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Dropped my phone last night.
May as well get one last bit of value from it before it goes in the bin!
Quick value study sketch. I think this may become one of my next watercolors. This was a bright, sunny day and the shapes of these barns creates a scene that caught my eye immediately.
Hopefully coming soon . . .
A NASA photographer recently captured a "NIRSpec-tacular" photo of an instrument that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope when it launches in 2018.
Access into a clean room to get a close-up view of a complicated, high-value scientific instrument is carefully controlled, but NASA photographers get such exclusive entry all the time. Photographer Chris Gunn took this image of the NIRSpec instrument inside the giant cleanroom at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The Near-Infrared Spectrograph or NIRSpec is a multi-object spectrograph, which is a tool for observing many objects in the cosmos simultaneously. The NIRSpec takes in light from around 100 distant objects and records their spectra (band of colors produced when sunlight is passed through a prism), separating the light into its components using prisms and other optical devices.
The NIRSpec will join three other Webb science instruments that will be mounted on the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM). The ISIM structure is like the frame of a in a car providing support for the engine and other components.
In the photo, the NIRSpec is the large silver mass on the right-hand side. The silver frame-like object on the left side is part of the ISIM structure.
The NIRSpec can gather data on over 100 objects at the same time over a 9-square-arcminute field of view (the sun seen from Earth is about 32 arcminutes across). The NIRSpec will be the first spectrograph in space that has this remarkable multi-object technology. To make it possible, Goddard scientists and engineers had to invent a new device using a microshutter system to control how light enters the NIRSpec.
NIRSpec weighs about 430 pounds (195 kg), about as much as an upright piano. It is one of four instruments that will fly aboard the Webb telescope. The other instruments include the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) and the Fine Guidance Sensor/ Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS).
The ISIM and NIRSpec are now in a months-long cryo-vacuum test. This test duplicates the vacuum and extreme temperatures of space to ensure that the ISIM and the NIRSpec can function properly in those conditions.
NIRSpec was provided by the European Space Agency and built by Airbus Defense and Space in Germany. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.
For more information about the NIRSpec, visit: jwst.nasa.gov/nirspec.html or www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/webb/instruments/NIRSpec.html
For a "Behind the Webb" video feature on NIRSpec, visit: www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/new-video-goes-behind-the-we...
Image credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
Caption credit: Rob Gutro
Crude tanker VALUE on her way to the Shell Refinery Pier in Geelong.
Ship Type: Crude Oil Tanker
Year Built: 2011
Length x Breadth: 244 m X 42 m
Gross Tonnage: 61336 t
DeadWeight: 115984 t
Flag: Malta
IMO: 9470131
MMSI: 215137000
even after a long time meddling in the grey, it's undeniable when i come across it that nothing beats a good, heavy black.
Date: 10/23/15 | Location:JFK Library in Boston, MA | Event: Know Your Value Boston
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Made from tutorial by Katie of Sew Katie Did (http://metrosupialdesigns.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/value-quilts-tutorial/)
I made this quilt for my 2 yrs old grandson. I used many children' fabrics, great fun!
The quilt measures: 49 inches x 77 inches (124 cm x196 cm)
All cotton (fabric and batting)
Machine pieced and quilted
Blogged here
This has taken for the weekend assignment "Symbols and signs" at Photo Lanka Group.
www.flickr.com/groups/photo-lanka/discuss/72157621975906686/
Le peuple se pressa près du géant, devenu immobile ; il l’entoura, admirant sa métamorphose
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
The Fetishism of the Commodity and Its Secret Marx's inquiry in this section focuses on the nature of the commodity, apart from its basic use-value. In other words, why does the commodity appear to have an exchange-value as if it was an intrinsecal characteristic of the commodity instead of a measurement of the homogenous human labor spent to do the commodity? Marx explains that this sort of fetishism, which attributes to a thing a characteristic when it is actually a social product, originates in the fact that under a commodity based society the social labour, the social relations between producers and their mutual interdependence, solely manifest in the market, in the process of exchange. Therefore, the value of the commodity is determined independently from private producers so it seems that it is the market which determines the value apparently based on a characteristic of the commodity; it seems as if there are relations between commodities instead of relations between producers.
Marx also explains that due to the historical circumstances of capitalist society, the values of commodities are usually studied by political economists in their most advanced form: money. These economists see the value of the commodity as something metaphysically autonomous from the social labor that is the actual determinant of value. Marx calls this fetishism—the process whereby the society that originally generated an idea eventually, through the distance of time, forgets that the idea is actually a social and therefore all-too-human product. This society will no longer look beneath the veneer of the idea (in this case the value of commodities) as it currently exists. The society will simply take the idea as a natural and/or God-given inevitability that they are powerless to alter it.
Marx compares this fetishism to the manufacturing of religious belief: people initially create a deity to fulfill whatever desire or need they have in present circumstances, but then these products of the human brain appear as autonomous figures endowed with a life of their own and enter into a relations both with each other and with the human race.[14] Similarly, commodities only enter into relation with each other through exchange, which is a purely social phenomenon. Before that, they are simply useful items, but not commodities. Value itself cannot come from use-value because there is no way to compare the usefulness of an item; there are simply too many potential functions.
Once in exchange, commodities' values are determined by the amount of socially useful labor-time put into them, because labor can be generalized. For example, it takes longer to mine diamonds than it does to dig quartz, so diamonds are worth more. Fetishism within capitalism occurs once labor has been socially divided and centrally coordinated, and the worker no longer owns the means of production. They no longer have access to the knowledge of how much labor went into a product, because they no longer control its distribution. The only obvious determinant of value remaining to the mass of people is the value that was assigned in the past. Thus, the value of a commodity seems to arise from a mystical property inherent to it, rather than from labor-time, the actual determinant of value.
In the introduction to her collection of essays on ethical philosophy, The Virtue of Selfishness (VOS), Rand writes that the "exact meaning" of selfishness is "concern with one's own interests" (VOS, p. vii). In that work, Rand argue
a virtue is an action by which one secures and protects one's rational values—ultimately, one's life and happiness. Since a concern with one's own interests is a character trait that, when translated into action, enables one to achieve and guard one's own well-being, it follows that selfishness is a virtue. One must manifest a serious concern for one's own interests if one is to lead a healthy, purposeful, fulfilling life.
WEEK 14 – Superlo Foods Southaven
The special values department (stylized with dollar signs, what an original idea!), lies to the right of the entrance, along the front wall. This is where the produce department would typically be in, for example, most Walmarts or Krogers in the area.
(c) 2015 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
True Value, Shop Rite Hardware and Paint Supply, Silas Deane Hwy Wethersfield, CT, Pics by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia and TheToyChannel on YouTube
This is the same Robin whose picture I posted yesterday. I have come to value American Robins, that most everyday of American birds.
Robins are as common here as they were in the neighborhood I lived in as a child in the mountains of western North Carolina. As a very young child I thought "bird" and "Robin" were synonymous. That's why it seems so strange that I saw virtually no Robins at all in the last couple of years I lived in the neighborhood across town where I lived just before I moved here. (none of their cousins, the Eastern Bluebirds either.) The books I've consulted this year tell me that's not unusual, but it sure took me by surprise.
Robins may not be the most exciting of birds, probably because it's so easy to take them for granted, but they are surely among the most loved.
Thank you for coming and taking a look at my picture of an everyday bird. Please come back and if you have the time, share your own bird philosophy.
They very busy to make jute dry and Make bundle this monsoon season in between suddenly sunny and rain quickly will take in jute market now a bit more market value
Jute has brought smile on the faces of farmers in this current season…
The 7 elements of design: form, shape, line, space, value, color and texture.
Line: Graphic Unifier, Curved, Straight. Directional Thrust: Horizontal, Vertical, and Diagonal
Shape: Naturalistic, Geometric
Space /Size: Large, Medium, Small, Proportion or Scale
Value: Light, Dark
Color: Hue, Chroma, and Value
Texture: Rough, Smooth, Soft, Hard
Form:
music theme: Brambles - In The Androgynous Dark
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Nikon F801s
Nikkor S 50mm / jupiter 8 monolens
Ilford Delta 400
This complex featured a Schottenstein's department store (later renamed Value City in 2007), a distribution center, and corporate offices for the now defunct retailer.
3251 Westerville Road, Columbus, Ohio
This former A&P Centennial store on Long island is now split between Value Drugs and Scottrade. Value Drugs took over 11,500 sq. ft. of the former supermarket, which included space which was vacated by CVS in 2015 when it built a replacement store nearby.
Value Drugs is an 8-store, family-owned drugstore chain--the type that used to exist all over the US--before they were all swallowed up by larger and larger competitors. Value Drug stores are all located in the suburbs of New York City and some of the building reuses are very familiar, as with this former A&P supermarket. Another is housed in a former Eckerd store.
This A&P was probably closed during the 1990's, following A&P's purchase of the Long Island-based Waldbaum's chain. There was a large Waldbaum's store about 3 miles from here in Oakdale.
I really dug today's brief, and the divine way we are being guided towards more authenticity through the unpacking of ourselves. I appreciate prompts that are re-focusing, re-centering, re-evaluating of where we honestly are so that we are freed to make choices with intent.
I struggled with shots today, as it is raining and I have full days without much space for creative exploration. Or at least that is what I thought. Then I re-thought... humm. What do I value? Why am I here, in this course?
Great reminders. I decided to take this course again because I knew I would be nurtured, and I so value that. Thank you, Vivienne for all the ways you nurture each of us. I also knew I would be challenged, and I so value that too!
I want to promote ageing with ferocity. I want to be creative and i want to expand what i am familiar with about myself, and this course has aimed me, like an arrow, at evoking unfamiliar ways of seeing myself as a path to that comfort. Check.
I value movement. Paramount. It has come to mean the world to me, freeing me from frozen states of trauma, and literally helping me to be in the world differently.
I have repurposed a photo from a previous shoot, making jazzy, eclectic and holy lemonade from lemons. I value both my time and the courage it takes to see myself evolve as a creative maker of my own image.
I value this experience so much. I feel fully in it, and am so inspired by the artistry, vulnerability and honesty of this cohort.
There are light colors such as the white shirt, pink shoes, and tan wall. There are dark colors as well such as the dark blue floor tiles, the black blazer, the black skirt, and the black lines on the shirt.
Inspired by Katie's value quilt tutorial. Features mostly Kaffe Fassett prints and assorted other really-colorful-lights-and-darks. Measures 60 x 72".
Giclée (/ʒiːˈkleɪ/ zhee-KLAY) is a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on a modified Iris printer in a process invented in the late 1980s. It has since been used loosely to mean any fine-art printing, usually archival, printed by inkjet. It is often used by artists, galleries, and print shops to suggest high quality printing, but is an unregulated word with no associated warranty of quality.
About color reproductions, I love them and have no qualms about hanging them in my home. I don't think I will ever own a original Dufy but I have a nice poster that makes me happy purchased sixty years ago for one dollar. My question here is value for product, the commercial side of fine art.
At Kennedy Galleries we did a good business in the sale of John Stobart limited edition color offset prints. Asked if the value would increase over time most of the sales staff would say something vague about the secondary market but few would guarantee a growth in value. The average price was five hundred for a hand signed print, forty years later the secondary market hovers around six hundred for many of his prints. Fair market value?
I finished up the value quilt top today! I am really loving it so far! I think I will straight line quilt it. Now that I'm comfortable with my walking foot, I want to play around with straight quilting a little!
Almost all my points match, which makes me quite happy because I did not take the time to trim down every HST block. It just takes too long!!
Michael has become my go-to quilt holder-upper! :D