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52 weeks for dogs ... week 34 ... OMG - OMD ...
With brainteasers, dogs are looking for treats or something fun in all kinds of materials and objects. The dog is stimulated to use his nose, but also to be creative if he cannot find it immediately.
With Drift things (ofcourse) don't go as planned ;) ... after a second of "thinking" he immediately started to throw the toilet rolls out of the box and scooped up the treats ;) ... I múst say ... very creative ... ór very hungry !
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Macro taken from an old rusty steel Tavern Puzzle. The ring to be removed is slightly under 3 inches in diameter. Another photo shows the entire sculpture. Great for fighting Covid19 boredom. This puzzle is "Wise Guy". Taken from: flic.kr/p/2k4esrt
If you have never played this exciting puzzle game (good for all ages) you ought to! I believe it is fairly new and it is very challenging and has five levels of play. One block is slightly less than 3" and you build a puzzle dictated by the card you draw. I bought this for my grandkids for Christmas and ordered another set for me...I was not so fast at first but it is a fun game to play by yourself and definitely challenges the brain. Hey, I will do anything to keep my brain healthy!
Nous sommes tous des pions sacrifiés sur le grand échiquier du pouvoir.
We are all pawns sacrificed on the great chessboard of power
- Oscar Consoli
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"Challenge on flickr". CoF*** Chessboard
PSP**** Prise SurPrise!! Confined... Confiné
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AMSTERDAM Light Festival - In de wetenschap is een holon iets wat tegelijkertijd een deel én een geheel is. Dit lijkt een hersenkraker, maar is vaker toepasbaar dan je verwacht. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de cellen die samen je lichaam vormen, of aan atomen die op zichzelf bestaan, maar samen een molecuul vormen. Ook in het geval van Holon Light, van designers Michiel Martens en Jetske Visser, gaat het om verschillende onderdelen die samen één geheel vormen. Holon Light bezorgt de toeschouwer een onvergetelijke ervaring. Vlak boven het water vormt zich een zwerm van draaiende bollen van hypnotiserend licht. Al draaiend lichten de losse stroken op en lijken met elkaar te versmelten.
AMSTERDAM Light Festival - In science is a holon something at the same time a part and a whole one. This seems to be a brainteaser, but is more frequently applicable than you expected. For example, the cells that make up your body forms, or atoms which in itself, but together form a molecule. Also in the case of Holon Light designers, Michiel Martens and Jetske Fisherman, it's going to be different parts that together form a whole. Holon Light gives the audience an unforgettable experience. Right above the water forms a swarm of rotating spheres of hypnotic light. All running lights the loose strips on and seem to blend in with each other.
A macro view of a wood Brain Teaser puzzle taken for the Macro Mondays group theme, "Geometry Shapes." The frame spans 2 7⁄8 -inches across.
Strobist/technical info:
The scene is a 14-image focus stack composite and was illumunated by two Nikon SB900 speedlights, positioned at 9- and 1-o'clock. The 9-o'clock speedlight was one-foot above and two-feet away from the subject. It was fired in Manual mode @ ¼ power through a 24" x 24" Neewer soft box. The 1-o'clock speedlight was 10-inches above and 16-inches away from the subject. It was fired in Manual Mode @ ⅛ power through a snoot with a Rogue "Follies Pink" gel attached.
The SB900s were triggered by three PocketWizard Plus Xs.
Lens: Tokina AT - X M100 AF PRO D(AF 100mm f / 2.8 Macro).
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This image taken in the Palacio De La Aljaferia, Zaragoza, Spain, really tests your cognitive skills.... The view is of a staircase shot through two Moorish arches.... it reminded me of an Esher woodcut image.
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I was so bored playing small cubes (piece of cake), wanted something challenging so I got my self a bigger cubes. These are 6x6 and 7x7 V-cubes. It was hard to find in US that time so it has to ship from Greece but this days you can find this more on eBay. I must say it’s a really remarkable puzzle for all age. Quality is unbelievable. So far I have solved these puzzles a number of times. I can’t wait for 8 9 10 and 11 to come out, no matter what the price is it’s worth it, I’ll buy it all. Did anybody say I am a nut?
Here are some.. Old picture
Tavern Puzzles are reproductions of a type of puzzle traditionally forged by blacksmiths to amuse their friends at country taverns and inns. Keeping with tradition, a museum-trained blacksmith from Long Island has reproduced some of these antique designs as well as his own original designs. All the puzzles are handcrafted and individually assembled. Each puzzle is mechanical in nature; removal of the object piece does not rely on force or trickery. This one is called "Wise Guy" and is considered intermediate difficulty. Just remove the ring... I have a dozen of them, one of which I have yet to solve.
We are unable to do away with an optical illusion by convincing ourselves rationally that our eyes have played a trick on us.
A simple trick created this illusion, It's upside down.
Détail de vitrail, musée des antiquités de Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
Site : catherine-reznitchenko.fr
On Friday I dropped by a local park after work and spotted an immature Red-tailed Hawk sitting on a nest box on a pole and scanning the ground below for a potential prey. I took my position slightly below on a slope, away from it and waited. Then the bird dove down and I started tracking it. Soon it disappeared from view and I took my finger off the shutter.
Later when I looked at the photos on my computer I realized that I took seven extra frames after the bird disappeared from view. To illustrate the point I created this short video after stitching the frames together and introducing slight delay between frames. At 20 frames per second on Z9 that 7 frames amount to close to 300 ms - it took me that long to stop taking photos after the bird disappeared behind the slope. Some may call it reaction time. After the light hit the retina, it took about 30 ms to reach my brain which then took another 120ms to process before the command was sent to my finger to stop taking photos. But this also means we are always living in the past, I only 'saw' the bird disappearing 150 ms after it actually happened. Interesting dilemma.
So, how does a catcher catch a ball that is moving fast? By the time the catcher 'sees' the ball it has already gone past him in reality. A successful catch is still possible because brain extrapolates and predicts where the ball will be before eyes see it. Take a close look at the frames after the bird disappeared. One could see that I was still tracking downward (ground moved upward) because the brain predicted where the bird would be and my hands simply followed it. Fascinating, isn't it?
I also wondered if 300 ms reaction time in the field is good. So I took a test on my computer with color changing circle and my average reaction time came out to be 261 ms., a very respectable number compared to the average of 248 ms found in a group of 18-20 year old medical students. It's raining outside and I am stuck indoor, so I decided to write this up and created this benchmark to measure against as I grow old. And now go measure yours, see where you stand.
By the way, I could've set an alternate title as 'We are always living in the past'. I took the ideas from an article that I just read (theconversation.com/what-youre-seeing-right-now-is-the-pa...)
A 12x18 inch print is available via the Katrina Relief Auction:
See flickr.com/groups/katrina_auction/discuss/87989/ for details!
Study in motion using slow shutter blur. Anyone notice something unusual going on here? (see discussion, below)
March 14, 2005: this image was blogged by Flickr under the theme "Moving";
In celebration of Mats Valk, breaking the World Record by Solving the Cube in 4.74 seconds in November 2016
The theme for Macro Monday this week is 'wallet'. Hmmm: my wallet is a bit crappy. My first thought: is a sporran a wallet? Chat GPT says it sort of is, as it can be used for the same function. And they are much more interesting than a 'conventional' wallet. And is an e-wallet a wallet? Chat GPT thinks that's a great question. Well, I tried to be clever. I missed the last two weeks of Macro Monday. Last week the theme was "Motion Blur", so I thought, what if I picture a wallet with the motion blur of a money note being pulled from it? But then I remembered I also missed the previous week when the theme was "Tile", but strange as I might be, I never carry tiles in my wallet. So I'll go back to just 'wallet'. And the English have enough jokes about Scots never opening their wallets. I just know SkyeWeasel is going to have snails emerging from a closed and locked wallet! Mind you it's not often I actually find some cash in my wallet. Who carries cash anymore? I was actually disappointed to find there were no moths in my wallet. That would have made a picture..........
Anyhow, my wallet is old, creased, cracked and crappy. It's not a fashion item, it's not a thing of beauty: few will ever see it! I think it may have been made of pig skin/leather. It holds my driving licence, credit and debit cards and any bank notes, if I have any. And that's it, apart from the odd receipt or business card I may collect along the way. I never carry it in my trouser pocket, always in an inside jacket pocket. I'm quite aware of pick pockets, having had a close shave with some in Prague
Here's an interesting story about a wallet www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14865481/lost-wallet-sea...
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V.KREBS, triptych, 2017
Acrylic on expanded PVC
Photographed at Art Basel Miami
David Ryan’s evocative, three-dimensional wall assemblages are as playful as puffy cartoon clouds, thought bubbles, or toy cars, but his colors are bold and intense. To achieve these complicated puzzles, the artist cuts and arranges irregularly shaped pieces of fiberboard to fit together in a pre-designed pattern. He then carefully smoothes them down, paints and bonds them back together again in asymmetrical layers. The works read like complex but joyful brainteasers.
Ryan is a young artist based in Las Vegas. He received his MFA from University of Las Vegas, where he studied under Dave Hickey and was associated with a like-minded group of artists, including Tim Bavington. His work has been exhibited in venues including the Laguna Art Museum and Las Vegas Art Museum, and he is held in many important public and private collections.
Copied from the Scott Richards Contemporary Art website
So many reflections, so many greens......I found the depths and shades interesting. I uploaded both the colour and b& w versions of this shot to post to different groups. Which one do you prefer???
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The princess in the lake
A princess decided one day to the circular lake far from the castle of her father to go swimming. As soon as she got into the water, suddenly appeared a witch who wanted to kidnap the girl. The Princess swam quickly in the middle of the lake to think about an escape plan. They put three things that:
1 'The witch can run four times as fast as I can swim. "
2 "The witch always try to stay as close to my turn."
3 "On land I'm faster than the witch."
How can the girl under these conditions, the witch escape?_____________________________________________________________________________
If you look at the toy phone boxes in the previous photo, you'll see they are quite different in size, and yet here, when placed on this painting by R. Demyer of a street in Lewes, they seem much closer in size. I can't quite figure that one out. You'd think the little pencil sharpener phone box would appear smaller--as it does when placed right next to the "piggy" bank phone box. Curious. Anyone have an explanation? I know it has something to do with perspective and vanishing points and all, but I don't know how to explain it.
A new lens - a whole house to myself - and I couldn't think of anything to try the new piece of kit out on. Then I looked down to see a puzzle I had discarded earlier. So I set it up with a trusty biro and snapped away.
I like the extreme depth of field that a macro lens can give, but it doesn't suit every subject. However, here on the sudoku, I liked the way some of the numbers just fall away into blur. It also hides the fact that I discarded the puzzle because I had mucked it up....
For a better look I would say, use the flick-magnifier or check this one ... Or .... press L! Enjoy!
f3.5 - 1/80 - ISO200 - No Flash
Explore #113, 22 September 2006.
An art installation in the roof garden of IFC, Hong Kong.
Brainteaser: Is the diagonal line pointing out at you or recessed into the photo?
Completed the second mitten last night.
I haven't yet mastered the art of spinning my own yarn - my coordination needs some more work - however the spinning wheel is a lovely piece of furniture.
Poems are urbane words with brainteasers...
If some don't get it, it's because they might not be quizzers...
Invader Rubikcubist | MiMa Bruxelles 22/10/2022 16h54
BXL_41 (50 points) is a Rubik space invader with a view!
All my photos of BXL_41:
BXL_41 (Close-up, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Wide shot 1, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Wide shot 2, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Wide shot 3, September 2022)
BXL_41 (Roof shot 1, October 2022)
BXL_41 (Roof shot 2, October 2022)
Date of invasion: Date of invasion; around 07/07/2022
[ Visited, flashed and caputered BXL_42 about 2 months after invasion ]
Invader Rubikcubist
From 24/06/2022 till 08/01/2023 Invader had an exhibition in the MiMa Museum (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art) in Bruxelles (Molenbeek Saint-Jean) under the titel Invader Rubikcubist.
Since the late 1990's, Invader has been clandestinely invading the street of the world with his mosaics which appear as if they have come straight out of an old school video game. There are now more than 4,000 of them scattered across 80 cities around the world; in the suburbs of Tokyo, on the letters of the Hollywood sign, atop of the Tour Eiffel, in the Tunesian desert, since one of his creations is orbiting the Earth 16 times a day aboard the ISS space station.
In 2003, for the first time, Invader introduced references to a cult object into his compositions; the Rubik's Sube. A year later, he created Rubik's Space One, a small sculpture composed of nine cubes. This was the starting point of the movement that the artist has called "Rubikcubism", a nod to Braque and Picasso's cubism and the name of the Hungarian inventor of the famous brainteaser.
[ MiMa 2022 ]
Invader Rubikcubist | MiMa Bruxelles 22/10/2022 17h13
Rubik La Nuit Étoilée (2022)
One of my favorites of this exhibition.
Invader Rubikcubist
From 24/06/2022 till 08/01/2023 Invader had an exhibition in the MiMa Museum (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art) in Bruxelles (Molenbeek Saint-Jean) under the titel Invader Rubikcubist.
Since the late 1990's, Invader has been clandestinely invading the street of the world with his mosaics which appear as if they have come straight out of an old school video game. There are now more than 4,000 of them scattered across 80 cities around the world; in the suburbs of Tokyo, on the letters of the Hollywood sign, atop of the Tour Eiffel, in the Tunesian desert, since one of his creations is orbiting the Earth 16 times a day aboard the ISS space station.
In 2003, for the first time, Invader introduced references to a cult object into his compositions; the Rubik's Sube. A year later, he created Rubik's Space One, a small sculpture composed of nine cubes. This was the starting point of the movement that the artist has called "Rubikcubism", a nod to Braque and Picasso's cubism and the name of the Hungarian inventor of the famous brainteaser.
[ MiMa 2022 ]
A book of brainteasers. Published 1937. First printing.
Dust jacket design by Edward Bawden.
Subsequently published in 1952 as Penguin no. 866.
Invader Rubikcubist | MiMa Bruxelles 22/10/2022 17h06
This exhibition attracts people from young to old.
Invader Rubikcubist
From 24/06/2022 till 08/01/2023 Invader had an exhibition in the MiMa Museum (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art) in Bruxelles (Molenbeek Saint-Jean) under the titel Invader Rubikcubist.
Since the late 1990's, Invader has been clandestinely invading the street of the world with his mosaics which appear as if they have come straight out of an old school video game. There are now more than 4,000 of them scattered across 80 cities around the world; in the suburbs of Tokyo, on the letters of the Hollywood sign, atop of the Tour Eiffel, in the Tunesian desert, since one of his creations is orbiting the Earth 16 times a day aboard the ISS space station.
In 2003, for the first time, Invader introduced references to a cult object into his compositions; the Rubik's Sube. A year later, he created Rubik's Space One, a small sculpture composed of nine cubes. This was the starting point of the movement that the artist has called "Rubikcubism", a nod to Braque and Picasso's cubism and the name of the Hungarian inventor of the famous brainteaser.
[ MiMa 2022 ]
Invader Rubikcubist | MiMa Bruxelles 22/10/2022 17h27
A Rubik fan and the Rubik work of Invader.
Invader Rubikcubist
From 24/06/2022 till 08/01/2023 Invader had an exhibition in the MiMa Museum (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art) in Bruxelles (Molenbeek Saint-Jean) under the titel Invader Rubikcubist.
Since the late 1990's, Invader has been clandestinely invading the street of the world with his mosaics which appear as if they have come straight out of an old school video game. There are now more than 4,000 of them scattered across 80 cities around the world; in the suburbs of Tokyo, on the letters of the Hollywood sign, atop of the Tour Eiffel, in the Tunesian desert, since one of his creations is orbiting the Earth 16 times a day aboard the ISS space station.
In 2003, for the first time, Invader introduced references to a cult object into his compositions; the Rubik's Sube. A year later, he created Rubik's Space One, a small sculpture composed of nine cubes. This was the starting point of the movement that the artist has called "Rubikcubism", a nod to Braque and Picasso's cubism and the name of the Hungarian inventor of the famous brainteaser.
[ MiMa 2022 ]
Invader Rubikcubist | MiMa Bruxelles 22/10/2022 16h41
The entrée of the unique exhibition of Invader in the MiMa, the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Bruxelles.
Invader Rubikcubist
From 24/06/2022 till 08/01/2023 Invader had an exhibition in the MiMa Museum (Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art) in Bruxelles (Molenbeek Saint-Jean) under the titel Invader Rubikcubist.
Since the late 1990's, Invader has been clandestinely invading the street of the world with his mosaics which appear as if they have come straight out of an old school video game. There are now more than 4,000 of them scattered across 80 cities around the world; in the suburbs of Tokyo, on the letters of the Hollywood sign, atop of the Tour Eiffel, in the Tunesian desert, since one of his creations is orbiting the Earth 16 times a day aboard the ISS space station.
In 2003, for the first time, Invader introduced references to a cult object into his compositions; the Rubik's Sube. A year later, he created Rubik's Space One, a small sculpture composed of nine cubes. This was the starting point of the movement that the artist has called "Rubikcubism", a nod to Braque and Picasso's cubism and the name of the Hungarian inventor of the famous brainteaser.
[ MiMa 2022 ]