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Créditos - Credits:
melindabaynsl.blogspot.com/2021/08/ladies-power.html
TikTok here:
www.tiktok.com/@melindabaynsl/video/7000579448198188294?l...
well well ... I know I'm very late with this, though still finished before the deadline *phew*
this is Cecilia's teenmode round3 entry, she got blonde hair as a make-over and I love it :DD she looks sooo gah I can't describe it, just love it :3
btw this is my very first runway shot oO
I used this lovely dress from topshop link, some fringe boots and the rest is drawn :3
Créditos - Credits:
melindabaynsl.blogspot.com/2021/08/ladies-power.html
TikTok here:
www.tiktok.com/@melindabaynsl/video/7000579448198188294?l...
Finding wall storage for a 25 inch length of wall was a challenge. Most kitchen shelf/hook combinations are 30 to 36 inches. Also, I wanted to avoid wire. I don't like the look of it, and I find that too many small things poke through or fall through. And I knew I wanted solid shelves to hold little things that needed a flat surface to perch on. I looked at a bunch of different storage systems and none of them did quite what I needed, so I put pieces together fron a few places.
The one thing I knew I wanted for sure was a way to store utensils - spatulas, spoons and kitchen scissors - right there for me to grab. The world is completely lacking in this ability. I didn't want to hang them from hooks suspended from bars, the fiddliness of this combined with the imagined sound of the S-hook always falling to the floor had me frustrated already. Besides, I would have needed more than 20 hooks. I considered using the Grundtal cutlery caddies from Ikea for this, but they are just too shallow to hold long-handled utensils, they would have just tipped and fallen out.
I decided I could attached a utensil canister to one of the Ikea Gruntal bars. At first I figured that a canister with holes in it - like this one - would be easy enough to attach using some flexible wire. But first I couldn't find the canister, and then I decided I really didn't love the way it looked. And then I found solid stainless canisters at Storables and declared that I would find a way to attach them. The lip at the top keeps them above the bar, I just needed a way to keep them snug to the bar and I'd be set.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time in the hardware store peering at the various plastic bits with holes and bolts. Finally I wandered into the aisle with chain and discovered thin wire cable and ferrules (little bits of metal that you thread the wire through, then clamp down to create a permanent hold). Please see the next picture to read how I attached the canisters.
The bars are Ikea Grundtal as are the two cutlery caddies, one of which holds napkins. The utensil canisters are from Storables, the small shelf is the stainless steel gallery ledge from Pottery Barn. I use it to hold kosher salt, sea salt, a pepper grinder and the kitchen timer.
I was hoping to find a little stainless steel shelf, but if I was unable to find one I was willing to go with a white picture ledge. You can find these everywhere and I think they would work really well for spices. I wonder if they are sturdy enough allow you to screw those little mug hooks into the bottom?
One note - I spent an obsessive amount of time comparing products from The Container Store, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Storables. I consistently found the products at Storables to be the most pleasing and didn't end up buying from the other places. Unfortunately Storables doesn't sell online and they only have a few stores in the PNW.
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Barren Ground Caribou
Spadina Station
In 1977 artist Joyce Wieland travelled to Kinngait (Cape Dorset) for the first time, to the West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, by then a well-known print-making studio. She had already, in 1971, established a firm reputation as an artist, being the first living woman to have a solo exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada. So when she was invited to create a piece for the new Spadina subway line, she declared that she wanted to bring the Arctic tundra to the city, but in a surprising and feminine way. She says, “I think of Canada as female.”
This large 8' by 30' quilt features a herd of seventeen barren ground caribou on a low rise. Barren-ground caribou are a species of reindeer that comprise about half the caribou in Canada and since 1937 have appeared on Canadian quarters. Both males and females have antlers. The colours and textures of the Arctic tundra are reproduced in swaths of bright fabric which complement the pale blue Arctic sky above and the muted tones of the caribou which, coincidentally, mirror the brown tiles of the station floor. Perspective is created through horizontal bands in the blue quilted sky which become progressively narrower as the sky approaches the horizon. The animals face us, observing us, as if we are interlopers in their land, not the other way around.
This quilt was sewn over a period of eight months by Joyce and a team of six quilters. It was created ten years after Joyce Weiland's famous 1968 quilt “Reason over Passion” where she subverted a statement by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau by passionately illustrating his quote with quilted hearts.
On the evening of August 17th, I was headed out the front door to take photos of the moon. To my surprise this sweet little tree frog was clinging to the glass on our storm door! I was able to place it gently in a clear box and create a temporary habitat, so that we could enjoy observing it for a short time and take some photos. I even caught some bugs for it, which it readily ate. The frog is called a Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor) and very seldom leaves the trees it lives in, usually only to mate, but this is not their breeding time. I read that they may be attracted to porch lights, where they can easily find insects. It was released with no harm done. (Size of this frog is only 1 5/16th inches long and 3/4 inches wide (measured with legs folded).
www.inhs.illinois.edu/collections/herpetology/data/ilspec...
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Paragon Dance Animations SAM ALLEN "NEVER COMIN DOWN" COUNTRY LINE DANCE VLOG #032
Available at TMD themensdept Event June 5 2022
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This country line dance fusion pack is a mix of freestyle with the country line dance Sam Allen choreographed for the official music video "Never Comin' Down" by Keith Urban. You can see the line dance at the very end here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLFZthp7cv8
Originally performed to "Never Comin' Down" by Keith Urban. Tempo = 95.0 BPM
Dance 01 - 23.50 sec
Dance 02 - 23.70 sec
Dance 03 - 29.30 sec
Dance 04 - 28.65 sec
Dance 05 - 26.70 sec
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Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 01_PARAGON
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 01 (Mirrored)
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 02_PARAGON
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 02 (Mirrored)
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 03_PARAGON
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 03 (Mirrored)
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 04_PARAGON
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 04 (Mirrored)
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 05_PARAGON
Sam - Country Line Fusion Dance 05 (Mirrored)
This product only contains animations (.anim files) with no audio supplied or dance hud. Music used in our videos are for demonstration purposes only. For a dance hud, we recommend the Smooth Dancer by Spot On Tools. Their choreography tools are the gold standard in the SL dance performance community.
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About Sam Allen
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Sam Allen, a graduate of LaGuardia High School (the “Fame” school in NYC), attended the University of Southern California and trained with the American Ballroom Theatre. Awarded “Best Choreography” by the United States Tournament of Dance. He teaches dance in Los Angeles, and conducts dance workshops internationally and across the US. Sam Allen’s choreography credits include the musical production of “In The Heights”, tv commercials for Nike, Canon, Doritos, and Almond Breeze, as well as music videos and live tours for artists such as Keith Urban, Todrick Hall, Sofia Carson, Mýa, and Kloë Shinn.
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www.youtube.com/c/SamAllenSwag
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*Licensed by Sam Allen*
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Thank you Chloe Stark.
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Girls Wearing Blueberry Weekend Sales Dress & Top
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From Here to Now
Bayview Station
Throughout Bayview station you’ll find twenty-four pieces. Start exploring and look for black swirls on the floors and walls. At first you might not recognize what they are, but keep moving, when you view these works from the right perspective you’ll have that A-Ha moment! You’ll often see a block of colour near the black illustration, shift your perspective until it starts to look like a square to view the piece from the right angle. Keep your eye out for a needle and spool, a tea cup, a cut apple, slices of lemon, a salt shaker. There are more treasures in store up the stairs.
The visual distortion, known as anamorphosis, shifts with the viewer’s position. The image seems distorted when seen from a frontal position but when viewed from one side or from an angle it resumes normal proportions. For a real treat view the images through the lens of your smartphone: they’ll appear as if in augmented reality – a ladder leaning against the wall, a stepladder, a pocket watch floating in the air, a dog waiting at the top of the stairs for its owner to come home.
The work heightens our awareness about movement and travel through these pedestrian spaces and infuses our experience with a sense of play. The pieces are made from waterjet-cut glazed ceramic tiles laid in the walls and floors, and based on free-hand black line drawings. The artist, Panya Clark Espinal, is a Toronto-based multi-media installation artist who has produced many public art commissions. Her pixelated interpretation of the famous Jack Pine painting by Tom Thomson is installed at Barberry Place, just a block from this station.
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More info, music and photos
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From Here to Now
Bayview Station
Throughout Bayview station you’ll find twenty-four pieces. Start exploring and look for black swirls on the floors and walls. At first you might not recognize what they are, but keep moving, when you view these works from the right perspective you’ll have that A-Ha moment! You’ll often see a block of colour near the black illustration, shift your perspective until it starts to look like a square to view the piece from the right angle. Keep your eye out for a needle and spool, a tea cup, a cut apple, slices of lemon, a salt shaker. There are more treasures in store up the stairs.
The visual distortion, known as anamorphosis, shifts with the viewer’s position. The image seems distorted when seen from a frontal position but when viewed from one side or from an angle it resumes normal proportions. For a real treat view the images through the lens of your smartphone: they’ll appear as if in augmented reality – a ladder leaning against the wall, a stepladder, a pocket watch floating in the air, a dog waiting at the top of the stairs for its owner to come home.
The work heightens our awareness about movement and travel through these pedestrian spaces and infuses our experience with a sense of play. The pieces are made from waterjet-cut glazed ceramic tiles laid in the walls and floors, and based on free-hand black line drawings. The artist, Panya Clark Espinal, is a Toronto-based multi-media installation artist who has produced many public art commissions. Her pixelated interpretation of the famous Jack Pine painting by Tom Thomson is installed at Barberry Place, just a block from this station.
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Trillium Park Ravine and Bridge
Standing between two slabs of Canadian Shield, engraved with giant moccasins, feels like standing before a piece of history. The Moccasins carved into the walls of the “ravine” you are standing in are in reference to the Moccasin Identifier Project founded by Carolyn King and spearheaded by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Across from the main image is a carved exhortation asking us to “walk gently on the land”. The moccasin is the symbol that identifies First Nations and their connection to the land. Each engraving was hand carved by renowned First Nations artist, Philip Cote.
Cote is a Sundancer, Pipe Carrier and Sweat Ceremony leader recognized by Elder Vern Harper and Floyd Looks for Buffalo Hand. Cote explores new ways to imbue sculpture and painting through oral traditions of storytelling and with traditional spiritual perspectives. Cote’s intent is to bring accuracy to the colonial archives through new research via archival and lived cultural practice and deep understanding of cultural symbolism. His great-grandfather is the great- grandson of Tecumseh, and he is engaged in exploring the importance of the Shawnee leaders’ life and spirit. His in-depth studio experience includes drawing, painting, soapstone carving, traditional drum-making, wood burning, multimedia and contemporary art installation. Cote shares his knowledge on the teachings of the Seven Grandfathers, the Medicine Wheel, Pipe, Naming and Sacred Fire Ceremonies, and the History of the Land. As an Indigenous artist, the purpose of Cote’s research is to unearth, and reveal, his cultural experience and knowledge of signs of Indigenous symbols, language and interpretation.
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Untitled by Victoria Charko (aka Still Movement): I grew up in the water, I was a competitive and synchronized swimmer throughout my childhood. I was surrounded by the artwork of my late grandmother Lillian Hayter. This mural pays homage to one of her many paintings. The original painting had three sisters swimming underwater amongst waves. I added my artistic graphic style and added coral reefs. Nature paints the most beautiful masterpieces. Coral reefs are the ocean's artwork with all the colors and textures. They are naturally resilient ecosystems and have been known to recover after natural disasters such as hurricanes and climate change.
My grandmother faced a lot of setbacks in her artistic career, she managed to grow her art despite them. She learned to work around these obstacles and embrace them to take her painting in new and original directions. She has been a great inspiration to me. She taught me to never give up on my passions but instead to adapt and evolve through uncertain times. I wanted to shine light on the generations of naturally resilient women adapting through the years.
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From Here to Now
Bayview Station
Throughout Bayview station you’ll find twenty-four pieces. Start exploring and look for black swirls on the floors and walls. At first you might not recognize what they are, but keep moving, when you view these works from the right perspective you’ll have that A-Ha moment! You’ll often see a block of colour near the black illustration, shift your perspective until it starts to look like a square to view the piece from the right angle. Keep your eye out for a needle and spool, a tea cup, a cut apple, slices of lemon, a salt shaker. There are more treasures in store up the stairs.
The visual distortion, known as anamorphosis, shifts with the viewer’s position. The image seems distorted when seen from a frontal position but when viewed from one side or from an angle it resumes normal proportions. For a real treat view the images through the lens of your smartphone: they’ll appear as if in augmented reality – a ladder leaning against the wall, a stepladder, a pocket watch floating in the air, a dog waiting at the top of the stairs for its owner to come home.
The work heightens our awareness about movement and travel through these pedestrian spaces and infuses our experience with a sense of play. The pieces are made from waterjet-cut glazed ceramic tiles laid in the walls and floors, and based on free-hand black line drawings. The artist, Panya Clark Espinal, is a Toronto-based multi-media installation artist who has produced many public art commissions. Her pixelated interpretation of the famous Jack Pine painting by Tom Thomson is installed at Barberry Place, just a block from this station.
Créditos - Credits:
melindabaynsl.blogspot.com/2023/07/miss-sl-agency-beyond-...
YouTube Stream:
www.youtube.com/live/r-INOIZIyuo?feature=share
TikTok:
www.tiktok.com/@melindabaynsl/video/7253490322360093958?i...
And I know she'll be the death of me, at least we'll both be numb
And she'll always get the best of me, the worst is yet to come
But at least we'll both be beautiful and stay forever young
This I know, (yeah) this I know...
WHITE QUEEN available at Swank Event
More info, music and photos:
romantomas.blogspot.com/2022/01/965-but-i-love-it.html
www.tiktok.com/@romantomassl/video/7057318721567673605?is...
Créditos - Credits:
melindabaynsl.blogspot.com/2021/08/ladies-power.html
TikTok here:
www.tiktok.com/@melindabaynsl/video/7000579448198188294?l...
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Anonymous Somebody
Runnymede Station
Elicser Elliot's distinctive aerosol style is on display in groups of portraits of subway patrons throughout the concourse and street level. The images are taken from Elliot's sketchbook of real and imagined people: for example, the nurse is actually Elliot's agent's grandmother who lives near Runnymede Station, and took the same subway to work every day for 40 years. As the artist says, ““Anonymous Somebody” captures the snippets of our bustling Bloor West Village lives while standing still. The artworks aim to communicate the story of individual spirit as fresh and relevant to the metabolism of the neighbourhood. The images work as an anchor to a thought or memory for the person viewing it - to commemorate, celebrate, provoke, and heal”.
The characters are presented three-dimensionally, on panels that do not wholly align with the surrounding tiling, as if served up to us for our contemplation. We might recognize ourselves in them – the woman on the cell phone at the top of the escalator, the man sleeping on a streetcar after a hard shift, the woman sitting on a bench with a coffee and a magazine, the man waiting for a bus with his hands in his pockets. These are the glimpses we see as we transit through our day, and these we see again and again as we pass through the station. We will have our favourites, wonder at their stories, give them names, design a backstory for them.
Elicser Elliot is an alumnus of Sheridan College's animation program. Initially an aerosol artist, his work has been shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and the McMichael Museum.
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Paragon Dance Animations - KIDA THE GREAT GO CRAZY HIP HOP VOL 3 Vlog #044
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Kida the Great shares his dance moves from TikTok "Go Crazy" Dance Challenge as seen here:
www.youtube.com/shorts/HLnTVw9grtM
Originally performance captured to "Go Crazy" by Chris Brown. Tempo = 94.0 BPM
Dance 11 - 29.45 sec *Tik Tok Segment*
Dance 12 - 28.25 sec
Dance 13 - 28.70 sec
Dance 14 - 26.60 sec
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Kida - Hip Hop Dance 11_PARAGON
Kida - Hip Hop Dance 11_PARAGON (Mirror)
Kida - Hip Hop Dance 12_PARAGON
Kida - Hip Hop Dance 12_PARAGON (Mirror)
Kida - Hip Hop Dance 13_PARAGON
Kida - Hip Hop Dance 13_PARAGON (Mirror)
Kida - Hip Hop Dance 14_PARAGON
Kida - Hip Hop Dance 14_PARAGON (Mirror)
☒ This product only contains animations (.anim files) with no audio supplied or dance hud. Music used in our videos are for demonstration purposes only. For a dance hud, we recommend the Smooth Dancer by Spot On Tools. Their choreography tools are the gold standard in the SL dance performance community.
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About Kida the Great
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American hip-hop dancer Kida the Great shot to global fame when he won the 13th season of the “So You Think You Can Dance” TV show. His popularity has grown exponentially since then., performing on big stages such as the BET awards World of Dance. He has performed with artists including Usher and Chris Brown, and he choreographed and danced in Justin Bieber’s recent “Come Around Me” video.
On social media, he has 4.5 million followers on Instagram, 1.3 million followers on TikTok and 588k subscribers on YouTube.
For more, please visit Kida the Great social media:
www.instagram.com/kidathegreat/?hl=en
www.tiktok.com/@kidathegreatofficial
www.youtube.com/c/KidaTheGreat
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◘ Bento hands/fingers (detailed finger articulation)
◘ Motion-captured on an 22-camera Optitrack Prime 41 optical mocap system for the smoothest and natural flowing animations.
◘ Authentically danced/choreographed and mocap recorded by the Kida the Great
*Licensed by Leon Akida Burns*
♀ Disclaimer: Female Avatars - Although adjustments to the arms have been made during quality control phase to reduce hands clipping into the body, we aren't able to accommodate all shapes without compromising the natural aesthetics of the arm movements. Therefore, hand/arms clipping into the breast may still occur depending on your shape affected by a combination of several factors: shoulder broadness, breast size, breast buoyance, cleavage separation, and arm length. This particular dance, especially with the vogueing moves, have arm movements that brushes close against the body.
☒ This product only contains animations (.anim files) with no audio supplied or dance hud. Music used in our videos are for demonstration purposes only. For a dance hud, we recommend the Smooth Dancer by Spot On Tools. Their choreography tools are the gold standard in the SL dance performance community.
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K'San Village Posts
Spadina Station
The three figures behind the metal barrier are traditional cedar house posts from the Gitxsan First Nation in Hazelton, British Columbia, about 1,000km north of Vancouver in the BC interior. They were commissioned by the Wigwamen Housing Corporation to commemorate the building of Wigwamen Terrace, a residence for First Nation seniors, at 14 Spadina Road across the street. The three figures were donated to the Toronto Transit Commission in February 1979 shortly after the station's opening in 1978 when the TTC acquired nine other artworks for the newly built stations located North of here on Line 1.
While house posts like these were not traditionally used by First Nations peoples who inhabited this area, they are a highly recognizable symbol of the presence of First Nation peoples of all nations in the city. K'san Historical Village stands in Gitxsan Territory where the village of Gitanmaax “the people who fish by torchlight” existed for centuries. The community was part of the 1997 Delgamuukw Supreme Court of Canada ruling that affirmed aboriginal treaty rights to land claims.
K'san is the home of the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Art, and is a showcase of skilled Gitxsan craft, with elaborate totem poles and seven decorated houses at the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley Rivers. Carved out of western red cedar, these traditional housing supports depict an owl, a wolf and a hawk, and represent family crests. The owl was carved by Fedelia O'Brien, the wolf by Murphy Green, and the hawk by Chuck Heit, all of whom, at the time, practiced at the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Art. Chuck Heit has also carved the totem pole at the federal court building at 180 Queen West and a large carving at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
Parmigiano polenta pollo espinica. Picpoul salsa de pan (picante).
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Sky Ellipse
Highway 407 Station
As you take the escalator upstairs to the street level you will see large, oval windows above that appear to be smeared with bright blues and volcanic oranges, as if painted onto the glass. The coloured glass covers the western facade of the station and the skylights, bringing coloured natural light into the cavernous subway below.
This is Sky Ellipse by David Pearl, a work which occupies several places in this subway station, and complements both the airiness of the station and the open oval that punctures the north corner of the roof. Ahead, at street level, in the GO bus waiting area, there is a panel of coloured glass facing the south parking lot. The piece brings movement and colour into the space in a simple way, by taking advantage of the shifting angle of the sun, and the movement of people within. David Pearl explains it this way: , “a simple palette of expressive coloured glass works with the dynamic of natural light and the movement of the observer to animate the space and interior surfaces. This is colour that is not coded to sign or direct - just pure coloured natural light; responding to the cycles and rhythms of the sun; echoing the building’s response to the greenbelt surroundings and its environmental sensitivity celebrated as art and architecture.” The stained glass is an apt tribute to this cathedral of transit.
David Pearl is a glass artist working in Toronto. His work has appeared in Toronto, the UK and elsewhere.
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Paragon Dance Animations & The Bearded Guy Vlog #045
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The Matrix Backdrop - The Bearded Guy
Copy, Mod, No Trans
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Paragon Dance Animations - ANGEL CLUB GO-GO DANCE
Available now at Uber Event 11/25/22
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This is a club go-go dance made for the stage free-styled performance captured by Angel. Great for club hosts/dance masters.
Originally performed to "Boyfriend" (Remix) by Ariana Grande. Tempo = 98..00 BPM
Dance 01 - 30.85 sec
Dance 02 - 26.30 sec
Dance 03 - 26.75 sec
Dance 04 - 29.70 sec
Dance 05 - 30.00 sec
Dance 06 - 26.85 sec
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Angel - Club Go-Go Dance 01_PARAGON
Angel - Club Go-Go Dance 02_PARAGON
Angel - Club Go-Go Dance 03_PARAGON
Angel - Club Go-Go Dance 04_PARAGON
Angel - Club Go-Go Dance 05_PARAGON
Angel - Club Go-Go Dance 06_PARAGON
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About Angel Kim Spicer
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Angel Kim Spicer is a Seattle and Los Angeles-based professional dancer/instructor/choreographer and the producer of her own neo-burlesque show called Chaotica. Angel is trained and well-versed in many dance genres, but now focuses on heels floorwork, chair and pole dancing. She is known for her esoteric tastes that blends chaos and erotica into her own branding.
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An Infra Red shot of one of the Radical Horizons sculptures at Chatsworth which were originally produced for the Burning Man Festival in the Nevada Desert.
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This Sculpture is called Lodestar and is by Randy Polumbo
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MOVE Animations Cologne - GIRLS LATIN Booty Dances from NINA VLOG #040
~~ Fun time for all, these moves, can be used with almost any form of music, club, hip hop, alternative as you see in our video,
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i was working on a uni project with my cousin the last three weeks. we built a webapp called "cost share". the idea was to make it easier to calculate debts after you were buying groceries for your flatshare or something like that. that's not always as easy as it seems, because not everyone is paying for everything.
so yesterday 23:59 we had to commit the whole thing and as always we experienced some last minute deployment problems. that was really stressfull and i had to stay up late to get it done...
if you zoom in, you can see the app. :]
Dengys map y degwm am 1842 nad oedd dim tai annedd yn y man y datblygodd Trehopyn, dim ond tir fferm, a oedd yn nwylo Evan Hopkin.
Erbyn diwedd y degawd, roedd llawer wedi newid. Daeth Glofa Gyfeillion (Tŷ Mawr), a datblygiadau diwydiannol eraill, i weddnewid y cwm. "Rhondda Road" oedd enw'r man lle yr oedd y tai yn 1851 ac yn 1861.
Ceir yr enw Hopkin's Town yn 1871. Cymerodd ei enw, Trehopcyn yn Gymraeg, oddi wrth y gŵr a fu'n berchen y tir.
Caewyd y pwll yn 1983.
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Ti ar c'heflusker, Meingleuz-c'hlaou ar Great Western
E 1842 ne oa ket a diez el lec'h ma kreskast bourk Trehopcyn, nemet douaroù ur feurm dalc'het gant Evan Hopkin. Dek vloaz diwezhatoc'h avat e oa bet treuzfurmet an draoñienn gant Mengleuz Glaou Gyfeillion, ha gant greanterezh all. An anv Hopkin's town ne gaver nemet e 1871.
Serret e voe ar poull-glaou e 1983.
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Teach Innill Hetty, Mianach Guail an Great Western
Taispeánann léarscáil na deachún do 1842 nach raibh aon teach cónaithe ar bith san áit a d’fhás Trehopyn. Ní raibh ann ach talamh feirme, a bhí i lámha Evan Hopkin.
Faoi dheireadh na ndeich mbliana, bhí athruithe ollmhóra tar éis tarlú sa tír. Claochlaíodh an gleann le Mianach Guail Cyfeillion (Ty Mawr), agus forbairtí tionsclaíocha eile. Ba é “Rhondda Road” ainm na háite seo i 1851 agus 1861.
Ní fhaighimid an t-ainm Hopkin's Town ach i 1871. Is é ainm an úinéara talún a fheictear in Hopkinstown, nó Trehopcyn sa Bhreatnais.
Dúnadh an mianach i 1983.
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Hetty Engine House, Great Western Colliery, Hopkinstown
In 1842 there were no homes on the land here Hopkinstown developed, only farmland which was owned by Evan Hopkin.
By the end of that decade, the place had been transformed by the opening of the Great Western Colliery and by other industrial activity. The name "Hopkin's Town" only appears in 1871, and seems to refer to the former landowner.
The mine was closed in 1983.
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Legacy / Perky.
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Piston Effect
York University Station
Look up as you step off the train onto the subway platform. You will see a number of dark glass panels each containing a grid of small squares. This is Piston Effect, by London interaction designer Jason Bruges. Like much of the art we’ll see on this tour, it has been fully integrated into the architecture of this station, which was designed by UK architects Foster + Partners. This work runs almost the whole length of the station, and in addition to being an interactive work of art, also acts to contain smoke in the event of a fire.
Let’s look closer now, do you see anything changing when you look at the dark glass panels?Those small squares are actually LCD screens which respond to changes in air pressure as trains enter the station (called the piston effect) illuminating each of the squares in the panel display, in shades ranging from white to black.
As the artist states: “Station air movement is the invisible element explored in this artwork. Air is disturbed and excited by people and trains passing through the station. The Piston Effect... is [an] air movement type being investigated to bring the station to life. The arrival and departure of the trains and the passengers and staff all create this flux, creating a generative and random choreography. This will be used as the score or algorithm to control the digital canvas, creating a unique and ever changing real time four dimensional artwork.”
Jason Bruges has installed similar works in England, such as London's Digital Fountain. Based in the UK, he works at the intersection of art and technology, creating interactive works. His Canadian work includes a project for Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.
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Paragon Dance Animations - CiCi STAMPER SHUFFLE DANCE VOL 1 - VLOG #029
CiCi STAMPER SHUFFLE DANCE VOL 1
Available at Access Event May 12 2022
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In Volume 1, Shuffle Queen CiCi Stamper shares her social media famous style of shuffling/cutting shapes that combines pirouettes,
heels floorwork and acrobatic tricks. There are many shuffle queens on social media, but none brings it to a new level like CiCi.
Shuffle dance is a footwork dance developed in the UK during the late 1980s and early 90s in Melbourne Australia,
which known as Melbourne Shuffle. It is originally danced to Hardstyle music when the genre popularity was at the peak in Melbourne.
Melbourne shuffle trend subsided mid-2009 and the dance moves later resurface into a new style of shuffling called "Cutting Shapes".
Nowadays the new shuffle dance moves work well with any electronic dance music from Electro House, House Music, Melbourne Bounce,
even the Old School Eurodance and etc.
Originally performed to "High on You" by Matroda. Tempo = 125.00 BPM
Dance 01 - 26.35 sec
Dance 02 - 24.35 sec
Dance 03 - 22.85 sec
Dance 04 - 28.15 sec
Dance 05 - 28.80 sec
Dance 06 - 24.55 sec
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CiCi - Shuffle Dance 01_PARAGON
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 01_PARAGON (Mirrored)
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 02_PARAGON
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 02_PARAGON (Mirrored)
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 03_PARAGON
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 03_PARAGON (Mirrored)
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 04_PARAGON
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 04_PARAGON (Mirrored)
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 05_PARAGON
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 05_PARAGON (Mirrored)
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 06_PARAGON
CiCi - Shuffle Dance 06_PARAGON (Mirrored)
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About Ciara Christine Stamper
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Ciara Christine "Cici" Stamper is a LA-based Shuffle Queen, professional dancer, and social media influencer with over 210k followers.
She has an extensive dance background in ballet, contemporary, hip hop, jazz and acrobatics.
She fell in love with a new style of dance called Shuffling/Cutting Shapes and since then combined technical dance training with the
footwork of shuffling to create her own unique personalized style. Cici has traveled the world teaching and performing, sharing her passion for dance.
She currently performs for Matroda during his live sets.
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Weston GO/Union Pearson Express Station Mural
1865 Weston Road
In the parking lot next to the Weston GO and UP Express station is a large mural done by Mahmood Popal and collaborator Jesse Albert. The mural is an interesting compilation of imagery of historical aspects of Weston including a lifesize photo of the local library and, of course, the penny farthing bicycle and a box of Kodak film, two items synonymous with Weston’s manufacturing past.
The artist used “rudimentary” pieces created by members of the community throughout the design. Community members of all ages participated through workshops hosted by Popal and Albert by using stencils created using pieces of paper, rags, plastic, and other objects.
He said by “crumpling it up and dipping it, pressing it, [it] makes a mark.” “It makes a pattern and if you start repeating those patterns you start to get an art piece.”
At a closer glance you will notice that the top half of the mural is vinyl and the lower half is painted. There had been a large print affixed to the wall the year prior, but people were tearing at the material. It is interesting to see how the artist continues the patterns of the vinyl using paint.
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This Kensington Market landmark was created by local artists Ryan Dineen and Alexandar Bacon. Both artists are well known in the Toronto arts community and have shown work around the world. This iconic mural is one of the longest running street art pieces in the area. My favourite part about this piece is the level of detail and intricacy. It's also really cool how they were able to find a balance between figurative illustrative imagery and traditional graffiti forms.
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My favorite hike trail, also the most challenging hike on my Rocky Mountain trip. It's a 20km one way in, one way out hike that encompasses almost 1000m of elevation gain. The last 2km is a scramble up the peak. If you want to find the secrets on the summits, here you are 😊
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The Vessel
Taddle Creek Park
When you arrive in the park, look for a gigantic pitcher that seems to be composed of wires. This is The Vessel, our next stop. This work aims to connect us to Taddle Creek that once flowed here and is the namesake for this park. Like many of the creeks in Toronto Taddle Creek has been buried, but still finds ways to make its presence known. Artist Ilan Sandler will explain how this work invokes the creek and the long history of inhabitation along it. He’ll also tell us the story of how this piece was built. The clip you’re about to hear is a part of the Artbuzz project produced by David Tarnow.
My name's Ilan Sandler. I'm the artist who created the vessel that you're looking at in Taddle Creek Park. The Vessel's made up of 4 kilometers of stainless steel rod. The reference to 4 kilometers was the length that Taddle Creek River ran from the park down to Lake Ontario.
When you look up to the top you can see a large pipe that's running around the rim of the piece. It's perforated with about 180 holes through which the water is flowing in the summer. As the water cascades down over the object it hits the piece, which creates a certain amount of resonance and then drains into a catchment basin for later irrigation of the park.
Taddle Creek, from what I gather, ran for millennia. It ran through what is now Toronto from Wychwood Park southeasterly through Taddle Creek Park along Philosopher's Walk and then eventually meandered down to Queen and Parliament and then down into Lake Ontario. It was dammed up in the late 19th century primarily due to pollution, but prior to European settlement it had been of great importance to the Anishnabe people, an Ojibwe speaking nation. And there's evidence of a long history of using it for sustenance. So I wanted to make an object that could somehow transcend particular groups or nations and become emblematic of human civilization as a whole.
The intention was to make an object that was both there and not there at the same time, something that you could see but also see through. And in looking through it you were able to relate the park itself to this lost river.
I've certainly gotten to know my welder really well. We spent 4 months together and Paul was always on the inside of the object and I was on the outside holding things in place; and both of us grimacing as we stretched our arms a little further than we'd ever anticipated having to do. But at the end of those 4 months we had over 11,000 welds and 4 kilometers of rod forming this large vessel.
We built the piece in 4 sections. The bottom two-thirds, which in a sense looks like a large vase was the first part that we completed. After that we built the top third which included the spout. Once these sections were finished, and the handle was basically built from an arc and a set of concentric ellipses - if you look closely you'll see how the rods are sitting on sprocketed ellipses that run through that handle - we then took all 4 sections out of our fabrication shop and spent several sunny days putting the piece together. Once that was done the most difficult part was to determine whether in fact the handle was going to fit into these pre-ordained sizes that we had come up with using our computer modeling. And of course we were off by about 3.3 centimeters. So a little hole had to be cut and the handle was re-positioned and sure enough everything fit together. It was at this moment, a really exciting moment, where I was able to create all the splaying rods. If you look at the bottom of the handle or the top you'll see a number of rods, which are emanating from that elliptical handle out onto the body of the piece. And this was a really fun thing to do. It was at this point that I could leave behind all of my preconceived calculations and all the numbers that we had gone over in our minds and slowly link one rod to another rod on the body of the piece. And there are actually 84 rods around the bottom and another 84 around the top of the handle, and on-by-one we positioned them, created the arcs and then welded them in place.
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MV - Anouk Suit Maitreya
Nobody like you!
Thanks so much to Rominacarla, Gabipinamar and Fryda!
Nobody like these GIRLS for this video!
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Spin
Downsview Park Station
If you are starting this tour from the subway, proceed up the escalators to the concourse level, through the turnstiles and up the escalator to exit the station at either the East or West entrance. It’s there that you’ll find the best vantage point from which to view this work. Can you see the giant black arc, opening like a wide mouth, encompassing the entire station?
Move around, and you’ll see how these arcs become disjointed. Move back to see them realign and leap out at you as the circle completes itself when you’re looking at it from just the right angle.
Artist Panya Clark Espinal uses anamorphic techniques to create this perspective-shifting effect. Her previous work at Bayview Station, which uses the same technique to create playful forms throughout the station, could be regarded as a sketchbook for the astonishing size of this work “Spin”, a collaboration of art, architecture and skilled trades that seamlessly wraps the space in its embrace.
The artist worked with architect Nathaniel Grey to perfect and execute this idea, a process that required precise 3D digital models of the architecture overlaid with hand-drawn sketches of the rings.The artist described the experience this way: “Designing it was a bit of a game… We had to figure out where people could stand to view these floating rings, but also where they could be rendered into the architecture.” Finally the idea was translated into drawings that were used to create just the right shapes in the terrazzo floors, enamel metal panelling, ceramic wall tiles and ceiling panels, all working together to achieve the effect of rings floating in space.
Keep observing the work as you head to the trains. When you arrive on the platform, look for two columns in the centre of the subway platform decorated with black lines. Move around them to observe how they change. Have you found the right place to stand to see a perfect teardrop shape?
Panya Clark Espinal is a multi-media installation artist interested in exploring the act of looking. She holds an MFA from OCADU where she received the Governor General’s Award for her work in Experimental Art and Sculpture Installation. She has exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Embassy (Tokyo), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and the National Gallery of Canada.
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Spring
Further down south, spring has arrived and a brown bear comes out of hibernation, searching for food and water. Ecosystems abound, and as the bear paws around, she is surrounded by networks of underground mycorrhizae, who live in symbiosis with plants, insects, and bacteria. These under-soil mycorrhizae help to provide phosphorus and nitrogen to their soil-plant friends. And every once in a while, these mycorrhizae reproduce and send up fruiting bodies that produce spores, or as we know them, mushrooms, truffles and chanterelles.
Fresh water gives life to surrounding fauna, and with help from the sun, growth is restored. These ecosystems are a source of energy, a glowing nucleus pulsating life into centuries old forests. In these woodlands, a magical owl watches over the cycles of life that have sustained themselves since before humans arrived. Forests that thrived, where once prehistoric animals roamed, and where hybrid dinosaur creatures capture our imaginations. They come to remind us that the fossil fuels we excavate today - oil, gas and coal, come from these ancient forests, plants, algae and plankton. As we consume these decaying organic remains that are over millions of years old, we release carbon dioxide into our airs and consequently cause man made exponential global warming.
As spirits of these ancient plants are released into the skies, they take the form of carbon dioxide and populate the air like vagabonds far from their underground home. Upon their journey drifting through northern skies, they too are witness to the surreal beauty of Aurora Borealis. Northern lights - a sign that solar winds have paid us a visit and altered electrons and protons in Mother Earth’s atmosphere. A reminder that our tiny earthly ecosystems are interconnected with far away giant stars and energies.
Down below, an elder shares the ways of times past when humans lived in harmony with nature, when we lived from earth, with earth, and we would make sure to replenish and respect all living beings. We treated Mother Nature for the grand spirit that she is, abundant, inspiring, magical, and strong. Humans were not above nature but part of her great and wise ecosystems.
The big blue moon overhears these tales and whispers her song down to the waters, making the tides dance to her melody, as the fisherman paddles through the currents and is guided by her nightly sky map. She sings to the fox and the farmer, and all of the villagers below, telling them when to plant their crops in harmony with her lunar cycles, reminding them to cultivate sustainable lands and to respect the wisdom of ancient seeds. The farmer listens intently, casting her eyes up thanking the moon for its song, and grateful for her crop. The farmer’s friend, a Praying Mantis, known as a master predator of arthropods, sits guarding her crop of corn. Corn is a staple food and cultural symbol of Indigenous Peoples across the Americas for over 10,000 years. After Indigenous peoples taught European settlers to grow the indigenous grain, it was introduced around the world. Considered a sacred plant, Maize shapes daily meals, and influences spiritual, physical and economic systems.
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Water Birds
1162 Weston Rd. (South and West facing walls, visible from Eglinton)
This mural was painted in 2018 by lead artist Bacon and features three local bird species, all of which can be spotted in and around the waters of Topham Pond, just west of where you are standing, down the hill in Gladhurst Park. The inspiration for the subject matter came from the owner of the building, Dr. Marvin Cooper of Northwestern Eye Associates, who loves to birdwatch by the water and takes beautiful photographs of the pond.
The birds featured on the South-facing wall are the Great Horned Owl to the left and the Red-Winged Blackbird to the right, while the west-facing wall features a Great Egret. Bacon selected these from studying various species that frequent the pond or the Humber River nearby.
Throughout the mural, the images of the birds are interrupted and fragmented by shards of different colours and spliced with images of flowers. All are rendered with Bacon’s usual realistic precision and vibrant, highly saturated colour palette. He describes his style as a combination of Abstraction, Realism and Expressionism. Speaking as a huge fan of his work this is an exciting evolution of a style he has been exploring in his graffiti pieces over the years where he fragments the letters into flat forms like overlapping stained glass windows. Seeing him do this with an animal, I think this was the first time he did it that way and when I saw the design my mind was blown, but he pulled it off perfectly.
Fun fact about this wall, in addition to Bacon having the assistance of two talented Toronto artists, Christina Mazzulla and Wales, I got to help out on this project. We did the whole thing in spray paint, which is the preferred medium for all four of us. I could only help for a day because of my own schedule, but I’m glad I did because I got to meet Bacon’s 13-year old apprentice Sam who was well into learning the basics of spray painting and ripping through cans of purple with great enthusiasm.
This is the basic kit lens that comes with the Sony a200 camera.
DT - 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom Lens
"This superb standard lens for the α(alpha) DSLR camera handles the full range of your most common shots, but there's nothing standard about its advanced optical design. In 35mm equivalent, it covers wide-angle 27mm to 105mm midrange telephoto for snapshots, portraits, interiors and more. An excellent all-around lens for travel.
DT Lens Design
A more compact, lightweight lens designed specifically for the APS-size CCD imager used in the Sony® ± (alpha) DSLR-A100 camera.
Aspherical Lens Elements
To correct visual aberrations at wide-angle setting, enabling a lightweight lens to capture more visually accurate wide-angle shots.
ED (Extra-low Dispersion) Glass
To reduce chromatic aberration at telephoto extension, correcting certain wavelengths of light for sharp, clear images with well defined colors.
Circular Aperture
Because aperture blades form a near circle at the wide openings used for low-light shots, spot-light sources have a pleasing circular defocused effect."
Créditos - Credits:
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Explored September 26, 2024
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It's a 20km one way in, one way out hike that encompasses almost 1000m of elevation gain. The last 2km is a scramble up the peak. My favorite hike trail, also the most challenge hike on my Rocky Mountain trip.
I am still somewhere among the Rockies… See you later my dear Flickr friends!
The video shows scramble...
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Explored October 12, 2024
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The Devil’s Thumb Trail, 16km out-and-back trail starting from Lake Louise, Alberta. It is considered a challenging trail. It is a captivating hiking trail that offers an exhilarating adventure. This trail begins from Lake Louise, in a dense forest. As it ascends, the trail gradually steepens, winding through a mix of rocky outcrops and lush undergrowth.
The higher you climb, the more dramatic the scenery becomes. As approaching the summit, the trail becomes more challenging, with steep sections and rocky terrain. However, the view of Devil’s Thumb itself awaits. The iconic peak, with its striking shape and formidable presence, stands majestically against the backdrop of the sky. Once at the summit, the breathtaking vistas stretch out in every direction: Lake Agnes, Lake Louise, Mountain Peaks, Glaciers, Larch trees…
The Elevation of Devil's thumb is 2494m, the elevation gain is 1046m. The last 1-2 km climbing was very touch.
Can you see Fairmont Chateau at Lake Louise?
The video shows I was climbing Devil's Thumb...
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Spark Knight
My Genshin Ideas project ideas.lego.com/projects/c57fd52f-bfc1-49dc-9db0-055bb359be8b
Building process:
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Mid Summer’s Night Dream by Wessel Couzijn, High Park: Lying in the grass by the path are two barely discernible shapes in cement, wrapped in strands of stainless steel. At first it is unclear what they are, until we perceive the fingers wrapped around the side and the chrome metal “parts” on each of the shapes. These are lovers, lying side by side, oblivious to the world, their shapely contours reduced to the barest essentials, their topographies outlined in steel bands like lines on a map.
We circle around them to learn more and discover what seems to be a piece of a wing emerging at the head. This is a fragment of a dream: have these lovers crashed to earth in a rocket ship? Where have they come from?
Wessel Couzijn was a Dutch sculptor who studied in Amsterdam, Paris and Italy. Stricken with polio as a child he spent years in hospitals. A Jewish anti-fascist, Couzijn fled Nazi violence to New York in 1940, but returned after the war to teach and work in the Netherlands. In 1960 the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennial was almost wholly devoted to his work. In 1963 his bronze work “Corporate Entity” was placed outside the headquarters of Unilever in Rotterdam.