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My sister sucking on a blowpop at Torch Lake, Michigan. This place is just stunning. More Michigan pics to come!
Sometimes I jumble through a stack of negatives and think "Aaaah, yes. There!"...and then I realize that it isn't there at all.
So: this is not Norfolk, as I thought (the white should have given it away), but Normandy. And I had to consult Googlemaps to be sure exactly where.
Because it is going to be casted again, they put steri-strips in place to hold the incision from tearing open.
I wanted to draw this portrait because I just read that STEVE JOBS is ahead of Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, Bill Gates, Isaac Newton and several other big names in the list of best engineers in history (theapplegoogle.com/2011/05/steve-jobs-einstein-tesla-bill...). I found that really hilarious. I mean steve jobs didn't f*king invent anything, all he did is taking existing products, make them easy to use and put them into the spotlight.
Anyways, I find it really necessairy to tell the world that commercialism is not the most important thing on earth and I wanted to remind of all the great stuff that Albert Einstein found out. Are these guys trying to compare the discovery of Relativity to the IPhone?
-black ballpoint on A4 paper
working time ~3hours
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...just because she always looks a little crazed to me, when she's not being critical and displeased with the way we operate around here.
Hawa Mahal (English translation: "Palace of Winds" or "Palace of the Breeze") is a palace in Jaipur, India, so named because it was essentially a high screen wall built so the women of the royal household could observe street festivals while unseen from the outside. Constructed of red and pink sandstone, the palace sits on the edge of the City Palace, and extends to the zenana, or women's chambers.
HISTORY
The structure was built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh. It was designed by Lal Chand Ustad in the form of the crown of Krishna, the Hindu god. Its unique five-storey exterior is akin to the honeycomb of a beehive with its 953 small windows called jharokhas decorated with intricate latticework. The original intention of the lattice was to allow royal ladies to observe everyday life in the street below without being seen, since they had to obey strict "purdah" (face cover). The lattice also allows cool air from the Venturi effect (doctor breeze) through the intricate pattern, air conditioning the whole area during the high temperatures in summers. In 2006, restoration and renovation works on the Mahal were undertaken, after a gap of 50 years, to give a face lift to the monument at an estimated cost of Rs 4568 million. The corporate sector lent a hand to preserve the historical monuments of Jaipur and the Unit Trust of India has adopted Hawa Mahal to maintain it. The palace is an extended part of a huge complex. The stone-carved screens, small casements and arched roofs are some of the features of this popular tourist spot. The monument also has delicately modeled hanging cornices. Just like the other monuments of Jaipur, the palace is also constructed in pink and red colored stone.
ARCHITECTURE
The palace is a five-storey pyramidal shaped monument that rises 15 m from its high base. The top three floors of the structure have a dimension of one room width while the first and second floors have patios in front of them. The front elevation, as seen from the street, is like a honeycomb web of a beehive, built with small portholes. Each porthole has miniature windows and carved sandstone grills, finials and domes. It gives the appearance of a mass of semi-octagonal bays, giving the monument its unique façade. The inner face on the back side of the building consists of need-based chambers built with pillars and corridors with minimal ornamentation, and reach up to the top floor. The interior of the Mahal has been described as "having rooms of different coloured marbles, relieved by inlaid panels or gilding; while fountains adorn the centre of the courtyard".
Lal Chand Ustad was the architect of this unique structure. Built in red and pink coloured sand stone, in keeping with the décor of the other monuments in the city, its colour is a full testimony to the epithet of "Pink City" given to Jaipur. Its façade depicting 953 niches with intricately carved jharokhas (some are made of wood) is a stark contrast to the plain looking rear side of the structure. Its cultural and architectural heritage is a true reflection of a fusion of Hindu Rajput architecture and the Islamic Mughal architecture; the Rajput style is seen in the form of domed canopies, fluted pillars, lotus and floral patterns, and the Islamic style as evident in its stone inlay filigree work and arches (as distinguished from its similarity with the Panch Mahal - the palace of winds - at Fatehpur Sikri).
The entry to the Hawa Mahal from the city palace side is through an imperial door. It opens into a large courtyard, which has double storeyed buildings on three sides, with the Hawa Mahal enclosing it on the east side. An archaeological museum is also housed in this courtyard.
Hawa Mahal was also known as the chef-d'œuvre of Maharaja Jai Singh as it was his favourite resort because of the elegance and built-in interior of the Mahal. The cooling effect in the chambers, provided by the breeze passing through the small windows of the façade, was enhanced by the fountains provided at the centre of each of the chambers.
The top two floors of the Hawa Mahal are accessed only through ramps. The Mahal is maintained by the archaeological Department of the Government of Rajasthan.
VISITOR INFORMATION
The palace, called a "specimen of fanciful architecture", is located to the south of the Jaipur city, at the main road intersection called the Badi Chaupad (big four square). Jaipur city is well connected by road, rail and air links with the rest of the country. Jaipur Railway Station is a central main station on the broad gauge line of the Indian Railways. As well, Jaipur is connected by major roads, and by the International Airport at Sanganer, at a distance of 13 kilometres from the city.
Entry to the Hawa Mahal is not from the front but from a side road to the rear end. Facing the Hawa Mahal, turning right and again to the first right, leads to an archway entry and then to the rear side of the building.
It is particularly striking when viewed early in the morning, lit with the golden light of sunrise.
WIKIPEDIA
Because the first time I tried this I screwed it up (had an 8 in there).
1. Lacoste, 2. wedding, 3. Sunbeam, 4. Rolling, 5. Merrell, 6. Esdekay, 7. Pantene, 8. Coolers, 9. get well, 10. Bubbles, 11. Paddock, 12. Santa Fe, 13. Sandals, 14. Pencils, 15. Potties, 16. No Entry, 17. for boys, 18. glasses, 19. aspirin, 20. No entry, 21. Thyssen, 22. Cooking, 23. husband, 24. Outdoor, 25. Bradley, 26. goodbye, 27. Wildcat, 28. Team spirit, 29. pa1mOne, 30. teatree, 31. Cranium, 32. Janitor, 33. Pegasus, 34. Tee Ball, 35. Wexford, 36. Arconas
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how deep. But I just started thinking. You are not your skin or your arms or your legs or your brain or your hands or your ears or you nose or your butt or anything. Not really. It always seems like there's something else I guess. A soul? I'm not sure. But I just feel like there's something else beyond just my body
Because of unable to display route 67a information, it carries the route number and the destination on papers .
I found so many new, beautiful locations in the "park" (also called "Little Forest")
Golden Hour was so beautiful, as always. And Bailey (the dog) was being a really good sport :) Well... sort of, haha, as good as dogs can be I guess :)
Oh, just a reminder, my
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Backlog.. everyone loves backlogs, right?
Well, to start digging myself out, I've decided to start with my surprise Walmart find this weel, Transformers: Cyberverse Arcee, which is technically still on preorder for me at Amazon but with no provided fulfillment date.
Transformers: Cyberverse is a cel shaded computer animated television show featuring characters from the Transformers toy franchise. It's not a show I've watched at all because, well, I have no idea how to access Cartoon Network programming.
I've also never purchased any toys from this line as it is aimed at a lower age group, which affects not only aesthetics (which doesn't bother me a whole lot) and complexity of transformation. But hey, it's Arcee, the official First Lady of the Transformers universe, so I couldn't say no to that.
Being a Deluxe sized figure, she retails for $29.99 CAD here in Canada. Like the rest of the Cyberverse line, it comes with the figure, some weapons for the figure (in this case, her pistol with two blast effects) and parts for a Build-A-Figure (some dude named Maccadam). The blast effects (and the fin of the vehicle mode) are made of a soft rubber, and will most likely require the hot water treatment to reshape them upon opening).
The aesthetic I guess you could say is an evolution of the old Transformers Animated series back in 2010 or so, with recognizable characters but very zany looking body proportions.. a very Looney Toons aesthetic compared to the bulky builds of the 80's.
As with all Transformers, toy designers and animators did the best they could to complement each other, but like with most ambitious designs, the toy is somewhat lacking compared to the on screen counterpart.
First off, you can see that the backpack of the animated figure is smaller, and resembles Arcee's G1 look, much like.. well pretty much every other four wheeled Arcee figure (with the exception of the repaint for the Titan Returns line). The toy is.. well, not even close.
Secondly, despite having the price point increased like with the Siege line, I can't exactly say I'm terribly impressed with where they used all the extra budget.
So there are BAF parts which aren't my thing, but I will acknowledge they are there.
The plastic utilized for this toy (and probably the rest of the line too) feels more like the glossier, softer plastics that the figures used before the Unified Product with Takara Tomy was announced. To Hasbro's credit, finishes on the plastic were quite well done, with no real mould lines or rough finishes, and non of the parts seemed particularly flimsy.
Given the lack of Takara Tomy markings on the box, I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that Cyberverse is a Hasbro exclusive line for the time being.
There's also a startling lack of paint. One of the dangers of having an animated model or other official art work is that you can do a comparison and contrast. Much like the Hasbro of old, there's quite a few paint apps that aren't there. There's almost no white on the toy whereas white makes quite a few appearances on just the image on the back of the box alone. The gun should have two shades of pink, the wheels should be black, and there's missing blue paint apps. I'm confident that if I looked deeper into official art, I'd probably find many more.
Quality of the paint apps is... acceptable, with some bubbling observed in areas where the light pink paint was used, most notable being the vehicle canopy.
The actual figure itself isn't bad - to be fair, the only female bots as of late that have been average at best would be Moonracer and her derivatives. The giant backpack on the back is.. well gigantic, though I will admit you don't see how big it is from the front - I like the design of the folding rear vehicle tires which helps to minimize its exposure. It also helps that unlike Moonracer, there aren't that many obvious car parts in robot form.
Articulation wise, Cyberverse Arcee is... alright. The most recent iteration of a specific toys designed for the character would be the one used for Legends/Generations, which had all the curves of Arcee, but with pitiful lower body articulation and no waist joint. I'm happy to report that this figure seems to have learned from the previous one, keeping that feminine look and still can pull off some decent poses despite that giant backpack.
You get forward/backward rocking ankles, single jointed knees which lock in place when straight, the ability to rotate the lower leg, hips on ball joints, waist, standard ball jointed shoulders, bicep swivel, pinned elbows, and ball jointed head. While I would have loved to have seen ankle tilts, a bit more versatility with regards to leg position, and greater leg range of motion, the fact this figure has a functioning waist automatically makes this a better figure than the Generations one.
For reasons unknown, yet again, Arcee was sculpted with open hands rather than closed fists that fit standard sized weaponry.
Transformation into vehicle mode has all Arcee's bits and bobs fitting inside her neatly connecting vehicle panels, with the twin blast effects doubling as boosters on the back of the vehicle. The vehicle mode itself is blockier than her G1 counterpart, and resembles Blurr more than Arcee... but to be fair they were both Cybertronian vehicles anyway.
So overall, it's not as pretty as the Generations release, but the Cyberverse Arcee figure is certainly much more functional as an action figure. I dig it in the same way I dig most main line Transformers - I have a certain mental image of what figures should be able to do given the price point, and this figure does them all.
I have no idea how she compares to the other Cyberverse figures play wise, but I do know they all look like they they could use more paint.
That's about it for Cyberverse Arcee, though Arcee herself still has some heavy representation coming in - there's the Big Firebird Nicee, MP Arcee, and of course Earthrise Arcee. I'm most curious about what the latter can do, as most of her vehicle chassis comes off to form some sort of sled, like with most of the Earthrise line, easing design restrictions.
Till next time!
Because we have to wait 2+ weeks to get our convention dolls I thought is break out last year’s favorite convention doll. She hasn’t gotten a lot of screen time! 😁 love her lingerie convention table gift from a great friend
everyone needs to get hugs&kisses especially on Christmas time, making one believe that love exists even though it comes from a teddy bear. better this, than nothing...
Because this is storage for most of my kitchen appliances, I affixed a power strip on the wall behind the shelf and secured it with Scotch foam mounting tape. (you can see it in the upper left-hand corner). As with many of my projects at home and pretty much everything I do at work, I made gratuitous use of the Montera cable management kits.
Yes, that is a Vurm wine rack. The pot the basil is in came from Paxton Gate in San Francisco.
Because there HAS to be a Father Ted homage sign! I was a little nervous someone else would do one & we'd experience a terrible moment of protest faux pas.
Alenia C-27J Spartan
Reg: MM62219/CSX62219
Serial #: 4033 CN 119
Rolls Royce AE2100
Aeronautica Militare Italiana
R8-50
RSV / 311 Gruppo (Reparto Sperimentale di Volo)
-1ère division - centre de vol expérimental
-Groupe de vol 311º
RIAT 2019
Interesting discovery.
I can use my M42 to AR (Konica) adapter to affix the new ancient and dirty East German CZ Jena unbadged "Biotar" 58mm f2 lens to my Nikon D40.
The Tessar, however, is perfect and mostly lives behind a Rollei 30.5mm UV filter.
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