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One of the sculptures we enjoyed at Radical Horizons - The Art of Burning Man at Chatsworth. This is Wings of Wind by Bryan Tedrick; the wings are designed to rotate in the breeze and the centre circle is the right proportions for an adult to stand in, as Rod is, to imitate Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.
A gentle side today so HSS!
Fuji X-E2, window light. A plaster cast that has been used as a model (and was painted over) by generations of art students. I have always interpreted this slightly tormented face as being that of Renaissance Man (Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man as it were). But my wife tells me that the figure was usually seen as being that of Antinous. And this young man had indeed problems enough - he drowned at the age of 19 in the Nile River. And was declared to have resurrected and becoming a god. Gods don't always smile.
Each body is the Harmonic and Proportionate temple of the soul. In the world the human should reflect its own goodness and beauty.
In reality, living beings and the 'systems' on which they rule are disproportionate and disharmonious. In fact we are in disarray.
Tito Presi Vitruvian man
'Vitruvian Time Traveler'', an artsy Vitruvian Man, was standing on top of Kokomotive, the art car designed by David Thibert, at Burning Man 2016.
This was a tribute to ''Da Vinci Workshop'', the theme of Burning Man 2016.
© 2016 Jacques de Selliers. All rights reserved.
For reproduction rights, see www.deselliers.info/en/copyright.htm.
Photo ref: j81_13103-ps2-BM2016 (reprocessed in 2022)
An early log boat was found buried in mud at Carpow on the banks of the Tay between Newburgh and Abernethy. Later the Romans had a camp nearby, with moorings for their galleys, and it is said that they even bridged the Tay here. This is a remote part of the Tay estuary, and not easily found. There would perhaps have needed to be way-markers for travellers passing through the area.
A lot of sheep paddocks have these odd circles created by the animals. I thought it would make a great image with this grand backdrop. It needed something else though and Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man" came to mind. It took three attempts, in different light conditions to make the image work, though. When the clouds, mist and rain rolled in, I knew I just had to wait for the sun to pop through. The scary part was that the main road was only 50 metres away.
Leonardo's Vitruvian Man.
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The construction piece is misleading, as it suggests the model depends on a harmony of proportions. The reality is more subtle -- there is a range of possibilities and this is just one of them.
But hey, we're only here to have fun with it.
Renaissance man. Artist, inventor, thinker, sculptor, and teacher. My dad is a true Renaissance man. Thank you dad for all you are and all you have given me. I love you. Happy Father's Day!
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FGR Celebrating My Father
More black forest action looking for gateaux and the elusive Blair Orb. Thought we saw one at a distance but it vanished before we could get anywhere near it so we went home for cake and tea.
Single continuous long exposure with CWB followed by a minor crop as I framed up slightly off centre.
If you open your legs enough that your head is lowered by one-fourteenth of your height and raise your hands enough that your extended fingers touch the line of the top of your head, know that the centre of the extended limbs will be the navel, and the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle.
This also applies to Stormtroopers!
This bridge reminds me "The Vitruvian Man" from Leonardo da Vinci, with his arms and legs wide open. Leonardo based his drawing on some hints at correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius - "Vitruvian Man" reproduction (c. 1490; metal tip, pen and ink, touches of watercolor on white paper, 34.4 x 24.5 cm) - Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia
Riproduzione dell''Uomo Vitruviano
E' conservato alla Galleria dell'Accademia di Venezia ed é forse il disegno più famoso della storia dell'arte, purtroppo non può rimanere permanentemente esposto in quanto la luce scolorirebbe l’inchiostro
Leonardo descrive le proporzioni del corpo umano:
«Vetruvio, architetto, mette nella sua opera d'architectura, chelle misure dell'omo sono dalla natura
disstribuite in quessto modo cioè che 4 diti fa 1 palmo, et 4 palmi fa 1 pie, 6 palmi fa un chubito, 4
cubiti fa 1 homo, he 4 chubiti fa 1 passo, he 24 palmi fa 1 homo ecqueste misure son ne' sua edifiti.
Settu apri tanto le gambe chettu chali da chapo 1/14 di tua altez(z)a e apri e alza tanto le bracia che
cholle lunge dita tu tochi la linia della somita del chapo, sappi che 'l cientro delle stremita delle aperte
membra fia il bellicho. Ello spatio chessi truova infralle gambe fia triangolo equilatero»
«Tanto apre l'omo nele braccia, quanto ella sua altezza.
Dal nasscimento de chapegli al fine di sotto del mento è il decimo dell'altez(z)a del(l)'uomo. Dal di sotto del mento alla som(m)i-
tà del chapo he l'octavo dell'altez(z)a dell'omo. Dal di sopra del petto alla som(m)ità del chapo fia il sexto dell'omo. Dal di so-
pra del petto al nasscimento de chapegli fia la settima parte di tutto l'omo. Dalle tette al di sopra del chapo fia
la quarta parte dell'omo. La mag(g)iore larg(h)ez(z)a delle spalli chontiene insè [la oct] la quarta parte dell'omo. Dal go-
mito alla punta della mano fia la quarta parte dell'omo, da esso gomito al termine della isspalla fia la octava
parte d'esso omo; tutta la mano fia la decima parte dell'omo. Il membro virile nasscie nel mez(z)o dell'omo. Il
piè fia la sectima parte dell'omo. Dal di sotto del piè al di sotto del ginochio fia la quarta parte dell'omo.
Dal di sotto del ginochio al nasscime(n)to del membro fia la quarta parte dell'omo. Le parti chessi truovano infra
il mento e 'l naso e 'l nasscimento de chapegli e quel de cigli ciasscuno spatio perse essimile alloreche è 'l terzo del volto»
Reproduction of the Vetruvian Man
It is kept in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Venice and is perhaps the most famous design in the history of art, unfortunately it cannot remain permanently exposed as the light would discolor the ink.
Leonardo describes the proportions of the human body:
For the human body is so designed by nature that the face, from the chin to the top of the forehead and the lowest roots of the hair, is a tenth part of the whole height; the open hand from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger is just the same; the head from the chin to the crown is an eighth, and with the neck and shoulder from the top of the breast to the lowest roots of the hair is a sixth; from the middle of the breast to the summit of the crown is a fourth. If we take the height of the face itself, the distance from the bottom of the chin to the under side of the nostrils is one third of it; the nose from the under side of the nostrils to a line between the eyebrows is the same; from there to the lowest roots of the hair is also a third, comprising the forehead. The length of the foot is one sixth of the height of the body; of the forearm, one fourth; and the breadth of the breast is also one fourth. The other members, too, have their own symmetrical proportions, and it was by employing them that the famous painters and sculptors of antiquity attained to great and endless renown.
Similarly, in the members of a temple there ought to be the greatest harmony in the symmetrical relations of the different parts to the general magnitude of the whole. Then again, in the human body the central point is naturally the navel. For if a man be placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a pair of compasses centred at his navel, the fingers and toes of his two hands and feet will touch the circumference of a circle described therefrom. And just as the human body yields a circular outline, so too a square figure may be found from it. For if we measure the distance from the soles of the feet to the top of the head, and then apply that measure to the outstretched arms, the breadth will be found to be the same as the height, as in the case of plane surfaces which are perfectly square
Based upon: Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c.1490. Sorry about the huge watermark, but the image has hit the Bing search site, so I have to try and protect it. I know you guys understand :)
Der „vitruvianische Mensch“ (1492):
Er gehört zu Leonardos weltberühmten Zeichnungen. Die Skizze wurde in einem seiner Tagebücher gefunden. Sie zeigt einen Mann mit ausgestreckten Armen und Beinen in zwei Positionen, die übereinander gelegt wurden.
Das Original der Zeichnung der menschlichen Proportionen befindet sich in der Galleria dell' Accademia in Venedig.
Infos:
www.helles-koepfchen.de/leonardo-da-vinci-teil2.html
He belongs to Leonardo's world-famous drawings. The sketch was found in one of his diaries. It shows a man with his arms and legs stretched out in two positions that have been superimposed.
The original drawing of the human proportions is in the Galleria dell' Accademia in Venice.
Translated from the German link above
Pertenece a los dibujos de Leonardo, mundialmente famosos. El sketch fue encontrado en uno de sus diarios. Muestra a un hombre con los brazos y las piernas estirados en dos posiciones que se han superpuesto.
El dibujo original de las proporciones humanas se encuentra en la Galleria dell' Accademia de Venecia. Traducido del enlace alemán de arriba
(Foto von Sina)
“The helmet visor of Astronaut Bruce McCandless, II, mission specialist, reflects the outside of the forward bulkhead (cabin area) of the shuttle Challenger during his extravehicular activity (EVA). He is wearing the extravehicular mobility unit (EMU), the manned maneuvering unit (MMU), and two cameras - a 35mm attached to his MMU and a TV camera on his helmet.”
More specifically, the stunning image was captured through one of Challenger’s two overhead windows, seen reflected in the visor.
Not a single decent resolution of this image seems to be available - anywhere. But, yet again, the decremented, ‘zombie’ KSC website continues to be more productive than anything ‘current’, and yielded the above, with the usual low-resolution associated image.
Although I’m grateful, it’s pathetic that that’s IT:
science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/STS41B/100...
science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/STS41B/100...
For shits & grins, I peeled the above URLs back to the parent website. There, a clickable link with the following is available:
“This sever will be Permanently Shutdown the week of March 1, 2022”. Clicking on that takes one here:
science.ksc.nasa.gov/whats-new.html
Although expected, it's still sad, disappointing, pathetic, infuriating…and a bunch of other ‘bad’ adjectives, to include historically negligent, even ‘criminal’.
HOWEVER, graciously, at reasonable resolution, if you don’t mind THEIR digital watermarks, it can be viewed at either of these fine ‘establishments’:
www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/member-of-the-cre...
Additionally, the good folks at the following site offer the image, at roughly half the resolution of mine, for $499.00. However, there currently appears to be a "special" offer of $450...that's like a WHOLE 10% off! What a neighborly offer. Shameless, greedy & arrogant burglary in broad daylight. They know they're filling a gap left by others - who shall remain NAmelesS, Aargh:
www.alamy.com/nasa-astronaut-space-walk-in-earths-orbit-u...
Da (after) Leonardo da Vinci
Leggete la vera storia di Woody Aldoz e la storia dell'arte secondo Woody
“Bruce McCandless practices with the trunnion pin attachment device (TPAD) and manned maneuvering unit (MMU) docking with the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01A).”
Above associated with the image, from/at:
nara.getarchive.net/media/41b-44-2702-sts-41b-bruce-mccan...
Credit: NARA & DVIDS PUBLIC DOMAIN ARCHIVE website
Also & better, from other photos (linked to below) of the same activity:
“Close-up view of Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, STS 41-B Mission Specialist, as he performs a test involving the Trunion Pin Attachment Device (TPAD) he carries and the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS-01A) in front of him. In this photo, he is about to attach the TPAD to the SPAS-01A. He is wearing one of the experimental Manned Maneuvering Units (MMU) developed for this mission.”
And/or:
“Astronaut Bruce McCandless, using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) in its first flight tests, prepares to perform a docking maneuver during flight 41-B of the Space Shuttle Challenger. Using a docking adapter called a TPAD (Trunion Pin Attachment Device), McCandless docked with a pin on the Shuttle pallet satellite. This procedure was a rehearsal for the upcoming Solar Max repair mission.”
If it were ‘properly’ oriented, that is, from the perspective of the shuttle flight deck, from which/where the photograph I assume was taken, McCandless should be facing ‘downward’. However, this rarely seen image is so damned cool, I chose to orient it in a more familiar/comfortable perspective, to better take in its multitude of coolness.
The insect-like ‘antennae’:
twitter.com/kiwibacon/status/1359158862998368262?s=46&...
Credit: Steve Rice/Twitter
Note also the "flat-top" appearance of McCandless' helmet, due to it actually being the housing of the solid state color TV camera...attached to the top of the helmet. The camera was manufactured by Fairchild Weston Systems Inc., of Syosset, N.Y.
Finally, note the "EV1" labeling of the carabiner just above McCandless' left forearm & whatever is just below his right forearm. Apparently, during the EVAs, McCandless' call-sign during air-to-ground transmissions was "EV-1" & Stewart’s was "EV-2." How that translates to labeling of equipment - I don't know. Maybe they were individually configured/adjusted for ease/convenience of use by the respective Astronaut.
The two pointless observations above are from the following informative document:
spacepresskit.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/sts-41b.pdf
Credit: Nick Deakin/"Space Presskits" website
“The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.”
Jean Baudrillard
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This image was designed and uploaded as an illustration for the flickr censorship campaign that happened globally in June 2007. Of interest is that a 'variety 'of tags have been removed by Flickr. I think Flickr/Yahoo actually provides a fine service, and have to deal with quite a few political hurdels.
The fact that its a paid service, should allow you to post what you want (you can put a safety level on the photos) as well as view what you want...freedom of speech is a right which should be exercised with responsibility :D
058/365 Goodbye A-Z
I wanted to mark the end of my Alphabet challenge and this was my idea....pretty crazy. I must confess that this took me a few hours...It is about 6-7 images all together, it would have taken me less time but behind me was a window which I had to get rid of in the picture (see comments).
PS The hands say A - Z but when I first wrote it on my hands I did the A on my right hand and realised it was the wrong way around. I couldn't change it because it's perminant marker so had to flip the image instead.
Explored: Highest position: 347 on Tuesday, March 2, 2010
To celebrate prideweek in Amsterdam this exercise to recreate The Vitruvian Man using this window underneath the Oosterdoksbrug opposite Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ.
More photos:
One of the cool exhibits at the "Steam Punk" show at the Museum of Idaho was a takeoff of Divinci's Vitruvian Man.
Illustration based on the Vitruvian Man (Leonardo da Vinci) for meeting engineering (4º EPAEP) in Belém, PA.
View on black for the real deal!
(Originally created for the "Me, Myself, & I, Challenge," on The Hypothetical Awards Group)
Since Vitruvian Man is such an iconic image, I thought I would use it as the starting point for my new self-portrait. Here I am among my astrological sign and influential planets. My intent was to simply have fun – which indeed I did!
“STS-61 onboard photo: Astronaut Hoffman, Jeff with Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC1) during changeout operations.”
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, and today is his birthday!
Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man. In fact he was somewhat of a polymath. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.
Our troopers thought they would honour Leonardo by recreating his Vitruvian Man, but instead they created a Virtruvian Trooper!
(Although you may not believe it, this is one shot. There are two troopers being held by a wooden stick from the back. Check out the set up shot here).
Enjoy!
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