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Minister Kathleen Lynch at launch of 'Creating the Future' which took
place at Cope Foundation, Montenotte, Cork
Ummmm my first Painting ive ever done.
Went and picked up some paint and started painting some stuff and this is what I got.
A collaborative project with Anglepoise, Strong Island & The University of Portsmouth.
10 artists/designers will be twinned with 10 photographers and an Anglepoise light.
Follow the project at creatingbalanceproject.tumblr.com/
Cotton Candy Weddings - www.cottoncandyweddings.co.uk/
Sadie Tierney - www.sadietierney.co.uk/
Neal Layton - neallayton.co.uk/
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Many thanks to BSc Film and TV students Max and Jonas
The mirror was created by a woman's soul
Mariana Fulger
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Henry Timisela Photography (c)
for Dutch Streets
Lot's of Rosie's kits including Bountiful Brazil and Sketchibles Blue and the Creative Calm Gift Basket
I still have to do the first half of the instructions but this page is now done. Oddly enough I did not use highlighters on this.
For me, Dunhuang was the main motivation for seeing Gansu province. It’s the “western frontier” city that served as entry into China proper for centuries of Silk Road travelers. (From Dunhuang, travelers would pass through the funnel of the Hexi Corridor created by the Qilianshan Mountains on the south and the Gobi Desert on the north.)
In short, Dunhuang is where China opens up. There aren’t many people living in the west – certainly not by China’s standards (or most people’s, for that matter). The skies out here are – believe it or not – blue, and it’s recommended that you even use sunscreen. I managed to actual get a slight tan out here.
Life feels much more relaxed out in western Gansu. Things are spread out (cities, or lack thereof) and you don’t feel the same sense of congestion and in-your-face neon that you get in the major cities in eastern China. I’m not sure of Dunhuang’s population, but can say that the downtown area just felt small…ten square blocks by ten square blocks, at most. (There is an “everyday” Dunhuang where most people live – and most tourists don’t see – that you find on regional bus excursions. That part of Dunhuang felt something like the Pudong area of Shanghai, away from downtown, where people actually lived, worked, ate.)
My Dunhuang part of the Gansu trip, however, started inconspicuously. I remember waking up from my sleeper around four or five in the morning, hoping to see a desert sunrise. There was absolutely no sunrise to be found, though, which dampened my mood considerably. However, I knew I would at least see desert landscape and the sun wouldn’t affect that at all, so I could tolerate the achromatic landscape.
The train rolled into the station on time, around 6:15 a.m., and I slowly walked out of the station, avoiding being fleeced by local taxi drivers as long as possible. (Never having been to Dunhuang, I wasn’t sure, exactly, how far the station was from “downtown” – about 10-15 minutes, it turned out – and though I knew I would be fleeced as a foreigner, I tend not to be excited about being taken for a ride (literally and figuratively) by folks in these various cities.) That being said, it wasn’t terribly expensive, and I expected it, so all was well. But, as I like to travel with doing as little planning/reservations as possible, I simply had the following plan: go to Charley Johng’s Cafe (which sounded interesting, per my trusty Lonely Planet guidebook, and the name of the place reminded me of the song “Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues”).
So, I came rolling up to the door of Charley Johng’s Cafe sometime around 7:15 in the morning…only to find out that they don’t open ‘til 8:30. Fortunately, I pack light, and this was no bother. I just walked to the nearest hotel – next door – booked myself a room for that night and the next (since I had a day to spare that I “stole” from leaving Langmusi out of the southern Gansu part of the trip) and grabbed a very quick catnap.
When I returned to the world in late morning, I went straight back to Charley’s cafe and had a very Chinese breakfast of pancakes and I can’t recall what else. (These pancakes, by the way, were more like blintzes…yet still tasty. Anyway, any American reading this should NOT think of big, fluffy flapjacks.)
Over breakfast, I had a nice conversation with the proprietor about who I was, what I was doing there, foreigners living in Dunhuang – not many, I think – and most importantly for me…things to do in the area.
The two biggest immediate attractions in Dunhuang are the “Singing Sands Mountain and Crescent Moon Lake” and Mogao Caves. Since the dunes were only 6 kilometers due south of town, they were easy to get to (and, really, my only real plan for the entirety of Wednesday). That left my extra day to plan and, in casually mentioning that to Charley (maybe she wasn’t Charley, but we’ll assume otherwise for fun), she recommended 15 hours on a tour bus going almost to the Xinjiang border. Price for that…160 RMB (less than $30) with stops at 7 different places. I had to pay admission prices at any of the places, which was fine. (I think the entire day was less than $80. More to follow…)
For Wednesday, though, it was all about camels and sand dunes. When a lot of people think of the desert, they think of big, sweeping dunes that make you feel the size of an ant, and that’s exactly what these were. This is an outdoor enthusiast’s playground. You can set up with local hotels to camp overnight in the desert, you can paraglide, ride camels (which I did), sandboard (the equivalent of snowboarding), among other things. All of these cost, but none was terribly expensive. Riding a camel for an hour, for instance, cost 100 RMB (less than $20). Entrance to the park, too, was quite cheap from what I recall. I think it was $20 or less.
The “public” part (12.79 sq. km.) of these dunes is a very limited area in comparison with the overall scope of things (212.86 sq. km., with a scenic area of 76.82 sq. km.), but there’s more than enough to do. Besides riding the camel and wandering the 1-2 km along the boardwalk (meandering through the dunes to the Crescent Moon Lake), was more than enough to keep me happy.
After a few hours in the park (and not wanting to sit around the sand for 3-4 hours waiting for sundown), I hopped on a bus and made my way back to downtown Dunhuang. Maybe the visitor center had some sort of informational movie or video or something where I could have passed a few hours (though I don’t recall seeing any such thing when I breezed through) and I could have stayed around for sunset, but I didn’t feel cheated either way.
I left Chengdu to find that half the restaurants in Dunhuang…claim to be Sichuanese. I found that slightly amusing. Though I loved Charley’s, I didn’t want to eat there two to three squares a day. So…I chose one of the local restaurants across the street. One of the things on the menu: camel’s hoof. (They say it is healthy or has a lot of protein. I say: It’s a hoof.) I ate something else. After that, I spent the rest of the day relaxing around town and called it a night at the hotel. Thursday morning at 8:00 on the bus at Charley’s would come soon enough.
As usual, I hope you enjoy the pictures. Please feel free to leave any comments, questions, or suggestions.
instead of a comments book we decided to go for a comments lamp.
Exhibition at aspex, Portsmouth until 2nd March 2014.
7th Annual Womensphere Global Summit
CREATING THE FUTURE: ACCELERATING ADVANCEMENT
Day 1 - September 29, 2014 @ McGraw-Hill Financial
Day 2 – September 30, 2014 @ The New York Times
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The assembled dragon from the Create-A-Monster starter set. She is wearing Draculaura's Newspaper Club outfit and Comic Book Club Ghoulia's green glasses.
The Eyjafjallajökull eruption started on March 2010, 8 kilometres east of the top crater of the volcano, on Fimmvörðuháls, the ridge between Eyjafjallajökull Ice Cap and Mýrdalsjökull. This first eruption, in the form of a fissure vent, did not occur under the glacier and was smaller in scale than had been expected by some geologists. The fissure opened on the north side of Fimmvörðuháls, directly across the popular hiking trail between Skógar, and Þórsmörk. April 14, 2010 Eyjafjallajökull resumed erupting after a brief pause, this time from the top crater in the centre of the glacier, causing meltwater floods to rush down the nearby rivers, and 800 people to be evacuated. This eruption was explosive in nature, due to melt water getting into the volcanic vent. It is estimated to be ten to twenty times larger than the previous one in Fimmvörðuháls. This second eruption threw volcanic ash several kilometres up in the atmosphere which led to major air travel disruption, including the closure of airspace over many parts of the world. The eruptions also created electrical storms. On 23 May 2010, the London Volcanic Ash Advisory Commission declared the eruption to have stopped, but are continuing to monitor the volcano. The volcano continues to have several earthquakes daily, with Volcanologists watching the volcano closely.
The Daily Create for September 17th tdc618 prompts us to "create a Face Swap image of yourself swapped with Talky Tina’s face!"
Since John Johnston had done such a masterful face swap already with iamTalkyTina, I decided that I would riff on his image and swap my face with his. So my face winds up on Tina, Tina's face winds up on John, and John's face winds up on me.
If anyone is interested in joining us, I've extended the wall and carpeting to (now) John's right so that there is room for you to crowd in.
It's also nice to see three different ds106 shirts represented -- the ds106radio shirt (which I am now wearing), the @GiuliaForsythe Kickstarter campaign shirt (which Tina is now wearing) and the ds106zone shirt from summer2013 (which John is now wearing).
#4life
Created by Melinda Aszódi of Etsy shop Kwandera.
Blogged: www.allthingspaper.net/2012/10/paper-shoes-kwandera.html
"Creating The Next Generation That Cares" ; FWC event at the state capitol in Tallahassee, March 12, 2013.
photo: Tim Donovan/FWC
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In micro scale. A non-canon planet that I created. This planet has a low atmosphere level perfect for an anti-spacecraft fort. The warlike Ionians that dwell on this planet are joining with the
Republic forces and pummeling the CIS forces with laser fire.
Venator-class Star Destroyer by TLC, Munificent-class star frigate built by me.
The large spirals are rock formations
on the planet.
Creating a furniture quality treated lumber base for a repurposed light fixture.
I used an outdoor wood stain which has proven a good choice