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According to Wikipedia KLCC Park spans 17 acres (6.9 ha) below the Petronas Towers and consists of jogging and walking paths, a fountain with incorporated light show, wading pools, and a children's playground.
Something different for today. As promised, here is a seascape, with some color... I'll admit it, not much, but still
This picture was shot in Newfoundland, Canada near the amazing Gros Morne National Park.
I literally fell in love with the place, because fo its serenity, quietness and eeriness. This is a dream for photographers, and I wish I'll have another occasion to visit some time soon
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Adapted from Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, the film was directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Huston and Ray Bradbury. It tells the tale of Captain Ahab’s self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. Ishmael is the sole survivor of Ahab’s lost whaling ship, the Pequod.
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2HfcdkOYO4
this was a few days in the planning, I tried making the tail out of paper out of paper but failed miserably so had to make it out of clay (I got a bit of an education when I googled "whale tail" to get an idea of shape...but the less said about that the better...;)
4 photos layered with 1 texture. Thanks Dad you did a great job :)
"Ahab called all Israel together and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. Elijah stepped out in front of all the people. ‘How long’ he said ‘do you mean to hobble first on one leg then on the other? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him.’ But the people never said a word. Elijah then said to them, ‘I, I alone, am left as a prophet of the Lord, while the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty. Let two bulls be given us; let them choose one for themselves, dismember it and lay it on the wood, but not set fire to it. I in my turn will prepare the other bull, but not set fire to it. You must call on the name of your god, and I shall call on the name of mine; the god who answers with fire, is God indeed.’ The people all answered, ‘Agreed!’ Elijah then said to the prophets of Baal, ‘Choose one bull and begin, for there are more of you. Call on the name of your god but light no fire.’ They took the bull and prepared it, and from morning to midday they called on the name of Baal. ‘O Baal, answer us!’ they cried, but there was no voice, no answer, as they performed their hobbling dance round the altar they had made. Midday came, and Elijah mocked them. ‘Call louder,’ he said ‘for he is a god: he is preoccupied or he is busy, or he has gone on a journey; perhaps he is asleep and will wake up.’ So they shouted louder and gashed themselves, as their custom was, with swords and spears until the blood flowed down them. Midday passed, and they ranted on until the time the offering is presented; but there was no voice, no answer, no attention given to them.
Then Elijah said to all the people, ‘Come closer to me’, and all the people came closer to him. He repaired the altar of the Lord which had been broken down. Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, ‘Israel shall be your name’, and built an altar in the name of the Lord. Round the altar he dug a trench of a size to hold two measures of seed. He then arranged the wood, dismembered the bull, and laid it on the wood. Then he said, ‘Fill four jars with water and pour it on the holocaust and on the wood’; this they did. He said, ‘Do it a second time’; they did it a second time. He said, ‘Do it a third time’; they did it a third time. The water flowed round the altar and the trench itself was full of water. At the time when the offering is presented, Elijah the prophet stepped forward. ‘O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel,’ he said ‘let them know today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, that I have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O Lord, answer me, so that this people may know that you, the Lord, are God and are winning back their hearts.’
Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the holocaust and wood and licked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this they fell on their faces. ‘The Lord is God,’ they cried, ‘the Lord is God.’"
– 1 Kings 18:20-39, which is today's 1st reading at Mass.
This beautiful 17th-century window is from the "charnel cloister" of St Etienne du Mont in Paris.
Ilustrações para conjunto de mesa e cadeiras para a PNAPLES www.pnaples.com.br/
A idéia do cliente era transformar os móveis de plastico de baixo custo em objetos de design, atraindo uma nova faixa de consumidores e valorizando o produto.
Fui responsavel pela criação do conceito básico e os elementos foram feitos com ajuda de Paulo Visgueiro, Marco Teixeira, Igor Ching San, Diego Gagliaço e Ciro Solero. Depois fiquei tambem com a missão de integrar os elementos de todos
Tabletop and chair design for a big plastic company called pnaples.
The objective was to transform low budget plastic furniture into a design product by adding some art flavour to it
I was responsible for the original concept, and the diferent characters were created through collab work by Me, Paulo Visgueiro, Marco Teixeira, Igor Ching San,Diego Gagliaço and Ciro Solero.
Sometimes you just need to take out your favourite pen and write.
This is how I felt at lunchtime today, so I walked to Starbucks, remembering my pens, iPhone and e-reader, but upon sitting down, I realized that I had forgotten an essential piece of technology, my journal.
So, taking a deep breath and a sip of Americano, I read. Not the outcome I was looking for, but satisfying in it’s own right. In this information-soaked age, it is almost impossible to be more than a couple of steps away from something that can rapidly deliver information and/or entertainment. And, perhaps as a result, most people have lost the art of writing out their thoughts or a letter, and even those with the skills find it hard to make the time for these soothing activities.
Almost no-one writes by hand anymore, particularly not in cursive, the very act almost counter cultural, not in some strange Winsten-esque 1984 moment, but more an act of patience and deliberative effort in an age of speed and information overload. Take some time out from your busy day, grab a nice pen and some good writing paper and write out some of your story – it could be good for your soul.
Wow. Explore really loves my grandson. Thanks, guys.
He has a big name for such a little boy. Yet another shot of Appomattox Ahab.
The White Whale. In Melville's great book, Moby Dick, Captain Ahab madly pursues a great white whale, which leads to his destruction. The whale is certainly a symbolic figure, with many literary interpretations. This whale is real, however. I took this photo in in September 2018 in a bay of the Valdes Peninsula jutting out into the South Atlantic from the Argentine coast. Actually, this is a baby whale, only about 20 feet long. He (or she) is swimming just above his/her mother in the water below. The mother whale is about 50 feet in length. The while color is a mutation, albinism of sorts. Look at the whale, and the white whale-like cloud in the sky above. Kind of a neat picture.
Esmerelda Ahab wishes her great great grand dad had this contraption when he went after Moby Dick!
Port Townsend, Washington 2018
As I did travel all on a journey
Over the wayside and under a dark moon
Hanging above a mountain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFuxq_J1VuA
I spied a young man riding a fine horse
Chasing a white hart and all through the woodland
Head of a hunting party
And there followed after ten kings and queens
Laughing and joking, the white hart they'd seen
Bloodied running into the bushes
I plume to his helmet, a quiver and a bow
There's nowhere to run now, there's no place to go
The hunt is cast and ready
Still farther I journeyed through the hills and the valleys
Until upon the verge of despair I sat and rested
And there did pass a princely knight pursuit by a lady
And this she did say:
"Oh may I ask you kind sir where you are going?
And pray tell unto me sir why you do hurry
Strange that I should meet you here, come sit by me.
"I have here a magic horn to deliver
And one drop from this silver and gold horn I hold, sir
Shall prove all to be false, lovers beware!"
"The gift that you bear for your brother the king
I gladly would carry to the banquet this even'
What fair sport this would be for the maidens at court."
Wearily I crossed the stream to the castle
Where I found shelter from the cold wintry wind
And food did I have and plenty
But the Lord and Lady seemed so sad
For these words they did say unto each other:
"My good lord, all off to war in thy armor
Leaving me here alone to weep and to worry
Take care lest misadventure
Shall overcome thy kindly heart
My good lord, all off to war in thy armor."
"My lady, you have no need for to worry
I'll return victorious and true unto thee
Take care, lest misadventure
Shall stain your heart and lead to woe
My fair lady you have no need for to worry."
. . . la la la . . .
While underneath the spreading oak a knight with white device
Upon a shield of black, and deep in grief and sorrow sings
His unrequited love
"Young noblewoman riding by, pray tell me have you seen
Queen Azelda the fairest maid, in company she rides
For I swear to have revenge."
A thousand days have come and passed, the Lord returns this night
The victor from the bloody wars proven his fearsome might
As ever he would claim
But fate has played its wanton game, the circle come full turn
The magic horn has done its work, cried "Falseness is found out!"
The sorrowed quest is over.
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Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.
And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the Lord to day.
Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand.
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramothgilead, and prosper: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.
And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.
And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.
And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.
And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the Lord?
Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?
Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the Lord; I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?
And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so.
Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?
And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
And Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the Lord spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people.
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramothgilead.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and I will go to the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went to the battle.
Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the Lord helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.
And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.
2 Chronicles 18 King James Version
This man was sitting on the street in Paris, begging for change. When I approached and asked for a photo, he wanted 5 EUR. Having learned my lesson from stranger #35, I declined and explained what my Project was about. In the end, the man shrugged and said ok.
We then talked for quite a while. I asked him about his life and he told me a lot of things, but I understood only half due to my poor French. I even missed his name.
However, what I did understand was that this man was from Hungary. Years ago, he came from Budapest to Paris for work. He did work here for a while, but then lost the job. If I understood it correctly, then his work crew suddenly moved on to another country (Spain maybe?) and left him in Paris – not sure if by accident or if he decided he didn't want to move on. He's now trying to raise enough money to go back to Budapest.
I don't know if he's really trying to get back to Hungary, and I guess I don't care if that part's true or not.
Since he had agreed to the photo without payment I felt free to give him some money out of my own will and without compromising the idea of the Project.
When we said good-bye, we shook hands. I don't recall shaking hands with any other stranger. I guess I did shake some hands even if I don't remember right now, but it definitely is unusual.
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You can find my original set of 100 Strangers here.
The ongoing series of 100 Strangers and Beyond can be seen here.
Find out more about the project at the group page 100 Strangers.
Just for fun: playing around more with Gyazo Video using an interesting environment setting at an iconic Second Life destination (The Leviathan Skeleton, Ahab's Haunt maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ahab's%20Haunt/30/103/23). Unedited video with a bit of clunky keystroke panning and orbiting