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LEGO model of the Bell B30D Articulated Dump Truck with tracks. This is another model in the scale 1:17,5 to fit my other models. It features: 3 sets of PF light units, XL powered drive, M motor powered articulated steering, M motor powered dumping and M motor powered air pump to operate the tracks. Of course it all operated remotely with a PF remote control except for the pneumatic switches which are operated manually.
This was shot a few days ago in Agra Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra in the sate of Uttar Pradesh (India).
The fort which is the most important in India, is also known as Lal Qila, Fort Rouge and Red Fort of Agra.
It is about 2.5 km northwest of its much more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal.
The great Mughals Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb lived here, and the country was governed from here.
I was walking in the walled palatial city when I saw an old couple who was visiting with their daughter, son in law and grandson.
I asked them if I could take a few photos and they didn't mind.
The fort was almost empty.
The colours of the grandfather's garments were contrasting with the red stone and this lilac shade on his lunghi was adding a touch of magic to this amazing place.
When I came closer I realized how handsome this man was, how the years gave him so much of dignity and the kindness coming from his eyes touched me.
It was a moment of bliss, when I took this picture I felt that he was coming from a fairy tale, like a wizard who would be throwing stardust to people in order to make them dream...
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My guitar has a sweet, mellow voice. I don't play it terribly well, but show some signs of competence. That's why I am allowed to serenade the Rose of Lisboa every night, before the lights go out and she dreams into the dawn :-)
Best seen large On White
Equipment used: Nikon D90 with Really Right Stuff (RRF) right angle bracket, Micro Nikkor AF-S VR 85mm lens, handheld
Lighting: One Elinchrome FX 400Ri with 2 feet soft box, homemade reflectors, Manfrotto Articulating arm to hold reflector (crinkled aluminum homemade).
The model (made by Maisto) was kept on a dark gray smoked glass and a black paper was used as the background. A reflector was angled such that light falling on back of the car was reduced compared to the front to make a nice gradation.
About the car itself (Condensed from Wikipedia):
Despite a misleading name, the Mercedes-Benz 300SLR was based neither on the famous 1954 300SL (W198) Gullwing road car, nor the earlier 1952 (W194) race car, although it bears a strong resemblance to both (including, in the coupe version, the distinctive 'gullwing doors'). Instead, it was based on the 1954-1955 Formula 1 Mercedes-Benz W196 race car. It is generally accepted that the name 300SLR name refers to the car's lightweight construction as 'Sport Leicht Rennen' - (Sports Light Racing).
The car was of a front-mid-engined design, to give more neutral front/rear weight distribution. It used a spaceframe chassis and magnesium-alloy bodywork, both of which contributed to a dry weight of just 880 kg (1,940 lb). The preceding Formula 1 car's 8 cylinder in-line engine was used, increased in capacity from 2,496.87 cc to 2,981.70 cc. This boosted output from 290 bhp (220 kW) at 8,500 rpm to about 310 horsepower (230 kW) at 7,400 rpm, torque of 318 N•m (235 lb•ft) came at 5,950 rpm 193.9 psi (1,337 kPa), providing strong pulling power. The engine was longitudinally mounted, and was canted over at a 33-degree angle to lower its profile for aerodynamic reasons, resulting in the distinctive bonnet bulge on the passenger side of the car. Note also the distinctive engine exhausts.
The car shown is called the Uhlenhaut Coupé. Here is the story behind that name:
Of the nine W196s chassis built, one was destroyed in a Le Mans disaster. Of the eight that remained Mercedes motorsport chief Rudolf Uhlenhaut had ordered two to be set aside for modification into a sort of hybrid between the SLR and the SL, featuring a slightly widened version of the SLR's chassis with enclosed bodywork for aerodynamic purposes. Again, the strong, high sill beams of the space frame required the fitment of the same famous 'gull-wing' top-hinged doors of the other two types. For testing, and in preparation for a possible Mercedes participation in the 1956 race season, two road-legal SLRs were built. Uhlenhaut used one of these two cars as a company car.
This Uhlenhaut Coupé was regarded as the world's fastest car in the 1950s, and it is rumoured that, running late for a meeting, Uhlenhaut exploited the unlimited autobahns to make today's two-and-a-half-hour journey from Munich to Stuttgart in just over an hour. The Uhlenhaut Coupe was road tested by the US magazine Motor Trend and by two English journalists. Here is what they have to say -
"We are driving a car which barely takes a second to overtake the rest of the traffic and for which 120 mph on a quiet motorway is little more than walking pace. With its unflappable handling through corners, it treats the laws of centrifugal force with apparent disdain," after a total of more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km). The only regret was that this was a sports car "which we will never be able to buy and which the average driver would never buy anyway."
O God, we await for Your Truth...we are but Your children yearning of heavenly sustenance...that Humanity may be enlightened of a Life that pleases God...
I'm sick and I'm tired of reasoning
just want to break out shake off this skin
I can't escape myself
All my problems lume larger than life
I can swallow another slice
Seems like my shadow marks every strike
can't learn to live with what's trapped inside
I can't escape myself
So many feelings end up in here
left so alone I'm with oh, an atmoshere
I'm sick and I'm tired of reasoning
just want to break out shake off this skin
I can't escape myslef
Taken at the Steampunk Symposium held at the Holiday Inn Eastgate in the Eastgate area of Cincinnati, Ohio.
This guy had the most radical costume I saw at the event. His wings mechanically aticulated and were controled by the switches on his wrist. I'd put the wing span somewhere near 16 feet which was a big problem in the existing wind so, he didn't have them fully extended for the picture. He also had difficulty getting through the door to the outside even with them contracted. He had to pass through the door sideways. Very creative and well done.
Why all the flags at half mast
Why the murders the rage
Where the retainers of passion
Left from a sensible age
To wipe the wretched history from this page
Why the people so bloated
What making cancerous sin
Where the godmerging shamans
To make new sense out of this din
To make beast calming music out of this din
Why all the present confusion,
When will the answering cry come?
We'll be able to hear it,
So busy dying to die?
How is it we live dying to die?
Don’t disrespect your parents
Rather calm their panic
Curb their distemper
Don’t tamper with their rot
No diaper no rash
Put out the trash
It’s a jinx
it’s a jinx…
Fie, fie, you counterfeit. You puppet, you!
(William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, Scene II)
People who can identify and articulate the movements of their inner lives, who can give names to their varied experiences, need no longer be victims of themselves but are able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the Spirit from entering. They can create space for the One whose heart is greater than theirs, whose eyes see more than theirs, and whose hands can heal and form more than theirs.
-Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit,
Henri J. M. Nouwen
This picture was shot recently one evening the new workshop of my friend Durga in Varanasi (Benaras).
Durga Charan Das is a young painter living in the "City of Lights".
When he was 4 years old he became famous after painting the feet of Goddess Durga's statue in a temple nearby his family house in a village located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Ever since he is considered to be the Mozart of Indian contemporary painting.
This reputation allowed him to become a successful Art student in the prestigious "Banaras Hindu University" (B.H.U.) of Varanasi.
The biggest university in Asia has a program led by some of the best Art teachers among modern India.
His training gave him a knowledge of classic Indian and European paintings while allowing him to carry on his own style.
He is painting amazing bodies making love or sometimes alone but always with sensuality and strength, with something special that reminds a lot of Eugene Delacroix's work...
Durga has already won several prestigious awards in India and now exhibitions of his work are starting in Europe.
This is a link in order to see his portrait:
www.flickr.com/photos/designldg/2190256216/in/set-7215760...
Libra is the seventh sign of the Zodiac and associated with justice. Individuals born under this sign are thought to have a pleasant, articulate, charming, charismatic, fair, idealistic, refined, and self-sufficient character, but one which is also prone to flirtatiousness, frivolity, indecision, selfishness, anger, envy, excessive pride, cruelty, coldness, and isolation. In terms of anatomy, Libra is said to rule the excretory functions via the kidneys, skin, lumbar region, buttocks, adrenals and vasomotor system, and lumbar vertebrae. Physically, individuals born under the sign of Libra supposedly tend to have a graceful figure; a roundish head; a tan or almost olive complexion; large and soulful eyes; small and refined features; a high forehead; a thin nose; dark, thick hair; and thin eyebrows. They are thought to usually be of above average height….
And whatever I don’t like I can take from my ascendant (wil be posted later, ihnshahallah)
Agnes very softly touches the texture of the fabric with her finger tips and examines the dress thoughtfully
Agnes - I know I may not be the most articulate person in the world.. I guess you probably thought that I was going to just come in here and freak out the second I saw this dress, right? *sighs* Don't deny it. I heard you right before I came in Alexa, and I can understand. I feel frustrated alot of the time and I guess that I have a hard time explaining to the people that I care about what I am feeling because I don't even understand it myself a lot of the time so I just flip out... I guess it just comes from the fact that I have never fit in and I guess I never wanted to fit in... but maybe it's time I just swallowed my pride and joined the happy 'sheeple'. Get rid of my cartooning supplies and my skateboard and get a real job. Start wearing dresses like everyone tells me women are supposed to. Forget the ideas I had for myself and just try to achieve the things that everyone tells me I should want to have...
Credits:
The beautiful bridesmaid dress was created by YokoDolls on etsy!
Agnes is a 'Night Fall' Agnes on a Poppy Parker body
Top - DeAmMas (eBay)
Pants - sugarbabylove (etsy)
Sandals - DeAmMas (eBay)
Bag - freshvanilla (etsy)
Bracelets - Mattel & OOAK
I took this picture during the International Tipitaka Chanting Ceremony which was standing in Bodh Gaya (बोधगया), in the Indian state of Bihar.
It was during lunch time, then there was almost no one under the Bodhi Tree which is behind the Mahabodhi Temple, the place of Gautama Buddha's attainment of nirvana (Enlightenment).
A few monks were ready to settle the altar for the next ceremony, they started to display some compositions made of flowers with fruit and sweet offerings.
Just nearby I saw those ritual trumpets.
During ceremonies Tibetan monks only use wind and percussion instruments but always played in pairs.
The most spectacular of Tibetan ritual horns is the copper Rag-Dung trumpet.
Some stretching as long as twenty feet and they are designed in sections in order to be folded in on themselves for easy transport.
They are surprisingly easy to play, with a mouthpiece very similar to a bugle or trumpet.
Rag Dung is loud and deeply resonant, an altogether engrossing sound.
This sound has the amalgamation of mystery and produces meditative, imagination and healing power.
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As I was walking nearby the marbled Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in the Tuileries Garden I was wondering if I ever look at this sculpture when I was younger.
This allegory shows a certain idea of a Nation in a neoclassic way and I beleive that this style based on aspects of the Roman Empire has been unconsciously influencing a part of my work on photography as this is how I have been shooting the wrestlers (Pehlwan file) in Varanasi.
Without awareness we become what we are and one day, by chance, it occurs that we understand how it could have happened...
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I don't know
I don't know which side I'm on
I don't know my right from left
Or my right from wrong
Say I'm a fool
You say I'm not for you
But if I'm a fool for you
Oh, that's something
Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts...
Can't stop the dance
Honey, this is my last chance
I said, can't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance
Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts...
They beat on black, beat on white
Beat on everything don't get it right
Beat on you, beat on me, beat on love
I don't know
How to say what's got to be said
I don't know if it's black or white
There's others see it red
I don't get the answers right
I'll leave that to you
Is this love out of fashion?
Or is it the time of year?
Are these words distraction
To the words you wanna hear?
Two hearts beat as one
Two hearts beat as one
I try to spit it out
I try to explain
The way I feel
Oh, yeah
Two hearts
I can't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance
I said I can't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance
I said don't stop the dance
Maybe this is my last chance
I said can't stop the dance
Maybe this is our last chance
Maybe this is my last chance
(Two Hearts Beat As One - U2)
For blur
Little clown prince, you thief of frowns,
saddest face, most open heart of all the clowns
Your graceful wife, your weightless jest
condems to shadows all the rest
Oh wooden saint, oh wondrous boy, so strange and so sweet,
the marque lights slip beneath your feet
How high and well you waltz and dip!
Nimble step upon the wire, hand on dandy hip
With crimson sash and pride unfuried
You float above this stinking world
You part our seas, you fill our cup
We laugh and cry untill we cry "Enough!"
You feign to fall and women tug their hair
They gasp in fear as you skip across the air
Let them weep, let them burn for you
Where were they when they could have learned from you?
Let them weep, let them burn for you
Where were they?
Little clown prince, you thief of frowns
Same dawn table every night, you knock them down
Friday night spreads out against the sky
Men and women drinking take-home pay
Fluorescent lights, a dab of powder, a splash of grease paint
The trash floats in, the scum floats out
They sweep under the bar what they can't kick out
This land of tears, such a secret place
This land of tears, such a secret place
Only a dollar for the prince of clowns, only a dollar
and he'll steal your frowns, only a dollar for his tinsel crown
Only a dollar for the prince of clowns
"No Llores mi nino
lagrimas, lagrimas en secretos ocultos"
Port House Antwerp, Belgium by Zaha Hadid Architects.
The Port House combines a new beam-shaped structure and a former fire brigade building into a new headquarter building for the Port Authority. The project is strategically located between city and harbour, with magnificent views over both the centre and the port from behind the articulate glass walls – some transparent, others reflective – in reference to the Antwerp diamond trade.
In early September 2012 Zaha Hadid gave the official order to begin construction work on Port House, the new headquarters for Antwerp Port Authority on the Kattendijk dock. The new Antwerp Port Authority headquarters will house approximately 500 staff in a single new location that comprises both a former fire station and a new extension. Together, these two entities form an impressive new landmark as the headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority, overlooking both the city and the harbour. Staff and visitors arrive in the central atrium from where public counters, offices and meeting rooms in the existing building are directly accessible. The offices, meeting rooms, auditorium and panoramic restaurant in the new extension are accessible via panoramic lifts just off the central courtyard. Two underground levels of car and bicycle parking, the restoration and renovation of the existing building and the exterior landscaping of the site also form an integral part of the design. The new extension is positioned asymmetrically over the central courtyard, allowing light to enter the heart of the building. Leaving the existing structure untouched, it is supported by two sculpted concrete pillars that house stairs and lifts as well as a series of carefully placed steel columns that land in the courtyard. The new volume is enclosed by articulated surfaces of triangular glass panels which are slightly rotated with respect to one another to achieve ever-changing reflections that enhance its diamond shaped geometry. From the new building visitors will have a truly impressive view over the city as well as the port, so further strengthening the dialogue between the people of Antwerp and their port.
Total Floor Area: 12,800m2 (Gross); 114m Length; 24m Width; 46m Height (4 Extra Floors) Site Area: 16,400 m2 Date: 2008-2016.
Equipment used: Nikon D90 with Really Right Stuff (RRF) right angle bracket, DR-6 right angle finder, Sigma 10-20mm lens, Gitzo 2220 tripod, Acratech GV2 gimbal / ball head,
Lighting: A single Elinchrome FX 400Ri with 2’X2‘ soft box, homemade gobos and a reflector. Strobe was triggered by a Skyport radio trigger. I fixed a small ball head with a paper clamp to hold the reflector. The ball head was fixed to a Manfrotto Articulating Arm 196-2 which was mounted on a Super Clamp. The ball head made positioning of the reflector a breeze.
This car model is all about the color and the fins. So, I decided it to photograph from the back (to emphasize the fins) though it looks quite striking in profile too (like a dart). To make the fins more exaggerated I photographed from a very short distance, less than 6 inches. To cover the whole model from such a short distance I used a focal length of 10 mm. I also chose a low angle to get an uninterrupted view of the fins – that is to make them stand out.
I bracketed for different DOFs and chose one, one that kept most of the car slightly out of focus but recognizable, while rendering the fins sharp. The main problem in lighting was to get the chrome part on top of the fin to reflect light making it shine. This gave unexpected problems as the whole surroundings were black and the chrome part was also looking black due to reflections from the surroundings. I was able to solve it by slowly and carefully positioning the reflector as I was seeing through the viewfinder. The reflector was also angled to throw less light on the front fender (making it darker), again to emphasize the fins. Thanks for those modeling lamps. Having the reflector mounted on a ball head made things easier. Special mention must be made of the DR-6 finder which helped my back to live another day !
I collect only sports car models. But this model is so different from anything else I had, so I just bought it!
Did pink Cadillacs really exist? Yes they did. I have a picture of the great boxer Sugar Ray Robinson standing next to one (though not this particular model). He caused a stir when he drove it in Paris! This car whose full name is 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible (I guess to match the car's length) represents different things to different people. To some wasteful extravaganza and to some realization of a dream! Whatever may be ultimate verdict about this car, it represents a landmark in the automotive design. Penned by the great GM designer Harley Earl, the fins which reached their zenith in this model (they were introduced a few years earlier by him) had a profound influence on automotive design. Even Ferraris sprouted fins and so did the staid German engineering master pieces, Mercedes Benz cars (though in a much more muted fashion) for a while. Fortunately, Rolls-Royce did not succumb to this pressure.
The bullet shaped tail lamps are too worth mentioning. Their shape was called “Dagmars”. In case you want to know what this means please refer to Wikipedia!
All that said is this car a classic? The well-known automotive critic of BBC Top Gear fame, Quentin Wilson included this car in his book “The Ultimate Classic Car Book”. Though one might question him, let us accept that it is a classic, perhaps not in the tradition of the European “Automotive Art Sculptures” (the likes of Ferrari, Bugatti, Delahey, Rolls, etc.) but a different kind – one that you cannot simply ignore. This is what Mr. Wilson he has to say in the book:
Quote:
No car sums up the America at its peak than the 1959 Cadillac, - a rocket styled starship for the orbiting the galaxy of new freeways in the richest and most powerful country on earth. With 42 inch fins, the 59‘ Caddy marks the zenith of American car design. Two tons in weight, 20 feet long, 6 feet wide it oozed money, self-confidence, and unchallenged power. (My note - Wall Street wizards hadn’t invented Collateral Debt Obligations by then). Under the hood almost the size of Texas nestled an engine almost as big as the California, a 6 liter (390 Cu Inch) V-8. While it might looked it was jet powered, the 59’ handled like the Exxon Valdes. That enormous girth meant you needed a nine-lane freeway to turn and two tons of metal work gave it all the get up and go of the Empire State Building. But the 59’ Caddy will always be remembered as a glorious monument to the final years of American Optimism. And for a brief hysterical moment the ’59 was the preeminent American car, the ultimate in the crazed consumerism. It was not only a car but a symbol of its time that says more about 1950s America than trunk of history books.
The ’59 Caddy was the American dream.
Unquote
Tech Specs:
Body: Two door, convertible, 6 seater
Engine: 390 Cu Inch (6 liter) V-8; Transmission: GM 3-speed automatic
Length: 20 ft (6.1 m); Width: 6 ft (1.83 m); Weight: 2 Tons (gosh!)
Performance: 0-60 mph in, 10.3 seconds; Top Speed: 112 mph
Fuel Consumption: Now come on! Do you really have to ask?
Sorry for the long story. Hope you enjoyed it though!
Wadi Rum desert’s 3 main types of vegetation.
Sand dune vegetation:
Over sixty percent of Wadi Rum desert is covered with this type of vegetation. It consists mainly of shrubs and bushes. The main species include the Haloxylon persicum (White Saxaul), the Retama raetam (White Broom), the Calligonum comosum (Arta) and the Neurada procumbens (Saadan).
Anabasis articulate (Jointed Anabis):
The Jointed Anabis White Broom is palatable for their animals. They use this plant for washing purposes as it has the ability to foam and clean. And dead plants are useful as fire wood.
Jesus. The Holy Spirit. Moses. The Bible. God.
All those above-mentioned fuckers can suck my cock.
Okay not really. But it just felt good to say that. Type it out. Articulate it on one of my photos like that.
See.
I am actually sitting on the steps of a Christian church in this photo. The very church that I choose to attend pretty much once a year. Only on Easter.
I was raised Christian. I was brought up to believe in Jesus and Christianity and the Old Testament and the New Testament and Noah and Jesus and the Apostles and everything in between.
However I got older and I experienced life. I lived around America. I met all types of people. I had conversations with all walks of life.
And most importantly I looked up into the sky and stared at those stars. I know how far away they are. I know my existence on this planet. I know my meaningless blip on planet Earth in 2009. It’s not a good feeling to be honest how meaningless it is. I’m trying to make the best of it.
You’re not part of any kind of revolution right now people. Believe me, you’d feel it if you were.
You’re not.
We aren’t discovering and exploring new planets. We aren’t realizing life outside of Earth. We aren’t braking down barriers. We aren’t loving each other and embracing this fucking planet.
We actually are fighting and killing ourselves. We are using our modern technology we have to become a lackluster non-cultural nothing. It’s fucking sickening. It makes me want to vomit right here on my carpet.
Exploration of this universe WILL happen! Discovery of an extension of life on Earth has to happen.
IT’S ENIVITABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Earth is just a miniature teensy little tiny nothing blip on the radar man. A zilch blah nothing piece of sperm shit zero nonentity.
Haha. Sorry. I’m opinionated and passionate in how I feel.
The shot at hand? Me posing in front of a church I attend once a year 2 blocks from me. I really wish I could go to church more just because it really feels good and RIGHT to be in there on Sunday morning.
But alas, I only go on Easter.
Location: about 2 blocks from my apartment; Alameda, California
Taken: September 8th, 2009
Posted: September 27th, 2009
Album of the Day: Finding Forever by Common
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"October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month".
Nowadays breast cancer can be cured if it is diagnosed in time.
Pink for October is an initiative started in August of 2006, in which sites all over the world change their templates to include the color pink, in support of Breast Cancer Awareness, because October is the month of Breast Cancer Awareness.
The pink ribbon is an international symbol of breast cancer awareness.
The aim of Pink Ribbon International is to create a supportive community worldwide and to inform patients, specialist, families and friends about Pink Ribbon and Breast Cancer.
This is an image of the Eiffel tower which is bathing in blue light every evening since the begining of summer for the French Presidency of the European Union since the second half of 2008.
I decided to change the blue colour into pink shades in order to support the Breast Cancer Awareness campaign in which I am involved since many years.
This picture is for those unknown women who are fighting, those heroes of our times, it's for my friend M. from Varanasi (Benaras) who is a great warrior.
The fight must carry on.
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Arriva Midlands Mercedes-Benz O530G Citaro Articulate BX04MXS 5005 working route 80A The Broadway Oadby to Leicester University
This is former Arriva London MA18
Making a self portrait is always an uneasy game for me.
This is why I usually prefer to do funny ones where I don't look serious.
This one was made to order, it will be used for catalogues and other working materials.
I didn't have much time so I took my camera and looked at a mirror, it seemd to be the simpliest way.
The result is serendipitous in the way that I see in this image an expression which is close to what I believe I can have sometimes on my face and there it was unexpected and fortunate.
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Packing and leaving today.
For the 11/115 challenge - a board game
and 31/52 - fill the frame with colour
(with the poster I saved from our 2014 interdisciplinary gathering on "Moon Base Alpha")
When I share enthusiasm for some new space exploration or colonization initiative, I occasionally hear the retort that we should focus on saving Earth first, often with climate change in mind as the imminent existential threat.
A recent articulate example from Facebook: “It seems to me that we are in such a significant emergency (really interrelated emergencies) that we need to focus all of our ingenuity and resources on transforming our energy systems, infrastructure, agriculture, transportation, political systems, etc. right here on this planet. I am afraid that we will end up exporting our exploitative culture to space and not make the changes here that we need to restore the life support systems of our planet.”
And my reply: When I have heard these concerns in the past, I have dashed off a retort about the false dichotomy, but the concerns persist, so let me try to be a bit more thoughtful, and please let me know if you find any of this to be persuasive:
1) Positive inspiration: living in space is the ultimate recycling and sustainability challenge. A fair number of people like to dream of something grand as they simultaneously solve the problems of today. You mention transforming energy, ag and transportation. Think of the advances that some of the “space people” have made in this area. Tesla came after SpaceX. Some of my most recent investments have been in fusion power and animal-free meat manufacturing. They are both HUGE priorities to save the Earth (we have to stem the growth of hundreds of new coal power plants in China and meat manufacturing globally, both major sources of GHG). But they are also essential for off-world colonies — energy and food production challenges are more acute when imagining a lunar or Mars base.
For a breakthrough solution, you often have to imagine a challenge greater than the creeping incrementalism of “problem fixing.”
2) Direct synergy: where would the environmental movement and the climate change science be without space? From the whole-Earth image of our pale blue dot to the Earth observation satellites, one could argue that space initiatives have been the greatest advance for the environmental movement (Sierra Club). The founders of Open Lunar are the founders of Planet; like me, they still have their day jobs where they image the entire Earth every day from space. Other space entrepreneurs are putting up GPS-RO satellites to measure upper atmosphere weather (essential to climate models and weather prediction) and this data cannot be gathered from the ground. These satellite constellations are now cost-effective because of the lowering launch costs from SpaceX and some of their competitors.
3) Differential advantage: not everyone on the planet should be focused on the same thing. You provide a partial list of priorities, but should a domain expert on poverty or the diseases of the poor shift entirely to something on your list of emergencies? Do you want to argue that climate change trumps other priorities, and even if it does, do you have a rank list of what to prioritize within that domain? This climate-change prioritization list surprised me as to the space-synergies.
4) Experimentation zones: this is a new opportunity. If we want to perform experiments in geoengineering, Mars and Venus might be better places to start as we hone our skills and verify our simulations. And if we can make one habitable, and humanity becomes multi-planetary, it would be one of the greatest accomplishments for our civilization. These experimentation zones could include the “political systems” you mention and go beyond the “charter cites” that Paul Romer espouses to “charter civilizations” with experiments in better governance among the off-world colonies.
In short, exploring the final frontier and saving the Earth are not mutually exclusive; rather, they are deeply synergistic, inspirational and focused on the ultimate sustainability challenge.
And the entrepreneurial drive to forge a future that inspires future generations with the potential of progress is a worthy endeavor in its own right.
Thoughts?
The Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage, at the corner of Spring Street and West Street, houses three district garages for the NYC Department of Sanitation, accommodating over 150 sanitation vehicles, separate vehicle wash and personnel facilities for each district, and centralized fueling and repair facilities. The double-skin façade wraps the curtainwall with custom, perforated, metal fins to vertically articulate the massing and mitigate sun exposure. A green roof softens views from neighboring buildings, protects the roof membrane, and enhances storm water retention and thermal performance. A benchmark project for NYC’s Active Design program, the garage is designed to achieve a LEED Gold certification. Dattner Architects designed the project in association with WXY Architecture + Urban Design.
"When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so very special
But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here
I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
when I'm not around
You're so very special
I wish I was special..."
(Creep by Readiohead)
This picture of Vinod was shot at sunrise at the Akhara which is near scindia ghat in Vanarasi (Benaras).
He is a pehlwan (Indian wrestler) and he often pauses for me.
The sunshine was reflecting into the holy waters of river Ganga and the place was turning into shafts of heat, we understood that soon we'll have to leave and come back even earlier in the coming days in order to finish our photocession.
Creep by Readiohead:
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Michael is a really nice guy. There is nothing romantic going on here girls, This is just a nice picture of 2 people in a great place where we had lunch with 3 other terrific folks who just happen to be T Women and I suspect that we were not at all intimidating to Michael .He is a very confident person.
Life is what you make it and not what is in someone else's mind and the simplicity of the photo shows that nice people always seem to find nice people so please don't read anything into this picture.
This was shot early in the morning before sunrise on the road from Varanasi to Bodh Gaya and at a few miles before the border of Bihar in a little akhara lost in the fields near Sakalhida, a village in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
An akhara (gymnasia) is a place where Indian wrestlers (pehlwan) practice their training.
This man was one of the teachers there, generally speaking, Muslim teachers of wrestling are known as Ustaad, whilst Hindu teachers are known as Guru.
"A wrestling guru is one who instructs his disciples on the fine art of wrestling. He prescribes each wrestler’s individual regimen by delineating the number and sequence of exercises, the types and number of moves to be practiced, the content and quantity of diet, and the time and amount of rest. A guru is also a source of strength and wisdom, and a wrestler must be willing and able to commit himself totally to his guru in order to gain access to this strength and wisdom".
("The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India" by Joseph S. Alter)
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move inside my daydream
like fingers in a glove
twisting round and round and round
round and round and round with love!
BugShot Mozambique 2018
Shot with Laowa 100mm f/2.8 (not released yet), 2x Raynox DCR-250, 2.1mm fisheye cctv lens.
Lit with Meike MK-MT24 with 4x Meike MK-R200 mounted on FotoPro DMM-903s
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello
That's how I feel about finding something beautiful on a freezing cold winter day.
I recently acquired a desk lamp with an articulating swing arm and barn doors. It had a halogen bulb that was very hot as well as had a very warm color temperature. I replaced the bulb with a daylight color LED light that stays cool to the touch. Here Cuthbert is examining the bulb in action.
We're Here: Sidelight / Backlight
I never really showed how my 'City of Truro' is articulated since I rebuilt it ages ago. One set of flanged drivers, and a single bogie pivot. It allowed for a tighter fit with the outside frames. Gears between the driving axles ensure they both keep turning over uneven track.
Here is a row of obviously very articulate ladies after an afternoon of observing impressionism with glimpses of renaissance all perfectly described to us by our lovely curator Ms George on the far left. We had coffee and cakes in the gallery coffee bar before posing for this picture and then going our separate ways. Until next time girls.
Listen to a reading of this poem by e e cummings
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skillfully,mysteriously)her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands
-e e cummings
life forms illogical patterns. it is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn (English Dancer and outstanding ballerina of the English stage. 1919-1991)
I am searching for one more day. One last chance to take in the fall air. One final look at the glory of a Michigan fall. One last moment to reflect on a wonderful summer. A summer that brought new life to my family. As fall slowly fades into winter, my heart is full.
I took this picture a few days ago along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
Water is of course very important here, it is a purifier like in most other religions.
Major faiths that incorporate ritual washing (ablution) include Christianity, Hinduism, Rastafarianism, Islam, Shinto, Taoism, and Judaism.
Immersion (or aspersion or affusion) of a person in water is a central sacrament of Christianity (where it is called baptism); it is also a part of the practice of other religions, including Judaism (mikvah) and Sikhism (Amrit Sanskar).
In addition, a ritual bath in pure water is performed for the dead in many religions including Judaism and Islam.
In Islam, the five daily prayers can be done in most cases after completing washing certain parts of the body using clean water (wudu).
In Shinto, water is used in almost all rituals to cleanse a person or an area.
Some faiths use water especially prepared for religious purposes (holy water in some Christian denominations, Amrita in Sikhism and Hinduism).
Many religions also consider particular sources or bodies of water to be sacred or at least auspicious; examples include Lourdes in Roman Catholicism, the Jordan River (at least symbolically) in some Christian churches, the Zamzam Well in Islam and the River Ganges (among many others) in Hinduism.
Water is often believed to have spiritual powers.
In Celtic mythology, Sulis is the local goddess of thermal springs; in Hinduism, the Ganges is also personified as a goddess, while Saraswati have been referred to as goddess in Vedas.
Also water is one of the "panch-tatva"s (basic 5 elements, others including fire, earth, space, air).
In Islam, not only does water give life, but every life is itself made of water: "We made from water every living thing" ( Sura of Al-Anbiya).
Water was also one of the five elements in traditional Chinese philosophy, along with earth, fire, wood, and metal.