "Selfie" in one of the Glass Panels.
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One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
I said that I wouldn't utilize beggars or less fortunate people in my photography just to seize attention, that if I would do so, I would show the world that despite their hardships they still manage to find the true meaning of joy and inspire people with their smile. During my walks along the red light district of Burgos in Makati, I came upon an old lady. I passed right in front of her and she barely notices me, the only time she caught my presence was when i was about a meter from her. A glimpse of her I could easily tell something was wrong with her sight. I slowly approached her and calmly called out to her, I asked if she was all by herself and what was she doing by the streets. She said that she was trying to ask for money in order to save because she has a cataract, she motioned to her right eye. She said she has no family, and that she lives with her sisters family. She doesn't want to be burden so she asks strangers in the streets for any spare of change. I told her that she doesn't have to ask and save money, that the government hospital and some non government agencies holds free cataract surgery. She said she knew and the money she's collecting is for when she would have to take care of herself after the surgery, she wouldn't want to burden her relatives of taking care of her. Honestly, I didn't know what to say after that, my heart broke to a million pieces. Trying hard to divert my emotions I said something stupid something just flew out of my mouth about how a cataract operation is done with the patient awake and aware of the surgery. She said that she didn't knew that and that it was frightening and intrusive, she had doubts of undergoing the surgery. I told her that it was worth it, and she could see better after. She smiled, then I asked if I could take some photos of her. She obliged and right after I regretted I had to buy a burger earlier then I could have given her not just 50 pesos but more. Then I realized, she's not like the other people who just beg for money, she actually needs it, and if she could work for it, I bet she would've had. She wasn't helpless, despite the her blank stare, she see's hope. And she's determined to do what she can to help herself. I am an amateur photographer, learning the ropes of life, and this night I sure did learn something. I'll be going back to her corner in Burgos and maybe try to bring her some food next time... Thank you Corazon Manalili...
Once upon a time, there was a Disney backed toyline known as Infinity, which strived to take a chunk of the "Game to life" market away from the market leading Amiibo by Nintendo. Utilizing a video game that worked in conjunction with little statues (each sold separately), Disney would go on to create entries for many of the properties it had access to, such as the Avengers, Stars Wars, and of course, the countless Disney movies themselves. Disney made it up to Infinity 3.0, only to learn that it takes more than just variety of statues to make for an endearing game experience. Sales were not at the level they liked, so Disney scrapped the line and liquidated all outstanding stock at it's various dealers.
While the Infinity story didn't end in a good way, it DID allow for the birth of something else: the Disney Toybox line.
You see, the one saving grace of the Infinity line is that it introduced toys with an interesting aesthetic. To put it in laymans terms, they took existing characters and Pixar-ed them. Someone at Disney saw the potential of toys utilizing this art style, and a line of action figures was developed. It's now been two years since the Toybox line was announced, and there does not seem to be any slowing down.
My first purchase of the line was, surprise, the Black Widow which was a combination of her Avengers hair coupled her Civil War outfit and weaponry from Infinity War. But it was a kids toy so the lack of adherence to one particular Widow wasn't a big deal. As mentioned, it was the art style that really sold the figure to me because from a technical perspective and quality provided, it's really just alright.
Fast forward about 2 years, and I have introduced a second figure into the line up - Captain Marvel, which I learned about while browsing Instagram.
These figures are only available through the Disney Store (well, officially anyway) which makes buying them somewhat of a pain. Fortunately, living in Toronto, I have access to no less than 4 physical locations, which is great because if I had to pay shipping I'd probably have zero figures. Price wise, they're in between a basic Hasbro figure and a Legends. They're slighly smaller than a Figuarts, and as such are definitely shorter than a Legends figure.
This Captain Marvel figure is based more on the comic character rather than the Brie Larson version, as evidenced by the uniform and the hair, though who knows, maybe the artists used some Endgame screen caps as inspiration. The set comes with the figure, helmeted and unhelmeted head, as well as Goose with tentacle attachment. I feel that these figures are a good example of the "less is more" mentality, as the highly simplified designs with bright colours are definitely more attractive to me than the Legends stuff.
Articulation isn't going to win any awards, but to be fair, it's not like they were aiming for highly articulated with these releases. Officially, each figure has 14 points of articulation, which include ankles, single jointed knees that can rotate, hips, waist, standard should, single jointed elbows that can rotate, rotating wrists, and head joint. While there are head options, there are no hands to swap out. You can get some decent poses out of the figure, but overall it's on par with what you'd get out of your Legends figures, though I think the knees on the Legends would be better due to their double jointed nature.
Paint is.. well, it's mass marketed Disney Store merch. It's functional, but definitely not what I would call pretty. Due to budget cuts, Disney didn't even bother painting the lips on the helmeted sculpt, something I tried to rectify with a Sharpie to mixed results, but lets face it, a paint app by Disney might be just as bad anyway. But hey, I think I should get credit for at least choosing a red that works with the figure quite well. The average to below average expectations extend to the quality of the materials used as well, though at the very least the Toybox figures don't suffer from the weak knees of the Hasbro figures.
Overall, the bodies come out alright, but I feel that the sculpting and finishes on the heads themselves are actually batting above their weight class, even if they're missing a paint app or two, thanks to the large expressive eyes that generally are finished decently on all figures that I've seen.
Goose doesn't really do much other than stand there, but he's a neat addition to the set. I guess some flaming fists effects would have been nice, but they would have had to make two unique designs seeing how Captain Marvel has two different hands.
So that was a very quick overview of the Disney Toybox line and Captain Marvel herself. If you're a fan of any Disney property and you like action figures, I highly recommend that you at least check these figures out. For me, they certainly aren't good enough quality and articulation wise to be a main collectible, but as a companion piece to higher end figures or perhaps as a travel companion piece for some photography, they fit the bill quite well.
18 phases of the partial solar eclipse seen from Wiesbaden, Germany. I utilized an ND8 filter on my 300mm lens and placed the camera on a tripod. The shutter was set to a 1/2000 second with a F32 aperture. I merged the images together with LR/Enfuse and used Photoshop to place the multiple rows of the sun in a single image. This collage covers 41 minutes of the eclipse, with intervals averaging 2-3 minutes between eclipse phases.
Picture also available on 500px - 500px.com/photo/102452513/march-2015-solar-eclipse-seen-f...
Canadian military members utilize the Indirect Fire Trainer (IFT) during an all arms call for fire simulation system training for Exercise ALLIED SPIRIT IV at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, on January 13, 2016 during Operation REASSURANCE.
Photo: Corporal Nathan Moulton, Land Task Force Imagery, OP REASSURANCE
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Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes se servent du simulateur de tir indirect (STI) lors d’un entraînement simulé d’une demande de tir toutes armes, dans le cadre de l’exercice ALLIED SPIRIT IV, au Joint Multinational Readiness Center à Hohenfels, en Allemagne, le 13 janvier 2016, au cours de l’opération REASSURANCE.
Photo : Caporal Nathan Moulton, Service d’imagerie de la Force opérationnelle terrestre, Op REASSURANCE
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One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
Children go through their lessons in a rural school in Ethiopia which now has access to clean reliable water and power thanks to wind powered pumps and generators, provided by a program funded by the African Development Bank.
Once upon a time, there was a Disney backed toyline known as Infinity, which strived to take a chunk of the "Game to life" market away from the market leading Amiibo by Nintendo. Utilizing a video game that worked in conjunction with little statues (each sold separately), Disney would go on to create entries for many of the properties it had access to, such as the Avengers, Stars Wars, and of course, the countless Disney movies themselves. Disney made it up to Infinity 3.0, only to learn that it takes more than just variety of statues to make for an endearing game experience. Sales were not at the level they liked, so Disney scrapped the line and liquidated all outstanding stock at it's various dealers.
While the Infinity story didn't end in a good way, it DID allow for the birth of something else: the Disney Toybox line.
You see, the one saving grace of the Infinity line is that it introduced toys with an interesting aesthetic. To put it in laymans terms, they took existing characters and Pixar-ed them. Someone at Disney saw the potential of toys utilizing this art style, and a line of action figures was developed. It's now been two years since the Toybox line was announced, and there does not seem to be any slowing down.
My first purchase of the line was, surprise, the Black Widow which was a combination of her Avengers hair coupled her Civil War outfit and weaponry from Infinity War. But it was a kids toy so the lack of adherence to one particular Widow wasn't a big deal. As mentioned, it was the art style that really sold the figure to me because from a technical perspective and quality provided, it's really just alright.
Fast forward about 2 years, and I have introduced a second figure into the line up - Captain Marvel, which I learned about while browsing Instagram.
These figures are only available through the Disney Store (well, officially anyway) which makes buying them somewhat of a pain. Fortunately, living in Toronto, I have access to no less than 4 physical locations, which is great because if I had to pay shipping I'd probably have zero figures. Price wise, they're in between a basic Hasbro figure and a Legends. They're slighly smaller than a Figuarts, and as such are definitely shorter than a Legends figure.
This Captain Marvel figure is based more on the comic character rather than the Brie Larson version, as evidenced by the uniform and the hair, though who knows, maybe the artists used some Endgame screen caps as inspiration. The set comes with the figure, helmeted and unhelmeted head, as well as Goose with tentacle attachment. I feel that these figures are a good example of the "less is more" mentality, as the highly simplified designs with bright colours are definitely more attractive to me than the Legends stuff.
Articulation isn't going to win any awards, but to be fair, it's not like they were aiming for highly articulated with these releases. Officially, each figure has 14 points of articulation, which include ankles, single jointed knees that can rotate, hips, waist, standard should, single jointed elbows that can rotate, rotating wrists, and head joint. While there are head options, there are no hands to swap out. You can get some decent poses out of the figure, but overall it's on par with what you'd get out of your Legends figures, though I think the knees on the Legends would be better due to their double jointed nature.
Paint is.. well, it's mass marketed Disney Store merch. It's functional, but definitely not what I would call pretty. Due to budget cuts, Disney didn't even bother painting the lips on the helmeted sculpt, something I tried to rectify with a Sharpie to mixed results, but lets face it, a paint app by Disney might be just as bad anyway. But hey, I think I should get credit for at least choosing a red that works with the figure quite well. The average to below average expectations extend to the quality of the materials used as well, though at the very least the Toybox figures don't suffer from the weak knees of the Hasbro figures.
Overall, the bodies come out alright, but I feel that the sculpting and finishes on the heads themselves are actually batting above their weight class, even if they're missing a paint app or two, thanks to the large expressive eyes that generally are finished decently on all figures that I've seen.
Goose doesn't really do much other than stand there, but he's a neat addition to the set. I guess some flaming fists effects would have been nice, but they would have had to make two unique designs seeing how Captain Marvel has two different hands.
So that was a very quick overview of the Disney Toybox line and Captain Marvel herself. If you're a fan of any Disney property and you like action figures, I highly recommend that you at least check these figures out. For me, they certainly aren't good enough quality and articulation wise to be a main collectible, but as a companion piece to higher end figures or perhaps as a travel companion piece for some photography, they fit the bill quite well.
Santa utilizes modern technology (computerized tomography) to examine his toys for possible defects prior to delivering them.
His trusty elves assist him in this endeavor.
Meanwhile, Mrs Santa makes sure her husband is well-fed.
:Of Treasures:
This delightful little wonder is a Gris Gris Bag, also known as a Mojo Bag, JouJou Bag or Sachet. Gris Gris Bags are magnificent little talismans and can be utilized to bring about desired outcomes, protect one against ill will or they can just simply be unique little handmade oddities to decorate your vanity or alter with. Some simply adore the smell alone and use them as pin cushions or sachets to keep linens and lingerie smelling down right mystical.
This one in particular was hand crafted and blessed to be a Prosperity Gris Gris; meant to bring its keeper much in the way of good fortune and overall prosperity when it comes to wealth (material and/or spiritual).
It's dapper mix of green color shades denotes its use in rites and rituals involving luck, money and assets.
It is hand stuffed with a mix of lavish and witchy goodies: a small coin, a tag with runic symbols hand written upon it, fine cotton fiber, various flower petals and parts, cinnamon, allspice and vanilla. All in all, a variety of fine magical ingredients have been combined to make this Gris Gris Sachet a potent tool for drawing both luck and happiness.
:Oodles of Magitastic Accessories:
This Prosperity Gris Gris also has a wonderment of accessories that accompany it: a length of green ribbon for binding, a peacock feather, 3 pieces of parchment paper onto which you write your wishes & desires... 2 beautifully designed envelopes for tucking your wishes into... Both the parchment paper and the envelopes are emblazoned with Zodiac symbols and such. The larger envelope pictured (with Alice of Wonderland on it) contains a 2.75 Oz. bag of practically divine ritual dead sea bath salts whose aroma is a heady mix of warm Cinnamon and Bergamot. This Gris Gris care package will also come to you with a hefty 1 Oz. bottle of "The Patronus Charm" fine Artisan Perfume Oil.
:Of "The Patronus Charm" Artisan Perfume Oil:
Dreamed up by the fireplace as the moon was waxing full, The Patronus Charm perfume oil was also created with the idea of luck and prosperity. In that regard, care was taken to utilize essential oils from plants and herbs which folklore suggests bring just such results. This particular variety of the Patronus Charm is composed of rich and luxurious Cinnamon & Vanilla essential oils, melded with Oakmoss, All spice and a touch of Cedar.Other components of The Patronus Charm (the Luck and Prosperity batch): sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, hazelnut oil, amber glass bottle and a parchment paper label. It is completely natural, organic and vegan friendly. This perfume oil is also perfect for aromatherapy, meditation, rites and rituals alike.
:Other Details:
My Large Gris Gris Bags Measure 5" x 5".
It is suggested that you add your own meaningful items to your Gris Gris when you receive it. A lock of hair, a fingernail, a small picture, a favorite rock or shell...Whatever you might like to meditate on. I put a pocket on my Gris Gris sachets for a reason... so the pocket is nice and big to accommodate any manner of trinkets or personal charms you'd like to tuck into it. The Prosperity Gris Gris will come to you with more detailed instructions on its use, 3 small green tea light candles (not shown) and will be packaged in gift-style wrappings with love and care.
find this at pixxxiepieandposie.etsy.com
Noise Aquarium utilizes 3-D-scans of oceanic micro creatures obtained with unique scientific imaging techniques and immerses the audience in the 3-D “aquarium” of diverse planktons projected as large as whales. With their presence alone, participants create destructive visual and audio noises, demonstrating how we are all implicated by our inaction.
Credit: tom mesic
Clean, reliable water pours into a waiting water jug thanks to solar powered through a program funded by the African Development Bank
Ethiopia's Nuredin Mohammed explains how the solar and wind power initiative, being done in connecting with the African Development Bank is helping rural Ethiopians have access to clean, reliable water.
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The Mini electronic cigarette is a low-pressure micro electronic fogging instrument that utilizes advanced micro and super critical physical atomization technology. These technologies work together to create a fog with the smell of tobacco by atomizing a liquid.
All photos by Mathias Vejerslev.
Partnering with the Danish Museum of Science and Technology, InfinIT, a Danish network for innovative utilization of IT, Cotter (Laser Cutting Services) and VRKSTEDET (Underbroen) we created a Bits & Beers to kickstart our newest venture - a series of workshops called "From Old Patents to New Prototypes".
Our theme was 'crazy inventions that can change the world' and our speakers included some very special people who have contributed to our world!
Some of the people joining us included:
Jesper Vind, CEO at Future Electric
The company makes state-of-the-art electric motorcycles, with increased maneuverability and acceleration.
→ futureelectric.dk
→ facebook.com/futureelectric.dk
Christian Liljedahl: In collaboration with a small team of experts, Christian invented the Pulse Jet Concert, by playing with the pitch of the sound of the pulse jet by changing the length of the pipes. An incredible auditory experience!
→ christian.liljedahl.dk
Bent Stawski: Specialist in design and manufacturing of advanced scaled mechanical models such as steam trains, steam engines and other mechanical equipment.
Vincent Seremet: Aviation designer and military test pilot with a wide range of aeronautic designs and inventions: gyro-copters, rocketpropelled parachutes, jet packs, phantom wings, etc.
→ kristeligt-dagblad.dk/historier/vincent
→ flyvemuseum.dk/html/vincent_seremet.html
Christian Hansen & Steen Lærke: Specialists in miniature model building. Both scaling, engineering and electrical function associated with advanced model building.
Per Nielsen & Mikkel Posselt: Specialists in combustion engines and can get anything up and running, including the Hammelvogn, built in 1888 by Hans Urban Johansen at the Albert F. Hammels machine factory in Nørrebro.
Finn Helmer: Engineer and previous co-owner of the Electronic company Giga, Finn will talk about startups within inventions, and how to increase your chances of success.
Terje Lade: Manager at Ladeas and developer of the project Vindship, a hybrid merchant vessel for sustainable sea transport.
→ ladeas.no
And a F-16 Jet
The Danish Museum of Science and Technology has a F-16 Jet on loan, and Bits & Beers guests were welcome to get up close and personal, and even sit in the cockpit!
Photos by www.flickr.com/photos/mvejerslev (Credit required for use of photos).
Children from a rural school in Ethiopia whose lives have been made easier and healthier thanks to clean, reliable water pumps powered by the wind, thanks to a program funded by the African Development Bank.
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
An Event for Wound Licking
February 6, 2-4pm (wound licking from 2-4pm, performance by Nonnsha at 3pm)
Baik Art
Utilizing the healing properties of dog saliva, An Event for Wound Licking will be a participatory event pairing wounds with dogs. Experimental in nature, participants will bring their wounds and participants will bring their dogs. Ideally, we can get the dogs to lick some of the wounds. Wounds of all types are requested (including wounds of the psychic variety), as well as dogs of all breeds (mutts especially).
In ancient Greece, the saliva of trained dogs and non-venomous snakes were utilized in Asclepieia (healing temples) to help treat the afflicted. Following in this tradition (and in a controlled manner), a kingsnake and albino cornsnake will be on-site. Due to the experimental nature of this event, liability waivers must be signed by all participants.
The event will culminate with a performance from Shannon Simbulan, aka Nonnsha, at 3pm.
Nonnsha is a Lo-Fi musician who enjoys grocery shopping. Chin up, chin up.
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EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion)
Matt Wardell
January 9 - February 13, 2016
Baik Art presents EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion), a solo installation and series of events by Los Angeles artist Matt Wardell.
For the exhibition, Wardell will present an immersive environment of images and objects by channeling ‘something like’ an ancient Greek temple of healing. Using Baik Art’s unique architecture, viewers experience a literal (and perhaps figurative) katabasis (‘to go down’ as in a descent of some type), but more importantly, and ideally, a catharsis (‘cleansing’ or ‘purification’).
Numerous objects, found and constructed, engage with the verticality of Baik Art’s shaft-like space, surrounded by an installation of wall works including drawings, collages, and repurposed images. Several fabric sculptures fill the gallery functioning as apotropaic totems. These Guardian Figures suggest a ‘presence’, ideally something beyond the object.
Daytime and evening events will further activate the gallery a space for healing. Practitioners from a variety of fields will be on hand for consultation. Music for Healing or What You Need will present a sonic cleansing. Incubation and Dream Analysis will be an overnight event of guided sleep followed by dream analysis with a professional. Utilizing the healing properties of dog saliva, An Event for Wound Licking will be a participatory event pairing wounds with dogs. For the date and time of each event, please contact the artist at shonufwardell@hotmail.com.
In ancient Greece and Rome, an asclepeion was a healing temple, sacred to Asclepius, the Greek God of Medicine. These temples were places in which patients would visit to receive either treatment or some sort of healing, whether it was spiritual or physical. Epidaurus was the first place to worship Asclepius as a god, beginning sometime in the 5th century BCE.
Starting around 350 BCE, the cult of Asclepius became increasingly popular. Pilgrims flocked to asclepieia to be healed. They slept overnight (“incubation”) and reported their dreams to a priest the following day. He prescribed a cure, often a visit to the baths or a gymnasium. Since snakes were sacred to Asclepius, they were often used in healing rituals. Non-venomous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.
Matt Wardell seeks to prolong a sense of wonder while placing the viewer in a lingering position of active assessment. He is interested in how we choose to live and in introducing work that facilitates these investigations. Wardell enjoys walking on fences, answering wrong numbers, and giving directions to places he does not know. Uncomfortable laughter, confusion, and irritation tend to be the byproducts of Wardell’s works.
Wardell has exhibited his work at venues throughout the United States and Mexico, including the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (SFMOMA), Claremont Museum of Art in Claremont, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), REDCAT, PØST, Human Resources, Black Dragon Society, Mark Moore Gallery, and Commonwealth and Council, all in Los Angeles. Wardell is a founding member of the artist collective 10lb Ape.
Baik Art
2600 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90034
310.842.3892
Idea: Utilizing sharp needles to emphasize the pain and fear when they pierce through the skin
Materials: graphite pencils
Processes: sketched out the proportions and different tones of graphite to create realistic drawing
A rancher identifies key species for his rangeland monitoring program; Meagher County, Montana. June 30, 2011.
By utilizing local commodities, Marjiati br Sembiring Meliala has risen from a disaster to a business woman. She cooks for success to support her family and to contribute to the welfare of her communities in the midst of disaster due to the eruption of Mt. Sinabung, Karo District, Indonesia.
For further information about the ILO's activities under the Sinabung Project, please visit: www.ilo.org/jakarta/whatwedo/projects/WCMS_347795/lang--e...
Copyright: ILO/G. Lingga (2017)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/deed.en_US
Teacher Tamene Mengistu runs students through their lessons, who have more time to study now that they are spending less time fetching water thanks to wind powered water pumps provided through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
The Sharpie Show
“An exhibition by artists who utilize marking pens as part of their craft”
Opening Reception with Beats by DJ Phyz Ed and Live Printing by Two Rabbits:
Saturday, February 7th, 2009 from 6pm - 9pm
In the Graffiti subculture, practitioners are known as "writers" because graffiti is about writing your name on as many surfaces as possible. Although many writers elevate their art form to the level of creating huge and beautiful murals, they all began their journey as an artist by first learning to write and perfect their name. The Sharpie marker is often the first tool a writer acquires in his lifelong journey to hone his craft and in becoming an artist.
The Sharpie Show, an exhibition curated by renown graffiti artist Man One, featuring original pieces created using Sharpies by some of the best known graffiti artists in the country (and beyond). Aside from graffiti artists, work by tattoo artists and known illustrators; Lalo Alcaraz and Overton Loyd will be on display. From stylized hand signatures, to throw ups, piecebooks, stickers, and any other possible object that can be marked upon, this exhibit will demonstrate the level of creativity that can be achieved between an artist and his/her most basic tool - The Sharpie.
***Exhibit runs thru March 1st, 2009***
Participating Artists:
20MG, AFEXONE, ASTEK, AUKS ONE, BENJIE, BLEN 167, BOB MOTOWN, BRANDED, BROOKS B. GOLDEN, CACHE, CAT FERRAZ, CATCULT, COPE2, DASH"2000"FIDEL, DEB (AUSTRAILIA), DENZONE®, DSRUP K4P, DRILONE, DYTCH66, EGR, ERIBERTO ORIOL, ERICK SCARECROW, ERIK DEBAT "RISK", EVAN SKREDERSTU, EVERETT CHING, EZRA, FLYCAT(ITALY), GHOST ONE, GIMIKS, GREG "CRAOLA" SIMKINS, GWEN MERCADO–REYES, HASTE, HEX, HUIT, IMMY MELLIN – THE SHARPIE KING, INDIE 184, JAMES "CASPER" JANKOWIAK, JOSE REYES, KING157, KRASH, LALO ALCARAZ, MAD, MAKE ONE, MAN ONE, MANDOE MAK, MARKA27, MAX NEUTRA, MEAR ONE, MIKE GIANT, MOE RADKE, MR "PUPPET" 201, NICKLU, NICNAK, NOEK, OVERTON LOYD, PEAP (NEW ZEALAND), PHOENIX ART, PHONETICONTROL, PROJECT RABBIT, RANDY KONO, RAWKET, RELAX, ROA(BELGIUM), ROME (CHICAGO), SACRED, SERGIO D. ROBLETO, SHERM, SIMSONE, SLOKE ONE, SRPNTWLF, SUBWAY SUDS, THOR, VANESSA HAMPTON, VYAL, WANE ONE, WERC, ZEN ONE and many more…
Cross-border solidarity action utilizing Guerrilla Light Projection onto Trump's prototype border walls. Artful Activists San Diego, OLB San Diego, Backbone Campaign's affiliated San Diego Solidarity Brigade and photographer and educator Jill Marie Holslin mobilized this bold action. Their message was clear - "Build Bridges Not Borders," "Refugees Are Welcome," "No One is Illegal," countering the racist and xenophobic policies and rhetoric of the "Embarrassment-In-Chief" and the party of Trump.
On 11/19/2017, under a new moon, accompanied by a gorgeous sunset, a binational group of activists/artist met up at Las Torres barrio, Tijuana, Baja California. Setting up atop 3 vehicles parked against the existing border fence, facing the newly constructed prototypes, our group began projecting light graffiti onto the 30 ft by 30 ft border wall prototypes, located 100 to 150 feet away, on heavily guarded, impossible-to-access, U.S. soil. By using our" Las Torres shortcut", we had perfect access to all the prototypes. Overpass Light Brigade San Diego aimed our 750 watt Source Four stage lamp, equipped with a long-distance lens, at several prototypes, and began projecting. Jill Holslin, Andrew Sturm, and a Mexican videographer recorded the entire event. 5 images were displayed, beginning with a luchador, well known as a fighter against injustice in Mexico. A ladder ascending the prototype was next. In a playful spirit, the 3rd image of a stick figure climbed the wall with the words "LLEGALE" (go for it) below it. Lady Liberty then shown her light. The concluding image was an invocation that we as humans honor our common humanity more than contrived borders, and welcome refugees. The entire event was an example of how borders can bring people together, as UCSD students, faculty, Mexican nationals and US activists all met and created the event in response to the erection of fascist architecture on OUR BORDER. San Diego is and ever shall be, a border town. We are her citizens, and we shall defend her.
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Flying the Harrier is unlike any other jet aircraft. It utilizes the concept of "Vectored Thrust," in which turbine by-pass air is routed to one of two pairs of nozzles at the wing roots, while jet exhaust is directed through the second pair. The combined "thrusts" enable the Harrier to either hover or fly normally depending on the position of the nozzles, which can be rotated in unison along the longitudinal axis anywhere from straight aft for forward flight to a little forward of straight down for hover. Nozzle positions are controlled by a single lever near the throttle. To control the aircraft in the hover mode, during which speed is so slow that elevator and rudder surfaces are not operable, a reaction control system cuts in which enables high pressure bleed air to be routed to exhaust ducts called "puffers" or "puff pipes" at the wing tips, nose and tail. When the pilot moves the stick forward, the puffer under the tail emits air causing the nose to go down; and when he pulls it back, the puffer under the nose emits air causing the nose to go up. Similarly, side-to-side movement of the stick operates the puffers at the wing tips (inversely of course) causing the plane to roll; and puffers at the tail operated by the rudder pedals, blow air sideways to control "yaw." As far as the pilot is concerned, the controls continue to operate normally.
British Harriers flew combat missions in the Falkland Islands War in 1982, during which forty-two were deployed for ground support, air defense, ship strikes, and reconnaissance. They shot down at least twenty enemy planes (Mirages, A-4 Skyhawks, and a Canberra bomber) without a single air-to-air loss. Five were lost to ground fire and four to adverse weather. The first Marine Corps aircraft went to war almost twenty years later. During Operation Desert Storm, a total of eighty-six Harriers flew combat missions from both ship and shore, logging 3,380 sorties for 4,038 hours, and delivering over 5.95 millions lbs of ordnance. Harriers also flew combat missions in support of Operation Allied Force, the sustained NATO air campaign against Kosovo in 1999, and continue to fly in support of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Specifications
Manufacturer: McDonnell Douglas Corporation (now Boeing)
Dimensions: Length: 45 ft., 7 in.; Height: 11 ft., 11 in.; Wingspan: 25 ft., 3 in.
Weights: Empty: 13,086 lb.; Gross: 25,200 lb.
Power Plant: One 21,500 lb. static thrust Rolls-Royce Pegasus 103F402-RR-401 Performance: Maximum Speed: 730 M.P.H., Service Ceiling: 51,200 ft.; Range: 414 miles
Armament: Provisions for 25mm cannon, Sidewinder and Maverick missiles, bombs, and rockets
Crew: Pilot
DLP projectors utilizing a mechanical spinning color wheel may exhibit an anomaly known as the “rainbow effect.” This is best described as brief flashes of perceived red, blue, and green "shadows" observed most often when the projected content features high contrast areas of moving bright/white objects on a mostly dark/black background. The scrolling end credits of many movies are a common example, and also in animations where moving objects are surrounded by a thick black outline. Brief visible separation of the colours can also be apparent when the viewer moves their eyes quickly across the projected image. Some people perceive these rainbow artifacts frequently, while others may never see them at all.
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In 1878 the Francotte patent Martini System was granted utilizing a detachable mechanism fitted without the Cocking Indicator. Revolutionary at the time by compartmentalizing the mechanism for quick disassembly, it only lasted 10 years as the latest technology. It was replaced in 1888 by the .303 cal Lee Metford bolt action Rifle's introduction into the British Military System. Although the British never embraced this European improvement, these "Improved System Rifles" saw much service on frontiers all over the World.
This particular rifle was apparently found in military storage in the Old Palace of Lagan Silekhana in Katmandu, Nepal and was purchased from Atlanta Cultery for $178. It had probably been set in storage no later than 1912 when King George V visited Nepal and ordered that the Nepalese army be issued the latest bolt action M1907 Enfield rifles. There it sat in a rack or perhaps with thousands of others stacked like cord-wood until 2002 when, during a break in the civil war, the armory was opened and these weapons returned to the light of day.
SSRL utilizes x-rays produced by its accelerator, the Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring (SPEAR3), shown in this photo from 2004. Based on the 2004 upgrade funded by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, SPEAR3 is a 3-GeV, high-brightness third generation storage ring operating with high reliability and low emittance. SSRL runs with 500 mA in top-off mode, during which the beam current is kept constant with injection of electrons into the ring every five minutes.
Credit: Peter Ginter / SLAC
Read more: www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/content/spear3/spear3-accelerator