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Pastels and ink on paper. So this is a self-portrait I did at uni for my art unit in my bachelor of education (ECEC). Yes, Uni is awesome. Anyway, it's about my identity, it's portraying both my connection and separation from my twin. Her side is the left, she's left handed, and her colours portray her extroverted personality. My side, the right as I'm right handed, represents my introverted personality. And the slightly unfinished look represents my forming identity. Or.. You know, it can be whatever you want.
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Alice-Project on Tour
... On the Way ...
Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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Alice-Project on Tour
... On the Way ...
Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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Un pausa en el carnaval para hacer una llamada - Maastricht (Holanda) - febrero 2006
A break in carnival to make a call - Maastricht (Holland) - February 2006
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Alice-Project on Tour
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Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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Alice-Project on Tour
... On the Way ...
Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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After 26 days of riding pirate on other people’s unprotected wireless networks, I finally have Internet access again. Phew…
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Alice-Project on Tour
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Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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Shot with 110 film format Holga Micro on expired Fujicolor Superia 200, expiration date unknown
scanned from print
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Just written a short interactive post. - What are you connected to?
So basically Shuttrr are holding their first competition. With the theme "Connected", crappy photoshop skills aside as soon as I read the word connected I had this image in my head.
Since these are everything I couldn't live without and I have to keep connected it seemed fitting to do it like this.
It took me a while figuring out how to make the cables look like there actually connected to me, so I did a bit of retouching of the skin area to smooth off the USB parts then a low opacity pink brush to add a bruising effect.. Shadows of the cable was a mix of drop shadow adjustment layers and some were just drawn.
Twitter addict? Join the club and leave a comment there - @LovePigeon
I've also updated my tumblr blog if your interested. It's very pretty, like a girl or a flower.
Its right here
Strobist:
430 EX II (slaved) as background light - 1/8 Power
430 EX II as Key light through small softbox, slight camera right - 1/32 Power
Triggered by Cactus V4.
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the "Toy Train", is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal, India. Built between 1879 and 1881, the railway is about 78 kilometres) long. Its elevation level varies from about 100 metres at New Jalpaiguri to about 2,200 metres at Darjeeling. Four modern diesel locomotives handle most of the scheduled services; however the daily Kurseong-Darjeeling return service and the daily tourist trains from Darjeeling to Ghum (India's highest railway station) are handled by the vintage British-built B Class steam locomotives. The railway, along with the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the Kalka-Shimla Railway, is listed as the Mountain Railways of India World Heritage Site. The headquarters of the railway is in the town of Kurseong. Operations between Siliguri and Kurseong have been temporarily suspended since 2010 following a Landslide at Tindharia.
HISTORY
A broad gauge railway connected Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Siliguri in 1878. Siliguri, at the base of the Himalayas, was connected to Darjeeling by a cart road (the present day Hill Cart Road) on which "Tonga services" (carriage services) were available. Franklin Prestage, an agent of Eastern Bengal Railway Company approached the government with a proposal of laying a steam tramway from Siliguri to Darjeeling. The proposal was accepted in 1879 following the positive report of a committee formed by Sir Ashley Eden, the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. Construction started the same year.
Gillanders Arbuthnot & Co. constructed the railway. The stretch from Siliguri to Kurseong was opened on 23 August 1880, while the official opening of the line up to Darjeeling was on 4 July 1881. Several engineering adjustments were made later in order to ease the gradient of the rails. Despite natural calamities, such as an earthquake in 1897 and a major cyclone in 1899, the DHR continued to improve with new extension lines being built in response to growing passenger and freight traffic. However, the DHR started to face competition from bus services that started operating over the Hill Cart Road, offering a shorter journey time. During World War II, the DHR played a vital role transporting military personnel and supplies to the numerous camps around Ghum and Darjeeling.
After the independence of India, the DHR was absorbed into Indian Railways and became a part of the Northeast Frontier Railway zone in 1958. In 1962, the line was realigned at Siliguri and extended by nearly 6 km to New Jalpaiguri (NJP) to meet the new broad gauge line there. DHR remained closed for 18 months during the hostile period of Gorkhaland Movement in 1988-89.
The line closed in 2011 due to a 6.8 Magnitude earthquake. The line is currently loss-making and in 2015, Rajah Banerjee, a local tea estate owner, has called for privatisation to encourage investment, which was fiercely resisted by unions.
WORLD HERITAGE SITE
DHR was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1999, only the second railway to have this honour bestowed upon it, the first one being Semmering Railway of Austria in 1998. To be nominated as World Heritage site on the World Heritage List, the particular site or property needs to fulfill a certain set of criteria, which are expressed in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and its corresponding Operational Guidelines. The site must be of outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria. The protection, management, authenticity and integrity of properties are also important considerations.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
The DHR is justified by the following criteria:
Criterion ii The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is an outstanding example of the influence of an innovative transportation system on the social and economic development of a multi-cultural region, which was to serve as a model for similar developments in many parts of the world.
Criterion iv The development of railways in the 19th century had a profound influence on social and economic developments in many parts of the world. This process is illustrated in an exceptional and seminal fashion by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
AUTHENTICITY AND INTEGITY
Since 1881, the original route has been retained in a remarkable condition. Only minimal interventions of an evolutionary nature, such as the reduction of loops, have been carried out. Most of the original steam locomotives are still in use. Like Tea and the Ghurka culture, the DHR has become not only an essential feature of the landscape but also an enduring part of the identity of Darjeeling.
MANAGEMENT AND LEGAL STATUS
The DHR and all its movable and immovable assets, including the authentic railway stations, the line, and the track vehicles, belong to the Government of India entrusted to the Ministry of Railways. The Northeast Frontier Railway documented all the elements of the DHR in a comprehensive register. Apart from that, it handles the day-to-day maintenance and management. But moreover, several programs, divisions and departments of the Indian Railways are responsible for operating, maintaining and repairing the DHR. This includes technical as well as non-technical work. In principle, the only two legal protection mechanisms that apply to the conservation of the DHR are the provisions of the 1989 Railway Act and that it is a public property which is state-owned and therefore protected
THE ROUTE
The railway line basically follows the Hill Cart Road which is partially the same as National Highway 55. Usually, the track is simply on the road side. In case of landslides both track and road might be affected. As long parts of the road are flanked with buildings, the railway line often rather resembles urban tramway tracks than an overland line.
To warn residents and car drivers about the approaching train, engines are equipped with very loud horns that even drown horns of Indian trucks and buses. Trains honk almost without pause.
LOOPS AND Z-REVERSE
One of the main difficulties faced by the DHR was the steepness of the climb. Features called loops and Z-Reverses were designed as an integral part of the system at different points along the route to achieve a comfortable gradient for the stretches in between them. When the train moves forwards, reverses and then moves forward again, climbing a slope each time while doing so, it gains height along the side of the hill.
LOCOMOTIVES
CURRENT
STEAM
All the steam locomotives currently in use on the railway are of the "B" Class, a design built by Sharp, Stewart and Company and later the North British Locomotive Company, between 1889 and 1925. A total of 34 were built, but by 2005 only 12 remained on the railway and in use (or under repair).
In 2002, No. 787 was rebuilt with oil firing. This was originally installed to work on the same principle as that used on Nilgiri Mountain Railway No.37395. A diesel-powered generator was fitted to operate the oil burner and an electrically-driven feed pump, and a diesel-powered compressor was fitted to power the braking system. Additionally, the locomotive was fitted with a feedwater heater. The overall result was a dramatic change in the appearance of the locomotive. However, the trials of the locomotive were disappointing and it never entered regular service. In early 2011, it was in Tindharia Works awaiting reconversion to coal-firing.
In March 2001, No.794 was transferred to the Matheran Hill Railway to allow a "Joy Train" (steam-hauled tourist train) to be operated on that railway. It did not, however, enter service there until May 2002.
DIESEL
Four diesel locomotives are in use: Nos. 601-2, 604 and 605 of the NDM6 class transferred from the Matheran Hill Railway.
Past
In 1910 the railway purchased the third Garratt locomotive built, a D Class 0-4-0+0-4-0.
Only one DHR steam locomotive has been taken out of India, No.778 (originally No.19). After many years out of use at the Hesston Steam Railway, it was sold to an enthusiast in the UK and restored to working order. It is now based on a private railway (The Beeches Light Railway) in Oxfordshire but has run on the Ffestiniog Railway, the Launceston Steam Railway and the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway.
IN POPULAR CULTURE
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway has long been viewed with affection and enthusiasm by travellers to the region and the Earl of Ronaldshay gave the following description of a journey in the early 1920s:
"Siliguri is palpably a place of meeting... The discovery that here the metre gauge system ends and the two foot gauge of the Darjeeling-Himalayan railway begins, confirms what all these things hint at... One steps into a railway carriage which might easily be mistaken for a toy, and the whimsical idea seizes hold of one that one has accidentally stumbled into Lilliput. With a noisy fuss out of all proportion to its size the engine gives a jerk - and starts... No special mechanical device such as a rack is employed - unless, indeed, one can so describe the squat and stolid hill-man who sits perched over the forward buffers of the engine and scatters sand on the rails when the wheels of the engine lose their grip of the metals and race, with the noise of a giant spring running down when the control has been removed. Sometimes we cross our own track after completing the circuit of a cone, at others we zigzag backwards and forwards; but always we climb at a steady gradient - so steady that if one embarks in a trolley at Ghum, the highest point on the line, the initial push supplies all the energy necessary to carry one to the bottom."
The trip up to Darjeeling on railway has changed little since that time, and continues to delight travellers and rail enthusiasts, so much so that it has its own preservation and support group, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society.
Several films have portrayed the railway. Especially popular was the song Mere sapno ki rani from the film Aradhana where the protagonist Rajesh Khanna tries to woo heroine Sharmila Tagore who was riding in the train. Other notable films include Barfi!, Parineeta and Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman. The Darjeeling Limited, a film directed by Wes Anderson, features a trip by three brothers on a fictional long-distance train based loosely on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
TELEVISION
The BBC made a series of three documentaries dealing with Indian Hill Railways, shown in February 2010. The first film covers the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway, the second the Nilgiri Mountain Railway and the third the Kalka-Shimla Railway. The films were directed by Tarun Bhartiya, Hugo Smith and Nick Mattingly and produced by Gerry Troyna. The series won the UK Royal Television Society Award in June 2010. Wes Anderson's film The Darjeeling Limited also showcases three brothers riding the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
WIKIPEDIA
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Alice-Project on Tour
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Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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Alice-Project on Tour
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Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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20 years ago the Panamanian government built a road that connected the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of its western provinces. This road came within miles of one of the largest Nobe villages. After the completion of the road the Panamanian government built this bridge that spanned one of the rivers separating the village from the road.
The day I took this picture I brought the kids a soccer ball and we were kicking it all over the place. I just happened to snap this picture as they were going across the bridge.
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Alice-Project on Tour
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Sonica-Festival
21.-24 June 2006
Lago Di Bolsena - Italy
Photos: Alice and Friends
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Sao Paulo - 04ago15 - O evento Smart Connected Cities, realizado pela Sator, abre espaço para apresentacao e discussao de tecnologias e sistemas desenvolvidos para a melhoria da qualidade de vida em centros urbanos. Antono Carlos Dias, da IBM, Paula Faria, da Sator, e Francisco Orjales da FIra Barcelona.
Sao Paulo - 04ago15 - O evento Smart Connected Cities, realizado pela Sator, abre espaço para apresentacao e discussao de tecnologias e sistemas desenvolvidos para a melhoria da qualidade de vida em centros urbanos. O primeiro painel sobre saude e educacao contou com a presenca deRodolfo Joaquim Pinto da Luz, Secretario de Educacao de Florianopolis, Alvaro Cruz, da QMagico, Andre Barrence da Geekie, Ana Pessoa da Pearson Education, e Ademar Bueno da FGV.
What better place than the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to debut a connected soccer ball?
Sao Paulo - 04ago15 - O evento Smart Connected Cities, realizado pela Sator, abre espaço para apresentacao e discussao de tecnologias e sistemas desenvolvidos para a melhoria da qualidade de vida em centros urbanos. Fernando de Mello Franco, Secretario de Desenvolvimento Urbano do Municipio de Sao Paulo.
Sao Paulo - 04ago15 - O evento Smart Connected Cities, realizado pela Sator, abre espaço para apresentacao e discussao de tecnologias e sistemas desenvolvidos para a melhoria da qualidade de vida em centros urbanos. Carlos Vinicius Frees, da ABDI.
"Even if we are far apart, look up and believe that we are connected to each other, since we both will always look at the same sky."
Mobile phones do work in Myanmar, but cannot reach the outside world.
Used at www.myanmar-responsiblebusiness.org/news/rights-safety-at...