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Morphecore Prototype by Daito Manabe
b. 1976, Japan
Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Daito Manabe’s work presents an endlessly dancing digital figure, continuously morphing into new shapes, moving beyond any logic of physics or laws of the universe. Extracted from MRI scans of the artist’s brain, raw brainwave data is translated into digital movement that manipulates and choreographs Manabe’s 3D-scanned human body, alongside visual noises and glitches generated by distracting thoughts in the brain. The work thus presents a new potential relation between the brain and the body, emphasizing the ability of the mind to move into the infinite, while the body is still bound to physical limitations of motion, gravity, volume, shape, and form.
Daito Manabe is an artist, programmer, and DJ. His works branch into a variety of fields and take a new approach to everyday materials and phenomena. His practice is informed by careful observation and a quest to discover and elucidate the essential potentialities inherent to the human body, data, programming, computers, and other phenomena, thus probing the interrelations and boundaries delineating the analog and the digital, the real and the virtual.
Simon Williams is the son of rich industrialist Sanford Williams, owner of Williams Innovations. Simon inherits the munitions factory after his father's death, but the company's profits fall due to its biggest competitor Tony Stark and his company Stark Industries.
On the advice of his brother Eric, Simon tries to embezzle funds from his company but is caught and incarcerated.
Simon blames Stark for this and accepts the proposition of master villain Baron Heinrich Zemo after the Enchantress pays his bail, as a pawn is required to infiltrate the Avengers.
The desperate Simon Williams agrees and is transformed into an ion-powered being with superhuman powers. His powers are tested, and he is shown to have great superhuman strength and durability, even defeating the Executioner.
Called Wonder Man by Zemo, he is then sent to meet and join the Avengers, with instructions to betray them at a critical moment so that Zemo's Masters of Evil can destroy the Avengers.
Zemo ensures Wonder Man's loyalty by advising him that as a result of the treatment his body now requires periodic doses of a serum to survive—a serum that only Zemo can provide. The Avengers are lured into a trap and captured.
The plan fails when Wonder Man decides to save the Avengers and aid them against Zemo, apparently at the cost of his own life. Hank Pym records Wonder Man's brain patterns in the hope that one day he can be revived.
Unbeknownst to the Avengers, Wonder Man's body has simply entered a catatonic state as it adjusts to the effects of the treatment. Eric Williams becomes distraught over the apparent death of his sibling and, blaming the Avengers, assumes the identity of the Grim Reaper in an effort to destroy them. The Grim Reaper steals Simon's body at one point, and attacks the Avengers three times before Wonder Man finally returns.
Wonder Man remains in suspended animation for years, and it is during this period that Ultron, the evil robot creation of Hank Pym, steals the brain patterns recorded by the Avengers for use as a template for the synthezoid Vision.
It is later revealed that Vision is built from the original Human Torch, an android created by Professor Phineas Horton.
During this vulnerable time, Wonder Man is used as a pawn on three occasions. Wonder Man is briefly revived by Kang the Conqueror to battle the Avengers as part of his Legion of the Unliving, and later "resurrected" as a zombie by Black Talon and the Grim Reaper to attack the Avengers once more.
On the final occasion, the Living Laser hypnotizes a now-awake but still very weak Wonder Man, in an unsuccessful attack on the Avengers.
After this encounter, Wonder Man was restored to true life and chooses to remain with the Avengers, aiding them against Attuma and Doctor Doom.
He also fought the Vision, and helped the Avengers battle Graviton. He soon after defeats the Grim Reaper, who was intent on destroying the Vision as he was "artificial" and a "mockery" of his brother; Wonder Man at this point is revealed to have become a being of ionic energy.
Wonder Man eventually joins the Avengers in a full-time capacity and becomes close friends with his teammate, the Beast. For several months after his resurrection, Wonder Man suffers from slight claustrophobia and a fear of dying in battle, as he did once before. Wonder Man finally overcomes his fear of death during the final battle with Korvac.
Wonder Man invaded his former plant which had been taken over by the Maggia, and fought Madame Masque and the Dreadnought.
Developing an interest in acting, Wonder Man stars in minor roles before moving to Hollywood, where fellow Avenger Hercules uses his contacts to establish Wonder Man's career. Wonder Man also works for a time as a stuntman, an ideal vocation since he is invulnerable to virtually all conventional weapons.
Wonder Man helps form the West Coast Avengers, and his new-found confidence begins to become arrogance. He develops a serious rivalry with Iron Man, but sees the error of his ways after a brutal battle with the Abomination.
He also foils Doctor Doom's plot to control the world. His acting career rises, and he is cast as the villain in the fourth film in the successful Arkon franchise.
Wonder Man eventually accepts the Vision as his "brother", but there is a setback when the Vision is dismantled and rebuilt as an emotionless machine by a global conglomerate.
The Scarlet Witch—the Vision's wife—asks Wonder Man to provide his brainwaves once again in order to rebuild the foundational personality matrix of the original Vision, but Wonder Man refuses, having feelings for her himself.
The Wasp further deduces that the Vision's original relationship to the Scarlet Witch may even have been predicated by Wonder Man's initial donation for the original personality matrix; at this, Wonder Man confirms that several of his hesitations about making the attempt arise from these doubts and the subconscious desire he's felt toward the Scarlet Witch since her separation from her husband. He is then ensorcelled by the Enchantress, and battles the Avengers.
Wonder Man battles old foes Goliath and the Enchantress, before meeting his would-be sidekick "Spider" and battling Gamma-Burn, resulting in wrecking his jet-pack.
Wonder Man then battles the assassin Splice for the first time. Wonder Man takes part in the Kree/Shi'ar War, and had his powers altered when he and the Vision failed to prevent the Shi'ar Nega-Bomb from detonating.
He battled Angkor, and then journeyed to Hades where he battled Mephisto, Blackheart, the Enchantress, and the Grim Reaper; he then learned that he was immortal.
When Avengers West Coast (renamed) disbands after a dispute, Wonder Man becomes a founding member of its successor group Force Works, but is disintegrated in an explosion during their first mission against the alien Kree.
Many months later, the Scarlet Witch accidentally resurrects Wonder Man in ionic form; while in this form he appears when she is in need.
Several months later, the Scarlet Witch is able to fully revive Wonder Man and he now exists in an independent, more human form. It is also discovered later that the Grim Reaper - dead at the time - is also revived.
Wonder Man becomes romantically involved with the Scarlet Witch, but ends their affair during the Kang Dynasty saga, due to her residual feelings for the Vision.
Wonder Man is blackmailed into working for S.H.I.E.L.D. during the Civil War storyline. Due to charges of misappropriation of funds in his non-profit organization, Wonder Man is pressured to work for the pro-registration side in the ensuing Civil War drama.
In addition to capturing renegade vigilantes and criminals, Wonder Man is instrumental in creating televised messages to educate the public and yet-unregistered superhumans about the specifics of the Registration Act. Wonder Man became a member of the Mighty Avengers.
Wonder Man began a romantic relationship with fellow Mighty Avenger Ms. Marvel warning her not to use her position as leader of the Avengers to keep him out of potentially dangerous situations just because of their relationship.
Following the events of the Secret Invasion, Norman Osborn created a new team of Avengers, effectively retiring Wonder Man during the Dark Reign storyline.
Wonder Man later appears on television, lamenting his tenure as an Avenger, claiming it was all a waste of time, and that using violence to uphold justice has caused nothing but heartache and death. He ends his speech by sadly admitting that having Osborn in charge is exactly what the country deserves.
After this, Wonder Man is imprisoned as a member of the new Lethal Legion. This group opposes the tyrannical efforts of Osborn; Wonder Man joins to try to keep them from hurting innocents.
Wonder Man has been seen alongside his old West Coast Avengers teammates, Ronin, Mockingbird, Tigra and War Machine in battle with a new version of Ultimo.
During the Heroic Age sequence, Simon is approached by Steve Rogers to join the new team of Avengers. Simon refuses stating that the Avengers have caused more problems than they have solved and implies as Rogers leaves that he will make sure his old allies realize the mistake they are making.
Simon also mentioned as having been in jail until Steve bailed him out. After learning that Rogers had disregarded his advice, Wonder Man attacks the new team causing some damage to their base before inexplicably disappearing.
Thor and Iron Man later contact him to try and reason with him, but Simon refuses to listen to their arguments, stating that the dead heroes that have resulted from the Avengers working together should be a clear sign that the concept is doomed, departing as Thor and Iron Man try to argue that all heroes are aware of the risks when they begin. Significantly, Iron Man notes that Simon is 'leaking' ionic energy, suggesting that his current mental condition may relate to his powers rather than being simply a matter of choice.
Wonder Man put together the Revengers, a team of super-powered people to stop the Avengers because he believes they do more harm than good, blaming the Avengers for Ultron's existence, the damage caused by the Scarlet Witch and the Hulk, the Civil War, and Osborn's Dark Avengers. His team subsequently defeats the New Avengers in a quick attack on the mansion before he moves on to attack Avengers Tower, stating that he will destroy the tower unless the Avengers immediately disband.
Although Iron Man manages to trap him in a prison specifically designed to contain his ionic energy with the Revengers being quickly defeated by the combined Avengers teams, Wonder Man has still successfully managed to spread doubt among the population about the merits of the Avengers as a concept particularly since Captain Rogers has yet to officially rebuff any of his arguments, asking Beast to remember his words simultaneously reflecting that he may be able to see the Avengers from the outside as he has not been 'real' since his resurrection before he apparently disappears from his prison.
Wonder Man later reappears to Captain America (Steve Rogers), telling him that he feels sorry for his past actions and that he is trying to redeem himself. Before he can accept help from the Avengers, he is attacked by the Red Hulk. He managed to take him down and looks at Avengers Tower, claiming that he will "earn his way back". He later plays a pivotal role in rescuing the Wasp from the Microverse. After this, Wonder Man is shown celebrating Jan's return alongside the rest of the Avengers at Stark Tower.
At Wasp's urging, Simon later joins the Avengers Unity Squad. During conversations with Jan and Sunfire, he makes it clear has no intentions of fighting, and only wants to help use his PR skills to win over skeptical citizens. He and the Scarlet Witch rekindle their relationship. During the final confrontation with the Celestial Executioner, he allows Rogue to absorb him to give her the power to oppose the Celestial, but his essence remains in Rogue after Wanda expels the other absorbed powers from her, leaving Rogue with Simon's powers and once again unable to touch others.
During the AXIS events, Wonder Man's consciousness was still in Rogue at the time when the X-Men and the Avengers were inverted by an inversion spell. Rogue used Wonder Man's powers when helping the X-Men.
At the time when the Avengers Unity Squad traveled to Counter-Earth to find Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, Rogue was captured by High Evolutionary's right-hand man Master Scientist who removed Wonder Man's consciousness from Rogue.
After Rogue was unable to see or hear Wonder Man, he was still in Rogue's mind. When Rogue kissed Deadpool, Wonder Man was freed from Rogue's body as the result of Deadpool's healing factor acting like a circuit breaker that enabled Wonder Man to escape from Rogue's body.
During the "Secret Empire" events, Wonder Man appears as a member of the Underground which is a resistance movement against Hydra ever since they took over the United States.
During the "Empyre" storyline, Wonder Man, Quicksilver, and Mockingbird deal with the Kree and the Skrull's fight with the Cotati near Navojoa. When Quicksilver is hit by special spheres fired by the Cotati magicians, Mockingbird and Wonder Man come to his aid and help the Kree and the Skrull turn the tide against the Cotati.
Powers and abilities
Simon Williams gained his superhuman powers due to chemical and radiation treatments with "ionic" energy by Baron Zemo, giving him superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and reflexes. While Zemo's initial aim is to use ionic energy treatments to make Wonder Man at least "the equal of any Avenger," his treatments surpassed his expectations and endowed Wonder Man with strength comparable to that of Thor.
Captain America once describes Wonder Man as having "Sentry-level" strength, though that is anecdotal rather than scientific. Zemo's treatments also grant Wonder Man virtual invulnerability, immortality, enhanced physicality likened to greater stamina, agility, speed, and instantaneous reflexes. Zemo also outfits Wonder Man with a rocket pack in his belt to achieve flight.
When the Scarlet Witch resurrected him Wonder Man was able to transform into a state of pure ionic energy at will and back again. Following his resurrection and metamorphosis, Wonder Man eventually relearned he is capable of true flight and energy projection. Due to his self-regenerating ionic energy, Simon has the ability to go without air, food, or water. His eyes also glow a bright red and he usually wears sunglasses to conceal the effect but Simon can normalize their appearance as well.
Before his "death" at the hands of the Kree, Wonder Man discovered new abilities. In his beginning years, Williams sometimes wore an ionic energy powered apparatus which allowed him simulated flight. Over the course of his career he would gain true flight without need of a thrust system.
Other abilities begotten from manipulating his own ion energies include emitting force or flame beams from his hands and eyes. Alternating his physical shape in undiscovered ways either changing his size (enabling him to grow taller than his adversary Goliath), morphing his hand into a sickle or transforming into a more demonic semblance.
Withholding the energy in hand to increase the impact force of his physical blows. He could potentially even give superpowers to non-powered individuals by imparting his ionic force onto them and can just as easily reabsorb it back into himself as this somewhat weakens his superhuman abilities.
Since his resurrection, he has rarely used most of these powers but can still shift between human and energy states at will.
Later, his ionic form has begun to "leak" energy, allowing Iron Man to track him by following his unique energy signature, the other heroes speculating that his condition is responsible for his currently unstable attitude and anger at the Avengers.
In later appearances he appears to have increased in strength and power, having also learned to teleport at will. He has done so several times in recent appearances; once being when he was detained by the Avengers after staging an attack on the mansion, and again while battling and easily winning against the Red Hulk.
Wonder Man has some limited effect on Electromagnetic phenomena as was explained to him by Hank and Nadia Pym, to that end he can absorb various forms of energy be it radiological, ionic, even anti-material in nature.
Simon is an exceptional hand-to-hand combatant, having received Avengers training in unarmed combat from Captain America. He has an advanced degree in electrical engineering, is an experienced stuntman, and a talented actor. He is also exceptionally wealthy, being the owner of his own private weapons company as well as a successful movie star.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Simon Williams
Publisher: Marvel
First appearance: The Avengers #9 (October 1964)
Created by:
Stan Lee
Jack Kirby
Don Heck
Mineco Resource Harvesting Suit: General Class
The Biannual Autumn Mechanical Forester, otherwise known as the Autumn Fury, is Mineco's most popular resource collection tool. Over 20 million units have been deployed so far, harvesting alien planets spanning the entire galaxy!
The Autumn Fury is easier to use than ever, with a brainwave scanning control system for lightning response times and precision. The suit features reinforced armour to protect the pilot from any native (non-sentient!) unfriendlies, and a plasma enhanced sharpmetallium axe to cut through any trees, obstacles or aforementioned unfriendlies like butter!
Mineco would like to apologize for any misconceptions caused in the promotion of the previous product. Unlike the Summer Leaf, the Autumn Fury actually allows the pilot to enter and control the suit, so they can do more than quietly stand next to the suit looking important. Additional specifications detailing the Autumn Fury design and padded interior will be released shortly.
Been reading a lot of Batman: White Knight, such a great book, one of the best Joker & Batman stories
From L-R: Rubber Man (Batman: The Brave and the Bold), Bulletman (Classic), The Gray Ghost (Batman: The Animated Series), biOMAC (Earth-51), The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, Brainwave Jr. (Classic), & Boston Brand (Brightest Day)
Design Inspirations below:
Rubber Man (Batman: The Brave and the Bold) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/braveandbold/images/3/38/Rubber...)
Bulletman (Classic) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/5/55/Bulletman...)
The Gray Ghost (Batman: The Animated Series) - (i.ytimg.com/vi/iTLnoof2vhQ/hqdefault.jpg)
biOMAC (Earth-51) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/9/9b/Ben_Boxer...)
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The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/batman/images/5/53/00000_Batman...)
Brainwave Jr. (Classic) - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/0/07/Brainwave...)
Boston Brand (Brightest Day) - (4.bp.blogspot.com/_FPAetrvLhD4/TF1Op2wZBBI/AAAAAAAABMc/g_...)
Comment & fave to let me know what you think.
I was thinking about making this guy for a while, I wasn't sure how to make him at first, but after I saw Noah R's Brain in his Young Justice CMF draft I loved the design, I changed some pieces though, I based him off the Teen Titans version, because he's my favorite version, I do plan on making other versions of him too, but for now this will do, oh also I haven't made Mallah yet, I will need a duplicate Grodd for that.
driving to the airport at 4 in the morning gives for some interesting shots 😄
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Just had brainwave, wonder if Ray had some scottish/Irish heritage like I have :{), I know people down south in the US ussually do
P.S Thanks to all those who like me are flyin' the flag for Cheryl. we love you babe. Gd bless Ireland and Newcastle :{)
Inspired by mad_lego_boy’s version
L-R: tigress( wanted to try a helmet look), sportsmaster( modded yesterday’s death stroke custom), icicle( still tryna get better parts), vandal savage, the wizard( custom top hat), brainwave( little more modern look and I like the olive green), Grundy( I wish I had better heat options), per degaton( trenchcoat piece coming in clutch)
Top: shade( hidden side base piece and he looks alright)
What started out as a "Sunrise morning", quickly turned into an "is it even worth being here" morning, with extremely dense fog and constant rain... And then we had a brainwave... WATERFALLS!!
Did a lot of hiking today, causing tired legs and an ouchy little toe, but totally worth it.
Our society is nihilistic
What we do is ritualistic
We are toxic and narcissistic
Our desires are hedonistic
Beelzebub: Lord of the flies; eat the bugs, believe the lies
Serve Moloch, bow on your knees, data surveillance, your freedom flees
Social scores, biometric IDs, for the NPCs, CBDCs
Worship the Beast, and merge with AI, you’ll be happy, but your soul will die
Carbon footprint tracker
DNA surveillance hacker
Anti-human tech race
Brain-computer interface
Internet of minds and bodies
Patented hybrid copies
Hivemind of robotic slaves
Manipulated brainwaves
Our society is socialistic
What we do is animalistic
We are toxic and communistic
Our desires are paganistic
Beelzebub: Lord of the flies; eat the bugs, believe the lies
Serve Moloch, bow on your knees, data surveillance, your freedom flees
Social scores, biometric IDs, for the NPCs, CBDCs
Worship the Beast, and merge with AI, you’ll be happy, but your soul will die
Mk-ultra mind control
New world order black hole
666 Beast Mark
Voice-to-skull trademark
Holler, holler, exultation
Christ, Christ, is salvation
Warning, warning, listen up
Look, look, what’s coming up
Beelzebub: Lord of the flies; eat the bugs, believe the lies
Serve Moloch, bow on your knees, data surveillance, your freedom flees
Social scores, biometric IDs, for the NPCs, CBDCs
Worship the Beast, and merge with AI, you’ll be happy, but your soul will die
We decided to treat ourselves to this day trip to Brighton for our 33rd anniversary, and wanted to do something a bit different. Our plan was to catch the Volks Railway train, which runs along the seafront to Brighton Marina. But we suddenly had a brainwave, to go up the new i360 tower, as it was such a lovely day! Before we'd had our lunch we headed down to book our slot, as I believe you have to book in advance. Each slot is half an hour apart, so we booked 1:30 to allow for lunch!
The YWS-103 Huntress was built from a captured heavily damaged Vanguard, by the UE. The full inner frame and armor was modernized with nano-technology. It focuses on close quarter combat, to achive this it is armed with 2 high-frequency swords, 2 forearm mounted plasma sword, which double as plasma machine guns, 3 blade familiars designed as skirt armor and equipped with multiple powerful thrusters. For more precise movement and decresed reaction time the Huntress is equipped with a special man-machine interface called PNL (Pseudo Neuro-Link) System. The PNL System converts the pilot's brainwaves into data, while not as effectivle like the original DNL System, but it puts less stress on the user. This way the machine can be controlled by thoughts. The blade familiars are remote controlled weapons equipped with 2 high frequency blades on each side.
Weapons:
- 2 x High frequency sword
- 2 x plasma sword / machine gun
- 3 x Blade familiars
Special System:
- PNL system (Pseudo Neuro Link System)
Power Source:
- Ultracompact Fusion Reactor
Armor:
- Nano-armor
Height:
- 9,5 m
Base Weight:
- 25 t
A little space-out effects video. Sometimes our minds end up going to the Moon and reality distorts around us.
Royalty free music from CCMixter.org:
"Welcome To Quarkstar" by Loveshadow featuring Pilot J Sorn, Igoto Wikes, The Citizens of Quarkstar.
Music is here:
I decided to embrace the dark today and catch some light trails. I didn't fancy carrying my tripod so I had to capture freehand, after many failed attempts I had the brainwave of going the train station and using the bridge as support, this is the result.
133 Pictures in 2013 - #26 Railway or Train Tracks
Try as he might, Snake Eyes can do nothing to break the grip of the S.N.A.K.E.. While he initially sensed the presence of Night Creeper and Firefly, his senses were numbed. Dull. As the S.N.A.K.E. pulls him closer, an unnatural panic sets into Snake Eyes when it occurs to the ninja commando that the panic is not coming from his own fear, but seems to be coming from the robot itself! Firefly reads Snake Eyes' revelation and gloats!
Firefly: Go ahead and struggle, Snake Eyes! Lose yourself in the panic! Feel the fear perforate that stone cold heart of yours! Let it consume you! Neat little adjustment I made to this ancient battle armour, eh Snakes? A modification of ol' Doc Venom's Brainwave scanner! Doesn't even need cerebral terminals anymore Snake Eyes! It just... gets in to your head! Ha! That's it, struggle! Panic! There's nothing you can do! Your ass is mine!
Today's story and sketch "by me", I was enjoying the morning with a great cup of Chock Full Of Nuts Coffee, and a French Cruller Moon Pie, listening to Lynyard Skynyrd's Free Bird CD, when I received a call from JB and Rescue Randy, with an urgent message to meet them at the Christmas Palm Park in dimension seven, and to bring a dimension transporter with enough seating to pick up ten stranded pedestrians. Not normal pedestrians but Santa Claus himself and a few of his Elves, and a Beaked Gnatdoobian part time Christmas delivery shuttle pilot. Who while on route to drop off a load of one thousand pink Flamingo Whirligig's in Key West Florida, the pilot made a major mental error while connected to the "CGS" cerebral guidance systems pilot lounge chair, he fell into a deep Gnatdoobian REM "recalled early memories" deep sleep, when the elves noticed the pilots rapid eye movements, and jerking body motion jumping out of the lounge doing an erotic calypso dance they realized they were in trouble, but were unavailable to wake Santa, who was along on the trip to do some fishing before the Christmas rush, but was himself asleep in the galley, they hit the "NPEA" north pole emergency alert button, Which sends a direct alert from anywhere in any universe or dimension to JB and Rescue Randy the most interesting living tissue crash test dummy in the Cosmos. He and JB are also the galaxies most reliable first responders. Seems the pilot was dreaming of his fun times as a youth visiting the Christmas Palm Park, his REM brainwaves directed the transporter to here where it crashed, Santa you may notice is holding a memory eraser wand, he is about to use it on his elves and pilot, in a few minutes they will have no memories of the crash or much of anything else, until next time taa ta the Rod Blog.
As we hadn't been able to celebrate JJ's birthday as we'd hoped, we had the brainwave that we could get some of the family together online to play some word and drawing games!! Matt and Sophie, my sister and niece, Cath, were up for it, and at 8pm we managed to hook up successfully! It was a fun way to get together and we all agreed we must do it again sometime!
(The top pic is from Matt's phone - he said their cat Cardi was confused as she could hear our voices but she didn't know where we were!!)
I managed to grab a quick shot of this Starling before it flew off to feed its young. As it was a grab shot I accidentally underexposed it. The Nikon D750 has great potential to recover shadows so I was able to end up with a reasonable exposure but it was a pretty ordinary photo. Then I had a brainwave and decided to go the other way and increase the contrast to produce a silhouette which I think is a lot better. I really quite like this one as it's a wee bit bit different.
Henry King Jr. was the son of the Golden Age villain Brainwave and hero Merry the Gimmick Girl. Looking to shun his father's criminal legacy, he became a founding member of Infinity Inc., a team of young superheroes bearing the torches of Golden Age heroes. Ultimately, though, after losing his father, he would fall into his dad's old ways.
Another month when I have taken no photos of Taivas and without any brainwaves coming I have used an idea for her 12 months project that I have been planning for Tasku's one in 52 Weeks. This is shot through a small mirror prism. The mirrors only arrived today, are much smaller than expected (therefore not as effective) and I've had no time to practice after constructing the prism, this is literally one of the first few shots I tried.
Credit to Lindsay Adler for this idea from her Creative In-Camera Techniques video.
Created in ArtScope
Original image is by abstractartangel77 and is from the Creative Commons - see the original image here:
You get special points for finding a friend.
Way back when Lalaloopsy was a rage, I collected bits and pieces of the sets as well. I set up Lalaville in DD's room with a couple of mini Lalas. But DD was never into playing with dolls. She appreciates Mommy's collecting and can tell Licca generations apart but playing with dollies? Not so much. So when we moved houses a couple of years ago, Lalaville was put into a box and stored.
Then came the Dinos!, who are a totally different matter with DD. She lives and breathes them. So this week I had a brainwave and decided to set up the Lala village for the dinos. And you can see what a great hit it has been with everyone.
PS: It's Dinoville now.
I find it difficult to question other folks judgement, as sometimes my own brainwaves may crash short of the beach, so I will inquire with polite sincerity....when you see Amber, be a doll and see the photo description. We all need to see others points of view, talk more openly about things that aren't always so easy to discuss. We don't know what we don't know, or how not knowing affects others. So Amber and I have put our thoughts out here on a few things, we're ready to listen to and learn from y'all, so we can all live as happier humans on our little planet.
The benefits of Tibetan singing bowl meditation
Increase the impact of yoga and meditation
Singing bowls are a lovely addition to your wellness practices. The sound vibrations can deepen meditation and yoga sessions by promoting relaxation and present-moment awareness. Studies show that the sound produced by singing bowls lessens tension, which make it easier to enter a meditative state.
Promote emotional balance
The science is clear: Tibetan singing bowl meditation is an effective, low-cost intervention for reducing feelings of anxiety and depression while enhancing spiritual well-being. Part of the improvement has to do with the bowl’s effect on brainwaves, promoting a more tranquil and balanced condition.
Reduce daily stress
In addition to balancing emotions, singing bowls are great for stress reduction, supported by research in the Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine. Tibetan singing bowl meditations are shown to decrease tension in the body associated with stress.
Improve physical health
The regular use of singing bowls doesn’t just improve mental health. It’s also linked to many physical health benefits, including:
lower blood pressure and heart rate
improved immune system response
better respiratory rate
Alter brainwave activity and deepen concentration
The positive impact of meditative music on brainwave activity is well-researched — and singing bowls are no exception. Play or listen to singing bowl meditations to help:
focus and concentration
mental clarity
daily productivity
Focus even more deeply with brainwave entrainment meditation tracks.
Balance chakras and clear energy
The frequencies produced by singing bowls can help balance our chakras, clearing any blockages in our energy centers that accumulate over time. With proper energy flow through our chakras, we can experience more profound spiritual growth.
Use singing bowls to enhance mindfulness practices
Now that you know how to find the right singing bowl for your practice, and how to properly use your singing bowl, you’re ready to experience this ancient meditative tradition from the Himalayas for yourself!
Or, if you’d rather listen to tracks of singing bowls, you can still experience the benefits of their healing sound waves. Discover Insight Timer’s extensive collection of free singing bowl tracks and courses to add to your wellness routine. Improve your emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being with expert-led sessions that cater to everyone — from beginners to experienced yogis and meditators.
Dive deeper into the power of music and sound with Insight Timer’s valuable resources.
Page 1. To be honest, this is my favorite page. Yes. That is all I can say, actually.
No, wait, not true: I'd also like to say that this is one of those rooms I built
because I would love to live in it.
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I made a JALKOW collection, last year, in sort of homage to John's photostream and his JOHN Collection: the concurrent of the JOHN Collection. 'Not expensive, yet not cheap!'
So, big credits go to John and his trust.
This year, I had another brainwave, with lots of chairs and tables, so here it is: the JALKOW collection 2.
The snow has been melting away and now the top layer is just ice.
In the garden earlier we noticed Roo's (Our Cat) paw prints and my fiancee had another brainwave, this time it was putting tea lights in the paw prints.
So we got that sorted and then I wen't about taking some pics, firstly with no flash which didn't turn out well, but with the flash in the distance shining on them it gave more of the end result I was looking for.
Not sure why they become more orange when the flash is used but a great effect I think.
Only PP was cropping and an added bit of definition.
Strobist:
430ex II fired in the distance in slave mode @ 1/16 power.
Fade away and radiate
From Parallel Lines, Blondie
watchful lines
Vibrate soft in brainwave time
Silver pictures move so slow….
The beams become my dream
My dream is on the screen
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