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21 discarded wine bottles in 100m of roadside verge
From the south-east corner multiple Pinot Grigio, to multiple Sauvignon Blanc in the middle, to the north-west end with a couple of Jacob's Creek and unsurprising empty ibuprofen packet, presumably related.
this is how conor copes. in the beginning at least. the first few days i was working from home he snored in this bed all day :)
how am i coping?
a few ways...
KNITTING. oh my god, thank you to the amazing designers, dyers and yarn shops who supply endless amounts of inspiration. i'm learning new moves and playing with tons of color, ordering more yarn than i need in the moment and feeling super happy about it - i can knit my way through anything and this is no exception.
i normally listen to podcasts while i'm knitting and i'm currently LOVING Brene Brown's new one...
i also signed up for Dave Smith's new online mindfulness course. check it out at courses.seculardharmafoundation.com/courses/1/about and support a great teacher!
besides that, i'm working off fear, anxiety, frustration and restlessness on my stationary bike with Dead to Me blasting in my ears... :)
Oh, and i'm in my 4th week of a detox cleanse. it's important to be healthy right now!
take care everyone!!!
The secrets of Venice: since its early beginnings on the island of Torcello during the so–called “Dark Ages” (the 500s in the case of Venice), the village, then the town, and finally the city, depended exclusively on rain for its supply of fresh water. Thus, over the centuries, more and more complex underground cisterns were built, with more and more sophisticated filtration systems to try and make the water as pure as possible —which, in many cases, wasn’t saying much.
Each cistern supplied a small neighborhood (there were private ones in palazzi too, as you can guess...) and the wells that gave access were often genuine works of art.
This one is a delicate piece or marble that I thought looked nice in black-and-white.
A well coping is referred to as vera da pozzo in Italian.
She's beautiful. :] So anyways, the lyrics are from her song "how do you love someone", which are also the lyrics from my screename!! hope you guys like it. :] * if you haven't heard the song yet, listen to it here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTCQHgOiD5U :]
"I was always the chosen child, the biggest scandal i became, they told i'd never survive, but survival's my middle name, i walked alone, hoping just barely coping, getting it on, get it wrong."
+my next upload will be of Katy Perry! :D
20—Empty
A collection of empty Jolly Rancher wrappers. Sometimes these empty wrappers will accumulate near me as I try to cope, until I can go throw them away. Over the past few months I’ve been slowly eating hard candy when my anxiety is super intense or sometimes during emotional or somatic flashbacks. It helps to notice the flavor to try to ground myself and cope. I know it’s not the healthiest option to be using candy and it’s also healthier than some things I’ve done to cope.
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This was a month long film photo project with daily prompts that was hosted on Instagram
photo taken September 20, 2020
Nikon F100
Sigma 35mm f/1.4
Kodak Portra 400
Developed & scanned by: The Darkroom Lab
As part of a creative endeavor I'm learning about making books. It was a joy that some of my children wanted to join me in learning a new skill. Gideon—age 12–made a few small sketchbooks and gave me one. I chose this green one and was naturally inspired to title it "grow" and fill it with pen & paper doodles that illustrate growth. Intuitively filling these pages with simple doodles as I faced intense physical and emotional struggles following very overwhelming hospitalizations and health complications was helpful in coping. To me I find it amazing how doing "little" things can add up and sometimes be helpful. I faced many intense moments and was thankful I could notice some benefits in making these basic doodles.
I never really thought of collecting saws, but as it happens, just about wherever you look in this shop, there's another saw. I've got chain saws (gas, corded, and battery), handheld circular saws, metal chop saw, jigsaws, table saws, compound miter saws, handheld miter saws, folding saws for hiking, drywal saw, pole saws, tree trimming saws, and probably some other saw that slips my mind. They just accumulate.
08079 (CH - vacuum braked) - Chester Station (stabled) - 05/03/83.
Taking the number that morning was friend & colleague from Broxbourne Junction Signalbox in 1980 was Roger Geach.
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This one is inspired by Gregory Crewdson and his use of light, and the way he sets up cinematic scenes. I did a recent inspiration bit with him on my site.
It was about 10pm at night when I did this. The setup is the westcott apollo softbox outside the shutters set to about 3/4 power on the canon 430exii, Lumiquest LTP softbox camera right and about 6 foot high on my tripod set to about 1/2 power on the canon 430exii. Settings are f/8, 1/125 (to block out any ambient light), ISO 1600 (so I could use f/8). There's also a reflector behind me to bounce some more light on me. The drink is actually water with a splash of coffee for color. This is a composite shot, one of me sitting, then another of me laying on the ground.
I hope to play with more lighting setups like this because they tie in my love for movies :D
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COPING WITH ANOTHER CRISIS
MIAMI JUST SET OUT OF NECESSITY ANOTHER CURFEW DUE TO MASSIVE VIOLENT PROTESTING RESULTING FROM GEORGE FLOYD TRAGEDY .
Here's a reminder of what the Daily Mirror thought back in 2015. Five more damned years was a miserable prospect, yet somehow the buggers survived two further general elections and are still in power. Opinion polls suggest that they'll lose the election this year, but it would be foolish to underestimate the Tories' desperation for power or their ability to persuade people to vote for them.
Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are shooting Alcohol because Americans are celebrating Bootleggers' Day.
Little people coping in a big world
After visiting an art gallery the little people decided to sell their prize winning cow to purchase the sculpture 'Ushering in banality'.
Ushering in banality (by Jeff Koons) is an enlarged wooden sculpture inspired on the porcelain figurines often used in interior decoration. The sculpture depicts a pig pushed forward by two angels and the artist in a tracksuit.
Through the enlargement and the chosen title the artist questions the relation between art and commercial products, but also between art and kitsch. According to Koons the work is not intended to be ironic. He wants to give the general public what it wants without questioning popular taste.
We're here visiting Banalities
A GCR Adelante set forming 5A63 0833 Leeds to Bradford Interchange ecs working approaches Horbury Junction.
1st March 2019
"There's only a few select ways to forget the experiences of such a chaotic age, and this survivor knows it better than most."
This is a photo from my series called "Post-Apocalyptic Portraits". To see more of the series, visit the links below.
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Whilst tidying my turntable build in LDD, it was annoying me that the tops of the walls didn't really look prototypical. So I set to work on turning 1x2 plates and tiles on their sides. The above render is the result.
The left-hand construction is split into three sections. The left-most is the original plate-built wall, the middle and right-most are topped with sideways-built plates/jumpers/tiles.
Moving to the right of the image, you can see round the back. I have shown two alternative fixing methods. The one with the green headlight bricks is not strictly brick-legal, though LDD will allow it. In real brick, some trimming of the headlight front stud would be required. (Also, the end headlight brick's stud protrudes - not a problem for me, but might in other instances.) Alternatively, if you have space at the rear (and I have thankfully), a much stronger method can be built using 99780 angular plates.
Unfortunately for me, part 99207 angular plate 1x2/2x2 (shown here in LBG) is not available in DBG, so some imaginative alternative colourways will have to be sought. Here I have used Black and LBG.
LEGO's new part 41682 'Bracket 2x2 - 1x2 centered' (not available in LDD) would make construction a lot easier, but would make the wall a half-plate taller or less tall, which wouldn't suit my build geometry.
Two eminent men who worked in Groningen stand at the cradle of the modern study and rehabilitation of the deaf. The first is the great humanist Rudolph Agricola Phrisius (1444-1485), forerunner and sometime teacher of famous Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. In his De inventione dialectica - an innovative work on logic and rhetoric - Agricola relates how he taught someone who was deaf how to communicate in writing and also orally. The second defender of the deaf is Henri Daniël Guyot (1753-1828); cf my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/2128742114/in/photolist-
There are curiously no public memorials to the honor of Agricola in the city of Groningen except for a little street named for him, and a small sculpture in the facade of St Martin's Tower of Agricola holding an organ symbolising the one which he 'built' for the church.
The first memorial monument of any import in Stad is this one of Guyot in the square named for him. Almost immediately after his death in 1828 a public subscription was made and enough money collected to commission two sculptors, Charles (c.1756-1831) and his son Jean François Sigault (1787-1833) of Amsterdam, for that task. They were swift, and the monument was already inaugurated in 1829. On that monument and its iconography see: www.staatingroningen.nl/referentie/331/319/de-erezuil-voo...
This Spring Photo shows it rising above pretty Crocuses. The inset pictures a relief on the other side: it shows bronze Butterflies which signify the everlasting soul of Guyot. they are surrounded by a wreath of ever-living Ivy to demonstrate the undying love for him of his Deaf Students.
Update to the previous post - by using two of part# 99780 opposite each other, most of the coping can be achieved in DBG. Note how the Red tile from the right-hand section overlaps into the middle section. At wall-ends, this would not be possible, so I have left in place part# 99207 in that instance, to provide a flush wall-end (with the Dark Brown and Reddish Brown tiles).
Coping with an adolescent.
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Shanghai skies before the snow started falling again yesterday - now we are covered in white and the roads are in a sorry state...
I feel sad for all the people who are stuck at train and bus stations waiting to go home for Spring Festival...others sitting in buses and cars for days on roads that have not yet been cleared.. still others without electricity and water and some even without a home after it collapsed under the heavy snow.
Shanghai is coping well under the circumstances, but in other areas is is truly a disaster in every aspect of the word.
[RP Pic] "Slowly I cope. Music has always helped, and that too-expensive piano I bought - coupled with some liquid help - allows me to get outside my head for a while. I lose myself in the music of a composer who has been dust for centuries, and slowly manage to return to a semblance of grace."
Biscuits made from curdled milk – known as aaruul – are also used to get through the winter. They’re left to dry until they are very hard and keep well. But the most vulnerable herders – those with 300 or less head of livestock – face losing their livelihood assets if the dzud is severe. Previously, this has caused them to migrate to cities such as Ulanbaatar, the capital, where they have little chance of finding work.
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A large project of town renovation along the Meuse River in Venlo is coming to completion. Public sculpture has recently been placed, and this fine Warrior is part of it all.
This is Rik van Rijswick's (1972-) 'Peaceful Warrior'. Van Rijswick has long been intrigued by the struggle against evil, and he intended first to make a St. George and the Dragon for Venlo's 21st Century. But then he realised that putting an end to evil in the way of killing a dragon is not possible. The most that we can do is to cope with evil, devise ways for keeping it at bay. He then decided on his 'Peaceful Warrior' theme. That figure, bigger than life, tries to ward off evil, as can be seen from his barehanded gesture.
This sculpture is placed on the very end of the Kop van Weerd (a spit into the Meuse River) which protects Venlo's harbor from the Meuse's sometimes very strong currents. In the Middle Ages, De Weerd was a fortified island in that river, but in the eighteenth century it was connected to the right bank where rises the proud Hanseatic town. For a long time De Weerd was a rather derelict parking lot, but in the new scheme of things it's been made into a pleasant park opposite a walking promenade with restaurants and cafes.
It's too bad that the town architects have managed to put up a lantern pole right next to this handsome warrior; look at the gracefully proportioned body. I photographed him as best I could... coping with utility-pole ugliness... admittedly not as bad as with evil, but still...