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Hooray! It's done.
Exclusive to Mournful Monday, an in-store event hosted by SL Syndicate.
You can find it at my store on the 15th: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cult%20Grounds/160/38/2773
Photo taken with Black Dragon 3.9.8 using a custom windlight ("The End of All Things")
Mood:
Nine Inch Nails - "Right Where It Belongs"
music.youtube.com/watch?v=F-jZHMX-CJ0&feature=share
Lore:
"Burn them," she said. "Burn every copy."
Each volume of the History of the Vampyrleich Empire is memorized by the House of the Moon, and it is the closest our kind has to a sort of holy text. A remembrance of whence we came, who left these buildings we call home, this land our own.
Thousands upon thousands of years of history meant nothing to the first and last immortal ruler of Vampyrleich. There would only be one history. Hers. What could I possibly have done? And so... I did. I burned my life's work. The work of all my peers and every scribe before me.
I'm writing to you in secret from the Crescent in the academy. It's so quiet here. How few of us remain to write a history that doesn't exist! I'm risking my life by telling you or anyone this. But I know something the Protectorate will find valuable. At this point, I would even talk to one of those vile Daughters, though I'm sure they would put silver in my skull before I could open my mouth...
All those closest to her know, really. I'm surprised no one found out sooner. Though... then again, there have been a lot of disappearances lately. I'm not even sure what good telling you will do. By Artan, my hands are shaking! I'll be out with it - there is no immortality. Not technically. Saeo Corporation tried, and failed. At best, you add 10 years with that thing. At best. But if I were talking about stretching the life of a creature that lives 1500 years by 10 I would not be writing this letter.
There's a loophole.
If you swap the core of their design with Noble Azurite, and bind the entire vampire race in blood contract to it, then ... yes. Really. I know. It sounds insane. It IS insane! But she did. She will take every damned one of us to the grave if she dies. You'd have to blast her with liquid silver rounds for days. But she would. And every vampire on Evaria would die with her.
I've attached proof of this. Dates. Blueprints. Names of the sorcerers who'd gone missing shortly before her inauguration and declaration of immortality and - what little remains - of their work adapting Saeo's design. They're dead now, obviously. Thrown in the emerald pits or some other such "accident." Poor souls.
I'd feel pity if not for what they did.
-Vish'ai of the Moon, Third Scribe of the tower of the Crescent.
adapted vintage manual lens from Pentax-110 miniature SLR system: 50mm f2.8
I shielded the lens from the direct sun and my hand created an interesting vignette effect.
A revamp of Gali Mistika. Did away with the awkward proportions, modified her mask and removed the hunch.
Projector lenses are quite fun to use, but with no focusing part, they are a bit difficult to handle.
My lens (a Liesegang Sankar 85mm f/2.5) has a nice long flange distance, which gives me some room betweeen the lens body and the camera mount to place an M42-E adapter, the lens is niclely fitted in a M42-flat ring (then screwed on the adapter). That M42-E adapter includes a focusing helicoid wich makes focusing then possible ! I can still add extension tubes if the minimal flange distance is still too short (I actually have one here).
It goes without saying that using a mirrorless camera makes everything a lot simpler because you have a short flange distance to begin with, much shorter than most of the 35mm film projector lenses (except if their body extends far behind the actual rear element...).
Picture taken with my Sony A68 / Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 50mm f/1.8
Cpl. Michael Espinosa with Makerspace, 2nd Marine Logistics Group monitors 3-D printing of face masks on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, March 30, 2020. Marines from Makerspace utilized 3-D printing to rapidly manufacture personal protective equipment to be sent to aid FEMA Region 8 and 2nd Medical Battalion in COVID-19 screening. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Scott Jenkins)
Example of using a well corrected and relatively inexpensive "old school" enlarger lens for closeup/macro. One minor drawback is that focusing is usually attained by the photographer moving back and forth. Fortunately, there are cameras/adapters which can allow focusing in a more conventional manner. 50mm, 2.8, EL Nikkor on Canon 6D via extension tube.
This is not a medieval torture device, but the ESA - European Space Agency/CNES Grasp experiment to understand how humans adapt their hand-eye coordination in space. Scientists think we use gravity to judge how much to extend our arm to grab an object (for example), and us being in space is a great way to find out! We use a VR headset to simulate tasks and the equipment monitors movement and timing for researchers on Earth to look at and take conclusions.
J’ai passé un bon moment dans cette position pour l’expérience ESA/CNES GRASP, qui étudie la façon dont la coordination main-œil s'adapte à l'impesanteur. Les scientifiques pensent que notre corps utilise la pesanteur pour savoir comment se déplacer, et l'espace est un excellent lieu pour vérifier. En passant, on admire le laboratoire Columbus et les patches des missions précédentes (ainsi qu’un authentique invader qui s’est glissé là-haut, les fans de street art apprécieront !!)
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
GMT124_11_31__COL timelapse 3 GRASP_for PUB 4K
BIG Bjarke Ingels Groups Omniturm Frankfurt shown in architectural models at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt exhibition "BIG Bjarke Ingels Group: Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaption" from November 12 2016 to February 12 2017
photographed by
Frank Dinger
BECOMING - office for visual communication
refitted F.Zuiko 32mm f1.7 (from half-frame fixed-lens rangefinder camera Olympus Pen EED)
foreground bokeh is caused by the curved 2-blade diaphragm
Found this one in some old seedmagazine.com file, the importance of being able to evolve and adapt to a changing economy.
Uranus has never looked better. Really.
Webb's first glimpse at this ice giant highlights bright atmospheric features, as well as 11 of the planet’s 13 rings. Only Voyager 2 and Keck (with adaptive optics) have imaged the planet's faintest rings before, and never as clearly as this.
Uranus rotates on its side, causing its poles to experience 42 years of sunlight and 42 years of darkness. (It takes 84 years to orbit the Sun.) When Voyager flew by Uranus in 1986, it was summer at its south pole. Currently, the south pole is out of view, facing the darkness of space.
Check out the polar cap (bright white area) on the right side of the image. Webb reveals a subtle enhanced brightening at its center. This polar cap appears in the direct sunlight of summer and vanishes in the fall. Webb's data will help us to understand this mystery.
This was only a 12-minute exposure image! And It's just the tip of the ice(planet)berg for what Webb will uncover. Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-scores-anot...
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, with image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
Image description: The planet appears light blue with a large, white patch on the right side. This patch is labeled “polar cap.” On the edge of that patch at the upper left is a bright white spot. Another white spot is located on the left side of the planet at the 9 o’clock position. These spots are labeled “clouds.” Around the planet is a system of nested rings. The outermost ring is the brightest while the innermost ring is the faintest. The faint, inner ring area is labeled “zeta ring.” Unlike Saturn’s horizontal rings, the rings of Uranus are vertical and so they appear to surround the planet. The background of the image is black.
The past may be gone, but that's no reason to leave it behind! The Adaptive Architects is a new custom Modular Building based around the idea of adaptive reuse- taking an older building that would be demolished, and modernizing and adapting its structure without losing the charm of the past.
In this MOC, you can greet clients in the lobby and show them the models of past projects, or just lounge in the stylish lobby. Meanwhile, the architects are hard at work upstairs, using modern CAD software and familiar drafting boards to design the latest and greatest spaces in Lego City! The boss gets her own annex in the added loft, so you can enjoy the view while presenting your newest building to her!
The Adaptive Architects is a 32 x 32 modular building consisting of 2,672 parts. Instructions can be purchased here: www.ebay.com/itm/134097378510
Germany, Hamburg, Miniatur Wunderland, USA, …“Viva Las Vegas“
The Miniature Wonderland is the largest model railway in the world. The scales of cars, figures, buildings etc. of the Miniature Wonderland are adapted to the HO gauge of the trains. Not only the trains are moving, also many cars, ships, airplanes taking-of & landing. Everywhere are buttons to press installed, to start single functions, like on the “Elb-Philharmonie”, pressing the button, half of the building will open-up & the wings are swinging to the sides like a huge portal to have a look inside of the building.
Ever since the year 2000 the Miniatur Wunderland has been steadily growing. Work on the first theme-worlds started on December 15th, 2000 & finished on August 16th, 2001. Further theme worlds are in the planning until 2028.
The arrangement is steadily growing, actually sections are 9 completed model layouts; Austria, with Knuffingen, Central Germany & Hamburg with airport, harbour & the new Elb-Philharmonie, the USA, Scandinavia, Switzerland & Italy. The cost of building until 2017 this fantastic Wonderland, which makes the eyes of all ages shining is approximately 16 million €, estimated until the year 2028 this will probably 20 million € & amounting to over 900,000 working hours.
Every single building, landscapes, figures are etc. are hand-made to exact scale & detail in their own workshops.
Just a few facts until 2016;
floor space 10,000 m², layout size over 2,300 m², track Length approx. 20,000 mtr.
Trains approx. 1,300, wagons more than 17,000. Longest train 14.51 mtr. Buildings & bridges 6,000,
lights over 400,000. Figurines over 400,000, kidnapped Figurines yearly 3,500.
Cars 11,000, trees 200,000
Staff 360 & 64 computers to run the set-up.
Construction Cost approx. 25,000,000 €
👉 One World one Dream,
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E. Ludwig Meritar 50 mm f/ 2.9 Red V
1959 | 5 blades iris | Exakta adapted to m42 | @f/2.9
Paris | 2017
Bushmaster/Remmington ACR, also known as the Magpul Masada. Re-painted it over the shiny-sealent, and gave it a matte finish. I'm thinking about doing a black and Olive green camouflage scheme.
EDIT: Seeing as my old M200 got lost, I will probably construct another.
I thought it was time to rework on some old images, both architecture renderings and concept art. Here is an updated version of my Adaptive Freighters from spring 2012.
More renderings and Concept Art over at www.renderstorm.fr , come visit!
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I will get to translating the website in engish real soon.