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Ah. It's finally there! The last pieces!
I have to say that I saved the best for last, but not really on purpose. When I look back the chair/table-combination is one of my favorites, the storagerack is one of the most realistic looking pieces and I love the showcase for it's simplicity. I hope you guys feel the same!
I can hear you say: is it over? Is.. Is it? (add dramatic music). Yes! Nomnomnomnooom. Well, maybe if I get a little more time than I got the last weeks, there might be a chance that you'll get a little Grand Finale. But only a little one!
Thanks for watching and keep bricking!
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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.
Sole's sleeping out in the open now but when I came home, earlier in the day, he was nowhere to be found. Our home is less than 1100 sq ft and I looked for him in every single square foot. The only conclusion I could come to was that he slipped outside one of the times I left the house. But then I got the brainwave to call him ... not by calling SOLE but BABY KITTY. He comes to BABY KITTY. I still don't know where he was hiding but he showed up licked y split. Phew!
The message from a Flickr Friend late last week read, “A nesting Banded Dotterel family have been sighted. I’m going to look for them tomorrow if you’re interested!”
I was interested, but couldn’t really justify the price of Petrol (which has been as much as $0.25 a litre higher than normal for several weeks), and anyway (as it happened): Saturday dawned very wet, very windy and very cool; it was not a good day to go searching for a family of birds…!
However, Sunday evening, I had a brainwave (It happens sometimes!): Public Transport wouldn’t cost me anything now that I was a Senior Citizen with a Government-issued Gold Card! So guess who was at the at the local railway station at 9am with his Gold Card at the ready, and a back-pack loaded with camera gear???
Upon arriving at the Site, I found the Family – or at least one of the adults – very quickly, and so very quietly approached the lone bird – very careful to keep a very respectful distance between it and me. Sitting down, I noticed a chick searching for snacks who was a bit closer than expected – or at least it was until its parent gave a shrill cry, and in a flash it was gone. And that, I thought, was that…
However, to my surprise, and after only a few minutes, the adult moved much closer, and after about half an hour, gave another shrill cry and the chick appeared again! (I'd obviously passed some sort of test!).
Two hours after first arriving, yet another shrill cry split the air, the chick disappeared again, and this time the adult flew off... The Photo Shoot was over and it was time to go home, but it had been a unique experience… and as a bonus, I had something like 150 photos in the camera!
In closing, thanks to my Flickr friend Paul who visited the family in the midst of Saturday’s storm and who alerted me to the Dotterel family… and I’m sorry Paul but I definitely got the better weather: clear blue skies, warm sunshine, and just a pleasant breeze!
Thanks so much for visiting my Site, and thanks especially for taking the time and trouble to leave a Comment; it's always nice to hear from you...!
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Project 365 - Image 98/365
Orange Ice-Bat had mysteriously gone missing over the last few days, so before leaving for work this morning I decided to try and find him (I was getting worried that he wouldn't be able to find food for himself and could end up starving while I'm working long days).
I searched high and low (with the help of several other Uglies) and we couldn't find him anywehere, so Babo had the brainwave (as always) to have everyone stand perfectly still and silent.
Feint sounds of "nom, nom, nom" could be heard from the kitchen, so we silently crept upstairs and found Orange Ice-Bat inside a tub of peach sweeties. When he began to feel like a goldfish inside it's bowl due to us all staring at him, he popped the lid open and said "wassssssup" to which Babo replied, "Alls is ok's with you?". "Yup, just nom'ing on some nom nom's".
At least we managed to find the little guy and make sure he was ok.
From the Uglydoll blog at adventuresinuglyworld.blogspot.com/
Image for a child's imagination in a kaleidoscope. The magic will occur when all this will come into motion.
I don't bother to record dates these days: I haven't years enough left for the matter to become interesting to me. I merely record the date of processing. I am always eager for results and usually develop a film as soon as I get indoors after taking the final shot. If it's late in the day I may leave it until the next morning ...first thing after breakfast. This is from a film developed on 11th March 2017 and it was the last frame, so was probably exposed on that or the previous day.
It reminds me of all those Spot the Ball competitions that broke out in the newspapers back in the '70s, before they came up with Prize Bingo. I imagine some staff photographer on an unknown rag must have noticed that, in photographs, as here, players are seldom looking directly at the ball, but are instead weighing up its likely trajectory and the positioning of the other players. It was a clever idea for a competition. He mentioned the idea to his editor and it took off. He must have regretted there was no way of patenting his brainwave. I think my father occasionally entered the Bristol Evening Post's version; at least I remember him in his armchair, with his reading specs on, frowning over the week's poser, with his cluster of Xs in blue biro on the photo. You were allowed multiple tries, which gave the illusion of an increased chance of winning.
Life Ink, developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab, in a performance by pianist Maki Namekawa at the Futurelab Day, part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2022.
Life Ink revolves around the question: Can mind and body generate ink? It captures brainwaves and body signals in real time to create a new form of ink: This Life Ink is used to express our creative moments in a completely new form.
Life Ink was developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab in collaboration with Wacom. Learn more:
ars.electronica.art/futurelab/en/projects-life-ink/
Photo: Jochen Manz / Wacom Co., Ltd.
A new addition to my Songlines series, I've been feeling that I'm starting to understand the 'language' of this place now, but was frustrated in not being able to process the images as I wanted (negatives are notoriously difficult and prone to failure). So I had a brainwave in the night, it's always in the night!
Character Creation
Maxima is a character appearing in comics published by DC Comics. In her original incarnation, she was a morally ambiguous queen from the planet Almerac who is known for searching for mates among Earth's superhuman male population to be wedded as her king, and became obsessed with Superman for a time. She has also worked as a superheroine member of the Justice League.
Outside of comics, Maxima has appeared in the live-action series Smallville and Supergirl, respectively portrayed by Charlotte Sullivan and Eve Torres Gracie.
Publication history
Maxima first appeared in Action Comics #645 (September 1989) and was created by writer Roger Stern and artist George Pérez.
Maxima was created by writer Roger Stern and artist George Pérez as a powerful female antagonist for Superman, but one who would also harbor a strong romantic interest in him. The character was conceived during the period of the late eighties and early nineties, when comic book specialty stores were dominated by X-Men related titles. Aside from the conspicuous visual similarities to Marvel's Jean Grey, Maxima's creators also borrowed elements from other popular X-book characters such as Magneto, Nightcrawler and Professor X. Her first appearance was in Action Comics #645, published by DC Comics in September 1989.
Jerry Ordway on Maxima's transition from 'Panic In The Sky' to the Justice League
Buoyed by their success against Brainiac, Superman would be predisposed to leading another super-team – namely the Justice League, which my buddy Dan Jurgens was planning to take over. There was one problem though – Dan wanted to use Maxima as a member of the new League, and I’d kind of planned to have her take over the helm of the now leaderless Warworld. Who else could I use, in order to free up Maxie for Dan? A quick call to the-New Gods editor Jonathan Peterson and we were given the okay to install Orion of the New Gods as ruler of Warworld! See how the cross-continuity works? You think coordinating is easy?
Dan Jurgens on whether it was always planned for Maxima to join the Justice League when she did her face turn in 'Panic In The Sky'
It was more of an afterthought in that when she was first introduced, I thought she was a really interesting - potentially interesting sort of character. So, as we were doing the story I wanted to put her on the other side of things with the idea that I'd use her again at some point, but I don't think I had really thought so far as, you know, putting her in the Justice League. But again...she had attitude, and in the DCU, there weren't a lot of characters with attitude at that time. I just found her interesting. I think a lot of what we were doing is slowly building up a cadre of characters in the superman books that were worthwhile to use and worth having around.
Charlotte Sullivan on playing Maxima in Smallville
My opening line as Maxima makes me laugh and go red - it was, ‘I came when I saw your KRYPTONIAN beacon.’ I just thought I had to play it out funny. Of course, I was bashful. There was a certain element of shyness that crept up inside of me with having to say those things, wearing that costume, and knowing that it would be seen by millions of people.
Origin
Maxima once ruled a vast intergalactic empire centered on her homeworld of Almerac. For thousands of years, her ancestors had intermarried with races from other worlds, breeding for strength, for speed, and for power. Representing the apex of Almeracian eugenics, Maxima resolved to continue in the same tradition of her people. To that end, she became obsessed with expanding her galactic reach and, most importantly, securing a suitable mate to father an heir to her glorious realm.
When Sazu, her personal handmaiden, intercepted a subspace transmission detailing the astonishing feats of Superman in the gladiatorial games of Mongul's Warworld, Maxima was sure she had found her man. Without further delay, she set out to make the Man of Steel her husband. But despite Maxima's beauty and power, Superman consistently eluded her for various reasons. As a result, Maxima's admiration turned to rage, and she became his enemy.
The day of the Krypton Man
Initially, Maxima sent her royal advisor, Sazu, along with a near perfect duplicate of herself to seduce Superman on his adopted home planet of Earth. Despite Sazu's attempts to extinguish the warrior queen's growing fascination with Krypton's last son, Maxima soon traveled to Earth herself. After first engaging Superman in battle to test his mettle, the Almeracian aristocrat managed to obtain some privacy for the two of them by luring her prospective mate beneath the waves at the bottom of Metropolis Harbor.
There, Maxima revealed that she could bring new life to Krypton's lost race by giving to Superman what no earth woman could -- children. While the Man of Steel expressed among other things that he had no desire to father despots, it was soon revealed that an ancient artifact called the Eradicator was interfering. Earth's champion had been reformatted in favor of the sentient program's own cold, cerebral, and unemotional matrix.
Not knowing where this attitude of dismissal was coming from, Maxima ceased making advances at Superman during this initial encounter, stating: "Sazu was right, you are unworthy of the bloodline, but not because you are overly merciful. Far from it. You have become heartless, passionless. Whatever fire that once lurked within has been eradicated, replaced with a presence of horrible sterility. I'll not find a mate in so cold a knave!" Ultimately, these rocky beginnings set a precedent for the type of rapport that Maxima and Superman would have in future confrontations.
Panic in the Sky
As time passed, Maxima's fury towards Superman abated when Brainiac gained control over Warworld, and used the engine of destruction to wreak havoc on her home planet of Almerac. To save her people from complete annihilation, the Warrior Queen pretended to ally herself with the powerful telepath, and acted as his chief officer. As the cosmically powered Brainiac proceeded towards Earth to engage Superman and a host of other heroes in battle, Maxima took advantage of the chaos and flipped over to the side of the heroes. As soon as Brainiac's direct connection in the heart of Warworld was severed, Maxima lobotomized him.
Justice League
Although the Earth was saved at the conclusion of the Panic in the Sky crisis, Almerac was left in ruins. As a result, Maxima made it an even higher priority to find a suitable mate to help her restore her empire. To that end, she decided to remain on Earth. At the time, the Justice League's ranks were suffering the sudden loss of the Silver Sorceress, the mysterious departure of J'onn J'onzz, and the terminated membership of L-Ron. Soon, Maxima found herself helping the remaining League defeat the Weapons Master.
Meanwhile, Maxwell Lord was working furiously behind the scenes to secure the team's funding by dealing with the UN. Immediately following their success in the field, the shrewd businessman took advantage of the small moral victory he sensed within the group and recruited Maxima. Much to Superman's dismay, Maxima's agreement to be with the League was first and foremost a means to keep an eye on her top prospect. She was formally made a member of the team in Justice League of America vol. 2 #63.
Maxima and Amazing Man
Eventually, Ultraa, Maxima's betrothed from childhood, followed her to Earth after hearing that Maxima was seeking to mate with one called 'Superman'. As a clear sign that she still had feelings for the Man of Steel, she rejected the Almeracian warlord on the grounds that since coming to Earth, she had become familiar with mercy and unselfishness.
Maxima came to an understanding over Superman's dismissal of her, but she was still determined to find a worthy mate to father her children. She entered a romance with Captain Atom and followed him into battle as part of the Extreme Justice team (Extreme Justice #0). While on the team her relationship with Captain Atom deteriorated, so she became romantically involved with another teammate, Amazing Man. Neither of these relationships, nor her subsequent pursuit of Aquaman, ever worked out for various reasons.
Superman Revenge Squad
Unfortunately, the series of failed relationships and Maxima's own superiority complex caused lingering resentment over her rejection by the man she had always wanted most, Superman, to flare up with a vengeance. She returned to villainy and entered a partnership with the so-called Superman Revenge Squad, a group of super-villains who all harbored extreme grudges against the Man of Steel and were determined destroy him. Ultimately the Revenge Squad was unsuccessful, and Maxima's involvement with it became a black mark on her career, which had otherwise been on an impressive path to redemption.
Our Worlds at War
Fickle though she was, Maxima never once backed down from a fight, even at the very end. During the Our Worlds at War story arc in 2001, the seemingly unstoppable world-destroying being known as Imperiex attacked and leveled Almerac. Maxima apparently gave her own life in Man of Steel #117 so that Earth, her adopted home, would not suffer the same terrible fate. Her remains were never found, but she has not been seen since.
Powers and Abilities
As an Almeracian of Royal descent, Maxima's immense powers stem from having been the product of gene therapy and generations of selective breeding.
Super Strength
Maxima possesses a level of superhuman strength that puts her in Wonder Woman's and Superman's class; she routinely exhibits the ability to lift/press thousands of tons with minimal effort. In addition, her psionic abilities allow her to further augment her physical prowess beyond those in her tier. During Doomsday's first battle with the Justice League, other than Superman, Maxima was the only other League member able to trade blows with the creature.
Enhanced Stamina
Based on her first account to Superman, Maxima comes from a hearty star-spanning people who wage war tirelessly. Her own family spent thousands of years conquering, and assimilating only the strongest survivors from carefully selected worlds with rich genetic stock. Accordingly, Maxima continued the same progression of striving without exhaustion through sheer force of will and psychic discipline. Her stamina has been credited specifically as being the attribute that allowed her to gain victory over Hank King in a telepathic duel.
Super Speed
Maxima's first appearances demonstrated a degree of speed in combat that went well into the hypersonic. In Action Comics No. 651, Superman observed Maxima using her telekinesis to pilot Sazu back to her orbiting spaceship at escape velocity while rocketing there herself. Superman flew in to intercept, but instead of getting Maxima to break from her straight escape trajectory, the fiery monarch engaged Earth's Mightiest Hero head on in a game of chicken. As the two were about to pass one another, she reached out, grabbed his arm, and performed a judo throw on the Man of Steel. On another occasion, while observing Jay Garrick fight at super speed in Justice League America No. 78, Maxima remarked that he was fighting at a level of skill and intensity that would make a warrior of Almerac proud. Finally, Maxima and Superman traded blows for the last time out in space during the Our Worlds At War event. The lead-up to this last encounter is noteworthy since earlier, Superman and Kyle Rayner were doing a quick circuit of the solar system. Before their warm-up was interrupted by Maxima, Superman made mention of the sun being unblocked by Earth's atmosphere while doing loop-de-loops around the young Green Lantern.
Teleportation
Maxima has been seemingly conservative with the use of this powerful skill in combat. By contrast, the Warrior Queen has shown no qualms teleporting those she has deemed beneath her. That being said, she has demonstrated the capacity to forego her bloodlust, and use her teleportation strategically when more is on the line. When she first appeared on Earth in the flesh, she employed this ability in more of a theatrical way as a means to instill fear in her servant, Sazu.
In Action Comics No. 645, when Maxima could not find Earth's Champion at the Daily Planet, she quickly teleported herself, Sazu, and Malcolm to Metropolis City Hall, and held Mayor Berkowitz hostage with the goal of coaxing Superman out of hiding. During the "Panic In the Sky!" story arc, while governing her passions closely by maintaining the ruse of an Alliance with Brainiac, she used this ability to retreat when Matrix Supergirl, and Draaga ceased being mind-slaves in the middle of a heated battle.
She has shown the ability to teleport herself or others in and out of a battle over interstellar distances. In Justice League America No. 66, while she was attempting to win Superman's heart as a Justice League member, Maxima complied with Earth's judicial process by teleporting Sazu back to Metropolis. Maxima mentioned that Sazu was teleported to Earth from a prison on a distant planet. This feat is especially noteworthy since in earlier appearances, both Maxima and Sazu have stated that Earth is a backwater world far from established star routes. Moreover, in Superman Man of Steel No. 115, Adam Strange used his Zeta-Beam technology to teleport Superman and himself from Earth's solar system to Almeracian space. The Savior of Rann mentioned a distance traveled of 100 trillion light years.
Forcefield Projection
Maxima can generate defensive force-field bubbles to shield herself, and or others. This skill allows her to travel unaffected by the intense pressures of the ocean's depths, or the vacuum of outer space. She can also use this skill for offense by trapping an opponent and constricting the space inside the shield, crushing them, or letting the air run out.
In Aquaman No. 41, Power Girl attempted an underwater ambush on Maxima's shield as the King of Atlantis was being psionically assaulted inside. Maxima's shield didn't drop, but Kara's surprise attack winded the Almeracian warrior briefly. Although Aquaman took the opportunity to mention that Maxima's force bubble wouldn't be able to hold up to the pounding of Power Girl's punches, Maxima's shield was more solid for Kara's second punch.
In Superman No. 159, Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner and Superman were investigating the disappearance of Pluto when Maxima showed up with what appeared to be an army of Almeracians. Contrary to what Superman thought was an invasion of his solar system, Maxima was in fact leading a mass exodus away from her devastated home world. By creating a psionic highway, the Empress of Almerac provided intergalactic transport for the remnants of her people to rendezvous with Grayven.
Ferrokinesis
Maxima has exhibited immense telekinetic control over metals at the molecular level. She can cause metal to melt with a thought, or rearrange the molecules of scraps into anything she chooses, such as weapons or armor. In Justice League America No. 63, Maxima used her psionic power over metal to breach the hull of a wrecked interstellar craft that was submerged at the bottom of Manhattan's East River.
Three more examples of her ferrokinesis are in the following three books. Extreme Justice No. 6, Maxima used this ability to isolate herself atop a massive metal tower. When Captain Atom ascended the tower to try and reason with her, Maxima restrained him with metal tendrils that she animated in a liquid-like fashion out of the structure around her. In Justice League America No. 73, Dr. Destiny was responsible for making several Justice League members act very much out of character. The rogue heroes were capturing, torturing, and maiming super-villains. When one of the prison ships that they were using to capture super-villains attacked Maxima, she focused her ferrokinesis into a beam, and disassembled the ship into its separate components without incinerating the men inside. Later, in the same story-arc told in Justice League America No. 75, Maxima directed this ability on the Red Tornado, easily pulling him apart.
Matter Manipulation
In addition to metals, Maxima has demonstrated the ability to alter other inorganic matter with a thought. The full extent of Maxima's skill in this area is unknown. In Action Comics #645, Maxima's entourage coordinated a rendezvous with a fashion designer. Ultimately, none of Maxima's attendants expected to pay for anything, so the designer and her company of models were rudely escorted out of the meeting room. Soon afterward, while barefoot, and wearing a small bathrobe, she transmuted what little she had on into one of the ensembles she had just seen: a power suit jacket, blouse, black skirt, high heels, and a gold chain choker. She also did this in Justice League America No. 66, when at the request of Superman to be more conservatively dressed, Maxima transmuted the typical light armor that she usually wore into a green suit jacket and skirt.
Optical Force Beams
When firing her molecular telekinesis out of her eyes, Maxima has shown the ability to control the level of physical damage she causes to an attacker. She can focus her optic beams to deliver immense concussive force, or emulate searing heat vision. Among others, Maxima has shown that she can stagger Captain Marvel, Power Girl, and even Superman on several occasions with her eye-beams. At times, her eye-beams have been dubbed 'Psi-bolts' by her opponents despite the evidence of receiving physical damage only.
Mind Bolts
The powerful Almeracian Mind Bolt, Psi-bolt, or Psychic Blast is a favorite of those in the Royal House. This skill is typically depicted as emanating from an Almeracian's forehead. Unlike the optical force beams, the Mind Bolt targets an opponent's mind directly by delivering pain, unconsciousness, brain damage, or even death. Regardless of all his physical strength and Mother Box enhanced defenses, Orion was quickly rendered paralyzed when Maxima turned this deadly power on him during the 'Panic In The Sky' event in Superman No. 65. At the conclusion of the same story arc in Superman No. 66, Maxima was in the process of killing Brainiac using this ability, but Superman intervened just before it was too late. Brainiac was left in a lobotomized state.
Telepathy
Maxima can communicate with other intelligent beings telepathically. She has used this skill as a probe to 'hear' a target's thoughts, and pinpoint their location. On several occasions, she has used this ability to find Superman in Metropolis; nearly exposing his secret identity in one case. In Superman Man of Tomorrow No. 10, Maxima discovered that Superman had been split into two beings. To verify that what she was seeing wasn't a trick, Maxima employed a mental probe. She uncovered that both Superman Red, and Superman Blue had virtually identical minds and the same surface memories.
In Justice League No. 68, an ancient alien called Chaq encountered the JLA and revealed that he had purchased Earth and its entire solar system several hundred thousand years ago. According to Maxima, picking a fight with Chaq over the property deed would awaken powerful intergalactic governing bodies capable of subjugating Earth. Knowing who they were up against, Maxima enticed Chaq by offering to pay 800 trillion sentees (the well known currency of over 200 worlds) for the rights to the deed. While she was negotiating with the ancient alien, Maxima communicated instructions telepathically to Guy Gardner. Completely unaware that Guy's yellow power ring was being used to help pull off a scam, Chaq left Earth and gave up the deed after finding what looked like a deposit of 800 trillion sentees in his cargo hold.
Enhanced Empathy
For those times when Maxima may encounter an undisciplined mind that lacks coherent thought, she has demonstrated the ability to overcome this obstacle by using particularly strong telepathic skill in the area of 'hearing' emotions. During the 'Death of Superman' story arc, she was able to track Doomsday without the benefit of a previous encounter. Maxima described Doomsday's mind as harboring nothing more than hate, death and bloodlust personified.
Aside from its uses in tracking opponents, this ability has also allowed her to better understand the hidden motives of those around her. Having been bred as a warrior, Maxima's ability to sense emotions has helped her to more fully assess when to use tact and when to use force. In Justice League America No. 102, Maxima sensed a greater darkness behind Obsidian's pessimistic mood. Two issues later, Obsidian tried to commit suicide.
Mind Control
Maxima has the ability to subject others to her mind control abilities. In several appearances, she has shown the capacity to bend masses of people to her will. In Action Comics No. 730, while a member of the Superman Revenge Squad, Maxima was battling the Man of Steel in a scrapyard. She threw a car at a loaded ferry crossing Metropolis Harbor, causing the ship to sink. After Superman rescued the ship's full compliment of passengers, their eyes went blank. The crowd began attacking the Man of Steel by way of Maxima's mind control. In Justice League Quarterly No. 17, she altered a crack dealing pimp's mind by removing his capacity for violence, and erasing his ability to lie. In Justice League America Annual No. 6, the magical being Eclipso was about to initiate a plan that would allow him to possess all of the members of the JLA by first capturing J'onn J'onzz. However, the opportunity to first possess Maxima presented itself as Starman, who was eclipsed at the time, sensed the Warrior Queen's rage and approached her with a cursed gem. As soon as Maxima was possessed, Eclipso exclaimed,
"I feared the martian's absence would stall my plans...but the powers of this body are incredible! The powers of this mind...intoxicating!"
Sure enough, the Almeracian's mind control powers proved powerful enough to enslave Wonder Woman.
Hypnotic Gaze
The Empress of Almerac has the ability to paralyze an opponent with her gaze. Against enemies with greater willpower, this skill has shown to be particularly effective as a lead in to another attack. In Action Comics No. 645, her duplicate used this skill on Lois Lane, and the staff at the Daily Planet, leaving them all standing around like zombies. Later that morning, Clark arrived and got Lois to snap out of her trance by shaking her and shouting. During Maxima's first face to face encounter with Superman, she used this skill to freeze the Man of Steel, leaving him more susceptible to her illusion casting. Despite her rather unfocused and irrational behavior in Aquaman No. 41, during a melee with Doctor Polaris, she lured him into her stare. Dolphin took advantage, and delivered an uppercut to his jaw while he was still disoriented.
Illusion Casting
Maxima has shown the ability to project powerful illusions into the minds of others. In Action Comics No. 651, Maxima cast the illusion into Superman's mind that he was a warlord on the Almeracian Queen's home world. The overriding presence of the Eradicator in Superman's mind at the time exposed the false reality for what it was. In Superman Man of Tomorrow No. 10, Maxima used her illusions against Dana Dearden, an obsessed Superman fan called Obsession. In the illusion, Superman had separated into four differently colored supermen. As the Empress of Almerac wanted Superman for herself, she showed each of the supermen disintegrating into powder. The ruse helped implant the suggestion into Obsession's mind that her love would bring Superman to an early end, and so she fled.
Suspended Animation
Maxima's constitution combined with her mental control is such that she can suspend her own vital functions temporarily. Despite being in a state of suspended animation, she has demonstrated the ability to be completely aware of potential danger around her. Near the end of her first encounter with the Man of Steel in Action Comics No. 651, Maxima halted her breathing and heartbeat to appear dead. Superman could not detect a pulse with his super-senses. When Maxima sensed that he was close enough, she woke up quickly and paralyzed him.
Astral Combat
In Extreme Justice No. 18, Maxima took the point by assembling her finest psychic disciples to engage Brainwave II in combat on the astral plane. While the Queen of Almerac was employing a coordinated assault with her forces, Henry King Jr. relied more on raw power and intimidation by raising twisted manifestations of himself called 'Ego Warriors'. This feat is especially notable since in the real world, although Maxima's and Brainwave's physical bodies were in Florida, the physical bodies of Maxima's psychic warriors were nowhere to be seen. Moreover, while still living out her sentence of exile from Almerac, Maxima had none of her entourage with her on Earth for this occasion.
As the battle progressed, the tide was turning against Maxima's forces, and in the end, the Warrior Queen was the last Almeracian standing. Brainwave appeared to be feeding off of a supernatural power source; a familiar whose face was that of the original deceased Brainwave. Eventually, Maxima deduced that the familiar was in fact a manifestation of Henry's strong feelings of guilt associated with receiving his father's mentalist powers added to his own; powers that had once been used for evil. In order to have more witnesses to the truth that she had discovered, Maxima brought Zan, Jayna and Blue Beetle into the astral plane. Finally, Maxima confronted Brainwave with the truth of the source of his madness, and the overriding presence of Henry's father vanished.
Invulnerability
Thanks to her Almeracian physiology, Maxima is nearly impervious to injury. Bullets bounce off her, missiles or lasers won't leave a scratch, and nuclear bombs are unable to harm her. Her level of resistance to physical harm approaches that of a Kryptonian. In addition, as Maxima is able to boost her constitution and physical strength attributes by channeling her psionic powers internally, her resistance to physical harm also increases. During the Death of Superman story arc, besides the Man of Steel himself, Maxima was the only Justice League member durable enough to fight Doomsday evenly. In Superman No. 159, the Man of Steel used his X-Ray vision on Maxima to find weaknesses he could exploit with pressure point attacks. Although he connected with a two finger jab to her midsection, the Warrior Queen quickly shook off the attack and kept fighting.
Self Duplication
Whether inside her vast intergalactic empire, or abroad, Maxima's high profile status can be both a blessing and a curse. As such, the Empress of Almerac has shown a preference for using simulacra that are virtually identical to her. Each simulacrum possesses powers similar to her, and are able to act in situations when she cannot be present. However, these proxies appear to be less invulnerable, and according to Superman, more restrained than the original Maxima. At the end of Action Comics No. 645, it is revealed that the Maxima on Earth at the time was indeed a simulacrum. This duplicate was atomized by Sazu's optical force beams. In Extreme Justice No. 10, Maxima was a approached by Captain Atom to organize a wedding shower for his then fiancee, Plastique. At the party, Maxima heard Carol Ferris scream in an adjacent room, so she burst through the door. No sooner had she entered the room than she was ambushed by Star Sapphire. In the next issue, Extreme Justice No. 11, Maxima appeared cut in two pieces on the floor. Her torso and lower body were left smouldering where Star Sapphire had sliced her with a sword. During a break in the fight that ensued, Plastique was able to examine the dead body. The corpse was already starting to lose cohesion. Soon, the real Maxima appeared on the scene to the surprise of everyone at the bridal shower. What appeared to be a lifeless flesh and blood Almeracian on the floor was in fact a mere vessel for Maxima's psychic consciousness.
Flight
By applying her telekinesis as a means for propulsion, Maxima is able to "fly". She has shown the ability to maneuver herself, other beings, or objects through the air at escape velocity. Having served on several incarnations of the Justice League, she was often counted on to provide flight for those teammates who were not gifted with the ability to fly. During the 'Our Worlds at War' event, Maxima also demonstrated that she was able to fly through space as her psionic highway carried the remnants of her people over interstellar distances below her.
Telekinesis
In Justice League America No. 65, despite having been drained from a previous encounter with Starbreaker, Maxima closed numerous fissures on her home world by re-shifting continental plates together telekinetically.
Mental Defense
When Brainiac had seized control of Warworld, and used the planet to boost his telepathic abilities to cosmic levels, Maxima was still able to plot behind his back and resist becoming one of his mind-slaves.
Possession
Maxima has displayed the ability to place her own psychic consciousness into her simulacrums. The full extent of her skill in this area is unknown.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: N/A
Publisher: DC
First appearance: Action Comics #645 (September 1989)
Created by: Roger Stern (writer)
George Pérez (artist)
First appearance:
Nom de la peça: One minute dreamstate (1.40 AM)
Autor: James Clar
Fotos peça i model: Kaobanga
Es va fer servir un sensor d’ones cerebrals per registrar l’activitat del cervell de l’artista una nit mentre dormia. A la 1.40 va arribar a la fase REM (Rapid Eye Movement), la seva activitat cerebral va augmentar i va entrar en l’estat de somni. S’ha seleccionat i traslladat a un gràfic, mitjançant filtres de llum, un minut de dades de les ones cerebrals corresponents al moment de transició al somni. Els llums s’han disposat en un gran cercle que representa un rellotge; les línies vermelles representen el temps.
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Se utilizó un sensor de ondas cerebrales para registrar la actividad cerebral del artista mientras estaba durmiendo. A la 1.40 llegó a la fase REM (Rapid Eye Movement), su actividad cerebral aumentó y entró en el estado de sueño. Se ha seleccionado y trasladado a un gráfico, mediante filtros de luz, un minuto de datos de las ondas cerebrales correspondientes a la transición a la fase de sueño. Las luces se han dispuesto en un gran círculo que representa un reloj; las líneas rojas representan el tiempo.
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A brainwave sensor was used to record the artist’s brain activity during one night of sleep. At 1:40am REM occured, his brainwave activity increased, and he entered dreamstate. One minute of brainwave data from the transition into dream sleep is selected and mapped onto light filters. These lights are then arranged into a large circle which represents the face of a clock, with the red lines representing the time.
I've been wanting to get a photo of one of these machines in action for a while and finally managed to the other day. I guess she is getting a perm but it looks like she undergoing some type of brainwave testing if you ask me.
Digital Drugs or Binaural beats or Binaural Tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
i was in a shop the other day, not mentioning any names and i saw a t-shirt with a red fabric heart sewn on i wanted it but it was too many £££'s...
anyway, i could not get it out of my head and then woke up in the night with a kind of brainwave and a day later here he is, complete with a hand made silver pin, so he's not just stuck on one thing.
i am thinking of doing a limited run in time for valentines day - flickr mail me if your interested!.....
After ordering all the parts required to create my initial design, I had a brainwave.
What if the battery box could fit in the cab?
To my delight the battery box has a width of 4 studs and height of 5 studs, the exact cavity space in the Cab!
So this led to a complete redesign which allowed me to put the motor in the body and have brick built sides, rather than tiles covering the battery box.
The Tiles with clips on the top will have a 3mm tube bent around the sides of the roof to represent the ridges on the prototype.
Day 1 of the December Diary 2014 Project This years Theme...
'Bear Essentials - Essential Bears'...
Hi guys... Ted here... Remember me...?
I know I've been away for EVER, it seems...
Cindy's had a rough time over the past year...
(I won't bore you with the details)...
I've been trying SO HARD to get her back on Flickr...
I know she misses you all SO MUCH too...
I think she's been hiding in the shadows...
(Maybe looking for her shadow...? And her Mojo!)
I know that 'she' hasn't made an appearance for SO LONG either!
So anyway.... I've taken charge of the situation...
Told Cindy she has to get her A into G...
Because it's DECEMBER DIARY TIME!!! %-)
She almost bailed out of it...
But you KNOW it means a lot to her...
After all, this is the 23rd consecutive year of it!
Hard to believe really!
So as I say... I've taken charge... after a brainwave the other day...
This years theme is 'Bear Essentials' - 'Essential Bears'
Inspired by my new little friend 'Rosetta' above.
Who joined the family last month...
(Cindy will tell you more about her later)
Oh... and our love of 'Beer' too....Bears and Beers!
I think we are going to quite enjoy this month!
i'll be back to visit from periodically over the month...
In the meantime Rosetta is going to introduce you to her new friends...
At LEAST another 30 of them..
I've told her she has to take it easy on the 'Beers' though...
She's only little and it will go STRAIGHT to her head!!!
I'm sorry that we haven't organised a group for it this year...
(It was a last minute effort to get Cindy back here)...
There's still time though if anyone's keen...?
Please feel fee to join us on our journey if you like though!
We would LOVE to see your Bears and Beers too! %-)
This scene took a while to photograph. The pouffe is the only piece of furniture that actually looks like a piece of furniture in my house! In my bathroom, I have a pouffe just like that. It's not red though. And probably not as comfy. Oh, and it contains all my laundry. Don't worry, this one doesn't.
Oh, and I've given most of the names some sort of background. So here's a little contest: find the reason for naming the toiletbrush Schopp and the pouffe Crabbe!
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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.
This is all in camera, I barely had to do any editing, which was nice.
And Boy oh boy, did I have a time getting this photo. This was the very last photo that I shot. If you go through all the photos, you can see the moment where she just laid down and turned her back to me cause she was over it. I gave her tons of treats and we took breaks, however, she would jump off of her box to lick the camera numerous times, the flash wouldn’t cooperate, she would get distracted by a cardboard box that I was using; then finally, after a good pep talk, our brainwaves sank up and I got this shot.
Also, the box that she’s sitting on is a box that we keep lawn care stuff in. She claimed it as her throne when the was 7 months, and it’s been hers ever since. Diva.
This is the room I had the most fun with during the build. I think it worked out quite well: it has a few details you won't notice at first. I like that.
I first thought that the painting might look a bit to much, but it works out nice, I think. I love that picture.
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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.
When you have a statement ring, you are in for more style than world can handle.
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Riddler: Edward Nygma, technical whiz and inventor at Wayne Enterprises in Gotham City who invents a mind-manipulation device that taps into people's brainwaves and also artificially increases his own intelligence.
Edward: "Radical Edward," strange and somewhat androgynous teenage girl and elite hacker prodigy with a mysterious past who helps a crew of bounty hunters living in the spaceship named Bebop.
If they had to fight, who would win?
#264 in the Duel 365 series.
Sean John Combs, known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Diddy, and P. Diddy, credits his childhood experience in a Harlem, NYC public housing project for his latest entrepreneurial brainwave – the Puff Daddy wet/dry shop vacuum.
Combs teamed with Home Depot’s RIDGID line to launch the new vacuum. He describes the machine’s style as “swagger, timeless, diverse.”
Not only is the new vacuum a stylish tool for builders and home handymen, it is a tool for social change. Fifteen percent of the profits from its sales will go to Daddy’s House Social Programs, an organization to help inner city youth.
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Longtime viewers may remember the tragic story of Rosko, still the best toy camera results I've ever gotten.
Somewhere or other I picked up a lens-shutter assembly for an Argus FA. (Did someone get it from the Argus repair parts at Huron Camera?) I had the brainwave it might be interesting to attach it to the lensless Rosko body, where the image diagonal would be about 40% greater than what that lens is "supposed to" cover. Here's a first test shot.
These are put together in a very quick hacky way just to test the concept. At the moment it will only focus at (almost) infinity; or with closeup attachment lenses at 1–3 feet. I'm pondering a more permanent solution.
With its artificial intelligence based on Storm Shadow's brainwaves, this new BAT has all of the skills of the Arashikage clan, but none of the honor.
Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue installation by Joanna Rajkowska—a palm tree standing on the Charles de Gaulle roundabout in the heart of Warsaw
A big palm tree is planted in the middle of a traffic island on the intersection between Nowy Świat and Al. Jerozolimskie it’ll come as little surprise that it’s part of a modern art project, awarded the title of Greetings from Jerusalem. First off, the tree is not actually a tree, rather a steel column (specially designed so it can bend in the wind), covered with natural bark and leaves made from polyethylene. It’s the work of artist Joanna Rajkowska who, during a trip to Israel, was struck by the brainwave of sticking a palm tree up in Warsaw to add some sunny cheer. Manufactured in California the tree sent City Hall into a spin, its baffled bureaucrats not knowing what the devil to do with it. Eventually it was unveiled here to a curious Warsaw public on December 12, 2002. The populace liked this surprise Christmas present so much it became a permanent fixture, as well as the occasional sleeping habitat of returning clubbers too trollied to figure they haven’t stumbled on a desert oasis.
45111 stands at Chester with the 08.47 Holyhead - Newcastle. This was the second year we spent a week in North Wales. When peaks were introduced to North Wales diagrams in 1983 I had the brainwave of booking a caravan with five other peak neds in Rhyl. The day had started from Rhyl with 45137 the short distance to Abergele & Pensarn for 45111 to Stalybridge. I think this was the day we bussed it out to Hyde for a long lunchtime session at the famous Cheshire Ring pub with its dozen plus handpumps for real ale. Following a stagger back to Manchester Victoria we headed west again to Rhyl on 45106 and 45127 back to Chester for another four hour session before departing back to the caravan at 23.52 with 45006. A sound night's sleep was had knowing that 45006 would be on the first pennine train out of Holyhead.