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Great Escape
89 Six Flags Drive,
Queensbury, New York.
Washington County, USA.
(from Wikipedia)
Sasquatch is an S&S Worldwide combo drop tower at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York. It opened on May 10, 2009.
The ride was previously located at Six Flags New Orleans under the names Bayou Blaster and Sonic Slam; after the park closed due to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the ride was moved to Great Escape. The current name is derived from the cryptid Sasquatch. The ride stands at 192 feet tall.
Ride History
The ride first opened in 2000 as Bayou Blaster and Sonic Slam at a new park called Jazzland. Then Six Flags took over the lease of the park in 2002 and changed the name to Six Flags New Orleans in 2003.
After Hurricane Katrina hit the park on August 29, 2005, the park was severely flooded from the hurricane and has remained closed since. Six Flags decided to relocate several rides, such as Batman: The Ride, which was removed in 2007 and taken to Six Flags Fiesta Texas where it was refurbished and reopened on April 18, 2008 under the new name Goliath.
The Bayou Blaster and the Sonic Slam were dismantled in 2008 and relocated to Great Escape, where the ride was refurbished, repainted, and renamed Sasquatch. The ride was officially opened on May 10, 2009 on the former spot of Rainbow, which closed after the 2007 season.
Ride experience
The ride contains two shafts or towers, a lift tower and a drop tower. On the drop tower, riders are easily brought to the top and then dropped extremely fast down most of it, then brought up not as high, then dropped at the same speed. This continues several more times before the ride ends. On the lift tower, riders are shot to the top in three seconds, then dropped not as fast as the drop tower drops, then brought back up at the same speed, then dropped slowly. This continues until the ride ends like the drop tower.
The correct name for the two towers are Launch and Drop. The Launch Tower shoots passengers over 150 feet (46 m) into the air in 3 seconds and slowly drops them down. The Drop tower launches passengers slowly and drops them in three seconds.
AI creation with Dreamwombo
various different models, same prompt for all.
PROMPT:
by Michael DeForge and derek hess: creature with disembodied gaping mouth made of used syringes! ,sixpack eyes, ruptured photomontage by bobby neel adams , milk running out of mouth by Simon Bisley, igor Morski , Bogomils Universe, cryptid taxidermy by Art of the Mystic Otto Rapp
Commentary.
Spring snow in the Highlands.
South-West from Dores beach this image shows nearly the whole length of Loch Ness.
It certainly shows twenty of the twenty-five miles of its length
from Fort Augustus to Abban Water and Loch Dochfour.
The three-hundred and fifty-mile fault line of which it is a part,
extending from the north part of the Moray Firth to Ireland,
reaches a vertical height of over a mile, when adding the height of Ben Nevis to the depth of Loch Ness.
At Urquhart Bay the chasm created by tectonic movement and subsequent glaciers, reaches two miles in width.
In this view, Urquhart Bay, is seen on the right,
just below the snowy heights of Meall-Fhuar Mhonaidh, at 700 metres or 2,300 feet.
On this day it was no more than a giant mill-pond
but in misty conditions, as darkness descends,
its mood can become malevolent, sinister and un-nerving.
Whether prehistoric cryptids swim in its murky, peaty waters
or not, it can stir the blood and the imagination.
Today, peaceful and full of promise,
spring was here!
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Family - Teapotiaceae
This very rare tree, now considered endangered was cleared out of Australian forests by the turn of the 19th century after being harvested for its fine grained timber and unusual fruits. The fruits were considered a delicacy and exported to England where royalty took a great liking to them. One tree was even transported to Cornwall in England where it is reportedly still fruiting profusely each year.
Just a few trees remain around the country in cooler mountain areas along the east coast from the Daintree National Park to Tasmania although the species did once occur in Subtropical forest on the NSW Mid North Coast. This one here, growing in a private garden at Wheelabarraback on the NSW Mid North Coast, was reportedly cultivated from a fruit consumed by a member of the British Royal family who visited the area in 1972 when there were concerns that the future of the Monarchy was at risk in Australia.
Attempts to bring the species into cultivation as a bush tucker plant have so far had limited commercial success as horticultural researchers have not been able to get a handle on it. Work is however ongoing. This tree is one of the better specimens that I have seen.
The fruits of Teapotea hangiiana were particularly favoured by Drop Bears (Thylarctos plummetus) who feasted on them in mid winter when cold weather meant there was little alternative fruit around.
The fruit had the unusual characteristic of being quite hot on chilly winter mornings around breakfast time and then again around dinner time, hence the derivation of the genus name Teapotea.
Normally the diet of Drop Bears, a closely related species to the Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), is small and some large species of rhodent like animals with downward facing eyes such as the Wombat (Vombatus ursinus). However the species is now believed to have viciously attacked humans from their homes normally high up in the tree tops. Like the Lyre Bird, researchers believe Drop Bears can distinguish between various sounds such as accents of human voices as they walk in Australia's forests.
To date there have been comparatively few studies done on Drop Bear behaviour and ecology but researchers believe the usual modus operandi is to strategically wait high in trees from where they can precisely drop down onto their victims. The unfortunate victims of these attacks appear to have little if any warning, except for a slight whistling sound as the air passes through their large sabre like teeth as they plummet downwards.
So far no humans attacked by Drop Bears have survived to tell the story and its believed the victims are almost entirely consumed leaving little evidence of the attack.
Wearing forks protruding vertically from a cap on the head and lathering Vegemite or even Marmite or Promite behind the ears are believed by many to be effective deterrents however no reliable evidence is so far available to authenticate this.
A recent study done in Tasmania, where the species there differs slightly from the mainland species in that it has evolved an extra toe and finger, has concluded that Drop Bears target foreign speakers more regularly than cultivated English speakers. This may explain why Queenslanders have been among the statistics more regularly than Victorians for example. Other researchers have however speculated that the lack of attacks on cultivated English speakers could in fact have nothing to do with accents and more to do with the fact that these individuals prefer to use Marmite instead of Vegemite behind the ears as the recommended deterrent.
The people of the Mid North Coast however can rest easy as the last reported Drop Bear attack in the area was in 1888 when the forests of much of the region were lush and impenetrable to all but a hardy bunch of immigrant timber getters. The forests have long since been cleared around many of the Mid North Coastal towns which once boasted some of the best Drop Bear habitat in Australia.
Cryptozoologists who study Cryptids, such as Teapotea hangiiana and Thylarctos plummetus, believe recent sightings of Drop Bears in some remote areas of Barrington Tops National Park, where numbers of Teapotea hangiiana are reportedly recovering well, suggest that Thylarctos plummetus is also not only making a comeback but is evolving into a much larger and more aggressive carnivore possibly owing to recent increases in tourism from non cultivated English speaking nations although it has also been attributed to a significant increase in visitation to the region by nature loving Queenslanders, whose own native wildlife and forests are under extreme pressure from climate change not to mention land clearing and over development.
In another development, field studies are currently being conducted at Barrington Tops in an attempt to determine the critical numbers of the elusive Thylarctos plummetus within Barrington Tops National Park.
Its too early to say yet but based on early reports, some experts are speculating that the NSW species may soon be able to be removed from the critically endangered species lists.
Further Reading/Viewing - www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00049182.2012.731307
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Cannonsburgh Village is a collection of historic structures from the Rutherford County area moved to this spot as part of America's Bicentennial in 1976. Cannonsburgh is the original name of Murfreesboro.
The Money Woman bridge was originally west of Smyrna where an old alignment of Almaville Road crossed Stewart's Creek. The old one lane iron bridge with a wooden driving surface was quite inadequate when it was replaced and removed in the 1970s, at just the right time to be placed at this new village.
But why is it called the Monkey Woman bridge?
Back in the 1950's, there was an urban legend which became quite popular regarding the area around this bridge, including a nearby cemetery. Many people claimed to see a half-woman, half-monkey in this area.
The story was given more credibility when local journalist Ed Bell stopped on the bridge one night to look at the creek. According to his story, the Monkey Woman jumped on the hood of his car!
The legend has survived for many decades. A friend who lived in the area told me how the replacement bridge which is now on One Mile Lane is still called the Monkey Woman Bridge. He and his friends would sometimes hang out there on Halloween night, until they got scared and ran home.
I'm not going to tell you what you should or shouldn't believe about this story. However, the crew who dug up this old bridge to have it moved here apparently also found some remains.
Check out my video of this bridge and Cannonsburgh Village here: youtu.be/3aMSDLB7Vls
AI creation with Nightcafe
PROMPT:
Absurd image of fantastic people and bizarre creatures engaged in senseless activities; photorealistic, cryptid taxidermy, Bogomil's Universe, post-apocalyptic wonderland
Additional Prompt:
Fantasy artwork merging (Albino Devil in the Bush with Brain Salad Surgery:1.3), highly detailed and elegant, influenced by Tim Burton, Alexander Jansson, and Bill Carman, award-winning, psychedelic, photorealistic, ultra-realistic, (Ayahuasca-inspired:1.3), high definition, crisp quality, fantasy, cryptid taxidermy, imperial colors
created in NIGHTCAFE - Stable Diffusion SDXL 1.0
the prompt included HIERONYMUS BOSCH, ALTERNATE REALITY, BOGOMIL
EVOLVED
The original creation was actually a complete abstract color flow. I then overcooked it in SD mode (using multiple prompts) and eventually evolved it in SDXL 1.0 using the 'Inner Life' prompt only with just the addition of 'acrylic pour art'.
I made it several times with varying image and prompt strengths.
Please note:
I had been put on a 'time out ban' into the Nightcafe penalty box until November 6th 2023. Until then I can create and edit but not publish or comment. I still can upvote and award tips.
I can't wait for my ban to be over - then I can 'clusterbomb' Nightcafe with pent-up creations - there are already hundreds of them!
My page on Nightcafe:
creator.nightcafe.studio/u/225QCvNZxReSd6aIflBIwO8OwQp2
PROMPT:
acrylic pour art - The Inner Life of the Artist Otto Rapp - his Alternate Reality in Bogomil's Universe; macrocosmic reflection, intricately detailed; Hieronimus Bosch, imperial colors, fantasy, International Gothic, oil painting, mysterious, cryptid taxidermy
AI image created with Kandinsky 2.2
PROMPT:
detailed (painting by artist Otto Rapp 1.5) at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, design by Max Ernst, by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, Bogomils Universe, imperial colors
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What hurts Bigfoot's plausibility is the lak of even an ape fossil record in the area.
Featured on Life In Plastic: nerditis.com/2016/02/24/life-in-plastic-uma-unidentified-...
AI created on Nightcafe
The seed image was a long-lost acrylic painting of mine. What AI did with it following the prompt is quite fantastic.
PROMPT:
Absurd image of fantastic people and bizarre creatures engaged in senseless activities; photorealistic, cryptid taxidermy, Bogomil's Universe, post-apocalyptic wonderland
Second Prompt:
Fantasy artwork merging (Albino Devil in the Bush with Brain Salad Surgery:1.3), highly detailed and elegant, influenced by Tim Burton, Alexander Jansson, and Bill Carman, award-winning, psychedelic, photorealistic, ultra-realistic, (Ayahuasca-inspired:1.3), high definition, crisp quality, fantasy, cryptid taxidermy, imperial colors
Additionally, I also used the standard Negative Prompt.
The Necromancer has gained another friend, a rather large snake named Nythes. Isn't she a beautiful creature?
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This is the newest item from: -Axis Mundi-, This month at We♥RP!
The post about them can be found:
www.flickr.com/photos/-axismundi-/53566866602/in/dateposted/
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Items Used
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-AxisMundi-Apophis-Armored
Zealot's Oath - 'Holy blood' Gold 1
/Vae Victis\ Pillar of Inun EvoX - Automa (Gold)
[24//27] Sternum Tattoo 07 - 100%
Nova Hairbase - 1 - White
[VIT] GOTH GUY LINER - Point - EVO X BOM
[VIT] GOTH GUY LIP - Blight - EVO X BOM
Nito - Browless
Nito - Swallow - PIXIE Gauged S - Ears
#Firestorm LSL Bridge v2.29
+ Catacomb Crown + {egosumaii}
+AH+ Hellraiser Jake 1.0
-AxisMundi-Apophis-Armored
-Belleza- Jake 2.1 Bento
-Belleza- Jake Body Hud 2.1
.:C:. Eldritch Beast - Bone Tail - Thicc
/ EYES / lel Evo 3.1
/ HEAD / lel EvoX LOGAN 3.1
/ HUD / lel EvoX (m) 3.1
/ TEETH / LeLUTKA 3.1
::GB:: Arm armor (L) (Belleza) Gold
::GB:: Shoulder armor (Belleza)
Belleza Jake Nipple Piercing - Bar - ball and arrow
CRYPTID : Warren's Grasp - Belleza Jake Hand Replacement 1.0
krankhaus - Belleza Jake - Latex Stockings - Left
krankhaus - Belleza Jake - Latex Stockings - Right
L'Emporio::Damned Claws:: -For Feet-Belleza Jake V2-
LeLUTKA.Png.LOGAN.Lip.Set
LeLUTKA.Png.LOGAN.Nose.Set
Noche. Adrian Chain Thong.B1 White - Jake
NOCHE. Clint Arm Strap L// White - Belleza
NOCHE. Clint Arm Strap R// White - Belleza
PFC~Magic fingers R
RAWR! Ave Satanas PIXIE S MALE Earrings
SFU - Hades Bindi
Sintiklia - Hair Maeve Rigged size 2
Strict Collar [six]
TuTy's - Man of Stlyle AO - Priority 3 (just wear)
UNKO - Enhanced Hand HUD
[ kunst ] - Exhaler (wear me)
[Legion] Jaw of Monster
[The DeadBoy] Morus Tongue 1.6 (Small Size)
[The DeadBoy] Shisa Teeths (Lelutka) (A)
^^Swallow^^ Gauged S Black Tunnel (m)
^^Swallow^^ Pixie Gauged S Ears (m) 3.1
~LF~ Wren (LeL Evo - Vivian)
Crypt Crisp shape (new) (new) (new)
Nito - Belleza - Jake Body
-SU!- Agnes Eyebrows (LEL EVOX)
[FOSSEGRIM] - dark red eyes -
One of my hideous Cereal Box Project demos from my cartooning class.
The funny thing about this one is having to explain to little kids what "keeping regular" means.
One of the creatures lurking in the special "Archives" pages of our newly-released CRYPTOZOOLOGY ANTHOLOGY... On Amazon here - amzn.to/1BU3tzh
created in NIGHTCAFE - Char Design SDXL
Ruling goddess of the cryptid parallel fantasy world, in the alternate Bogomil Universe, which the Mystics surreal imagination has conjured from the internal base of sensual longings, as described in Plato's Symposium.
TEXT ONLY - a series of five iterations in different formats using the add-on Lora Char Design SDXL
PROMPT:
"Portrait of Aphrodite detailed (painting by artist Otto Rapp 1.5) at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, design by Max Ernst, by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, Pablo Amaringo, psychedelic, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, Bogomils Universe, imperial colors"
AI Creation on Artbreeder
If your aim is weird psychedelic/surreal buffoonery, you will find Artbreeder the perfect platform to let it all hang out.
A prompt shared between my good buddy Paulo and myself had resulted in some wild images on Nightcafe already, but mixing images together and playng around with the noise values on Artbreeder gets results beyond any imagination. The beauty in this is that unlike getting the 'pig in a poke' where you get results after you click 'create', on Artbreeded you got a scale slider that lets you play with the noise, and you see what you have done. Once you are satisfied with it, you just click 'safe' and go from there, like, enhance, and pin it to your profile page.
created in NIGHTCAFE - SDXL 1.0 - Gypsy 1 XL
The Ruling Force in Bogomil's Universe, Aphrodite descended to be the Queen of Gypsies.
TEXT ONLY - trying out a new Lora: Gypsy 1
PROMPT:
"Portrait of Aphrodite detailed (painting by artist Otto Rapp 1.5) at the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum in post apocalyptic Wonderland, in heaven everything is fine by lady in the radiator and brothers quay, design by Max Ernst, by H.R. Giger, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Hieronymus Bosch, Alphonse Mucha, Pablo Amaringo, psychedelic, intricately detailed, hyperrealism, fantasy, Bogomils Universe, imperial colors"
AI creation with Bing Image Creator
PROMPT:
SALVADOREAN CONSTRUCTION a early Dali Style painting by the Mystic Otto Rapp, a brainstorm under the influence of funny bone extract and ayahuasca dreams in the style of Hieronymus Bosch and Max Ernst with Salvadore Dali, fascinating; controversial. Cryptid taxidermy, Bogomil's Universe.
Cajun Encounters operates in the Honey Island Swamp.
The Honey Island Swamp monster is a legendary hominid cryptid reported to have been seen in Honey Island Swamp, Louisiana, since 1963.
The first claimed sighting was in 1963 by Harlan Ford, a retired air traffic controller who had taken up wildlife photography. After his death in 1980, a reel of Super 8 film showing the creature was allegedly found among his belongings.
In 1974, the monster gained national fame after Ford and his friend Billy Mills claimed to have found unusual footprints in the area, as well as the body of a wild boar whose throat had been gashed. Ford continued to hunt for the creature for the next six years.
The creature is described as bipedal, 7 feet (2 m) tall, with gray hair and yellow or red eyes, and accompanied by a disgusting smell.
The sky above of the Duskfall Court
Visit this location at The Duskfall Court~Sponsored by Quills & Curiosities / Cryptid in Second Life
totally must squeeeeeeeeeelll for a minute, totally took a few minutes to hit our fairelander merchants!! i got a new tattoo (chest and arms, neck, chin) and horns from Nefekalum (at midnight order), rise designs chocker form the faire, cryptid tail from last years faire, ghoul lower tattoo from last years faire and KD yarima skirt from last years faire, Aii ears, and KMH hair from two faires ago and the new fallen gods skin from mainframe
New monster bag with a mouth made as a custom order for a sasquatch lover.
I think there will be some yetis too and maybe a pink version of this :)
DUPLICATE from Flux Schnell
A interesting result again with Google Imagen 3.0 with a sort of nonsense prompt I finally managed to massage to get some good images from:
Aloisius Birnstingl, the most unknown artist of the present day, is currently celebrating his belated admission to the Museum of Degenerate Art. A Surreal Fantasy Painting under the Influence of funny bone extract with ayahuasca,, oil paint on canvas, detailed strokes, psychedelic collage, cryptid taxidermy in Bogomils Universe, imperial colors
My prompt-pong friend Paulo Cunha had something to do with some lines in this prompt.
Commentary.
Spring snow in the Highlands.
South-West from Dores beach this image shows nearly the whole length of Loch Ness.
It certainly shows twenty of the twenty-five miles of its length
from Fort Augustus to Abban Water and Loch Dochfour.
The three-hundred and fifty-mile fault line of which it is a part,
extending from the north part of the Moray Firth to Ireland,
reaches a vertical height of over a mile, when adding the height of Ben Nevis to the depth of Loch Ness.
At Urquhart Bay the chasm created by tectonic movement and subsequent glaciers, reaches two miles in width.
In this view, Urquhart Bay, is seen on the right,
just below the snowy heights of Meall-Fhuar Mhonaidh, at 700 metres or 2,300 feet.
On this day it was no more than a giant mill-pond
but in misty conditions, as darkness descends,
its mood can become malevolent, sinister and un-nerving.
Whether prehistoric cryptids swim in its murky, peaty waters
or not, it can stir the blood and the imagination.
Today, peaceful and full of promise,
spring was here!
created in NIGHTCAFE - DreamShaper v8
prints available: fineartamerica.com/featured/general-peckerhead-in-purgato...
seed image is a unrelated semi-abstact old piece from Wombo, which I picked for the color only.
For the prompt and the title I took the clue from an old analog drawing of mine. But I expanded the prompt with a description of another painting from the eighties, which included all kinds of sea creatures as uniform decorations.
The first image in this series was created with Contemporary Surreal. Much later I duplicated it , text only, for a challenge.
I liked the idea so much, I ran several different versions in different modes, some with text only, some with a seed image. The results were largely very interesting, so eventually I made a special collection for it. Check it out here: creator.nightcafe.studio/collection/KjkvnAI1xX91rYwWggRr - from time to time I may add more.
PROMPT:
Portrait of Old Man General Peckerhead in Purgatory; golden helmet, uniform decorated with crustaceans, Alphonse Mucha, h.r.giger, cryptid taxidermy, Bogomil's Universe, imperial colors, surreal fantasy