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National Velociraptor Awareness Day April 18
Today is dedicated to the Velociraptor, a small, fast, bird-like dinosaur. There were two species of the dinosaur, the second of which wasn't identified until 2008. Their name comes from the Latin words "velox," meaning swift, and "raptor," meaning robber or plunderer. They were named by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924, who was president of the American Museum of Natural History. Fossils of the dinosaur were first found the year prior, in the Outer Mongolian Gobi Desert. More fossils have since been found in the Gobi desert in Mongolia and northern China.
Velociraptors were about the size of a small turkey and could weigh up to 33 pounds. They had three claws on each hand and could fold their arms against their body like birds. They had a sickle-shaped claw on a toe on each of their feet that helped them catch their prey, which was usually small animals, reptiles, and amphibians. In 2007, quill knobs were discovered, indicating they had had feathers. However, these feathers did not give them the ability to fly or guide.
How to Observe
One of the best ways to celebrate the day is to watch one of the Jurassic Park films. Some liberty was taken in the design of the Velociraptors in the film, and in reality, they looked a bit different than how they were depicted. You could also enjoy some pictures of Velociraptors, so you are aware of what they look like, just in case one comes running down your street.
Here, in the Jurassic Park Labs, one of the prototype Velociraptors is attracted to some unique snacks.
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Here's a picture of the Doc, well actually, a pair-’o-Docs. And a Silurian. Riding a dinosaur! On a spaceship!
Participants include a "Jurassic Park" 'tricey', which you can see has a little pre-scored chunk of flesh that can be popped out to reveal juicy internal organs...what a jolly kiddy toy that one was! I've got the 3rd and 11th Doctor from the big "11 Doctor Who" action figure set. Oh, yes and a Silurian lassy. Throw in a couple of velociraptors. A TARDIS telephone ringer. And one of the Galoob toy "Star Trek Next Generation" shuttlecrafts. All snapped against the traditional black velvet backdrop. Fun, eh? Though I don't mind telling you that it was a regular pain to set up, as the dino's got a broad back and everyone had to ride side saddle, and kept dismounting, and then the whole thing tended to slide off the smooth-hulled shuttlecraft but I had to persevere because it's not Dinosaurs OFF a spaceship, after all.
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The Australian broadcast of Doctor Who's "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship" (September 16th, 2012) felt like it had been quirkily fortified with an injection of DNA (That is to say, Douglas N. Adams, who apart from the obvious “H2G2” connection was also a former story editor and writer for “Doctor Who”), perhaps most obviously manifest in the rusty tantrum throwing robots, fussily voiced by comedy duo, Mitchell and Webb. (David Mitchell has some interesting links to Doctor Who criticism and satire. Oh, go google it yourself!) You’ve got to love them or hate them but then again they’re not in your face for all that long and besides, I have a sneaking suspicion that they must just be ‘taking off’ the Ponds, on a bad day!
Writer Chris Chibnall's script cheerfully flaunts its gimmick in the breathless title (Did you catch the saurian scales in the actual title card in the opening credits?) but he's far too accomplished a wordsmith to fail to properly flesh out what could've been a one note concept. I loved the way all the wee details introduced came back as little grace notes later on. Joss Whedon would approve! Chibnall has lashings of experience with the pivotal though off-stage Silurians as well as heavy duty Whovian and genre credits. His C.V is another one to google for. (I'll wait.)
Doctor 3.0, Jon Pertwee, and companion Sarah Jane Smith, Elisabeth Sladen, along with the stalwart squaddies from U.N.I.T famously struggled with some sadly wobbly looking saurians in the 1974 serial, “Invasion Of The Dinosaurs.” (Dinosaurs! Time travelling! In Chroma Key!) Even for back then they looked a bit rubbish; hardly an issue here with the splendid CGI critters and some well sculpted physical props on display. No, I shan’t be smug about it, or indeed, ‘Smaug’, following the reptilian line. How do you think today’s special effects wizards GOT so good anyway...by standing on the shoulders of the teshnicians before them.
The usual breakneck, one story per episode, pace worked mostly to the story's advantage, though in this case it did mean we were shortchanged with the ad-hoc companions, who inevitably ended up as slightly sketchy tertiary characters once the main 'gang' slots were filled with the Ponds and Rory's dad. Although it helps if you just think of them as similar background level characters to, say, the personable security guards, Stubbs and Cotton, in Bob Baker and Dave Martin's 3rd Doctor era serial, "The Mutants". (By the way, "The Mutants" is set in the 24th Century, same as "Dinos"! Where was there spacefleet?) The single episode format of "Dinos" prevents them from rising to, for example, the same delightful level as Jago and Litefoot from the 4th Doctor story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang."
I still enjoyed meeting Queen Nefertiti and Mr Riddell, with the former having fun with the saucily haughty historical stereotype and the latter channeling fictional adventurer Allan Quatermain. (Moore please!) Rupert Graves was a suitably 'pukka' hero with an appropriate measure of cool professional enthusiasm so long as he can bag a dino tooth. Best moments for Neffers was when she got flirty with Riddell and later kicked Solomon...right in the crutch!
Although the historical proximity of Lestrade..sorry..Riddell, Nefertiti, Jago, Litefoot, and the Silurian Samurai Vastra and her sidekick, Jenny, along with other Victorian/Edwardian Doctor Who characters does make me think that there could be a rather spiffing period team-up story along the lines of "The League Of Extraordinary Companions". Which is only fair, since Alan Moore's perfect pastiche tips its hat to both Silurians and Sea-Devils as well as several Doctors.
WHERE did the Doctor pick up an Edwardian big game hunter as a friend, anyway? Perhaps some ripping yarn in which an alien hunter ironically stalks human prey barricaded in an isolated hunting lodge...? It seems as if it would be out of character for the Doctor to hunt for sport, but try telling that to the astonishingly assorted bag of beasties that’s he topped over the years, purely in self defence or to look after others. Bemusingly enough, when he drops Nefi and Riddell back off in the early 20th Century, they still seem to have the high tech stun guns with them, which hopefully will make Riddell's hunting a bit less lethal. Well, safari, so good. Bring 'Em Back Alive Riddell? Maybe he'll hook up with Carl Denham, in a few decades!?
The Ponds were as fun as ever and I'm going to miss them to pieces when they finally depart the series, especially with the tragic foreshadowing that's clearly in play.
The Doctor: "No. Come on, Pond. You’ll be there ’til the end of me."
Amy: "Or vice versa."
When the Doc glanced sadly at Amy, heralding the future death of the companion, it scored a palpable hit. Nice bit of character direction to, by Scottish director Saul Metzstein (2nd ADI on the new “Dredd” film), who generally handled the slippery slope of a New Who ep. quite well, although the opening whirl is still very much “Don’t blink! ‘Cos you’ll miss way too much exposition.”
For now, it's a treat to watch the talented Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill do their by now accomplished turns as on-again-off-again companions.
Cue Amy's charmingly feisty attitude!
Nefi: "Are you a Queen too?"
Amy: "Yes. Yes I am."
Rory's very long suffering history as the heroine's 'manbag' was underscored by his perfect comic timing and often overlooked but always useful practical medical skills, here topped off with his slightly embarrassed, but stoutly protective reaction to his father's unexpected inclusion in the adventure.
Rory's Dad, Brian, was a nicely judged bit of random too, and another Douglas Adams style addition to the cast. Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley from "Harry Potter", and one of the meta-crew of the good ship "Red Dwarf") was a perfect fit for the slightly Arthur Dentish but game man-who-knows-where-his-trowel-is.
He also got to reference other S.F when in/on the space ark's beach-like wave powered engineering room. (Classic Douglas Adams' whimsical space drive!)
Brian: "We’re outside we’re on a beach."
The Doctor: "Teleports! Oh, I hate teleports! Must have activated on my voice."
Brian: "Ah. Yes. Well. Thank you, Arthur C. Clarke. Teleport. Obviously. I mean, we’re on a spaceship with dinosaurs. Why wouldn’t there be a teleport. In fact, why don’t we just teleport now!"
(Later on, Solomon's Siriusly Cybernetic Corpses expired singing the "Daisy" bicycle song peddled so well in “2001”. )
Best of all, Brian gets to play fetch with a dinosaur! (All together now, follow the bouncing golf ball: On a spaceship!)
[Triceratops nudges Brian's leg.]
The Doctor: "You don’t have any vegetable matter in your trousers, do you, Brian?"
Brian: "Only my balls."
The Doctor: "I’m sorry?"
Brian: "Golf balls… Grassy residue."
Rory: "What are you carrying those around for?"
[Triceratops licks Brian's face]
The Doctor: "Oh, bless."
Ooer! A bit of the old innuendo in this episode, not to mention a very nasty straight out threat of rape by the main villain, Solomon, as he drools over the thought of adding Nefertiti to his collection. (Ick!) Not quite as adulty as Torchwood but it’s a good thing I don’t have offspring so I don’t have to agonize about allowing them to watch this.
I've grown used to Matt Smith's Doctor, and am now more amused than bemused that the actor's decidedly unhinged interpretation of the character neatly expands upon the previous occupants Tennancy while a natural consequence of the madcap pacing of the "New Who" series in general.
He doesn't half get some great lines though!
The Doctor: "The ship does all the engineering. The controls are straightforward. Even a monkey could use them. Oh look, they’re going to. [Rory and Brian don't get it.] Guys, come on. Comedy gold. Where’s a Silurian audience when you need one?"
The Doctor: "Steer away from the Earth. Try not to bump into the moon otherwise the races that live there will be livid."
Regarding the Judgement Of Solomon, the genocidal pirate was actually going to die anyway before the Doctor arrived, and the Doc did give him his customary warning to get out while he could.
The Doctor: "What did you do to the Silurians?"
Solomon: "We ejected them. The robots woke them from cryo-sleep a handful at a time and jettisoned them from the airlocks. We must have left a trail of dust and bone."
The Doctor: "Because you wanted the dinosaurs.
Solomon: Their ship crossed my path. I sent out a distress signal, they let me board. But when I saw the cargo, things became more complex."
The Doctor: "Piracy, then genocide."
Solomon: "Very emotive words, Doctor."
The Doctor: "Oh, I’m a very emotive man."
Of course, there's precedent for the Doctor dealing in 'rough justice' before now. He has, after all, killed the odd PLANET or two. I'm not particularly startled that he assists in lethally sorting out an unrepentantly genocidal villain here, with a little help from the Indian Space Agency. It does, however, sit slightly askew with the lighter side of the story, which is understandably and unashamedly giddy with the notion of "DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP!" No, wait, Solomon had the cute golf ball chasing triceratops blasted to death...target a few more missiles up his scruffy arse for good measure, there's a good chap!
Actor David Bradley (Another “Harry Potter” staple, and “Doctor Who” audio adventure vocalist, but I know him best as Cohen, The Barbarian from “The Colour Of Magic”!) deserves a Big Ghoul’s Blouse for his Dickensian portrayal of Solomon.
Oh, and Jon Pertwee’s Doctor was a lot more uptight about nicknaming dinosaurs with contractions of their Latin names. Talk about your Jurassic Doc!
To close on a Douglas Adams note. The Silurian who appears on the computer screen, Bleytal, was played by Richard Hope, whom we know from the “Doctor Who” episodes “The Hungry Earth”/ “Cold Blood”/and “The Wedding Of River Song”, where he had the role of Malonkeh, Chief Scientist of the underWales Silurian colony and, in an alternative timeline, Chief Physician to the Holy Roman Emperor, Winston Churchill! On stage though, he has played Ford Prefect, in a production of “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”.
It was all good fun really, a lighter hearted romp (well, apart from the space pirate lizard genocide!) that made a neat little one off interlude but which nevertheless had some nuggety inclusions that gave us a taste of the story arc to come.
See, now, I got through that whole review without mentioning Kamikaze Adric and killing off the dinosaurs. Which he did. Just sayin'. 'Cos there's a REASON why the Silurians built a space ark, don'tchaknow. Well, alright then, obviously I mentioned it just NOW! I was making a point. Get off my back, I'm no dino!
Anyway, look, Dinosaurs on a spaceship!
Fetch!
Here's the radio-on-demand for the review as broadcast on Zero-G: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Historical Radio:
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Or y'all can ride the podcast, here:
A fifth birthday for Utata.
Decided tattoo's were the way to go because of the origin of the name www.utata.org/quickhelp/utatameaning.php
My work had a holiday party and we did a weird random white elephant gift thing.
I thought about bringing a santa hat and rubber gloves, but then I pictured an 80 year old entrance attendant receiving a Proctology Santa costume and I figured maybe a flying velociraptor would be more appropriate.
I kind of wanted to cut off the wings and glue them permanently, but I decided to let that be someone else's fun time.
Sadly, the person who got this was not thrilled. I believe her exact words were, "fucking dinosaur toy."
Grownups are boring.
This is the third version of my Utahraptor. I didn't post the first and second one here because I didn't have a Flickr account at this time.
But well, I don't own the neck and tail ideas. Actually I found at Brickshelf a image of a dinossaur MOC using the Toa Inika's cartridge piece as the neck and a Reidak spine as the tail, and I liked this so much and I made this.
ヴェロキラプトル
創作・折り：小林弘明
【Origami 】Velociraptor
Designed and folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi.
Made from one square paper.
折紙作品（正方形１枚折り）
(Velociraptor Containment) ;-)
This mural in downtown Lexington, Kentucky is by Jessica Sabogal, a Colombian-American artist based in the Bay Area.
the DINOS UNDER GLASS exhibit at the Mitchell Park Domes. Life size dinosaur models in the Tropical Dome; a traveling exhibit. A perfect marriage of setting and content.
Papo Velociraptor figurine.
Prints available via my website, www.tommilton.co.uk
-designed by Philip Kuhns
-folded from an uncut square of O-gami paper
This is a refold of my previous design given a running pose.
Bloody finally. Bugger off with this Jurassic World nonsense, this is what I've been waiting for since I was like six.
Though I think when I was six I imagined a much larger set with a lot more things, and not just the weird, kinda mis-matched interior we got. Ah well, I still dig it.
However, I felt it was lacking in important characters, so here we are:
Ian Malcolm: Pretty much a Bruce Wayne fig in disguise. Wayne hair, painted Wayne head, Painted Beach Batman torso/arms, Chief O'Hara hips.
Tim and Lex are Tim and Lex.
John Hammond: Harry Potter head, Han Solo torso, CMF Baseball player legs.
Alan and Ellie are Alan and Ellie, though I changed Ellie's hair cause I think it works better.
Robert Muldoon: Who actually survives the original book, along with the Lawyer. Who knew. Harry Potter head, painted Pharaoh's Quest torso, painted arms, CMF hiker legs.
Someday I'll make Nedry and Gennaro, as well as maybe Wu, Arnold and Dodgson (We got Dodgson here) but probably not for a good while.
Also sorry everybody for not responding much to anything lately, there's been a lot going on in m'life and I haven't had a lot of time (or interest honestly) in/for the Lego thing lately. Though I'm kinda jonesing to make all the Tron figs Lego didn't. Heh.
Regardless, lemme know what you think!
Phaelenopsis Orchids
The 60mm lens bewilders me each time I rotate it into my Canon T3i, focus, and release the shutter. I love capturing the details, upon which, as for most of the time, can be overlooked: Especially in our 'run run run' current American culture. The lens has taught me to slow down, breath, and appreciate everything the world offers
; Intricate, colorful flowers; soft, morphing clouds; A simple sunset; The neighborhood cat keeping an eye on your every move; the enchanting moon, twinkling stars, and the graceful soul in each and every one of us. May God bless us all and bring sunshine to our future.
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Miniland scale model of Blue the velociraptor from Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It is a significantly larger scale than LEGO's velociraptor mould, but not that much larger, as LEGO's is too big.
I would also argue that LEGO's is completely the wrong color. Lego's 2015 version and their LEGO Dimensions version is 151: sand green and 141: earth green, and their 2018 version is 151: Sand Green and 138: Sand Yellow. Neither version is anywhere close to the color seen in the movie, or any other toys. In the movies, Blue is more gray than green. The rest of the toys of Blue (see www.amazon.com/Jurassic-World-Basic-Velociraptor-Figure/d...) are also gray. For these reasons, and to have easier access to parts, I built Blue in 194: light bluish gray and 199: dark bluish gray. The prominent blue stripe is built in 140: earth blue and 23: bright blue.
Colors aside, this model is posable, and the head, tail, and legs are on ball joints. The mouth, however, cannot be closed.
I might build some sort of diorama to showcase this model, maybe with a miniland figure of Owen Grady.
Enjoy!
A hungry Velociraptor approaches a pair of baby T. Rex sitting in their nest. And yes, I know that Velociraptors and T. Rex didn't live at the same time. I hit a bit of builders block with an aspect of a ship I'm working on, so I decided to try out that tree technique with the clip pieces. I'm not sure who invented the technique, but I've seen it done by Mark Erickson and Luke Watkins and it's likely my favourite tree design so far.
More photos can be found at MOCpages.
The exhibition would not have been complete without the most iconic of all, the velociraptor
Jurassic World exhibition at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
The iPhone SE series
From L-R:
Therizinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Atrociraptors, Dilophosaurus, Velociraptor Blue, Beta, Pyroraptor, Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops
Soyona Santos, Rainn Delacourt, Lewis Dodgson, Ramsay Cole, Henry Wu, Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm, Alan Grant, Owen Grady, Maisie Lockwood, Claire Dearing, Barry Sembene, Kayla Watts, Zia Rodriguez, Franklin Webb
It’s been a year since Dominion came out. I really enjoyed it and it’s hard to believe that was the end of the road that started eight years ago, end of an era that really started thirty years ago. We’re in a bit of a limbo for now but I await and look forward to what the future holds.
My favorite dinosaur was the velociraptor, ever since I watched Jurassic Park. (Predictable, right?) Well, that tied with all the very cool pterosaurs. Anyway first they said 'velociraptors weren't as big as they were in the movie.' then they said 'they're not as smart as they were in the movie and can't really disembowel their prey with that claw.' Next they said they're feathered. Even though the view of this raptor keeps getting less and less 'impressive' I still think a pack of them could do serious damage. They're like a pack of miniature pinschers!
Anyway this was a lot of fun to do. I may tweak/change it a bit but after getting samples in the mail I'm really psyched to make these things into real books. I hope you like them too!