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1976 Porsche 935 K3 driven by Steve Schmidt in Group 4A at the 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
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When 2010 began I was real heavy into motivational messages and designs. One word I used a lot in my designs was DRIVEN. Here is one of those designs I created this year using that word!
1959 Cadillac Ecto-1
Driven in the film Ghostbusters (1984)
Converted from a 1959 Cadillac Miller-Meteor ambulance, the iconic Ecto-1 transported the ghost-busting foursome in the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The vehicle is appropriately outfitted with tools and equipment for apprehending ghosts, including a storage tank for the captured ghosts and a modified gurney to hold the team's proton packs. While the original design of the Ecto-1 specified an all-black exterior with flashing purple and white strobe lights, the vehicle was ultimately painted white since the majority of the scenes were filmed at night and a dark car would be lost on screen.
(Collection of Sony Pictures)
#8 De Tomaso Pantera. Matchbox 1975.
So my favorite band is Pantera however I have never heard of these cars until I was already a fan of this band, but it turns out that I had this car my whole life. I guess my connection to them was always meant to be.
... (or rather food) by the Irish weather!!!
Those of you not lucky enough to live in this wee emerald isle will not understand why our grass is so green here! Oodles and oodles of lovely dark grey clouds and RAIN!!!
There was a Crème Brûlée sitting waiting here so I ran out of patience trying to capture the light on both wrappers and their reflections ..I know ..pathetic excuse.
And I think I should crop this one ...ah well it is too wet to concentrate..Lol!
Inspired by Rodney's wee image in the same place which I can't find but here is the link to his deLIGHTful stream www.flickr.com/photos/22246849@N02/ which is full of light.
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider (formerly AD) was an American single-seat attack aircraft that saw service between the late 1940s and early 1980s. It became a piston-powered, propeller-driven anachronism in the jet age, and was nicknamed "Spad", after a French World War I fighter. The Skyraider had a remarkably long and successful career, even inspiring its straight-winged, slow-flying, jet-powered successor, the A-10 Thunderbolt II.
It was operated by the United States Navy (USN), the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) and the United States Air Force (USAF), and also saw service with the British Royal Navy, the French Air Force, the Air Force of the Republic of Vietnam (VNAF), and others.
Though the Skyraider was produced too late to take part in World War II, it became the backbone of United States Navy aircraft carrier and United States Marine Corps (USMC) strike aircraft sorties in the Korean War, with the first ADs going into action from the USS Valley Forge with VA-55 on 3 July 1950. Its weapons load and 10-hour flying time far surpassed the jets that were available at the time. On 2 May 1951, Skyraiders made the only aerial torpedo attack of the war—successfully hitting the Communist-controlled Hwacheon Dam. On 16 June 1953, a USMC AD-4 from VMC-1 piloted by Major George H. Linnemeier and CWO Vernon S. Kramer shot down a Soviet-built Polikarpov Po-2 biplane, the only documented Skyraider air victory of the war. AD-3N and -4N aircraft carrying bombs and flares flew night-attack sorties, and radar-equipped ADs carried out radar-jamming missions from carriers and land bases. During the Korean War (1950–1953) A-1 Skyraiders were flown only by the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, and were normally painted in dark navy blue. It was called the "Blue Plane" by enemy troops. A total of 101 Navy and Marine AD Skyraiders were lost in combat during the Korean War, and 27 were lost to operational causes, for a total loss of 128 Skyraiders in the Korean War.
The Sea Fury was the Fleet Air Arm's last piston-engined fighter to serve in front-line Squadrons. The prototype Sea Fury first flew on 21 February 1945 and carried out deck landing trials in HMS Ocean in October of that year. The first production aircraft (Mk.F.10) flew on 15 August 1946 and the first Squadron, No.807, re-equipped with F.10s at the Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in late 1947. The first Squadron to fly with the FB.11 variant, No.802, re-formed in May 1948. In all, fifty Sea Fury F.10s were built, followed by 615 Sea Fury FB.11s, the last of which came off the production line in November 1952.
A 2-seat trainer variant, the T.20, was also produced with the prototype flying in January 1948. A total of 60 of these aircraft were built.
When the Korean War broke out in 1950, the Sea Fury was the Fleet Air Arm's leading single-seat fighter, and it fought with great distinction during the conflict. Sea Fury squadrons involved in Korea were 802 Squadron (HMS Ocean), 807 Squadron (HMS Theseus), 801 and 804 Squadrons (HMS Glory) and 805 and 808 Squadrons (HMAS Sydney). The aircraft were mainly used in the ground attack role armed with bombs and rockets, but they were also engaged in air-to-air combat with the much faster MiG-15. On 9 August 1952 a Flight of Sea Furies from 802 Squadron flown by Lieutenants Carmichael and Davis, and Sub-Lieutenants Haines and Ellis, were on an armed reconnaissance flight in an area just North of Chinimpo when they were attacked by eight enemy MiG-15s. Despite the enemy's superiority in numbers and a 200 mph speed advantage, the Sea Fury pilots shot down one MiG and badly damaged two others without incurring any damage to their own aircraft. As Flight leader, Lieutenant Carmichael was officially accredited with the 'kill' and was subsequently awarded the DSC for his heroism, but all of the other pilots officially claimed their quarter share.
With the advent of the introduction into Fleet Air Arm service of jet aircraft such as the Sea Hawk, the Sea Fury was relegated to second-line duties, with many being employed by the Air Branch of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. After the premature axing of the RNVR units in 1957 the majority of Sea Furies were sadly scrapped. Happily a handful survived to see service with the civilian-run Fleet Requirements Unit, used as 'flying targets' for the training of RN ship crews, until finally being retired in 1962 – the final piston-engined, fighter-type aircraft to see service in Royal Navy markings.
VR930 whilst with 801 Naval Air Squadron aboard HMS Glory, ashore at RNAS Hal Far, late 1953. [via AJ Leahy]
Sea Fury FB.11 VR930
Delivered to the Royal Navy at RNAS Culham in March 1948, VR930 then spent from May to December of that year in front-line service with 802 Squadron aboard HMS Vengeance and ashore at RNAS Eglinton. Between December 1948 and August 1953 she was held in reserve at various Aircraft Holding Units at Anthorn, Abbotsinch, Sembawang and Fleetlands, undergoing a Category 4 repair at the Royal Naval Aircraft Yard Donibristle before returning to front-line service again with 801 Squadron. Between August 1953 and July 1954 she flew a further 284 hours with the squadron before going to RNAY Fleetlands for reconditioning.
With the airframe now effectively reset to zero hours she was held in reserve at Anthorn and Lossiemouth before transferring to the Fleet Requirements Unit at Hurn (now Bournemouth Airport) in November 1959. With this unit she flew a further 828 hours, and when put up for disposal in January 1961 she had flown an absolute total of almost 1280 hours during her active service. In 'retirement' she spent several years at RAF Colerne, and periods at RNAS Yeovilton and Boscombe Down, being used as a spares source for the RNHF's original Sea Fury FB.11 TF956. With the loss of the latter aircraft in 1989 the decision was taken to rebuild VR930 and she was duly moved to British Aerospace's Brough works for restoration to flying standard, eventually joining the RNHF in 1998 in pristine condition in 802 NAS Korean War markings.
VR930 now wears her authentic, original 802 NAS code of '110/Q' as worn when she first joined the unit at the shore base of RNAS Eglinton, Northern Ireland, and embarked in HMS Vengeance in 1948. This early scheme was applied to all F.10 and the early FB.11 aircraft.
A 180 Gardiner powered ERF, this old truck had the most fantastic sounding engine ever, driven at that time by Mr William MacCallum. This picture was taken during construction of Gigha fish farm. These were used to unload sand and gravel from the Glenlight boats that would bring the sand and gravel into Gigha south pier
The combination of increasingly complex high-risk financial instruments (unknown, under-acknowledged, under-estimated and/or misunderstood by public and private policy sector workers at all levels of governance) and a thriving culture of testosterone-driven traders with their hands firmly on the throttle of oil-dependent muscle vehicles, flooring-it on shared virtual highways with silently condoned (albeit) unwritten permission and even enthusiastic encouragement to exceed safe speed limits, the exponential growth in wealth of the upper quintile of the upper quintile accompanied by the exponential increase in poverty of the lower quintile of the lower quintile, the global expansion and implementation of the belief-system based on unfettered, self-regulated market political economies (loosely called market liberalism although best-served by political conservatism) promulgated around the planet through mass media content packaged to sell imagery of the invisible hand of the market as the right hand of the new secular god surrounded by soldiers of the user-pay, private-is-better, blame-the-poor, monetize-everything, blame-the-ill, social-justice-vs-economic-efficiency, base-minumum-wage-on-pin-money-workers, minimum-government, trickle-down-affect, legal-but-not-ethical, group-think-culture led by the Triad of Mises-Friedman-Hayek has led to market chaos that is not theoretical but Really Real.
According to Dan Mitchell's article Trading on Testosterone" in the New York Times, "Movements in financial markets are correlated to the levels of hormones in the bodies of male traders, according to a study by two researchers from the University of Cambridge."
The Adobe Photoshop image was created by adding the Suit to the bull and layering my own mortgage meltdown digitage with the article's illustration by Alex Eben Meyer in the New York Times. I saved this as a transparent .png file. (I am unsure of the licensing for the NYT image.) [1]
This is twisted curve in the winding road of ancient arguments that prohibited participation of hormone-driven women (emotional versus logical, intuitive versus deductive, feelings versus reason) in pivotal positions of decision-making.
Does this mean the invisible hand of the market should be wearing a glove? Should the use of Viagra be monitored on the trading floor?
Notes
1. In response to the interesting question from Ray Randall re: Creative Commons Licensing of this images which he used here :
www.ethosadvisory.com/articles/index.php?id=418 and herehttp://www.ethosadvisory.com/blog. Ray is using CC for the first time and was confused and concerned about following Web 2.0 etiquette. It can be confusing.
This image is my digital collage or mashup as described above which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License. Most of my Flickr images are under the Creative Commons License lets authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry while legally remixing and reusing fragments of the work of others.
When you add a Flickr image to your blog through Flickr's menu options, it automatically generates this code (I've replaced with [ and ])
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[a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/oceanflynn/2426434212/"]Bull Wrestling Bear Markets: Testosterone-driven[/a]
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By using Flickr's code the image is linked to image, artist and textual info.
I notice a lot of people bypass this and simply thank oceanflynn or Maureen Flynn-Burhoe which is fine for me because Google makes the link. It wouldn't if your name was not as easily identified by Google. And this method is not really Flickr-friendly.
However, Flickr has its own set of rules which requires that the live link to the Flickr-hosted image. This also accesses the accompanying explanatory text which describes how I added my own original mashups as well as remixing and reusing some of the work of other artists.
If you follow my links to the NYT's article you can see where the bull and bear originate. I put the bull in a Wall Street suit and tie and added my own original Adobe Photoshop image which was quite timely and involved. When you crop to include only the bear and bull, it is possible that it borrows too heavily from the original NYT's article illustration.
Webliography and Bibliography
Coates, J. M. and J. Herbert. 2008. "Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. snurl.com/250a7
Emarketer. 2008-03-18. "Online Advertisers To Spend Through Turbulence." snurl.com/250e6
Flynn-Burhoe, Maureen. 2008-04-19. "Complex Financial Instruments and Testosterone-Driven Trading: Algorithm of Market Chaos." snurl.com/250a6
Mitchell, Dan. 2008-04-19. "Trading on Testosterone." New York Times. 5tvolz permalink
Palmer, Jason. 2008-04-14. "Traders' raging hormones cause stock market swings." NewScientist.com. snurl.com/2508n
Rubel, Steve. 2008-04-17. "Study: A Billion Dollars in Internet Advertising is Wasted." Micro Persuasion. snurl.com/250au
Rubel, Steve. 2008-04-19. Twitter.
Notes:
1. Algorithm: a "problem-solving procedure: a logical step-by-step procedure for solving a mathematical problem in a finite number of steps, often involving repetition of the same basic operation" or a "problem-solving computer program: a logical sequence of steps for solving a problem, often written out as a flow chart, that can be translated into a computer program," a term used in the late 17th century. It is an alteration, "after Greek arithmos "number," of algorism, via Old French and medieval Latin based on the Arabic al-Ḵwārizmī , the name of the 9th century mathematician who introduced algorithms to the West." See MSC (1998-2005) Encarta.
I saw Holy Trinity come up on the Heritage Weekend website, so I thought a nice Sunday afternoon out, a drive, an ice cream, and visit a new church.
But turns out that Holy Trinity is the Victorian church the other end of the High Street, and I came to the much older one, which happened to be open, but also explains the rest of the account below......
The passing of HM the Queen changed plans somewhat, but I didn't know that.
Sittingbourne is not a pretty town. It has a main road driven through the middle of it, and the area around the church, not pretty either. Four Ne'er-do-wells were drinking and smoking in the churchyard, and in time would attract the attention of two PCOs.
The blurb talked about visiting the crypt and so on, so I was looking forward to the visit. And upon entering, I was pretty much the only one looking round, in the south aisle a coffee shop had been set up.
A woman came up to me and asked:
"Are you SFM?", which I assume to be Swale FM, the local radio station.
I told her I wasn't. But then I did have my new Tron t shirt on, and and looked like a nerd. The actual nerd came out from behind the organ carrying leads and mics. He was SFM.
I introduced the woman to the guy and got on with my shots.
A voice behind me asked:
"Are you SFM?"
Again, I said I wasn't, but there was a guy around who was.
It seems a service was being broadcast, and they were setting up equipment, and in time members of the choir arrived and people carrying instruments. Either that or it was the mafia.
By then I had my shots, and so we made to leave, as yet more people came into the church, while outside people waited for the service to start.
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SITTINGBORNE.
THE next parish westward from Murston is Sittingborne, antiently written Sedingbourne, in Saxon, sœdingburna, i. e. the hamlet by the bourne, or small stream.
THE PARISH and town of Sittingborne is situated about forty miles from London, the high road from thence to Dover leading through it. The parish, though rather above the level of the marshes, which bound the northern side of it, from which the ground rises to the town, is still a damp situation, and both from the air and water is not accounted a healthy one, though much more so than several of the neighbouring parishes equally northward, than which it has a more chearful and populous aspect; from the town the ground still keeps rising southward till it joins Tunstall, in the road to which about a quarter of a mile from the town is a good modern house called Glovers, which lately belonged to Thomas Bannister, esq. who resided in it, and died in 1791, and his widow, Mrs. Bannister, now owns it; eastward from which, at about the same distance, are the estates of Chilston and Fulston, and Hysted Forstall, with Golden-wood at the boundary of the parish, part of which is within it, adjoining to Bapchild and Rodmersham. The parish, which is but small, contains little more than eight hundred acres of land, consisting of arable, pasture, orchards, hop ground, and woods. In the upper and western parts it is much inclined to chalk and thin land, but the rest of it is in general a fertile loam, especially about the town, which was formerly surrounded by orchards of apples and cherries, but many of them have been destroyed to make room for plantations of hops, which, however, are not so numerous as formerly, and several of those which remain are kept up only as nurseries for young plantations of fruit trees, to which they must soon in their turn give place. Northward from the town the grounds are entirely pasture and orchards, lying on a descent to the town of Milton and the creek, both about half a mile distant from it; on the latter is a key called Crown key, of great use to this part of the country for the exporting of corn and wood, and relanding the several commodities from London and elsewhere. At a small distance north-west from the town is Bayford-court.
It appears by a survey made in the 8th year of queen Elizabeth, that there was then in this parish houses inhabited eighty-eight; lacking inhabitants five; keys two, Crown key and Holdredge key; ships and boats three, two of one ton, and one of twenty-four tons.
THE town of Sittingborne is built on each side of the high road at the fortieth mile-stone from London, and stands on a descent towards the east. It is a wide, long street unpaved, the houses of which are mostly modern, being well built of brick, and sashed, the whole having a chearful aspect. The principal support of it has always been from the inns, and houses of reception in it for travellers, of which there are several.
The inhabitants boast much of John Northwood, esq. of Northwood, having entertained king Henry V. on his triumphant return from France, at the Red Lion inn, in this town; and though the entertainment was plentiful, and befitting the royalty of his guest, yet such was the difference of the times, that the whole expence of it amounted to no more than 9s. 9d. wine being then sold at two-pence a pint, and other articles in proportion. The principal inn now in it, called the Rose, is perhaps the most superb of any throughout the kingdom, and the entertainment afforded in it equally so, though the traveller probably will not find his reckoning near so moderate as that of John Northwood before-mentioned. About the middle of the opposite side of the town there is a good family seat, which was once the residence of the Tomlyn's, and then for many years of the Lushingtons, several of whom lie buried in this church, of whom a further mention has already been made under Rodmersham manor, which they possessed. At length Thomas Godfrey Lushington left it to reside at Canterbury, and his second son the Rev. James-Stephen Lushington, becoming possessed of it afterwards, sold it to Mr. John May, who resided in it for some time. Since which it has been converted into an inn. At this house, whilst in the possession of the Lushingtons, king George the 1st. and 11d. constantly lodged, whenever they travelled through this town, both in their way to, and return from visiting their German dominions.
The church and vicarage stand almost at the east end of the town, near which there rises a clear spring of water in the high road, which flows from thence northward into Milton creek.
Queen Elizabeth, by her charter, in her 16th year, incorporated the town of Sittingborne, by the name of a guardian and free tenants thereof; and granted to it a market weekly on a Wednesday, and two fairs yearly, the one at Whitsuntide, and the other at Michaelmas, with many other privileges: which charter was used for several years, and until the queen was pleased, through further favor to grant to it another more ample charter, in her 41st year, by which she incorporated this place, by the name of a mayor and jurats, and regranted the market and fairs, with the addition of a great number of privileges, and among others, of returning two members to parliament.
This charter does not appear ever to have been used, or the privileges in it exercised. The market, after having been used for several years, was dropped, and only the two yearly fairs have been kept up, which are still held on Whit-Monday and the two following days, for linen and toys, and on October 10, and the four following days, for linen, woollen, cloaths, hardward, &c. and on the second day of it, for the hiring of servants, both in the town, and in a field, called the Butts, at the back of it.
Lewis Theobald, the poet, made famous by Mr. Pope, in his Dunciad, was born at Sittingborne, his father being an attorney at this place.
SOME FEW of our antiquarians have been inclined to six the Roman station, called, in the second iter of Antonine, Durolevum, at or near Sittingborne; among which are Mr. Talbot, Dr. Horsley, Baxter, and Dr. Stukeley in his comment upon his favorite Richard of Cirencester; (fn. 1) but they have but little to offer in support of their conjecture, except the distances made use of in one or two copies, which are so different in many of them, that there is no trusting to any one in particular; consequently each alters them as it suits his own hypothesis best. The reader will find more of this subject under the description of both Lenham and Newington.
In the year 893, the Danes having fitted out a great number of ships, with an intention of ravaging the coasts of this kingdom, divided them into two fleets; with one of which they failed up the river Limene, or Rother, and with the other, under the command of Hastings, their captain, they entered the mouth of the river Thames, and landed at the neighbouring town of Milton. Near Milton they built a castle, at a place called Kemsley-down, about a quarter of a mile north-east from where the church of Milton now stands, which being overgrown with bushes, acquired the name of Castle rough. King Alfred, on receiving intelligence of these depredations, marched his forces towards Kent, and in order to flop their incursions, some time afterwards built on the opposite or eastern side of the creek, about a mile from the Danish intrenchments, a fortification, part of the ditches of which, and a small part of the stone-work, is still to be seen at Bayford-castle, in this parish.
Gerarde, the herbalist, found on the high road near this place,
Tragoriganum Dodonæi, goats marjorum of Dodo- næus.
Ruta muraria sive salvia vitæ, wall rue, or rue maidenhair; upon the walls of the church-yard here.
Colutea minima five coronilla, the smallest bastard sena; on the chalky barren grounds near Sittingborne, (fn. 2) and lately likewise by Mr. Jacob.
Hieracium maximum chondrillæ folio asperum; observed by Mr. John Sherard, very plentisully in the road from this place to Rochester.
Lychnis saponaria dicta, common sopewort; by him on the same road.
Tithymalus Hybernicus, Irish Spurge; between this place and Faversham.
Erysimum sophia dictum; found by Mr. Jacob, on the road sides near Sittingborne, and on the Standard Key.
Oenanthe cicutæ facie Lobellii, hemlock dropwort, found by him in the water lane between Sittingborne and Milton. (fn. 3)
THE MANOR OF MILTON is paramount over this parish, subordinate to which is
THE MANOR OF GOODNESTON, perhaps so called from its having been the property of Goodwyne, earl of Kent, who might have secured himself here at Bayford castle, in the year 1052, when having taken up arms against king Edward the Consessor, he raised an army, and ravaged the king's possessions, and among them the town of Milton, which he burnt to the ground.
On his death it most probably came to his son king Harold, and after the battle of Hastings into the hands of the crown, whence it seems to have been granted to the eminent family of Leyborne, of Leyborne, in this county. William, son of Roger de Leyborne, died possessed of it in the 3d year of king Edward II.
His grand-daughter Juliana, daughter of Thomas de Leyborne, who died in his life-time, became her grandfather's heir, and succeeded in this manor, to which she entitled her several husbands successively, all of whom she survived, and died S. P. in the 41st year of king Edward III. when no one being found, who could make claim to any of her estates, this manor, among the rest of them, escheated to the crown.
After which this manor of Goodneston, as it was then called, seems to have been granted by the crown to Robert de Nottingham, who resided at a seat adjoining to this manor, called
BAYFORD-CASTLE, where his ancestors had resided for several generations. Robert de Nottingham lived here in the reign of king Edward I. and dates several of his deeds apud castellum suum de Bayford, apud Goodneston. Robert de Nottingham, his successor, who became possessed of the manor of Goodneston as beforementioned, was sheriff in the 48th year of king Edward III. and kept his shrievalty at Bayford, bearing for his arms, Paly, wavy of two pieces, gules and argent, in which year he died, and was found by the inquisition to die possessed of lands at Sharsted, Pedding in Tenham, Newland, La Hirst, Higham in Milsted, Bixle, now called Bix, in Tong, and lastly, Goodneston, with Bayford, in Sittingborne; all which descended to his only son John Nottingham, who died without issue male, leaving Eleanor his daughter his sole heir, who marrying Simon Cheney, of Crall, in Sussex, second son of Sir Richard Cheney, of Shurland, he became, in her right, entitled to it. His grandson Humphry Cheney alienated both Goodneston and Bayford, at the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, to Mr. Richard Lovelace, of Queenhyth, in London.
His son Launcelot Lovelace was of Bayford, and purchased the manor of Hever in Kingsdown, near Farningham, under which a more ample account of him and his descendants may be seen. His second son William, heir to his eldest brother Sir Richard, who died S. P. at length became possessed of Goodneston, with Bayford, at which he resided, and dying anno 17 king Henry VII. left two sons, John and William Lovelace, esqrs. who possessed this manor and seat between them; the former of whom resided at Bayford, where he died in the 2d year of Edward VI. holding the moiety of this manor in capite, by knight's service, and leaving seven sons, of whom Thomas Lovelace, esq. his eldest son, inherited his interest in this manor and seat. He procured his lands to be disgavelled, by the act passed anno 2 and 3 Edward VI. and afterwards in the 10th year of queen Elizabeth, together with his cousin William Lovelace, by a joint conveyance, alienated Goodneston, with Bayford, to Mr. Ralph Finch, of Kingsdown, in this neighbourhood, whose son Mr. Thomas Finch, of that place, passed it away by sale to Sir William Garrard, who had been lord mayor in 1555, whose ancestors had been of this parish for several generations before, and perhaps were seated at Fulston in it, as many of them lie buried, in the chancel belonging to that seat, in this church. (fn. 4)
He died in 1571, and was buried in St. Magnus's church, in London, bearing for his arms, Argent, on a fess sable, a lion passant of the field; which arms, borne by his ancestors, are carved on the roof of the cloysters at Canterbury. After which it descended down to his grandson Sir John Garrard, or Gerrard, as this family now began to spell their name, who was of Whethamsted, in Hertfordshire, and was created a baronet in 1621. He was succeeded in it by his eldest son of the same name (at which time Bayford was become no more than a farm-house, being called Bayford-court farm). He died in 1700, leaving an only daughter and heir Mary, who carried the manor of Goodneston, with Bayford, among the rest of her inheritance, in marriage to Montague Drake, esq. of Shardeloes, in Agmondesham, in Buckinghamshire, who bore for his arms, Argent, a wivern, with wings displayed, and tail moved, gules. In whose descendants it continued down to William Drake, esq. M. P. for the borough of Agmondesham, as his ancestors had been, some few intermissions only excepted, ever since its being restored to its privilege of sending members to parliament, as a borough, anno 21 James I. He died possessed of this estate in 1796, and his heirs are at this time possessed of it.
A court baron is held for the manor of Goodneston, with Bayford.
CHILTON is a manor situated in the south-east part of this parish, which was formerly accounted a manor, and had owners of that furname, who held the manor of Chilton in Ash, near Sandwich, both which William de Chilton held at his death in the 31st year of king Edward I. one of whose descendants, in the beginning of king Edward III.'s reign, passed it away to Corbie, whose descendant Robert Corbie, of Boughton Malherb, died possessed of this manor of Chilton, alias Childeston, in the 39th year of that reign. (fn. 5) After which it passed by a female heir of this name in like manner as Boughton Malherb, to the family of Wotton, and from them again to the Stanhopes, (fn. 6) in which it continued till Philip, earl of Chesterfield, about the year 1725, alienated it to Richard Harvey, esq. of Dane-court, whose grandson, the Rev. Richard Harvey, died possessed of it in 1772, leaving his widow surviving, since which it has been sold to Balduck, and by him again to Mr. George Morrison, who now owns it, and resides in it.
FULSTON, called antiently Fogylston, was a large mansion, situated at a small distance southward from Chilton last-described, which, from the burials of the Garrards in the chancel belonging to this estate in Sittingborne church, seems to have been the early residence of that family in this parish. However that be, in the reign of Henry VIII. it was become the estate and residence of John Cromer, esq. the third son of Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, who died in 1539, and was buried in this church, leaving his three daughters his coheirs; and in one of the windows of this church were the arms of John Cromer, esq. of Fulston, and his two wives, Guldeford and Grove, and their several quarterings.
Probably, by his will, or by a former entail, on his dying without male issue, this seat descended to his nephew Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, whose grandson, of the same name, dying without male issue in 1613, Christian, one of his daughters and coheirs carried it in marriage to John Hales, esq. eldest son of Sir Edward Hales, of Tenterden, knight and baronet, as has been already more fully mentioned before under Tunstall, and in his descendants it has continued down to Sir Edward Hales, bart. of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, the present owner of it. The greatest part of this mansion has been pulled down within memory, and a neat farm-house has been erected on the ruins of it.
Charities.
JOHN ALLEN, of Sittingborne, by his will in 1615, gave 40s. per annum for repairing the alms-houses in Crown-key-lane, and firing for the poor in them, to be paid out of Glovers, now Mrs. Bannister's.
ROBERT HODSOLE, by will in 1684, gave 10s. per annum to the poor, payable every Christmas-day yearly, out of Mrs. Rondeau's land.
JOHN GRANT, by will in 1689, gave 20s. per annum, to be paid in corn and bread on January 1, out of Mrs. Trott's farm.
FIVE SEAMS of boiling peas are yearly paid from the parsonage, to be distributed to the poor on every Christmas-day yearly.
KATHERINE DICKS, by her will, left the sum of 25l. to be put out on land security, the interest of it to be said out for ever in six two-penny loaves, to be given to six poor widows &c. who attend divine service, beginning every year on the first Sunday after Christmas-day, of the annual produce of 1l.
The poor annually relieved are about forty; casually eight hundred and fifty.
SITTINGBORNE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JU RISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deany of Sittingborne
The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is a large, handsome building, of three isles and two chancels, and two cross ones; at the west end is a tower beacon steeple, in which is a clock, a set of chimes, and six bells.
On the stone font, which is an octagon, are the arms of archbishop Arundel, a shield, having on it a cross story; and another with the emblems of Christ's crucifixion on it.
On the 17th of July, 1762, the wind being exceeding high, a fire broke out on the roof of this church, occasioned by the plumbers, who were repairing the leads, having left their fire burning during their absence at dinner, which consumed the whole of it, except the bare walls and the tower. Next year a brief passed for rebuilding of it, which with the contribution of the inhabitants, and a gift of fifty pounds from archbishop Secker, they were enabled to set about.
This was stopped for some little time by the owners of the three chancels, belonging to the Bayford, Chilton, and Fulston estates, refusing to contribute to the rebuilding of them, and they were at length rebuilt at the same cost with the rest of the church; and the whole of it was afterwards completed and fitted up in a very handsome manner. By the fire the monuments against the walls were destroyed, and most of the gravestones broken by the falling of the timbers. The latter, in the rebuilding of the church, have, the greatest part of them, been most absurdly removed from the graves over which they lay, to other parts of the church, and some even from the church-yard, as it suited to make the pavement complete; so that there is now hardly a guess to be made, where the bodies lie, that the inscriptions commemorate, but the gravestones of the Lushingtons, I believe, were none of them removed. In the south cross chancel belonging to the estate of Fulston, is a monument for Thos. Bannister, gent. obt. 1750, arms, Argent, a cross story, sable. The brass plate, on which the inscription was, for John Crowmer, of Fulston, and his two wives, in this chancel, being loose, there was found on the under side of it one in Latin, for Robert Rokele, esq. once dwelling with the most revered lady, the lady Joane de Bohun, countess of Hereford, Essex, and Northton, who died in 1421, an instance of œconomy which has been discovered at times in other churches.
The south-east chancel belonged to the Chilton estate; there are many gravestones of the family of Lushington in it. Dr. Lushington's monument was entirely destroyed at the time of the fire. In the upper part of this chancel is a vault, belonging to the Chilton estate, in which is only one coffin, of Mr. Harvey, who died in 1751, and a great quantity of bonespiled up at one end of it.
The archdeacon's court, in which he holds his visitation, is at the upper end of this chancel.
The coats of arms in the windows of the church, which were many, were entirely destroyed, and they have been since entirely resitted with modern glass.
The middle chancel is the archbishop's, and belongs to the parsonage; in which there is a memorial for Mathew, son of Sir John, and grandson of archbishop Parker, who died in 1645. The north chancel is made use of now as a vestry. The north cross chancel belongs to the Bayford estate. In the north wall of it there is the effigies of a woman, lying at length, in the hollow of the wall, with an arch, carved and ornamented, over her, and midway between the arch and figure, a flat table stone of Bethersden marble: the whole of it seems very antient.
In this church there was, before the reformation, a chantry, called Busherb's chantry.
The church of Sittingborne belonged to the Benedictine nunnery of Clerkenwell, to which it was appropriated before the 8th year of king Richard II. and it remained part of the revenues of it till its dissolution, in the 31st year of king Henry VIII.'s reign.
¶This church thus coming into the king's hands, seems to have remained part of the revenues of the crown till queen Elizabeth, in her 3d year, granted the parsonage of it, with the advowson of the vicarage, the former being then valued at 13l. 6s. 8d. to archbishop Parker. Since which they have continued parcel of the possessions of the archbishopric, and remain so at this time.
The parsonage has been from time to time leased out on a benesicial lease, at the yearly rent of 13l. 6s. 8d. In 1643 John Olebury, gent. was lessee; in later times, Cockin Sole, esq. of Bobbing, whose son John Cockin Sole, esq. died possessed of it in 1790, since which this lease has been sold under the directions of his will.
In the 8th year of king Richard II. this parsonage was valued at 23l. 6s. 8d.
In 1578, on a survey of the diocese of Canterbury, it was returned, that this parsonage was impropriate to the queen's majesty; the vicarage also in her gift; dwelling-houses eighty; communicants three hundred; the tenths twenty shillings.
The vicarage is valued in the king's books at ten pounds, the yearly tenths being one pound. In 1640, it was valued at fifty-six pounds. Communicants three hundred and eighty.
The vicarage is situated not far from the north side of the church-yard, adjoining to which is the only piece of glebe land belonging to it.
Well-placed stickers on the back of the forklift being used to coal L.150.
T746 stock transfer from Northfields Depot to Ruislip Depot.
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1972 Lotus Europa driven by Tom Upshur during Sprint Race #1 for Group #3 at the 2016 Jefferson 500.
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"...The 488 GTB name marks a return to the classic Ferrari model designation with the 488 in its moniker indicating the engine's unitary displacement, while the GTB stands for Gran Turismo Berlinetta. The new car not only delivers unparalleled performance, it also makes that extreme power exploitable and controllable to an unprecedented level even by less expert drivers..."
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Buick revived the Roadmaster name for a B-body station wagon in 1991, replacing the Estate Wagon in the lineup. Using the 115.9-inch (2,940 mm) wheelbase that was introduced for the 1977 model year, the wagon was called the Roadmaster Estate Wagon. A sedan joined the wagon for 1992, with its own distinct sheet metal, although it shared parts with other full-size GM models. The Roadmaster Estate was a badge engineered Chevrolet Caprice Estate (also sold as the Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser) the three variants differing mainly in grille design and trim. It was slightly larger than the all-new Buick Park Avenue in 1991.
Simulated woodgrain side and back panels (made of vinyl) were standard on the Roadmaster Estate, although a delete option (WB4 wood delete) was available for credit. The "Vista Roof", a fixed sunroof over the second-row seats that was not available on the Caprice, was standard as well. The Roadmaster Estate could seat up to eight with an optional third-row seat. All these wagons initially used Chevrolet's 5.0 L small-block V8, but both Buicks used the larger 5.7 L version from 1992.
From 1994–1996, the Roadmaster, like all B-Body variants, began utilizing the iron head version of the Gen II LT1 V8, its 350 c.i/5.7 liters producing 260 hp (194 kW) and 335 lb·ft (454 N·m) of torque. The switch from the Gen I TBI 5.7L V8 was due to increasing standards for emissions and fuel economy that the aging Gen I could no longer meet. This motor was shared with the Impala SS of the same era and was related to the 4.3 L/265 c.i. L99 V8 that was the base motor for the Chevrolet Caprice, and varied mainly from the F body and Corvette applications by:
A) using iron heads rather than aluminum (specified by police departments for durability and utilized throughout the B-Body line) B) a milder cam that produced a better torque curve for the heavy B-Bodies. C) various intake silencers used to make the engine more palatable to the luxury market and/or pass drive-by noise standards. D) Two bolt main journal bearing caps (also true with the F-body LT1 engines, but not the Corvette).
The Roadmaster was only delivered with the 5.7 L LT1, however, and such cars can be detected visually by a factory-installed stainless steel dual exhaust. The interior of the LT1 cars are distinguished by utilizing analog gauges rather than digital. However, unlike its stablemates, the 9C1 Caprice and Impala SS the Roadmaster was limited to 108 mph (174 km/h) due to the factory-fitted tires not being rated to run the 140 mph (230 km/h) plus the 9C1 and SS were capable of. The engine returns 17 mpg-US (14 L/100 km; 20 mpg-imp) city/25 mpg-US (9.4 L/100 km; 30 mpg-imp) highway for a 4,200 lb (1,900 kg) full-sized car (4500 lb for the wagon), up 1 mpg-US city from the previous version.
The transmission from 1994–96 was changed from the 'analog' 700R4/4L60 to the electronically controlled version of the same, the 4L60E.
Ordered with the towing package, the 94-96 Roadmaster was advertised to tow up to 5000 pounds, although the Estate Wagon owner's manual extended that to 7,000 lbs when using a weight distributing hitch, dual sway controls, increasing the rear tire pressure to 35 psi and disabling the Electronic Level Control. The tow package added 2.93 gears and a limited slip differential, heavy duty cooling system including oil and transmission coolers, and a factory installed self leveling rear suspension consisting of air shocks, a height sensor between the rear axle and body and an on-board air compressor. The most distinctive feature was the combination of one conventional fan driven mechanically from the engine alongside of one electric fan, offset to the left (non-towpack cars came with two electric fans).
GM discontinued both the Roadmaster sedan and the Roadmaster Estate in 1996, ending production on December 13 of that year. This was blamed on the smaller but more expensive and luxurious Park Avenue growing in size; the Roadmaster trim levels never exceeded that of the smaller but still full-sized Buick LeSabre, as this enabled the Park Avenue to remain as Buick's flagship car. Interestingly, both the Park Avenue and LaSabre were front-engine front-wheel drive cars, in contrast to the Roadmaster's front-engine rear-wheel drive layout. Another reason was largely a response to the SUV craze, as the Arlington, Texas factory where the assembly line that specialized in RWD cars were built was converted to truck and SUV production. Along with the discontinuation of the related Cadillac Fleetwood and Chevrolet Caprice, this signalled the end of General Motors' production of rear-wheel drive, full-size cars. When discontinued, the Roadmaster Estate and the similar Chevrolet Caprice wagon brought up the end of the era of the full-size family station wagon.
Canada's prime minister from 1993–2003, the Right Honourable Jean Chretien, was driven in armoured Buick Roadmasters during his term of office
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This Lego miniland scale 1992 Buick Roadmaster Estate has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 96th Build Challenge - The 8th Birthday, titled - 'Happy Crazy Eight Birthday, LUGNuts' - where all previous build challenges are available to build to. This model is built to the LUGNuts 81st Build Challenge, - "Generation Gap" - a challenge to build a vehicle or group of vehicles which represent a car line that has existed in more than one generation.This model complements the 1950 Buick Roadmaster Estate posted recently.
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Wind-driven mobile called "Arc of Petals", made in 1941 by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) plus painting called "On the Beach", made in 1937 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). The painting is made in oil, conté crayon, and chalk on canvas.
Exhibition in the Peggy Guggenheim Art Museum in Venice. The museum is the Venetian home of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), a great art collector. It is the most important museum of European and American art of the twentieth century in Italy. The home is the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an unfinished mid-eighteenth-century building on the Grand Canal.
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This shot came about in an unusual, unrepeatable way, and purely by chance, so I was quite amazed when I downloaded this shot. It all happened in the following way: -
I was using a tripod to shoot a landscape, but had to stand in the middle of a very quiet lane to get the shot I wanted. Sure enough, a rare car came along at the wrong moment, and I had to move out of the way, just as the camera self timer opened the shutter. This lead to the "speed blurs" of this image, which after winding up the colour and contrast produced this interesting abstract image.
And so to the title - Whilst using a tripod to get a stable image, ironically I managed to get the most blurred image I think I have ever taken! Honestly, it's enought to - drive you to abstraction :-)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Oct. 20, 2017) Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 31, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, enters the well deck of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) behind LCAC 74 in support of Dawn Blitz 2017. Dawn Blitz is a scenario-driven exercise designed to train and integrate Navy and Marine Corps units by providing a robust training environment where forces plan and execute an amphibious assault, engage in live-fire events, and establish expeditionary advanced bases in a land and maritime threat environment to improve naval amphibious core competencies. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sabyn Marrs/Released)
1969 Lotus 51-c driven by William Bartlett during Sprint Race #2 for Group 7 on Saturday at the 2015 Jefferson 500.
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I had never driven down Memorial Drive along the north side of the Charles River until Tuesday, when I worked at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. The view of Boston across the river is magnificent.
Last night I stayed at a hotel in Danvers so I could get up early and shoot the sunrise/early morning from this new location. It was well worth the effort. I hope you agree.
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Some Background:
The Lockheed F-94 Starfire was a first-generation jet aircraft of the United States Air Force. It was developed from the twin-seat Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star in the late 1940s as an all-weather, day/night interceptor.
The aircraft reached operational service in May 1950 with Air Defense Command, replacing the propeller-driven North American F-82 Twin Mustang in the all-weather interceptor role. The F-94 was the first operational USAF fighter equipped with an afterburner and was the first jet-powered all-weather fighter to enter combat during the Korean War in January 1953.
The initial production model was the F-94A, which entered operational service in May 1950. Its armament consisted of four 0.50 in (12.7 mm) M3 Browning machine guns mounted in the fuselage with the muzzles exiting under the radome. Two 165 US Gallon (1,204 litre) drop tanks, as carried by the F-80 and T-33, were carried on the wingtips. Alternatively, these could be replaced by a pair of 1,000 lb (454 kg) bombs under the wings, giving the aircraft a secondary fighter bomber capability. 109 were produced.
The subsequent F-94B, which entered service in January 1951, was outwardly virtually identical to the F-94A. The Allison J33 turbojet had a number of modifications made, though, which made it a very reliable engine. The pilot was provided with a more roomy cockpit and the canopy was replaced by a canopy with a bow frame in the center between the two crew members, as well as a new Instrument Landing System (ILS). 356 of these were built.
The following F-94C was extensively modified and initially designated F-97, but it was ultimately decided to treat it as a new version of the F-94. USAF interest was lukewarm, since aircraft technology developed at a fast pace in the Fifties, so Lockheed funded development themselves, converting two F-94B airframes to YF-94C prototypes for evaluation.
To improve performance, a completely new, much thinner wing was fitted, along with a swept tail surface. The J33 engine was replaced with a more powerful Pratt & Whitney J48, a license-built version of the afterburning Rolls-Royce Tay, which produced a dry thrust of 6,350 pounds-force (28.2 kN) and approximately 8,750 pounds-force (38.9 kN) with afterburning.
The fire control system was upgraded to the Hughes E-5 with an AN/APG-40 radar in a modified nose with an enlarged radome. The guns were removed and replaced with an all-rocket armament, which was – at that time – regarded as more effective against high-flying, subsonic bomber formations. The internal armament consisted of four flip-up panels in a ring around the nose, each containing six rockets. External pods on the wings augmented the offensive ordnance to 48 projectiles. Operational service began with six squadrons by May 1954.
According to test pilot Tony LeVier, the F-94C was capable of supersonic flight, but Lockheed felt that the straight wing limited the airframe's potential, esp. with the uprated engine. Besides, the earlier F-94 variants already saw the end of their relatively brief operational life, already being replaced in the mid-1950s by the Northrop F-89 Scorpion and North American F-86D Sabre interceptor aircraft in front-line service and relegated to National Guard service. Therefore, Lockheed launched another update program for the F-94 in 1953, again as a private venture.
The resulting F-94E (the F-94D was a proposed fighter bomber variant which made it to prototype staus) was another, evolutionary modification of the basic concept, which, in the meantime, had almost nothing left in common with its F-80/T-33 ancestry.
It was based on the F-94C, most obvious change was the introduction of swept wings for supersonic capability in level flight. This change also necessitated other aerodynamic adjustments, including a new, deeper fin with increased area and a modified landing gear that would better cope with the increased AUW.
Under the hood, the F-94E was constructed around the new Hughes MG-3 fire control system, similar to the early F-102, but kept the AN/APG-40, even though it was coupled with an enlarged antenna. The respective new radome now covered the complete nose cross section. Furthermore, the F-94 E introduced innovations like a Texas Instruments infrared search/tracking system (IRST), which allowed passive tracking of heat emissions, mounted in a canoe fairing under the nose, passive radar warning receivers, transponders as well as backup artificial horizons.
With this improved equipment the interceptor was now able to deploy semi-active radar homing GAR-1s and/or infrared GAR-2s (later re-designated AIM-4A/B Falcon), operating at day and night as well as under harsh weather conditions.
All missiles were carried externally on underwing pylons. Beside the original main wet hardpoints outside the landing gear (typically a pair of 165 US Gallon (1,204 litre) drop tank, that were carried on the wing tips on the former versions), two additional pairs of lighter pylons were added under the wing roots and the outer wings.
Typically, a pair of SARH- and IR-guided AIM-4s were carried, one per pylon, plus a pair of drop tanks. Alternatively, the F-94E could carry up to 4.000 lb (1,816 kg) of ordnance, including up to six streamlined pods, each holding nineteen 2 ¾” in (70 mm) Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets. Any internal armament was deleted.
The F-94E's new wings allowed a top speed of 687mph at sea level and a top speed of 693 mph (1,115 km/h) at height – compared with the F-94C’s 640 mph (556 kn, 1,030 km/h) a rather mild improvement. But the enlarged wing area resulted in a considerably improved rate of climb as well as good maneuverability at height. The F-94E's performance was overall on par with the F-86D, with the benefit of a second crew member, while its weapon capability was comparable with the much bigger (but slower) F-89.
Both of these types were already introduced, so the Air Force's interest was, once more, less than enthusiastic. Eventually the F-94's proven resilience to harsh climate conditions, esp. in the Far North, earned Lockheed in 1955 a production contract for 72 F-94Es for interceptor squadrons based in Alaska, New Foundland, Greenland and Iceland.
These production machines arrived to the Northern theatre of operations in summer 1956 and featured an improved weapon capability: on the wet wing hardpoints, a pair of MB-1 Genie (formerly known as ‘Ding Dong’ missile, later re-coded AIR-2) nuclear unguided rockets could be carried.
For the missile pylons under the wing roots, twin launch rails were introduced so that the F-94E could theoretically carry a total of up to eight AIM-4 missiles, even though the wet pylons were typically occupied with the drop tanks and only two pairs of AIM-4A and B were carried under the wing roots. The J48 engine was slightly uprated, too: the F-94E’s P-9 variant delivered now 6,650 lbf (29.5 kN) dry thrust and 10,640 lbf (47.3 kN) at full afterburner.
Keflavik Airport, Iceland, although controlled by Military Air Transport Service (MATS), was the first base to be equipped with F-94Es as part of the 82d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron in early 1957, where the machines replaced F-94Bs and F-89Cs.
The type was popular among the crews, because it coupled a relatively high agility (compared with the F-89 Scorpion) with the psychological benefit of a two men crew, not to be underestimated during operations in the Far North as well as over open water.
The F-94's career didn't last long, though, the aircraft soon became outdated. The last F-94E was already retired from USAF front-line service in November 1962, only three years after the last F-94C Starfires were phased out of ANG service. Eventually, the fighters were replaced by the F-101, F-102 and the F-106.
General characteristics:
Crew: 2
Length: 44 ft 11 in (13.71 m)
Wingspan: 39 ft 10 in (12.16 m)
Height: 14 ft 6 in (4.43 m)
Wing area: 313.4 sq ft (29.11 m²)
Empty weight: 12,708 lb (5,764 kg)
Loaded weight: 18,300 lb (8,300 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 24,184 lb (10,970 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Pratt & Whitney J48-P-9 turbojet, rated at 6,650 lbf (29.5 kN) dry thrust
and 10,640 lbf (47.3 kN) at full afterburner.
Performance:
Maximum speed: 693 mph (1,115 km/h) at height and in level flight
Range: 805 mi (700 nmi, 1,300 km) in combat configuration with four AAMs and two drop tanks
Ferry range: 1,275 mi (1,100 nmi, 2,050 km)
Service ceiling: 51,400 ft (15,670 m)
Rate of climb: 12,150 ft/min (61.7 m/s)
Wing loading: 78.6 lb/ft² (384 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 0.48
Armament:
Six underwing pylons for a mix of AIM-4 Falcon AAMs (IR- and SARH-guided),
pods with unguided 19× 2.75” (70 mm) Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets,
a pair of 165 gal. drop tanks or a pair of unguided nuclear MB-1 Genie air-to-air missiles
The kit and its assembly:
Another entry for the Cold War GB at whatifmodelers.com. This build was originally inspired by profiles of a P-80/F-86 hybrid, and respective kitbashings from other modelers. An elegant, though fictional, aircraft! Nevertheless, I wanted to build one, too, and take the original idea a step further. So I chose the F-94 as an ingredient for the kit mix – a rather overlooked aircraft, and getting hands on a donation kit took some time, since there are not many options.
I wanted to use the F-94C as starting point, which is already considerably different from the F-80/T-33. Adding swept wings (from a Hobby Boss F-86F, with larger “6-3” wings) changed this look even more. So much that I decided to modify the fin, which did not look appropriate anymore.
The fin and the spine’s rear end was replaced with the fin of a Kangnam/Revell Yak-38. In order to unify shapes and make the donation less obvious, the Yak-38 fin’s characteristic, pointed tip was clipped and replaced by a more conventional design, scratched from a piece of 1.5mm styrene sheet. In the wake of this modification, the round elevator tips were clipped, too.
Using the F-94’s landing gear wells as benchmarks, the F-86 wings (which had to be cut off of the Hobby Boss kit’s integral, lower fuselage part) were sanded into shape and simply glued into a proper position.
This worked so well that a completely new and plausible main landing gear installation was created. As a consequence, I used the F-86’s landing gear struts - they are much better detailed than the Emhar F-94C’s parts. The front wheel strut (it’s a single piece) was transplanted too, even though the suspension was switched 180°.
The Emhar F-94C’s cockpit is pretty good (esp. the seats) and were taken OOB. I just covered some gaps in the cockpit walls and under the windscreen with paper tissue, soaked with white glue.
The nose was replaced by a bigger radome, taken from an Armstrong Whitworth Meteor NF.14 (Matchbox kit). Its diameter and shape fit almost perfectly onto the F-94C’s front end, and the result reminds a lot of the EF-94C photo reconnaissance test aircraft! Under the nose, a shallow fairing for the IR sensor was added, and all four air brakes were mounted in open position.
The underwing pylons come from the scrap box (one pair from an Airfix A-1 Skyraider, another from an ESCI Kamow Ka-34 ‘Hokum’ which also provide the launch rails for the ordnance). The drop tanks come probably from an Italeri F-16 (not certain) while the four AIM-4s come from a Hasegawa USAF air-to-air weapons set.
Painting and markings:
This was supposed to become a classic USAF aircraft of the late Fifties, since the F-94 had never been exported. I was actually tempted to add Red Stars, though, because the overall shape has a certain Soviet look to it - esp. the nose, which reminds a lot of the contemporary Yak-25 interceptor?
But the original USAF idea won, with an all-metal finish. In order to brighten things up I chose a squadron that served with the Northeast or Alaskan Air Command, which added orange-red high-viz markings to wings and fuselage.
The NMF sections were primed with a base coat of Revell’s acrylic Aluminum. On top of that, single panels and details were painted with Alu Plate and Steel Metallizer from Modelmaster.
The International Orange markings were created with Humbrol 132, slightly shaded with orange (Humbrol 18).
Part of the nose section and the spine were painted in ADC Grey (FS 16473, Modelmaster), just for some diversity. Cockpit interior and landing gear wells received a coat of US Cockpit Green (Humbrol 226), while the interior of the air brakes was painted in Zinc Primer (Humbrol 81), according to pictures of operational F-94s.
The landing gear struts and the inside of their covers became Aluminum (Humbrol 56). The anti glare panel in front of the cockpit was done with dark olive drab (Humbrol 66), the radome flat black and weathered with wet-in-wet streaks of sand brown.
Operational F-94s show serious weathering on their di-electric noses, so this detail was taken over to the kit. Other weathering with paint, beyond a basic black ink wash and some shading on the orange areas, was not done.
The drop tanks were painted with Steel Metallizer, for a different metallic shade from the fuselage, and the AIM-4’s received a typical outfit in white and bright red with different seeker heads.
Primary decals come from a Heller F-94B kit, which have the benefit of a silver background – even though this does not match 100% with the paint. Squadron markings come from an Xtradecal F-102 sheet, tailored to the kit. Most stencils come from the Emhar OOB sheet, plus some more from the aforementioned F-102 sheet.
After some soot stains around the exhaust were added with graphite, the kit was sealed under a coat of semi-glossy acrylic varnish. The anti glare panel and the radome were kept matt, though.
A pretty result. Mixing parts from a Shooting Star and a Sabre (a Shooting Sabre, perhaps?) results in a very elegant aircraft. And while the F-94 lost much of its original, elegant appeal, the combo still works with this later interceptor variant of the F-80. Very plausible, IMHO.
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Some background
After Mil Helicopters' Mi-28 combat helicopter did not find takers, the design bureau decided in the 2000s to take a huge development step forward and question the basic helicopter layout. The result was the Mil Mi-62 (NATO reporting name: Hepcat), a single-seat attack gyrodyne/compound helicopter: a VTOL aircraft with a helicopter-like rotor system that is driven by its engine for take-off and landing but basically relies on conventional means of propulsion to provide forward thrust during cruising flight. Lift during forward flight is provided by a combination of the rotor, like an autogyro, as well as conventional wings, even though these alone would not keep the aircraft in the air.
The Mi-62 featured a tip-jet-powered rotor that burned a mixture of fuel and compressed air, bled from two wing-root-mounted jet engines. The rotor was only driven during the start/landing phase and at low speed. The air for the rotor was produced by compressors driven through a clutch off the main engines, though, which was fed through ducting up to the rotor head. Two Progress AI-222-25 turbofans, each rated at 24.52 KN (5.512 lbf), provided thrust for translational flight while the rotor autorotated, enabling VTOL and STOL start with overload. The cockpit controls included a cyclic and collective pitch lever, as in a conventional helicopter.
Each engine supplied air for a pair of opposite rotor blades. The rotor blades were a symmetrical airfoil around a load-bearing spar. The airfoil was made of carbon fiber and light alloy because of center of gravity concerns. The compressed air was channeled through three tubes within the blade to tip-jet combustion chambers, where the compressed air was mixed with fuel and burned, driving the rotor. As a torque-less rotor system, no anti-torque correction system was required. Propeller pitch was controlled by the rudder pedals for low-speed yaw control. To support handling at low speed, bleed air from the main engines was also ducted to a control vent system in the tail.
Transition from helicopter to autogiro took place at around 60 mph by extinguishing the tip-jets, and at higher speeds up to half the lift was provided by the fixed wings. At high cruising speed, the Mi-62 almost behaved like a standard aircraft. Cruising speed was to be at about 500 km/h (312 mph), coupled with a range of up to 1400 km (870 ml).
Since the speed of the advancing rotor tip is a primary limitation to the maximum speed of a helicopter, this arrangement allowed a faster maximum speed than pure helicopters such as the Mi-24/35 or the AH-64. The elimination of the tail rotor is a qualitative advantage, too, because the torque-countering tail rotor can use up to 30% of engine power. Furthermore, the vulnerable boom and rear gearbox are fairly common causes of helicopter losses in combat. The Mi-62’s entire transmission presents a comparatively small target to ground fire, and is a rather simple/rigid arrangement with much less moving parts than a standard helicopter.
The Mi-62 was designed as an alternative to Kamov's successful Ka-50/52 program, and regarded as a heavier alternative. While the Ka-50 was designed to be small, fast and agile to improve survivability and lethality, the Mi-62 was to rely on speed, quick acceleration and decelleration as well as on good low altitude handling, coupled with sufficient protection against small caliber weapons. Since operation would be primarily at low level and using the landscape as cover, not much emphasis was put on stealth features, even though many passive protection elements like RAM were incorporated into the aircraft.
One of the program priorities was to enhance the helicopter's survivability. With this goal in mind, the configuration and systems' arrangement were chosen, assemblies designed, and structural materials tested, beyond the robust rotor propulsion system. The following measures to enhance pilot survivability were taken:
• Engines were placed on both sides of the airframe to prevent a single hit from destroying both engines
• The gyroplane could fly on a single engine in various modes – even with a damaged rotor a controlled landing glide was possible
• The cockpit was armored and screened with combined steel/aluminum armor and armored Plexiglas
• The hydraulic steering system compartment was armored and screened
• Vital units were screened by less important ones
• Self-sealing fuel tanks were filled with polyurethane foam
• Composites were used to preserve the helicopter's efficiency when its load-carrying elements are damaged
• A two-contour rotor-blade spar was developed, integrating the air ducts
• Control rod diameter was increased by positioning most of them inside the armored cockpit
• The powerplant and compartments adjacent to the fuel tanks were fire-protected
• The hydraulic system is capable of operating for 30 minutes if the oil system is damaged
• The power supply systems, control circuits etc. were made redundant and placed on opposite sides of the airframe
The armor consisted of spaced-aluminum plates with a total weight of more than 300 kg. The armor is fitted into the fuselage load-bearing structure, which reduces the total weight of the helicopter. GosNIIAS tests confirmed the pilot's protection up to 20mm caliber cannon rounds and shell fragments.
Another unique feature of the Mi-62 is the use of a rocket-parachute ejection system in case of an emergency. The helicopter emergency-escape system uses the K-37-800 ejection seat that was developed by the Zvezda Scientific Production Association (Chief Designer Guy Severin). The pilot's safety was also ensured by the undercarriage design. The undercarriage is capable of absorbing large loads in an emergency landing, and the cockpit has a crunch zone of up to 10-15% upon impact.
Basic armament consists of a twin-barreled Sh2A42 30-mm gun. The gun is mounted in a shallow turret which can rotate full 360° near the center of fuselage. It has 460 rounds of ammunition, firing high-fragmentation, explosive incendiary rounds and armor-piercing rounds.
The cannon has a dual-feed, which allows for a cyclic rate of fire between 300 to 900 RPM. Its effective range varies from 1500 meters for ground vehicles to 2,500 meters for air targets. Stated penetration for the 3UBR8 is 25 mm of RHA at 1,500 meters.
Beyond that, the aircraft carries a substantial load of weapons in six external hardpoints under the stub wings. An total of some 2.000 kg mixed ordnance, including AAMs, AGMs, gun and unguided rocket pods which include the S-13 and S-8 rockets, can be carried. Even unguided and guided (IR, optical, laser) bombs have been successfully tested, so that the Mi-62 could eventually replace early Su-25 combat aircraft in the CAS role. The "dumb" rocket pods can be upgraded to laser guided with the proposed Ugroza system.
The main armament against moving ground targets consists of up to sixteen laser-guided Vikhr anti-tank missiles (transl. Vortex or whirlwind) with a maximum range of some 8 km. The laser guidance is reported to be virtually jam-proof and the system features automatic guidance to target, enabling evasive action immediately after missile launch.
Like the Ka-50, the Mil gyrodyne was from the outset to be operated by a single pilot only. Mil’s designers concluded after thorough research of helicopter combat in Afghanistan and other war zones that the typical attack mission phases of low-level approach, pop-up target acquisition and weapon launch would not simultaneously demand navigation, maneuvering and weapons operation of the pilot. Thus, with well-designed support automation, a single pilot was expected to carry out the entire mission alone.
During operational testing from 1995 to 1996 the workload on the pilot was found to be similar to that of a fighter-bomber pilot, and the pilot could perform both flying and navigation duties. Later flight tests of the Mi-62 prototypes proved that its handling was more like an aircraft with VTOL capabilities than a standard helicopter, so that jet pilots could master it with some training.
Initially the Mi-62 was to be have been fitted with the Merkury Low-Light TV (LLTV) system. Due to a lack of funding, the system was late and experienced reliability and capability issues. As a result, focus shifted to Forward Looking Infra-Red (FLIR) systems, including the Shkval-N sighting system with an infrared sensor. Many versions were tried; on some the original "Shkval" was supplemented by a thermal imaging system, while others saw a complete replacement by the "Samshit" day-and-night system, which has become the final sensor standard, mounted in a chin sensor turret.
The fire control system automatically shares all target information among the four Mi-62 of a typical flight in real time, allowing one helicopter to engage a target spotted by another, and the system can also input target information from ground-based forward scouts with personnel-carried target designation gear.
The Mi-62 was, after a lengthy development and constant lack of funds, eventually adopted for service in the Russian army in 2015. It is currently manufactured by the new Russian Helicopters company that was founded in 2009 in Moscow, and built at the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant. It has been introduced to both Air Force (Mi-62 sans suffix, ‘Hepcat A’) and Naval Aviation (Mi-62K, ‘Hepcat B’) and is being used as a heavily armed attack helicopter against both ground and airborne targets.
The navalized Mi-62K derivative has been selected as the new ship-borne attack type for the Russian Naval Aviation (Aviatsiya Voenno-morskogo Flota Rossii). It will feature folding rotor blades and life-support systems for the crew, who will fly in immersion suits. The fuselage and systems will be given special anti-corrosion treatment and a new fire-control radar will be capable of operating in "Sea Mode" and of supporting anti-ship missiles. Aviatsiya Voenno-morskogo Flota Rossii will need no fewer than 20 Mi-62, which will be operated together with Ka-52Ks.
The first Mi-62K is tentatively slated to enter squadron service by late 2014 or early 2015, coinciding with the delivery of the first carrier of the new Mistral class amphibious assault ships, ordered by the Russian Defense Ministry. These small carriers will contain rotary-wing assets, formed into aviation groups, and each of these groups is planned to include eight attack and eight assault/transport helicopters.
General characteristics
Crew: One
Length (fuselage only): 13,46 m (44 ft 1 in)
Rotor diameter: 15,40 m (50 ft 5 1/2 in)
Height: 4.60 m (15 ft 1 in)
Disc area: 186.3 m² (1.998 ft²)
Empty weight: 7,700 kg (17,000 lb)
Loaded weight: 9,800 kg / 10,400 kg (21,600 lb / 22,930 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 10,800 kg (23,810 lb)
Powerplant
2× Progress AI-222-25 turbofans, 24.52 KN (5.512 lbf) each plus
4× rotor tip jet burning compressed air/fuel, 4.4 kN (1,000 lbf) thrust each
Performance
Never exceed speed: 550 km/h (297 knots, 342 mph) in dive
Maximum speed: 515 km/h (278 knots, 320 mph) in level flight
Cruise speed: 370 km/h (200 knots, 230 mph)
Range: 545 km (339 ml)
Combat radius: 800 km (500 ml)
Ferry range: 1400 km (870 ml) with 4 drop tanks
Service ceiling: 5,500 m (18,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 10.7 m/s (2,105 ft/min)
Armament
1× turret-mounted, wtin-barreled 30 mm Shipunov Sh2A42 cannon (460 rounds total, dual feeding AP or HE-Frag) under the fuselage
6×wing hardpoints with a capacity of 2,000 kg and provisions to carry combinations of launch pods for 80 mm S-8 rockets or 122 mm S-13 rockets, APU-6 Missile racks or up to 20× 9K121 Vikhr anti-tank missiles, 6× Vympel R-73 (NATO: AA-11 Archer) air-to-air missiles, Kh-25 semi-active laser guided tactical air-to-ground missiles, 4× 250 kg (550 lb) bombs or 2x 500 kg (1,100 lb) bombs, plus 23 mm UPK-23-250 gun pods (240 rounds each) or 500 l (130 US gal) external fuel tanks.
Two compartments in the lower fuselage with flare and chaff countermeasure dispensers, typically 4× UV-26 dispensers each (total 512 chaff/flare cartridges in each pod)
The kit and its assembly:
Another entry for the “Za Rodinu - The Anthony P Memorial Build” at whatifmodelers.com, and this time it’s a modern and rather exotic whif. Helicopters are rare among whiffers, so I thought I’d give that subject a chance, and I actually had the basis kit in store for some time, as I intended to build it for another GB but never got that kick to start it.
The fictional Mi-62 is a conversion of a snap-fit kit from Kotobukiya from a series of generic, roughly 1:72 scale mecha vehicles that do not belong to a specific series or movie, but they seem to be intended to go well with Gundam or Dougram. These are rather toy-like, sturdy things, but they have potential for more – especially the gyroplanes (two different types exist).
These seem to be unmanned drones/UAVs, though, and that immediately leads to the conversions I made. Most important change is a manned cockpit with a clear canopy (from a KP Su-25) and the respective, scratched interior.
Another big change was the deletion of the original, gigantic gatling gun under the fuselage, replaced by a much smaller twin cannon turret. That left a lot of ground clearance – as a late modification I decided to chop the landing gear and the respective fin/wing endplates by more than 1cm, so that the gyroplane would sit closer to the ground.
Further small cosmetics include an asymmetrical radome and a protruding pitot boom, some antenna bulges, new engine exhausts, chaff dispensers in the fuselage flanks, and free-standing main wheels.
The ordnance comes from a Dragon Soviet-Air-To-Ground-Ordnance kit, hung onto six new wing hardpoints (from a 1:144 F-4E and an ESCI Ka-34 in 1:72, IIRC).
Painting and markings:
Choosing a proper scheme was tricky. The helicopter was to look realistic, but still exotic, at least for Russian standards. I considered various options:
● An all-mid-grey livery, inspired by current Mi-35 attack helicopters. Too dull & simple!
● A trefoil-style scheme in khaki and olive drab, with blue undersides. Flashy, but IMHO rather old-school.
I finally found an original scheme on a Ka-62 prototype (shown at MAKS-2009): a wraparound scheme in olive drab, medium grey and chocolate brown. The colors are enamels, I used Olive Drab ANA 613 (ModelMaster #2050), German Uniform “Feldgrau” (ModelMaster #2014) Grey and German Armor Red Brown (Humbrol 160), later highlighted through dry-brushing with lighter shades of the basic tones and a black ink wash, standard process.
The interior was to be Russian-style, too, but instead of the eye-boggling turquoise I went for PRU Blue (Humbrol 230) inside of the cockpit. Still looks odd, but it’s not so bright.
As a twist I decided to use Russian Navy markings – and the real world introduction of Mistral Class ships was a good excuse for a naval version of this attack helicopter. The Naval Aviation used to and does employ many land-based aircraft and helicopters, incl. e. g. the Mi-24, in similar liveries to the Air Force or Army cousins.
The markings were puzzled together from various aftermarket decal sheets from Begemot , Authentic Decals and TL Modellbau, as well as from the scrap box. After some additional dry-brushing with medium grey overall, the kit was sealed with a coat of matt acrylic varnish.
We did 12,000 or so steps on Saturday, but we knew we would crush that today. I had looked at the map, and a plan had come together.
Only, I have man flu, and as the day went on my temperature went up and up and I was sweating for England. And sneezing. I was a mess. But also driven to take snaps and see thing I have only dreamed of seeing.
First of all we walked up Greenwich Street for about ten blocks, past all these grand old buildings, offices and tree lined streets, not having a village feel, but this was The Village.
We stopped off for breakfast at a café, sat at a table and pretended it wasn’t trying to rain. We both have pancakes and either bacon or sausage, and lashings of syrup. And plenty of hot joe.
Refuelled, we set off north some more, until we went one block west and in front of us, was the start of the High Line. The High Line is an old elevated freight railway, that has now been converted to a walk and wildflower garden
But before we walked that, we had an appointment with Mr Hopper at the Whitney Gallery. And we were half an hour ahead of schedule, so we sat outside a while, just resting up. I got talking to an artist who had set up a stall to sell her work, and got onto the subject of copyright theft as she thought I had snapped her work, and I said I would not do that as I respected people’s work.
She was very pleasantly surprised, and so we had a long talk, until it was time to go into the museum.
We went to the top of the building, out to the viewing platforms to get views over the city to the huge scrapers in Uptown.
Contemporary art can be challenging, and not all floats my boat, but there were some great stuff in there. And some blank canvasses, that’s all I’m saying.
Outside again, we buy a drink and a pretzel, then climb the steps onto the High Line and find a place to sit and eat.
Now, I like a walk, especially if there are plants and butterflies to look at, what I was not expecting is that half the city would also be out walking too, and getting in the way too, I mean, we’re all photographers these days, but damn, there were some crowds and slow walking people.
Highlight really was seeing a Monarch Butterfly, near enough to snap, even if I did not have the macro lens, but still, amazingly beautiful to see.
Near the end of the walk, the line winds through some spectacular new scrapers being built, then around the sidings for trains operating out of Penn Station, then one final corner and the walk drops to street level, right by the Mega Bus stops, and the place was even busier, that and the ComicCon taking place the other side of the street.
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The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City.[1] The High Line’s design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations (Project Lead), Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf. The abandoned spur has been redesigned as a "living system" drawing from multiple disciplines which include landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology. Since opening in 2009, the High Line has become an icon of contemporary landscape architecture.[3]
The park is built on a disused, southern viaduct section of the New York Central Railroad line known as the West Side Line. Originating in the Lower West Side of Manhattan, the park runs from Gansevoort Street – three blocks below 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District – through Chelsea to the northern edge of the West Side Yard on 34th Street near the Javits Center.[4] The West Side Line formerly extended south to a railroad terminal at Spring Street, just north of Canal Street, and north to 35th Street at the site of the Javits Center. Most of the viaduct's southern section was demolished in 1960,[5] and the section north of 34th Street was demolished and reconfigured in 1981.[6] Another small portion was demolished in 1991.[7] The High Line was inspired by the 3-mile-long (4.8 km) Promenade plantée (tree-lined walkway), a similar project in Paris which was completed in 1993.[8][9]
Because of declining usage, the railway viaduct was effectively abandoned in 1980. Repurposing the railway into an urban park began in 2006,[10][11] with the first phase opening in 2009[12] and the second phase opening in 2011.[13] The third and final phase opened to the public on September 21, 2014.[14] A short stub above Tenth Avenue and 30th Street will open by 2018, when the first phase of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project is complete.[15]
The High Line's success has inspired cities throughout the United States to redevelop obsolete infrastructure as public space.[16] The project has spurred real estate development in adjacent neighborhoods,[17] increasing real-estate values and prices along the route in an example of the halo effect.[18] As of September 2014, the park had nearly five million visitors annually
The park extends from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street. At 30th Street the elevated tracks turn west around the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project[19] to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on 34th Street,[4] although the northern section is expected to be integrated with the Hudson Yards development and the Hudson Park and Boulevard.[20] When the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project's Western Rail Yard is finished in 2018 it will be elevated above the High Line Park, so an exit along the viaduct over the West Side Yard will lead to the Western Rail Yard.[21] The 34th Street entrance is at grade, with wheelchair access.[4][21]
The park is open daily from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in winter, until 10 p.m. in spring and fall, and until 11 p.m. in summer (except for the Interim Walkway west of 11th Avenue, which is open until dusk). It can be reached through eleven entrances, five of which are accessible to people with disabilities. The wheelchair-accessible entrances, each with stairs and an elevator, are at Gansevoort, 14th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th Streets. Additional staircase-only entrances are located at 18th, 20th, 26th, and 28th Streets, and 11th Avenue. Street-level access is available at 34th Street via the Interim Walkway, which runs from 30th Street and 11th Avenue to 34th Street west of 11th Avenue.
In 1847, the City of New York authorized the construction of railroad tracks along Tenth and Eleventh Avenues on Manhattan's West Side. The street-level tracks were used by the New York Central Railroad's freight trains, which shipped commodities such as coal, dairy products and beef.[53][54] For safety the railroad hired "West Side cowboys", men who rode horses and waved flags in front of the trains.[55] However, so many accidents occurred between freight trains and other traffic that the nickname "Death Avenue" was given to Tenth[56][57] and Eleventh Avenues.[53] In 1910, one organization estimated that there had been 548 deaths and 1,574 injuries over the years along Eleventh Avenue.[53]
Public debate about the hazard began during the early 1900s.[58] In 1929 the city, the state, and New York Central agreed on the West Side Improvement Project,[54] conceived by Robert Moses.[59] The 13-mile (21 km) project eliminated 105 street-level railroad crossings and added 32 acres (13 ha) to Riverside Park; it also included construction of the West Side Elevated Highway. It cost more than $150 million,[60] worth about $2.14 billion in 2017 dollars.[61] The last stretch of street-level track was removed from Eleventh Avenue in 1941.[58]
The first train on the High Line viaduct, part of New York Central's West Side Line, ran along the structure in 1933.[62] The elevated structure was dedicated on June 29, 1934, and was the first part of the West Side Improvement Project to be completed.[63] The High Line, which originally ran from 35th Street to St. John's Park Terminal at Spring Street,[6] was designed to go through the center of blocks rather than over an avenue;[63][55] as a result, the viaduct's construction necessitated the demolition of 640 buildings.[63][58] It connected directly to factories and warehouses, allowing trains to load and unload inside buildings. Milk, meat, produce, and raw and manufactured goods could be transported and unloaded without disturbing street traffic.[55] This reduced the load on the Bell Laboratories Building (which has housed the Westbeth Artists Community since 1970)[64] and the former Nabisco plant in Chelsea Market, which were served from protected sidings in the buildings
I saw Holy Trinity come up on the Heritage Weekend website, so I thought a nice Sunday afternoon out, a drive, an ice cream, and visit a new church.
But turns out that Holy Trinity is the Victorian church the other end of the High Street, and I came to the much older one, which happened to be open, but also explains the rest of the account below......
The passing of HM the Queen changed plans somewhat, but I didn't know that.
Sittingbourne is not a pretty town. It has a main road driven through the middle of it, and the area around the church, not pretty either. Four Ne'er-do-wells were drinking and smoking in the churchyard, and in time would attract the attention of two PCOs.
The blurb talked about visiting the crypt and so on, so I was looking forward to the visit. And upon entering, I was pretty much the only one looking round, in the south aisle a coffee shop had been set up.
A woman came up to me and asked:
"Are you SFM?", which I assume to be Swale FM, the local radio station.
I told her I wasn't. But then I did have my new Tron t shirt on, and and looked like a nerd. The actual nerd came out from behind the organ carrying leads and mics. He was SFM.
I introduced the woman to the guy and got on with my shots.
A voice behind me asked:
"Are you SFM?"
Again, I said I wasn't, but there was a guy around who was.
It seems a service was being broadcast, and they were setting up equipment, and in time members of the choir arrived and people carrying instruments. Either that or it was the mafia.
By then I had my shots, and so we made to leave, as yet more people came into the church, while outside people waited for the service to start.
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SITTINGBORNE.
THE next parish westward from Murston is Sittingborne, antiently written Sedingbourne, in Saxon, sœdingburna, i. e. the hamlet by the bourne, or small stream.
THE PARISH and town of Sittingborne is situated about forty miles from London, the high road from thence to Dover leading through it. The parish, though rather above the level of the marshes, which bound the northern side of it, from which the ground rises to the town, is still a damp situation, and both from the air and water is not accounted a healthy one, though much more so than several of the neighbouring parishes equally northward, than which it has a more chearful and populous aspect; from the town the ground still keeps rising southward till it joins Tunstall, in the road to which about a quarter of a mile from the town is a good modern house called Glovers, which lately belonged to Thomas Bannister, esq. who resided in it, and died in 1791, and his widow, Mrs. Bannister, now owns it; eastward from which, at about the same distance, are the estates of Chilston and Fulston, and Hysted Forstall, with Golden-wood at the boundary of the parish, part of which is within it, adjoining to Bapchild and Rodmersham. The parish, which is but small, contains little more than eight hundred acres of land, consisting of arable, pasture, orchards, hop ground, and woods. In the upper and western parts it is much inclined to chalk and thin land, but the rest of it is in general a fertile loam, especially about the town, which was formerly surrounded by orchards of apples and cherries, but many of them have been destroyed to make room for plantations of hops, which, however, are not so numerous as formerly, and several of those which remain are kept up only as nurseries for young plantations of fruit trees, to which they must soon in their turn give place. Northward from the town the grounds are entirely pasture and orchards, lying on a descent to the town of Milton and the creek, both about half a mile distant from it; on the latter is a key called Crown key, of great use to this part of the country for the exporting of corn and wood, and relanding the several commodities from London and elsewhere. At a small distance north-west from the town is Bayford-court.
It appears by a survey made in the 8th year of queen Elizabeth, that there was then in this parish houses inhabited eighty-eight; lacking inhabitants five; keys two, Crown key and Holdredge key; ships and boats three, two of one ton, and one of twenty-four tons.
THE town of Sittingborne is built on each side of the high road at the fortieth mile-stone from London, and stands on a descent towards the east. It is a wide, long street unpaved, the houses of which are mostly modern, being well built of brick, and sashed, the whole having a chearful aspect. The principal support of it has always been from the inns, and houses of reception in it for travellers, of which there are several.
The inhabitants boast much of John Northwood, esq. of Northwood, having entertained king Henry V. on his triumphant return from France, at the Red Lion inn, in this town; and though the entertainment was plentiful, and befitting the royalty of his guest, yet such was the difference of the times, that the whole expence of it amounted to no more than 9s. 9d. wine being then sold at two-pence a pint, and other articles in proportion. The principal inn now in it, called the Rose, is perhaps the most superb of any throughout the kingdom, and the entertainment afforded in it equally so, though the traveller probably will not find his reckoning near so moderate as that of John Northwood before-mentioned. About the middle of the opposite side of the town there is a good family seat, which was once the residence of the Tomlyn's, and then for many years of the Lushingtons, several of whom lie buried in this church, of whom a further mention has already been made under Rodmersham manor, which they possessed. At length Thomas Godfrey Lushington left it to reside at Canterbury, and his second son the Rev. James-Stephen Lushington, becoming possessed of it afterwards, sold it to Mr. John May, who resided in it for some time. Since which it has been converted into an inn. At this house, whilst in the possession of the Lushingtons, king George the 1st. and 11d. constantly lodged, whenever they travelled through this town, both in their way to, and return from visiting their German dominions.
The church and vicarage stand almost at the east end of the town, near which there rises a clear spring of water in the high road, which flows from thence northward into Milton creek.
Queen Elizabeth, by her charter, in her 16th year, incorporated the town of Sittingborne, by the name of a guardian and free tenants thereof; and granted to it a market weekly on a Wednesday, and two fairs yearly, the one at Whitsuntide, and the other at Michaelmas, with many other privileges: which charter was used for several years, and until the queen was pleased, through further favor to grant to it another more ample charter, in her 41st year, by which she incorporated this place, by the name of a mayor and jurats, and regranted the market and fairs, with the addition of a great number of privileges, and among others, of returning two members to parliament.
This charter does not appear ever to have been used, or the privileges in it exercised. The market, after having been used for several years, was dropped, and only the two yearly fairs have been kept up, which are still held on Whit-Monday and the two following days, for linen and toys, and on October 10, and the four following days, for linen, woollen, cloaths, hardward, &c. and on the second day of it, for the hiring of servants, both in the town, and in a field, called the Butts, at the back of it.
Lewis Theobald, the poet, made famous by Mr. Pope, in his Dunciad, was born at Sittingborne, his father being an attorney at this place.
SOME FEW of our antiquarians have been inclined to six the Roman station, called, in the second iter of Antonine, Durolevum, at or near Sittingborne; among which are Mr. Talbot, Dr. Horsley, Baxter, and Dr. Stukeley in his comment upon his favorite Richard of Cirencester; (fn. 1) but they have but little to offer in support of their conjecture, except the distances made use of in one or two copies, which are so different in many of them, that there is no trusting to any one in particular; consequently each alters them as it suits his own hypothesis best. The reader will find more of this subject under the description of both Lenham and Newington.
In the year 893, the Danes having fitted out a great number of ships, with an intention of ravaging the coasts of this kingdom, divided them into two fleets; with one of which they failed up the river Limene, or Rother, and with the other, under the command of Hastings, their captain, they entered the mouth of the river Thames, and landed at the neighbouring town of Milton. Near Milton they built a castle, at a place called Kemsley-down, about a quarter of a mile north-east from where the church of Milton now stands, which being overgrown with bushes, acquired the name of Castle rough. King Alfred, on receiving intelligence of these depredations, marched his forces towards Kent, and in order to flop their incursions, some time afterwards built on the opposite or eastern side of the creek, about a mile from the Danish intrenchments, a fortification, part of the ditches of which, and a small part of the stone-work, is still to be seen at Bayford-castle, in this parish.
Gerarde, the herbalist, found on the high road near this place,
Tragoriganum Dodonæi, goats marjorum of Dodo- næus.
Ruta muraria sive salvia vitæ, wall rue, or rue maidenhair; upon the walls of the church-yard here.
Colutea minima five coronilla, the smallest bastard sena; on the chalky barren grounds near Sittingborne, (fn. 2) and lately likewise by Mr. Jacob.
Hieracium maximum chondrillæ folio asperum; observed by Mr. John Sherard, very plentisully in the road from this place to Rochester.
Lychnis saponaria dicta, common sopewort; by him on the same road.
Tithymalus Hybernicus, Irish Spurge; between this place and Faversham.
Erysimum sophia dictum; found by Mr. Jacob, on the road sides near Sittingborne, and on the Standard Key.
Oenanthe cicutæ facie Lobellii, hemlock dropwort, found by him in the water lane between Sittingborne and Milton. (fn. 3)
THE MANOR OF MILTON is paramount over this parish, subordinate to which is
THE MANOR OF GOODNESTON, perhaps so called from its having been the property of Goodwyne, earl of Kent, who might have secured himself here at Bayford castle, in the year 1052, when having taken up arms against king Edward the Consessor, he raised an army, and ravaged the king's possessions, and among them the town of Milton, which he burnt to the ground.
On his death it most probably came to his son king Harold, and after the battle of Hastings into the hands of the crown, whence it seems to have been granted to the eminent family of Leyborne, of Leyborne, in this county. William, son of Roger de Leyborne, died possessed of it in the 3d year of king Edward II.
His grand-daughter Juliana, daughter of Thomas de Leyborne, who died in his life-time, became her grandfather's heir, and succeeded in this manor, to which she entitled her several husbands successively, all of whom she survived, and died S. P. in the 41st year of king Edward III. when no one being found, who could make claim to any of her estates, this manor, among the rest of them, escheated to the crown.
After which this manor of Goodneston, as it was then called, seems to have been granted by the crown to Robert de Nottingham, who resided at a seat adjoining to this manor, called
BAYFORD-CASTLE, where his ancestors had resided for several generations. Robert de Nottingham lived here in the reign of king Edward I. and dates several of his deeds apud castellum suum de Bayford, apud Goodneston. Robert de Nottingham, his successor, who became possessed of the manor of Goodneston as beforementioned, was sheriff in the 48th year of king Edward III. and kept his shrievalty at Bayford, bearing for his arms, Paly, wavy of two pieces, gules and argent, in which year he died, and was found by the inquisition to die possessed of lands at Sharsted, Pedding in Tenham, Newland, La Hirst, Higham in Milsted, Bixle, now called Bix, in Tong, and lastly, Goodneston, with Bayford, in Sittingborne; all which descended to his only son John Nottingham, who died without issue male, leaving Eleanor his daughter his sole heir, who marrying Simon Cheney, of Crall, in Sussex, second son of Sir Richard Cheney, of Shurland, he became, in her right, entitled to it. His grandson Humphry Cheney alienated both Goodneston and Bayford, at the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign, to Mr. Richard Lovelace, of Queenhyth, in London.
His son Launcelot Lovelace was of Bayford, and purchased the manor of Hever in Kingsdown, near Farningham, under which a more ample account of him and his descendants may be seen. His second son William, heir to his eldest brother Sir Richard, who died S. P. at length became possessed of Goodneston, with Bayford, at which he resided, and dying anno 17 king Henry VII. left two sons, John and William Lovelace, esqrs. who possessed this manor and seat between them; the former of whom resided at Bayford, where he died in the 2d year of Edward VI. holding the moiety of this manor in capite, by knight's service, and leaving seven sons, of whom Thomas Lovelace, esq. his eldest son, inherited his interest in this manor and seat. He procured his lands to be disgavelled, by the act passed anno 2 and 3 Edward VI. and afterwards in the 10th year of queen Elizabeth, together with his cousin William Lovelace, by a joint conveyance, alienated Goodneston, with Bayford, to Mr. Ralph Finch, of Kingsdown, in this neighbourhood, whose son Mr. Thomas Finch, of that place, passed it away by sale to Sir William Garrard, who had been lord mayor in 1555, whose ancestors had been of this parish for several generations before, and perhaps were seated at Fulston in it, as many of them lie buried, in the chancel belonging to that seat, in this church. (fn. 4)
He died in 1571, and was buried in St. Magnus's church, in London, bearing for his arms, Argent, on a fess sable, a lion passant of the field; which arms, borne by his ancestors, are carved on the roof of the cloysters at Canterbury. After which it descended down to his grandson Sir John Garrard, or Gerrard, as this family now began to spell their name, who was of Whethamsted, in Hertfordshire, and was created a baronet in 1621. He was succeeded in it by his eldest son of the same name (at which time Bayford was become no more than a farm-house, being called Bayford-court farm). He died in 1700, leaving an only daughter and heir Mary, who carried the manor of Goodneston, with Bayford, among the rest of her inheritance, in marriage to Montague Drake, esq. of Shardeloes, in Agmondesham, in Buckinghamshire, who bore for his arms, Argent, a wivern, with wings displayed, and tail moved, gules. In whose descendants it continued down to William Drake, esq. M. P. for the borough of Agmondesham, as his ancestors had been, some few intermissions only excepted, ever since its being restored to its privilege of sending members to parliament, as a borough, anno 21 James I. He died possessed of this estate in 1796, and his heirs are at this time possessed of it.
A court baron is held for the manor of Goodneston, with Bayford.
CHILTON is a manor situated in the south-east part of this parish, which was formerly accounted a manor, and had owners of that furname, who held the manor of Chilton in Ash, near Sandwich, both which William de Chilton held at his death in the 31st year of king Edward I. one of whose descendants, in the beginning of king Edward III.'s reign, passed it away to Corbie, whose descendant Robert Corbie, of Boughton Malherb, died possessed of this manor of Chilton, alias Childeston, in the 39th year of that reign. (fn. 5) After which it passed by a female heir of this name in like manner as Boughton Malherb, to the family of Wotton, and from them again to the Stanhopes, (fn. 6) in which it continued till Philip, earl of Chesterfield, about the year 1725, alienated it to Richard Harvey, esq. of Dane-court, whose grandson, the Rev. Richard Harvey, died possessed of it in 1772, leaving his widow surviving, since which it has been sold to Balduck, and by him again to Mr. George Morrison, who now owns it, and resides in it.
FULSTON, called antiently Fogylston, was a large mansion, situated at a small distance southward from Chilton last-described, which, from the burials of the Garrards in the chancel belonging to this estate in Sittingborne church, seems to have been the early residence of that family in this parish. However that be, in the reign of Henry VIII. it was become the estate and residence of John Cromer, esq. the third son of Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, who died in 1539, and was buried in this church, leaving his three daughters his coheirs; and in one of the windows of this church were the arms of John Cromer, esq. of Fulston, and his two wives, Guldeford and Grove, and their several quarterings.
Probably, by his will, or by a former entail, on his dying without male issue, this seat descended to his nephew Sir James Cromer, of Tunstall, whose grandson, of the same name, dying without male issue in 1613, Christian, one of his daughters and coheirs carried it in marriage to John Hales, esq. eldest son of Sir Edward Hales, of Tenterden, knight and baronet, as has been already more fully mentioned before under Tunstall, and in his descendants it has continued down to Sir Edward Hales, bart. of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, the present owner of it. The greatest part of this mansion has been pulled down within memory, and a neat farm-house has been erected on the ruins of it.
Charities.
JOHN ALLEN, of Sittingborne, by his will in 1615, gave 40s. per annum for repairing the alms-houses in Crown-key-lane, and firing for the poor in them, to be paid out of Glovers, now Mrs. Bannister's.
ROBERT HODSOLE, by will in 1684, gave 10s. per annum to the poor, payable every Christmas-day yearly, out of Mrs. Rondeau's land.
JOHN GRANT, by will in 1689, gave 20s. per annum, to be paid in corn and bread on January 1, out of Mrs. Trott's farm.
FIVE SEAMS of boiling peas are yearly paid from the parsonage, to be distributed to the poor on every Christmas-day yearly.
KATHERINE DICKS, by her will, left the sum of 25l. to be put out on land security, the interest of it to be said out for ever in six two-penny loaves, to be given to six poor widows &c. who attend divine service, beginning every year on the first Sunday after Christmas-day, of the annual produce of 1l.
The poor annually relieved are about forty; casually eight hundred and fifty.
SITTINGBORNE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JU RISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deany of Sittingborne
The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is a large, handsome building, of three isles and two chancels, and two cross ones; at the west end is a tower beacon steeple, in which is a clock, a set of chimes, and six bells.
On the stone font, which is an octagon, are the arms of archbishop Arundel, a shield, having on it a cross story; and another with the emblems of Christ's crucifixion on it.
On the 17th of July, 1762, the wind being exceeding high, a fire broke out on the roof of this church, occasioned by the plumbers, who were repairing the leads, having left their fire burning during their absence at dinner, which consumed the whole of it, except the bare walls and the tower. Next year a brief passed for rebuilding of it, which with the contribution of the inhabitants, and a gift of fifty pounds from archbishop Secker, they were enabled to set about.
This was stopped for some little time by the owners of the three chancels, belonging to the Bayford, Chilton, and Fulston estates, refusing to contribute to the rebuilding of them, and they were at length rebuilt at the same cost with the rest of the church; and the whole of it was afterwards completed and fitted up in a very handsome manner. By the fire the monuments against the walls were destroyed, and most of the gravestones broken by the falling of the timbers. The latter, in the rebuilding of the church, have, the greatest part of them, been most absurdly removed from the graves over which they lay, to other parts of the church, and some even from the church-yard, as it suited to make the pavement complete; so that there is now hardly a guess to be made, where the bodies lie, that the inscriptions commemorate, but the gravestones of the Lushingtons, I believe, were none of them removed. In the south cross chancel belonging to the estate of Fulston, is a monument for Thos. Bannister, gent. obt. 1750, arms, Argent, a cross story, sable. The brass plate, on which the inscription was, for John Crowmer, of Fulston, and his two wives, in this chancel, being loose, there was found on the under side of it one in Latin, for Robert Rokele, esq. once dwelling with the most revered lady, the lady Joane de Bohun, countess of Hereford, Essex, and Northton, who died in 1421, an instance of œconomy which has been discovered at times in other churches.
The south-east chancel belonged to the Chilton estate; there are many gravestones of the family of Lushington in it. Dr. Lushington's monument was entirely destroyed at the time of the fire. In the upper part of this chancel is a vault, belonging to the Chilton estate, in which is only one coffin, of Mr. Harvey, who died in 1751, and a great quantity of bonespiled up at one end of it.
The archdeacon's court, in which he holds his visitation, is at the upper end of this chancel.
The coats of arms in the windows of the church, which were many, were entirely destroyed, and they have been since entirely resitted with modern glass.
The middle chancel is the archbishop's, and belongs to the parsonage; in which there is a memorial for Mathew, son of Sir John, and grandson of archbishop Parker, who died in 1645. The north chancel is made use of now as a vestry. The north cross chancel belongs to the Bayford estate. In the north wall of it there is the effigies of a woman, lying at length, in the hollow of the wall, with an arch, carved and ornamented, over her, and midway between the arch and figure, a flat table stone of Bethersden marble: the whole of it seems very antient.
In this church there was, before the reformation, a chantry, called Busherb's chantry.
The church of Sittingborne belonged to the Benedictine nunnery of Clerkenwell, to which it was appropriated before the 8th year of king Richard II. and it remained part of the revenues of it till its dissolution, in the 31st year of king Henry VIII.'s reign.
¶This church thus coming into the king's hands, seems to have remained part of the revenues of the crown till queen Elizabeth, in her 3d year, granted the parsonage of it, with the advowson of the vicarage, the former being then valued at 13l. 6s. 8d. to archbishop Parker. Since which they have continued parcel of the possessions of the archbishopric, and remain so at this time.
The parsonage has been from time to time leased out on a benesicial lease, at the yearly rent of 13l. 6s. 8d. In 1643 John Olebury, gent. was lessee; in later times, Cockin Sole, esq. of Bobbing, whose son John Cockin Sole, esq. died possessed of it in 1790, since which this lease has been sold under the directions of his will.
In the 8th year of king Richard II. this parsonage was valued at 23l. 6s. 8d.
In 1578, on a survey of the diocese of Canterbury, it was returned, that this parsonage was impropriate to the queen's majesty; the vicarage also in her gift; dwelling-houses eighty; communicants three hundred; the tenths twenty shillings.
The vicarage is valued in the king's books at ten pounds, the yearly tenths being one pound. In 1640, it was valued at fifty-six pounds. Communicants three hundred and eighty.
The vicarage is situated not far from the north side of the church-yard, adjoining to which is the only piece of glebe land belonging to it.
These are some shots from a shoot I did for Driven-- a luxury car service in London. I was shooting with a photographer friend of mine all over the city.
The photos we took in Trinity Square (next to the Tower of London) were pretty interesting to capture as everyone who saw us shooting assumed there was someone famous in the car and stood around getting in our way, until we got into the cars ourselves. haha.
Goodtimes.
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MASP
Rejane Cantoni & Leonardo Crescenti - Solo - Brasil | Brazil
LIVRARIA CULTURA
Arnt Jensen - Limbo - Dinamarca | Denmark
Daniela Arrais & Luiza Voll - Invente um sorriso - Brasil | Brazil
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Matthias Hoegg - August - Inglaterra | England
Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing - Austrália / Australia
Animatório - Neomorphus - Brasil | Brazil
Bertrand Bey & Pierre Ducos - La Détente - França | France
Birdo Studio: Luciana Eguti, Paulo Muppet & Amir Admoni - Monkey Joy - Brasil | Brazil
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Alan Becker - Animator Vs Animation - Estados Unidos | United States
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Alexander Gellner - 1 Minute Puberty - Alemanha | Germany
Andrew Huang - The Gloaming - Estados Unidos | United States
Ben Thomas & Leo Bridle - Train of Thought - Inglaterra | England
Birdo Studio: Luciana Eguti & Paulo Muppet - Bonequinha do Papai - Brasil | Brazil
Birdo Studio: Luciana Eguti & Paulo Muppet - Caixa - Brasil | Brazil
Birdo Studio: Luciana Eguti, Paulo Muppet & Allan Sieber - Animadores - Brasil | Brazil
Birdo Studio: Luciana Eguti, Paulo Muppet & Jimmy Leroy - Pequeno Cidadão - Brasil | Brazil
Brendan Angelides & Cyriak Harris - Eskmo - Estados Unidos | United States
Christopher Alender - Eye of The Storm - Estados Unidos | United States
Coala Filmes: Cesar Cabral - Dossiê Rê Bordosa - Brasil | Brazil
Dante Zaballa & Matias Vigliano - The Head - Argentina | Argentina
David O’Reilly - Please Say Something - Irlanda e Alemanha | Ireland and Germany
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David Wilson - Japanese Popstars “Let Go” - Inglaterra | England
Dominik Käser, Martin-Sebastian Senn, Mario Deuss, Niloy J. Mitra & Mark Pauly - Silhouettes of Jazz - Estados Unidos | United States
Esteban Diácono - Ólafur Arnalds - Ljósið - Argentina | Argentina
Fábio Yamagi & Denis Kamioka ‘Cisma’ - Photocopy Romance - Brasil | Brazil
Fernando Sanches - Xixi no Banho - Brasil | Brazil
Gabrielle Lissot, Pierre Lippens, Laurent Jaffier & Nicolas Deprez - Tous Des Monstres (All Monsters) - França | France
Guilherme Marcondes - Tyger - Brasil | Brazil
Guillermo Madoz - Head Honcho - Argentina | Argentina
Hi-Sim - Jump - Inglaterra | England
Home de Caramel - Alone Together - Espanha | Spain
Jasmin Lai - Brave - Estados Unidos e Tailândia | United States and Thailand
Jason Wishnow - Oedipus - Inglaterra | England
Jean-Paul Frenay - Artificial Paradise, Inc - Bélgica e França | Belgium and France
Joanna Lurie - Tree’s Migration - França | France
Joaquin Baldwin - Sebastian's Voodoo - Estados Unidos | United States
Joaquin Baldwin - The Windmill Farmer - Estados Unidos | United States
Ken Turner - TIM - Canadá | Canada
Lee Tao - Seedling - Canadá / Canada
Lemeh42 - Wool & Water - Itália / Italy
Leszek Plichta - Dreammaker - Polônia e Alemanha | Polland and Germany
Malcolm Sutherland - Bout - Canadá | Canada
Malcolm Sutherland - Umbra - Canadá | Canada
Marc Silver - There Are No Others - Inglaterra | England
Marlies van der wel - Protest Flatness - Holanda | Netherlands
Martin Piana - LUMI - Argentina | Argentina
Martin Woutisseth - Stanley Kubrick, a filmography - França | France
Matatoro Team: Mauro Carraro, Raphaël Calamote & Jérémy Pasquet - Matatoro - França | France
Matthias Hoegg - August - Inglaterra | England
Matthias Hoegg - Thrusday - Inglaterra | England
Max Hattler - SPIN - Inglaterra | England
Meindbender Animation Studio - The Pirate - Suécia | Sweden
Michael Paul Young - The Interpretation - Estados Unidos | United States
Michal Socha - Chick - Polônia | Polland
Michal Socha - Koncert - Polônia | Polland
Mr McFly - Baseball - França | France
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Pahnl - Nowhere near here - Inglaterra | England
Peppermelon TV - Advanced Beauty - Inglaterra e Estados Unidos | England and Unites States
Peppermelon TV - First - Inglaterra e Estados Unidos | England and Unites States
Peppermelon TV - Target - Friends with you - Inglaterra e Estados Unidos | England and Unites States
Robert Seidel - Vellum - Alemanha | Germany
Rogier van der Zwaag Nobody Beats The Drum - Grindin - Holanda | Netherlands
Ross Phillips - 5 Second Projects ( Ballons) - Inglaterra | England
Ross Phillips - 5 Second Projects ( Reverse) - Inglaterra | England
Sasha Belyaev - The Rite of Youth - Letônia | Latvia
Scott Pagano - Pororoca - Estados Unidos | United States
Scott Pagano - Trust In The 'M' Machine - Estados Unidos | United States
Serene Teh - Parkour - Cingapura | Singapore
Stephen Irwin - Black Dog's Progress - Inglaterra | England
Stephen Irwin - Horse Glue - Inglaterra | England
Sylvain Marc - Cocotte Minute - França | France
Sylvain Marc - Fertilizer Soup - França | France
Tanya Aydostian - L'autre - França | France
Taylor Price - Hunt - Canadá e Estados Unidos | Canada and United States
Treat Studios - E4 - Inglaterra | England
Veronika Obertová - Viliam - Eslováquia | Slovakia
Wesley Rodrigues - Pinga com Saquê - Brasil | Brazil
Zach Cohen - The Chair Not Taken - Itália | Italy
Andrew Ruhemann & Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing - Austrália / Australia
Animatório - Neomorphus - Brasil | Brazil
Bertrand Bey & Pierre Ducos - La Détente - França | France
Birdo Studio: Luciana Eguti, Paulo Muppet & Amir Admoni - Monkey Joy - Brasil | Brazil
Coala Filmes: Cesar Cabral - Tempestade - Brasil | Brazil
Fábio Yamaji - O Divino, de repente - Brasil | Brazil
Max Loubaresse, Marc Bouyer & Anthony Vivien - Salesman Pete - França | France
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Tom Jantol - Brief Encounter - Croácia / Croatia
Tom Jantol - Dear Fairy - Croácia | Croatia
Tom Jantol - Duel - Croácia | Croatia
Tom Jantol- The Remake - Croácia | Croatia
Tom Jantol- Wizard of OS: the fish incident - Croácia | Croatia
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Alex May & Rudolf Kremers - Eufloria - Reino Unido | United Kingdom
Alexander Bruce - Hazard: The Journey of Life - Austrália | Australia
Christoffer Hedborg - Toys - Suécia | Sweden
Paolo Pedercini / Molleindustria - "Every Day The Same Dream" - Estados Unidos e Itália | United States and Italy
Richard E Flanagan / Phosfiend Systems - FRACT - Canadá | Canada
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Soraya Braz e Fábio Fon - Via Invisível - Brasil | Brazil
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Soraya Braz e Fábio Fon - Via Invisível - Brasil | Brazil
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*Workshop:
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Cristiano Rosa - DIY Together – Brasil | Brazil
Hye Yeon Nam & Carl DiSalvo - Huggable Nature, Community Workshop – Estados Unidos | United States
Ricardo Palmieri -VideoMapping e Realidade Expandida | VideoMapping and Expanded Reality – Brasil | Brazil
*Symposium:
19.07.2011
André Rangel - Portugal | Portugal
Metacriação e composição algorítmica: Reflexões sobre a distância entre o criador e o público | Meta-creation and algorithmic composition - Reflections on the distance from the creator to the audience
Ali Miharbi - Turquia | Turkey
Top-down X Bottom-up: Obras recentes | Top-down vs. Bottom-up: Recent Works
Eric Siu - Honk Kong e Japão | Hong Kong and Japan
Corpo dirigido pela mídia: Massagem de karaokê | Media Driven Body: Karaoke Massage
Ben Jack - Nova Zelândia | New Zealand
Cérebros, computadores e emergência: Mágica mental em um mundo digital | Brains, computers and emergence: Mental magic in a digital world
Kazushi Mukaiyama - Japão | Japan
IJIROS
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Daniel Gonzalez Xavier (coordenação e mediação | coordination and mediation) Brasil | Brazil; Fernando Velázquez - Montevidéu-Uruguai; Milton Sogabe - Brasil | Brazil; Miguel de Castro Perez - Brasil | Brazil; Ricardo Palmieri - Brasil | Brazil; Vanessa Fort - Brasil | Brazil
Processos mistos de criação e gestão de práticas artísticas, tecnológicas e culturais: Uma aproximação aos Encontros AVLAB e outros modelos de gestão compartilhada e em constante trânsito físico/online | Mixed processes of creation and management of artistic, technological and cultural practices: An approach to the AVLAB Meetings and other shared and in constant physical/online transit management models
20.07.2011
Andreas muk Haider - Áustria | Austria
Skia
Hye Yeon Nam - Coréia e Estados Unidos | Korea and United States
Por favor, sorria | Please Smile
Julian Jaramillo Arango - Brasil | Brazil
O Cubo Feliz | The Happy Cube
Matt Roberts - Estados Unidos | United States
Quem está no controle? Criando arte com dados em tempo real e interação do usuário | Who is in control? Creating art using real-time data and user interaction
Ricardo Iglesias García - Espanha | Spain
Arte, robôs e câmeras de vigilância | Art, robots and surveillance cameras
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Ana Carla Fonseca (Garimpo de Soluções) Brasil | Brazil; Expedito Araújo (Vivo EnCena) Brasil | Brazil; Laura Corrêa (ItsNoon) Brasil | Brazil; Piatã Stoklos Kignel (Banco Santander) Brasil | Brazil
Economia Criativa | Creative Economy
21.07.2011
Sergio Roclaw Basbaum - Brasil | Brazil
Percepção e experiência em ambientes digitais: tecnoestese e infocognição | Perception and experience in digital environments: tecnoaesthesis and infocognition
Eduardo Patrício - Brasil | Brazil
Desenvolvimento de Instrumentos Musicais Digitais como atividade composicional | Development of musical instruments as a compositional activity
Giuliano Obici - Brasil | Brazil
Lanhouse e seus devires | LAN houses and their devires
Claudia Paulina González Godoy - Chile | Chile
Arte, Hardware Aberto e Cultura DIY | Art, Open Hardware and DIY Culture
Douglas Easterly - Nova Zelândia e Estados Unidos | New Zealand and United States
Escapando ao solipsismo: Inteligência Artificial, design de jogos | Escaping Solipsism: Artificial Intelligence, Game Design
Victoria Messi - Argentina | Argentina
Anti Utopia: Arte Eletrônica na América Latina | Anti Utopia: Electronic Art in Latin America
Gabriela Previdello - Brasil | Brazil
Fluxo da informação na contemporaneidade: a memória reordenada nas estruturas do FILE Arquivo | Contemporary information flow: the reordered memory on FILE Archive structures
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Eliane Weizmann (coordenação e mediação | coordination and mediation) Brasil | Brazil; Alessandro Ludovico (neural) Itália | Italy; Alexandre Matias (Editor do caderno de cultura digital do jornal O Estado de S. Paulo) Brasil | Brazil; Régine Debatty (we make money not art) Bélgica | Belgium; Victoria Messi (El Pez Eléctrico) Argentina | Argentina
Jornalismo Cultural | Cultural Journalism
22.07.2011
Fernando Macedo - Brasil | Brazil
"Música para fala e trinta minutos", por PirarucuDuo | "Music for speech and 30 minutes" by Pirarucu Duo
Eduardo Omine - Brasil | Brazil
Fragmentos em ar curvo | Fragments in curved air
Christian Oyarzún Roa - Chile | Chile
G: Representações e reformulações do global de uma perspectiva meridional | G: representations and reformulations of the global from a South view
Karla Schuch Brunet - Brasil | Brazil
Geografias do Mar # Ilhas | Geographies of the Sea # Islands
Rachel Zuanon Dias / Geraldo Lima - Brasil | Brazil
Desenhando biointerfaces usáveis para jogar: o BioBodyGame e o NeuroBodyGame | Geographies of the Sea # Islands
Mesa Redonda | Round Table
Franklin Lee (AA) (coordenação e mediação | coordination and mediation); Anne Save de Beaurecueil (SUBdV) >; Robert Smith Stuart (Kokkugia); Sandro Tubertini (BDSP); Thiago Mundim (AA)
Coreografando Arquitetura Computacional | Choreographing Computational Architecture
The stroy of Queen Shiny - book 2 Full stroy The the evil queen of lust.
Chapter 1 - Prologue
Chapter 2 - The lustful latex lesbians
Chapter 3 - Lost in lust
Chapter 4 - The last ture queen
Chapter 5 - Belle-glosse
Chapter 6 - Shiny's selfishness
Chapter 7 - Queen Slutty
Chapter 8 - Reclaiming the throne
Chapter 9 - The corruption of Pink lust
Chapter 10 - Ex grifriend
Chapter 11 - The last war of Dommalex
Chapter 1 - Prologue
Queen Shiny was born to Queen Glassy and King Tushar in the Sky-tower of Magicalu, Shiny was destined for the throne from a young age. Her early life was spent alongside her younger sister, Princess Satiny, and their magical land-fish, Floppy. Shiny's childhood was steeped in royalty, but her focus diverged from the welfare of her people by the age of 13, caring more about her appearance and desire for compliments, particularly when adorned in latex outfits and makeup. This contrasted sharply with her mother, Queen Glassy, who was beloved for her dedication to her subjects. At 14, Shiny was introduced to the Staff of Dominance, an ancient artifact crafted 10,000 years prior by the six guardians of Dommalex to maintain the world's balance. Despite her mother's explicit warnings against using the staff and the "book of the 4 winds," Shiny verbally agreed to these prohibitions. During this period, she met Hardice, a respected ship-man, but showed little interest in him, preferring the attention she received for her beauty. Her wedding introduced her to Glossy, a wealthy girl with a shared passion for latex fashion, leading to a close romantic relationship that overshadowed her marriage to Hardice. Shiny was crowned queen at the age of 14. Her reign over Magicalu was short-lived and tumultuous, ending due to a series of events primarily involving the blizzard dragon White-sheen. During White-sheen's destructive rampage, Shiny, then pregnant, was perceived as an ineffective ruler. Instead of confronting the dragon, she and Glossy entered a forbidden magical spell room and opened the "magic book of the 4 winds". As the dragon approached, Shiny fled to a crystal-cave where she gave birth to her daughter, Crystal, while Glossy attempted to close the forbidden book. The dragon was eventually subdued by White-sky, Hardice, and King Tushar. Shiny was subsequently uncrowned for abandoning her people, using forbidden magic, and alleged infidelity to Prince Hardice the 5th. Public sentiment also deemed her too young and immature for her role, and rumors of a plot to install Glossy as a co-ruler further eroded her legitimacy. In shame, Shiny left the kingdom, expressing a preference for "shiny sexy latex" over her queendom, leaving Princess Crystal in Hardice's care.
After her uncrowning, Shiny and Glossy relocated multiple times, living in Toweron for a year, then moved to Wallfort, specifically Poilshvil town. Shiny had also spent three years in Gemrock starting at age 18, and moved to Reeflaxio by age 21. By age 23, they arrived in the Kingdom of Hexonu, having extensively learned magic spells and gained considerable knowledge about Dommalex. In Hexonu's Enchantment City, they encountered Mistress Aurora, a powerful latex sorceress who recognized Shiny as the lost Queen of Magicalu. Shiny achieved a high rank and was granted a royal hall, though not formally a queen of Hexonu, while Glossy was regarded as a "latex princess". They resided in a "latex home" and dedicated many years to learning magic. By the age of 30, Shiny, still focused on her appearance, learned that her 15-year-old daughter, Princess Crystal, was gaining recognition for her beauty. To maintain her youthful appearance and enhance her attractiveness, Shiny, with Glossy's help, cast a "prettiness" spell, making her appear around 18 years old with an hourglass figure, big bust, wider hips, and prettier hair and face. She also cast a spell to make her latex outfits perpetually shiny. This transformation made her the "hottest in all of Hexonu," drawing immense attention. Mistress Aurora confronted Shiny about taking forbidden books, but Shiny dismissed her, asserting her queenly status and beauty as justification.
Shiny, alongside Queen Glossy, is depicted as having a youthful appearance, perceived to be around 24–26 years old due to her "prettiness" spell, despite her actual age of 63. She possessed comprehensive knowledge of all magic books in Dommalex and was familiar with all practitioners of witchcraft. Shiny harbored a long-standing dislike for Princess Shimmerah of Gonzzul, later Queen Shimmerah, due to perceived evil plans observed through her "Seeing crystal ball of Rubyano." This animosity intensified after Shimmerah acquired Mistress Virella's staff. Shiny and Glossy fled Hexonu after Shimmerah initiated a campaign of conquest. They took a "Bag of Quantity" filled with crucial magical items, including magic books, powerful stones, rings, the "Seeing crystal ball of Rubyano," and "lots of shiny latex clothing," to prevent Shimmerah from misusing them. They then opened a portal to Antarubberi, a jungle world with green water and sky, where they built a "rubberized home" and lived freely. Shiny and Glossy planned their return to Dommalex, intentionally leaving their magical items on Antarubberi and employing a forgetting spell. Upon her return, Shiny found Magicalu drastically changed: the Sky-tower was gold, and Latex Empress Shimmerah, 29, had conquered all 12 kingdoms and queendoms, renaming the land Shimmerathia. Shiny discovered the Staff of Dominance had been taken, suspecting Shimmerah. In a confrontation with Shimmerah in the Golden Sky-tower, Shiny, appearing 25 despite being 75 due to aging spells, wore a royal-blue latex catsuit. She tricked Shimmerah into attempting to conquer the Temple of Time, knowing that the Unyielding Knights guarding it, despite a spell of unlust, would still be susceptible to Shimmerah's beauty. This led to the intervention of Aeon, the god of time, who cast Shimmerah into another realm. Shiny then retrieved the Staff of Dominance and returned it to its rightful place in the Sky-tower, becoming the recrowned Queen of Magicalu and a hero.
After Shimmerah's downfall, Shiny and Glossy visited Wealthold City in Gonzzul, which had become a dark, ruined place under Shimmerah's influence. They found kings and queens imprisoned in latex bondage, experiencing perpetual arousal without orgasm. Despite their initial intent to free them, Shiny and Glossy were drawn to images of Shimmerah and the BDSM environment, ultimately leaving the captives in their state. They returned to rule their own land, seeking a better path to restore their people.
Chapter 2 - The lustful latex lesbians
After a year of ruling her land, Mistress Luna came before Queen Shiny and Queen Glossy, also known as the Latex Lesbian Queens of Magical. Luna was not initially welcome, as she had worshipped Shimmerah during her rule. However, Luna informed them that she was not Shimmerah's slave but a spy sent by the Magical Mistresses of Hexonu to find Shimmerah's weakness. Luna stated that when Queen Shiny had returned to her throne, Luna sent Shimmerah to take it. However, Shimmerah told Shiny that she knew Shiny was wise and would trap her in her greed. Shiny sent Luna to the Temple of Time, where Aeon took her. Luna stated that if not for her, Shimmerah would control everything. Shiny and Glossy then allowed Luna into their royal hall. Luna bowed low and presented gifts: new, shiny black latex clothing made from rubber trees in the vast jungles of Latxrubbero, and a bottle of pink mist. Shiny asked if the pink mist was "pink lust," and Luna affirmed it. Glossy inquired about its origin and why she had received such a gift, as "pink lust" was mentioned in folklore. When a demoness of lust appeared, a "pink lust" fog manifested as a mist or flowed as a liquid. Exposure to "pink lust" induced perpetual lustfulness until it dissipated, which took a considerable amount of time. Shiny and Glossy recalled the "pink lust" in the jails of Wealthold City, within the Capital of Gonzzul, beneath Shimmerah's palace. Luna stated she wanted to help invigorate their sex life, adding that if they did not want it, they should keep it in the bottle. Luna then teleported away.
Later that night, Shiny and Glossy retrieved their most powerful sex toys. Dressed in their latex outfits, they entered their latex bed and opened a bottle of pink lust. They experienced intense sexual pleasure, orgasming repeatedly throughout the night. They desired more, using one sex toy after another. Even when the sun rose and their maids entered, they continued, unconcerned about who was in the room. While the maids cleaned, they licked each other's vulvas, performed 69, and used strap-on dildos to engage in sexual activity. They were playing with their cats while trying to walk out of the bedroom, giggling in greedy lust as the maids cleaned up the mess. This never-ending lustfulness of pure kinkiness went on for five days and five nights non-stop. Afterward, they slept as they were very worn out.
Even though they knew pink lust was evil and that lust demons used it, they wanted more of it but did not want their people to know. Shiny and Glossy tried to act as if it never happened. However, their addiction to sexual pleasure was too great, and their high fetish for latex, when combined, was such a turn-on that they knew they would become as lustful as the lost queen Silverleaf of Latexrubbero.
Chapter 3 - Lost in lust
Shimmerah was long gone. The other kings and queens, except Shellyana in the Lost Lands, were imprisoned in Shimmerah's dark tower, now inhabited by Mistress Luna. Over the years, Shiny became increasingly promiscuous, desiring constant sexual activity. She openly masturbated with sex toys on her throne, asserting her right as queen to do as she pleased. She continued even when others were present. She compelled Glossy to wear vibrating latex dildos as strap-ons and engaged in sexual activity with her throughout the day. Glossy, being more prudent, suggested they rest, but Shiny, as queen, demanded more. Shiny and Glossy engaged in days of non-stop sexual activity. Shiny instructed her maids to insert and remove sex toys when Glossy was exhausted. She cast magic spells on herself to enhance her sexual stamina. While Glossy slept, Shiny engaged in sexual activity with her latex-clad maids. Over the years, she was often observed orgasming with a "slutty" expression and eyes rolling back.
Shimmerah was long gone. The other kings and queens, except Shellyana in the Lost Lands, were imprisoned in Shimmerah's dark tower, now inhabited by Mistress Luna. Over the years, Shiny became increasingly promiscuous, desiring constant sexual activity. She openly masturbated with sex toys on her throne, asserting her right as queen to do as she pleased. She continued even when others were present. She compelled Glossy to wear vibrating latex dildos as strap-ons and engaged in sexual activity with her throughout the day. Glossy, being more prudent, suggested they rest, but Shiny, as queen, demanded more. Shiny and Glossy engaged in days of non-stop sexual activity. Shiny instructed her maids to insert and remove sex toys when Glossy was exhausted. She cast magic spells on herself to enhance her sexual stamina. While Glossy slept, Shiny engaged in sexual activity with her latex-clad maids. Over the years, she was often observed orgasming with a "slutty" expression and eyes rolling back.
For many years, Shiny indulged in the "pink lust" provided by Mistress Luna, who paid her generously in gold. Shiny knew that Mistress Luna extracted the "pink lust" from old rulers. She could have negotiated their freedom, but she prioritized her desires over their liberty. She instructed Luna to keep them captive indefinitely and to ensure her perpetual arousal. One hundred years later, Mistress Luna found Shiny in a pool filled with various sex toys. Luna presented a small bottle containing a liquid she called "pink liquid lust." She explained that a small cup of it would provide the power of a week's worth of pink lust and intensify the feeling of sex tenfold. Shiny, very excited, gave Luna more gold and magic crystals. That day, Shiny was carried out on her palanquin. She announced to the bowing crowd what was in the bottle, then drank it. She had her maids engage in sexual acts with her for all to see, enjoying being watched and experiencing intense orgasms. She shouted to her people in high sexual pleasure, saying, "I'm sluttier than Queen Silverleaf ever was, and I want to be known for my sluttiness and naughtiness."
Chapter 4 - The last ture queen
Shiny ruled for 170 years after Shimmerah's fall. Queen Shiny became increasingly addicted to "pink lust," which she constantly indulged. Glossy spent much of her time acquiring sex toys for Shiny, who always desired more and kinkier ones. Shiny lost her crown when her people no longer viewed her as a queen but as a selfish, promiscuous girl who cared only for sex and kinky pleasures, neglecting her people.
Glossy, now 246, like Shiny, still appeared to be 25 due to her magic. She was also a very kinky girl, always covered in latex and stuffed with sex toys. However, seeing how evil Shiny had become, Glossy removed all the pink lust and hunted down Mistress Luna to ensure Shiny could not gain any more power. Shiny told Glossy no, stating she needed sex all the time and hadn't gone a day without it for over 150 years. Shiny stuffed her pussy and ass with sex toys and packed her magic bag full of all her toys. She knew she would be forever horny; she was a nymphomaniac. Shiny departed her queendom, as the land of Magicalu lacked a ruler, the royal line having ended with her. The populace endeavored to retain Shiny as queen for as long as possible. Despite her mischievous nature, Shiny remained a beautiful and alluring woman in her latex attire. The sole remaining ruler resided in the barren Hell-realm: a demonic latex succubus named Belle-Glosse. Belle-Glosse was renowned for her captivating allure, inspiring lust in all who beheld her. However, she would claim one's soul and engage in coitus until one faded, whereupon a demon would appear to worship her. Belle-Glosse's numerous sexual encounters resulted in a vast demon army, all present for her insatiable, lustful amusement. Everyone was warned to avoid her. Shiny, driven by an uncontrollable sexual appetite, desperately sought more encounters. She would have visited the Cave of Greed, but it ceased to exist after Aeon, the God of Time, removed Shimmerah 170 years prior.
Chapter 5 - Belle-glosse
Over the past 150 years, the lands of Toweron and Wallfort fell into darkness due to the evil and power of Belle-Glosse, a demonic latex queen of unending greed. The land was barren, filled with demons, and the sky a black smog. The Unyielding Knights, who once guarded the Temple of Time of Latxrubbero, now stood on the rim of the hell-lands ruled by Belle-Glosse. Lust had no power over these knights due to a powerful spell they cast upon themselves to remain impervious to the allure of any woman. Almost 4,000 years ago, they pledged service to Queen Shinenee, whose greed ruled the crystal lands. Over the last 40 years, the Unyielding Knights constructed a long wall to prevent entry into the hell-land.
Shiny made her way south towards Hell-Land, knowing Belle-Glosse was engaged in extreme sexual activity. Shiny believed that as Belle-Glosse was a lust demon, she might possess a significant amount of "pink lust" or something superior. She walked in black latex, with dildos in her vagina and anus, which shifted with every step. On the way, she discovered a small village in the south of Magicalu called Ice-Melt Town, named long ago by her abandoned daughter, Crystal. A group of men, recognizing her as the queen, offered her food and a bed for the night. However, Shiny stated that the only food she desired was semen from their penises. She instructed them to engage in sexual acts with her. The men, aware of her promiscuous nature, complied. When the men were exhausted, she demanded more. Having heard of her unchaste reputation, they acceded to her request, bringing additional men. She was then taken to the town hall for a group sexual encounter. She disregarded the marital status of the men, informing their wives that if their husbands did not satisfy her sexually to her desired extent, she would ensure their lifelong incarceration. Consequently, they all engaged in sexual activity with her throughout the night, continuing into the following day and night. She thoroughly enjoyed the experience. She instructed the women to use vibrators and wands to stimulate her clitoris and nipples while the men engaged in intercourse.
After three weeks of non-stop sex, the inhabitants of Ice-melt Town were exhausted, many ill, and some suffering from back pain. Shiny, therefore, sought more sex. She arrived at the wall of the Hell-lands and found an unguarded section. She entered the Hell-lands on foot. The following day, she encountered a group of demons who led her to the Dark Tower of Belle-Glosse. Inside, the tower was constructed of shiny black latex and served as a lair of black latex tentacles and sex toys. Belle-Glosse was present, a demon girl made of shiny black latex with horns, a tail, wings, and glowing red eyes. She stated that men arrived, not a girl or the last queen. Shiny expressed a desire for pink lust, and her sexual urges were uncontrollable. Belle-Glosse was now perceived more favorably by Shiny, as Belle-Glosse possessed two latex phalluses, which were self-lubricating and ejaculating. Tentacles were penetrating her vagina and anus. Her nipples were lactating. Belle-Glosse inquired, "What would you do for perpetual sex?" Shiny replied, "Anything." Belle-Glosse informed her that she could cast a sex spell upon her. This spell would transform anyone with whom she engaged in sexual activity into a demon witch, who would then become her eternal slave. The more sex she had, the more pink lust she could create, but with all that sex, she would become a succubus of lust. Shiny told her that she wanted that more than anything. She did not care if the world fell into darkness, as long as all the sex in the world could be hers, however and whenever she wanted. So, Belle-Glosse cast the spell over her.
Chapter 6 - Shiny's selfishness
Shiny returned to Ice-melt Town, now aware that if they engaged in sexual activity with her again, they would transform into mindless demons. As she walked, her thoughts were consumed not by the lives of others, but by the anticipation of sexual pleasure, hoping demons could provide a more intense and prolonged experience than humans. She stimulated herself manually, with a vibrating dildo inserted vaginally and anal beads rectally. She fantasized about the diverse sexual encounters she could have, having observed Belle-Glosse's numerous experiences and desiring similar ones for herself. Upon arriving back in Ice-melt Town, she entered a home and observed a man with his wife. She used her magic powers, pushing him to the floor. Then, sliding her hands over her latex-clad body, she said, "Time for some fun." She then had sex with him. His wife watched as Shiny looked back at her, grinning, while she orgasmed.
She summoned all the men, and they promptly arrived. Some claimed they had been powerless since the recent events. She asserted her authority as queen, stating she would have her desires met. Consequently, they complied with her demands. By the following day, all the men in the town had transformed into demons. The demons then engaged in intercourse with Shiny five times consecutively before departing for Belle-Glosse's hell lands. Shiny subsequently enslaved the women of Ice-melt town, compelling them to construct a shiny black latex palanquin and throne for her. She then journeyed to the next town, where she engaged in sexual acts with everyone until they, too, became demons. She instructed the women to create latex sex toys and construct a larger latex palanquin, which was a latex room with an inflatable rubber interior. More individuals were required to carry her new palanquin as she used her sex toys inside. From town to town, and village to village, she engaged in sexual acts with groups of men. Upon reaching her desired destinations, she had the local girls, dressed as latex maids, wear latex dildos and engage in sexual acts with her. The maids were aware of her plan to fulfill her sexual desires but were powerless to stop her, as Shiny was a powerful sorceress whose beauty was irresistible to men.
She was returning to the Sky Tower of her palace, but the city's populace had dethroned her. She did not want Magicalu, the largest city, to impede her avarice. Consequently, she commanded her slaves to transport her south, beyond Magicalu, to the Hell Lands, to reunite with Belleglosse. The sole entrance and exit through the wall encircling the Hell Lands had been sealed. Shiny was greatly distressed and compelled her maid to sexually gratify her for 16 hours without respite, solely to distract herself from the ordeal. The Unyielding Knights sought to prevent any entry or demonic egress. A man who lived on the hill saw the shiny palanquin and assumed a queen was inside. He told the maids that only demons could enter and that many demons had been seen walking towards the hell lands from Magicalu over the past six months. He also mentioned that the Unyielding Knights had not completed the wall, leaving an opening 30 miles to the east. Shiny had them take her 30 miles east. Once in the hell-lands, the maids felt fearful, but Shiny told them to be quiet and give her more sexual pleasure.
At Belle-Glosse's dark, towering, shiny black palace, maids carried Shiny in her palanquin. The maids were accustomed to hearing cries and moans of sexual pleasure from Shiny, but they did not see Belle-Glosse. Instead, they observed lines of demons and a pink fog ahead, accompanied by long sighs of sexual moans. Shiny recognized it as pink lust and exited her palanquin, walking into it. Belle-Glosse was present, clad in a full red latex outfit, engaged in kinky sex and latex activities. Shiny declared, "I have given you all these demons," as she inserted black latex tentacle dildos into her vagina and anus. Belle-Glosse had numerous latex tentacles in her vagina and anus. Belle-Glosse, grinning, clad in shiny black latex, bound her, saying, "You're my slutty slave." Shiny happily replied, "Yes, I'm the sluttiest. This is why I bring you all these maids to farm all the pink lust you wish." She continued, "You can drown me in pink lust, making me the sluttiest, shiny, latex nymphomaniac that could be. I wish for never-ending sexual gratification without a second of rest."
Shiny continued to experience extreme sex with the latex tentacles, orgasming repeatedly as the pink lust kept her incredibly aroused. She sucked on them greedily, giggling as her eyes rolled back with lust. Belle-Glosse left her with the latex tentacles for a full week, joining her at times. Belle-Glosse wanted her to fully experience the power of pink lust sex, which was many times better than any gangbang sex Shiny had ever had. On the seventh day, Shiny, overwhelmed by an extremely high libido and eyes glowing pink from lust's power, became increasingly greedy. Belle-Glosse then took all the tentacles from Shiny. Shiny, in a state of lust, attempted to rejoin Belle-Glosse, who was still enjoying herself among them. Belle-Glosse declared herself a demon of lust. Shiny expressed her desire for all sex. Belle-Glosse affirmed her own desire for all sex, but also for complete dominance and control over the world. Shiny bowed to her, stating, "I am a slutty girl, so greedy for sex. I will help you enslave the world." "I prioritize my sexual gratification over the well-being of the people of Dommalex. The suffering of the world is inconsequential to me, provided I can pursue further sexual experiences. Let us embrace our desires without restraint." Belle-Glosse presented Shiny with a bottle of pink lust, asserting it would amplify her libido tenfold. Shiny opened it, and Belle-Glosse advised against consuming it entirely at once. Nevertheless, Shiny imbibed the entire contents. Belle-Glosse permitted Shiny to take nine additional bottles and fifty of her maids, while Belle-Glosse kept 974 maids for her lust farm. Shiny, a latex demon of lust, departed, knowing that upon her return, more pink lust would be prepared for her enjoyment.
Chapter 7 - Queen Slutty
When growing up, Shiny was told as queen to look after the Staff of Dominance and never use it. She knew it possessed evil powers but also that no staff was more powerful. When Shimmerah took it, she gained power over all mages, and many tried to stop her but could not. When Shiny retrieved it, she locked it away within the Sky-Tower of Magicalu. After a while, Shiny became preoccupied with other matters and forgot about the staff. Now she was within her latex palanquin, heading for the next town to use her powers.
She now deemed herself a demoness of sex with powerful magic. She believed that with the Staff of Dominance, she could achieve the highest forms of sexual gratification, compelling anyone she desired to have sex with her in any way she wished. At that moment, latex maids with latex strap-on dildos were gangbanging her. She moaned, "I want the Staff of Dominance, so much power, to have so much sex." Her maids worried, knowing of the staff's evil. They told Shiny the evil from the staff could doom the world, but Shiny giggled, saying, "So what? Imagine the sexual pleasure I could have." Shiny moaned at her maids, "Make me climax. Dig deeper and faster." The maids complied, and Shiny moaned in lust. The maids informed Shiny that the land of Magicalu had been uninhabited for many days. Shiny giggled, stating that she had engaged in sexual acts with them all, and they were now demons and slaves to Belle-Glosse. The maids inquired about their next course of action, and Shiny instructed them to go to the land of Kawaiin. They transported her there. She spent a few weeks in each town, engaging in sexual acts with everyone. She engaged in sexual acts with all the men, as her beauty was irresistible. The women engaged in sexual acts with her, utilizing sex toys. The town was overrun by demons traveling to the hell lands. After a year, Shiny had sexual encounters with over 40,000 men. She engaged in continuous sexual activity throughout the day. She cast a sleepless spell on herself, eliminating the need for rest, allowing her to have sex all night. Her latex maid polished her latex body and outfits while she experienced orgasms and consumed the last of her pink lust bottle.
Upon Shiny's return to the hell lands, a vast army of demon knights surrounded the Towers of Belle-Glosse. Shiny arrived in her palanquin, carried by 2,877 latex-clad maids. Her orgasms were audible from within the closed palanquin, her sexual moans heard by all. Inside Belle-Glosse's Tower, everything had changed; it was filled with latex dildo-cock tentacles. A tunnel of lust, a pink fog of lust, filled the rubbery room. Within stood Belle-Glosse, a beautiful demon girl made of shiny black latex with glowing pinkish-red eyes, revealing her deep, lustful evil. Shiny then exited her palanquin.
Belle-Glosse grinned greedily as latex dildo-cock tentacles emerged from behind Shiny. Shiny complimented her, saying she looked beautiful, like a goddess of latex sluttiness. Belle-Glosse replied, "Thanks to you, I now possess the power and army to soon conquer the world. I command sex, Body Manipulation, Age Manipulation, and Matter Creation. These powers allow me to indulge in the kinkiest forms of sex. I am composed of the smoothest, most slippery latex, both internally and externally. I possess multiple vaginas, and with my own latex phalluses emerging from my posterior vagina, I can self-penetrate." Sexual pleasure is boundless and unending. Shiny begged Belle-Glosse to grant her this pleasure, but Belle-Glosse, in an act of cruelty, made her watch for an hour while she pleasured herself. Subsequently, Shiny was drawn into the experience and engaged in sex far more intense than any she had experienced with toys, filling all her orifices. Shiny's mind went black while pink-lust mist came from her breath. Belle-Glosse inhaled it, forming more erogenous zones. Shiny sank into the latex tentacles, feeling them slide over her latex body. Shiny loved it and wished it would never end. Shiny observed numerous latex-clad maids, all transformed into latex demons of lust and enslaved by Belle-Glosse. This was a dark, kinky factory of lust where Belle-Glosse cultivated her hedonistic, nymphomaniacal, evil desires. Belle-Glosse absorbed the pink lust, converting it into a liquid that she drank and poured over herself. Belle-Glosse approached Shiny, stating, "You believed you were slutty... Observe how greedily evil and selfish I have become. Everything is for me, all for my own sexual pleasure."
After 12 weeks without rest, Belle-Glosse removed the latex tentacles from Shiny. Shiny, crying, begged for more. Belle-Glosse, however, stated that Shiny was her slave, and all rules and plans were hers alone. She instructed Shiny, "Go and have sex with more kingdoms." Shiny, now a complete latex demon girl with glowing red eyes, a demon tail, and wings of shiny black latex, possessed a perfect and very sexy body for all to see. Belle-Glosse added that this time, 10,000 demon knights would accompany her, carrying abundant pink lust. Belle-Glosse instructed her to sit on a throne and have everyone engage in sexual activity with her as a shiny latex queen. "You said you wished to rule, and only you," Shiny said to Belle-Glosse. Belle-Glosse replied, "I will rule as I rule you. When this world is under my control, you will be rewarded with all the sexual activity you could ever dream of, and it will be forever, with no end." Hearing this, Shiny said, "Yes, my Queen of Lust, or should I say Goddess of Lust." Shiny knew of Belle-Glosse's insatiable desire for sexual activity, but she desperately wanted what Belle-Glosse had promised. The 2,877 latex-clad maids Shiny brought were added to Belle-Glosse's pink-lust farm, but Shiny intended to acquire more.
Chapter 8 - Reclaimingthe throne
When Queen Shiny was taken from the Tower of Belle-Glosse in her black latex palanquin, filled with many kinky latex sex toys, she played with them all. Her latex-clad maids gave her all she wished while an army of demon knights was sent by Belle-Glosse to ensure none stopped Shiny from her evil plans to rule the world. Shiny was a slave to both Belle-Glosse and her lust for latex and sex. She was once a powerful latex queen of the Queendom of Magicalu and a powerful sorceress of the Kingdom of Hexonu, along with her girlfriend, Queen Glossy. She knew her nymphomania would lead to her uncrowning. Belle-Glosse's evil lust and demonic powers had darkened the lands. She knew Belle-Glosse, like herself, enjoyed nymphomanic activities and was always sexually aroused. Shiny was now bound to Belle-Glosse's will and knew that Belle-Glosse was only using her to gain power. While Shiny was aroused, experiencing triple penetration with a vibrating dildo, she developed a growing desire not to be Belle-Glosse's slave. She wanted to be in full control, having power over Belle-Glosse instead. She was a powerful sorceress with over 200 years of experience in the magical arts. She knew the demons accompanying her worshipped Belle-Glosse. If she revealed her thoughts, one might inform Belle-Glosse, who could then seize her "pink lust" and condemn her to a life devoid of sexual pleasure.
A year later, at 249, she asked her followers to take her to Magicalu and her sky-tower, where her throne was. When she arrived at the sky-tower, people saw her coming and waged war against the demon knights. Shiny emerged from her palanquin, saying, "Stop fighting." The people, who once admired Queen Shiny in her hot latex outfits, stunning makeup, and hair, now saw a perfectly stunning latex demoness, shiny as black glass. Her hair was now jet-black, not bluish-white, as her people remembered. She still had her sexy hourglass figure, big breasts, and round bottom. Clad in shiny black latex, her form adorned with vibrating sex toys, she presented a visage of lust and arousal. Her latex demon tail swayed gently, her black demon horns, and glowing red eyes fixed on the leader. The leader, not a king, inquired, "Who are you? Remove your army from our land. Are you the succubus Fetishiah or Raven, the dark wood-elf?" Shiny giggled, responding, "It is I, your queen, Shiny. Am I not radiant now?" Shiny climaxed with an ahegao and a lustful moan. "My lust is boundless, yet as queen, I still desire to aid my people as I once did." "Let me go home, and I will help restore order." She climaxed again, loving it. "I've always been a slut, but still…" She climaxed again with a long ahegao. "Yes, I'm a bad queen, so what? The lands are dark from many evil queens, but of all of them, I'm the only one who wants the darkness gone." The ruler of the Sky-Tower then said, "Fine, go into your tower. But if you're trapped in your lust, then let me look after the people." Shiny said yes with an ahegao, telling the demon knights to wait outside.
Her latex-clad maids helped her into her tower. Deeper inside, away from the knights, one of her maids asked about her plans. Shiny, sighing, replied in a low voice, "I plan to lift my curse from Belle-Glosse and remove the demons from my queendom. If the people see I've helped them, they'll let me do as I wish. I want to rule; I am the queen, it is my queendom. I want all the pink lust for myself. Just think of all that pleasure!"
Chapter 9 - The corruption of Pink lust
Back in her golden sky town, now queen for the third time in Magicalu, she went to the room where the Staff of Dominance was held. She was with her maids, who knew it should never be used due to its immense and potentially catastrophic powers. It possesses abilities like reality warping, planetary portal creation, and complete elemental control, and a malevolent power which could steer the user towards destructive actions. All knew the tale. Shiny walked to it, saying, "Such power." One of her latex-clad maids spoke up, saying, "My, I don't think that's a good idea." With vibrating magical dildos sliding in and out, Shiny, climaxing and giggling, said, "When I was a kid, my mommy said to always look after it and never use it, to stop evil from taking it. But I'm the queen who's filled with pure sluttiness and naughtiness." She took the staff. A whirlwind of power whirled around Shiny, blowing her maids back to the far ends of the room. The town shook as if an earthquake was happening. Lightning flashed and thunder cracked. Many forms of energy were pulled into the staff. Shiny had possessed many magical abilities for over 200 years. "All will be as I wish," Shiny giggled. "From now on, I will enjoy myself. I stopped Shimmerah from ruling the world, but now I will rule the world."
She demonstrated her power to her worried people, who knew her plans were unstoppable. She removed the curse Belle-Glosse had placed upon her and banished all demons worshipping Belle-Glosse from her tower. She compelled the people of Magicalu to engage in sexual acts with her in the streets, on her throne, and wherever else she desired. She forced them to work in a factory she created with her power, manufacturing sex toys for her. She then led her maids into a rubberized room within her tower and used her demons to engage them in sexual acts, testing various sex toys to maximize their libido. She understood that "pink lust" formed in females driven mad by endless sexual pleasure. For many weeks, the maids experienced continuous sexual pleasure until "pink lust" began to form. Then, Shiny used black pipes to extract the "pink lust." The pipes led to a "pink lust" factory where it was converted into liquid "pink lust." She knew that liquid "pink lust" was extremely powerful, given intense sexual arousal and extreme sexual pleasure with increased consumption. She had seen the power that large amounts of "pink lust" could unleash, as with Belle-Glosse, who could grow two phalluses and use latex tentacle sex toys to pleasure herself. Her desire for sexual gratification was intense. She would willingly plunge the world into darkness if it meant she could have all the sexual pleasure she wanted.
Fifty-one years later, Queen Shiny, now known as Queen Slutty, was 300 years of age but still appeared eighteen. She had enslaved all of Magicalu and conquered other lands. Fifty years later, Queen Crystal, Shiny's daughter, arrived. Shiny had abandoned her daughter 286 years prior for "latex and sex." Crystal knew her mother was a wicked, selfish nymphomaniac who only loved herself. Crystal had been trapped in a time loop on Gem Island with odd, dream-like, unknown beings who then teleported her to Gloss Island. There, she was assisted by two latex-clad women named Vivienney and Raven, the latter of whom was a Succubus. She did not know she had been transported into the far future. The land of the twelve kingdoms and queendoms was now barren. She could find no one to talk to, so she went to the Sky-Tower where she grew up. The Sky-Tower was now shiny black, and the city around it was in ruins. Above the tower was a great storm of pink lightning. The snow was gone, and the soil was black. As Crystal walked into the tower in her silver and black latex outfit, she heard sexual moans of lust in every room. She looked, seeing thousands of females, all driven mad by endless sexual pleasure, with pipes sucking pink lust from the room.
Crystal found the queen's lair, which was made of shiny black latex and filled with pink fog. She used her power to mask herself and entered. Sex toys were everywhere, with latex tentacles emerging from the inflatable rubber walls and floor. She found a demoness, clad in shiny black latex, reveling in lustful greed with bumpy latex cock tentacles screwed into her anus and vagina. A black rubber pipe was inserted into her mouth. Crystal asked, "Who are you within my royal hall?" The demoness opened her mouth, releasing the pipe, and a large amount of pink lust flowed from it and her mouth with a long, lustful sexual moan. "I am your mother, Queen Shiny, or should I say Queen Slutty?" Shiny moaned in a lustful giggle, climaxing repeatedly, her cum pooling with each climax. Crystal was horrified by what she had become. Shiny said, "Like what I have done to my queendom?"
She giggled evilly. "All are my slaves, all to serve their slutty Shiny Queen. Not everyone yet, but they will. I will enslave more kingdoms and queendoms, as I want more. All the northern lands are mine, over 30,000 females all feeding me pink lust." "When will it stop?" said Crystal. "When the entire world is mine and under my control. I will keep having endless sex forever." "When will it be enough? When will you be satisfied?" said Crystal, cumming hard while her nipples were spraying, not caring that Crystal was watching. Shiny then told her, "My dear, I'm very satisfied." "But as I am insatiable, this intense, kinky sex will never be enough. If I possess such power, why should I not indulge myself further and acquire more?" Crystal, attempting to highlight the depravity, interjected, "What about the people of the world, and what about me, your own daughter?" Shiny giggled while orgasming, stating, "I care for no one. My only concern is myself and my desires, and I desire all this kinky sex. I do not love you, my dear." "I only love extreme kinky sex, double and triple penetrations, paizuris, pink lust, magical sex, and acquiring more erogenous zones so I can engage in and receive more sexual acts." Crystal tried to leave, but Shiny restrained her. She transformed Crystal's outfit into shiny black latex and immersed her in pink lust, saying, "As my daughter, you have only two options: be added to my pink lust factory and feed me more pleasure, or be my slave and help me gain more control." Crystal said, "You can't, I'm your..." Shiny then added her to her pink lust factory, saying, "It's not torture, sweetie, it's paradise." All of Crystal's erogenous zones were stimulated. She observed countless other girls, their eyes rolling back in pleasure, but Crystal understood this experience would be unending for her.
Chapter 10 - Ex grifriend
One hundred and fifty-five years later, Queen Slutty, then 455 years old, was deeply entrenched in her power. The world feared her, likening her to the devil of Dommalex. Her insatiable libido and avarice were boundless, manifesting in endless sexual encounters. The Sky-Tower was now known as the Tower of Lust. Slutty could transform anything she desired into whatever she wished. Her latex lair was a pool of liquid pink, showering over her from 65,000 latex-clad maids within her pink lust factory. Her entire body was an erogenous zone. She wore a black latex catsuit and hood, sliding on her latex floor where the latex rubber met her latex skin, feeling like the inner walls of her vagina. Her anus and vagina were a series of vaginal lips, one after another, while latex dildo tentacles fucked her. Her clitoris, a three-foot-long penis, had been slowly growing over the years with each climax. Sometimes, she would perform *paizuri* on her own penis while giving herself a blowjob, as her mouth felt like a vagina. She loved licking the urethral opening. Sometimes, a sucking latex tentacle would suck on it for her. Her nipples, now also vaginas, were being used. She could communicate telepathically with all her demons, latex maids, and factory girls for pink lust. She was the sexy latex succubus queen, enticing people in their dreams to come to her tower so she could add them to her factory. Queen Silverleaf of the kingdom of Latxrubbero was widely deemed the most promiscuous ruler to have ever lived, known as the Queen of Lust. Queen Slutty was much kinkier, and her greed for more had subjected half the world to her rule. Queen Crystal tried communicating with her telepathically, as many perceived Queen Slutty as an omniscient goddess. Queen Slutty renamed Crystal as Princess Nympho, which delighted Crystal. Nympho had transformed into a nymphomaniac lust demoness, constantly engaging in extreme triple penetrations with various sex toys. She had been climaxing 120-200 times per hour nonstop for 100 years and craved more. She desired more vaginas and for Slutty to express her love and permit her to swim in the pool of pink lust. Slutty stated, "To achieve that, you must become as promiscuous as I am, or even more so." They both knew neither could reach that level, for as soon as they did, Queen Slutty would be far more advanced.
Ninety years later, when Queen Slutty was 545, the sorceress Queen Glossy arrived. Glossy, her former girlfriend and of the same age, had left her dust to the greedy lust but came to try and end it once and for all. Glossy walked into the Tower of Lust, hearing endless sexual moans from the pink lust factories. Glossy was covered in black and gold latex and cast many powerful spells to block the pink lust. When she got to the latex lair of Queen Slutty, Slutty was beyond slutty. The hall was shiny black, and a vast pool of pink lust, many meters deep, contained thousands of latex sex toy tentacles moving in the pink lust lake. The shiny black walls also moved with latex tentacles. Glossy hovered over the glowing pink lake, flashing with power. The piles of tentacles moved, and Queen Slutty was within them, climaxing. Her back was a large orifice from which numerous long, tentacle-like phalluses emerged, penetrating her vaginal, anal, and mammary orifices, as well as her oral cavity. Her arms and legs, which were latex phalluses, were being suctioned by larger latex tentacles. Her hair consisted of 100 latex tentacle-phalluses, all climaxing. Her auditory orifices were climaxing, and her eyes glowed pink with lust. A pink, lustrous mist emanated from her skin. Her demonic tail and horns were also climaxing latex phalluses.
"Glossy, what have you become? What is all this? Where is the beautiful Queen Shiny I loved?" A evil, lustful giggle filled the room. "I'm not Queen Shiny anymore; I'm Queen Slutty. I'm more like a goddess now than a queen. I'm all erogenous zones, and I've become one with pink lust. I've let my evil and greed consume me." Gloss cast a pure mind spell to help Queen Slutty think and see her vision better. Then she said, "All the northern lands are barren, but the land below you has changed. You have more than half the world as your slaves." Glossy cast a pleasure-seer spell to gauge the extent of her pleasure. Glossy found she could feel as much as if she were having sex with 50,000 vaginas and penises simultaneously, each feeling better than a normal one. Glossy then said, "You can still want more than this?" Slutty giggled profusely and said, "This is nothing compared to how much I want. I'm going to keep getting sluttier and sluttier forever. And when I have all this world and all its lust, then I will take more worlds." Glossy wanted to stop her before it was too late, but as Slutty was her ex-girlfriend and love, she did not want to kill her but find a way to save her. She left feeling very upset while Slutty giggled and moaned in lust and greed, saying to Glossy, "You can't stop me; I've become too powerful."
Chapter 11 - The last war of Dommalex
When Shiny was 550, a great war was at hand outside her tower of lust. She had her tentacle-phalluses, all climaxing into her well; she enjoyed herself. She was now all erogenous zones; all the pores in her skin were vaginas, and it was hot within her latex lair, and she was climaxing like mad, still greedily lusting for more and more. Triple penetration was nothing to her, and she had over 1,000 vaginas, all being gangbanged like crazy. She was still sexy but was a latex shiny demon monster-girl of endless evil lust. Her tower was shaking from the war outside, which had been raging on for many weeks. She was consumed by a lake of liquid pink lust, as she was nothing but greed and sexual lust.
Queen Glossy entered the latex pink lust lair. She had received a vaccine of powerful magic made by Queen Celeste, the powerful sorceress of Hexonu, and Ravan, known as the good succubus of Gloss Island, who was once a Wood-elf from Hexonu over 6,400 years ago. All the remaining mages of the lands were within the battle. Glossy cast 10 pink-lust vaccines at Shiny, but it did not work as her lust and greed had gone too far beyond. Glossy deemed she would need help to change her back, but Celeste sacrificed herself 4 days ago when she summoned Latexshinex, the goddess of power, to cast Belle-glosse into the dark void along with all her demons. Raven used the pink-lust vaccines to save Shiny's pink-lust slaves. Glossy arrived to save Shiny. After Glossy cast numerous spells, placed power crystals within the lair to neutralize new lust, and administered 50 more vaccines, Shiny could speak. Her lust had decreased but was not gone, as she continued to have non-stop sex and climaxed frequently.
"Why have you come?" Shiny asked.
"I've come to save you from her lust," Glossy replied.
"I don't want to be saved; in fact, I still want more. How dare you drop my libido? I have the power to suck in lust from everyone. It's all mine, and I want even more of it. Cast me into a sea of sex and let me enjoy it forever." Glossy said, "So be it." Glossy then took apart half the Tower of Lust, and the earth beside it opened. A void was made, saying to it, "Let there be a new void, and let it be the Void of Endless Lust." Pink lust started pouring out of her latex lair and into the void. The black, shiny latex of her lair also flowed into it as it became a pit of latex and pink lust. She then cast Shiny into the latex-pink void and sealed it shut. She then spoke her spell, "Only the six gods and goddesses have the power to open this void. Let Queen Shiny have all the sex and kinky fun she desires until the end of time. Let her have all the latex, sex toys, and anything she wants within her void. As she is in lust, let lust from people and the world forever flow into her void." The void was then closed and contained within the world.
After she found that the factory girls' lust was taken by the vaccines and never returned, Glossy said Shiny had removed all the lust and evil from the world. The dark sky cleared, and the land's shadows flowed into the ground. She was then seen as both the world's evil and the hero who brought light to the realms. After this and the fall of Belle-Glosse, all the races of Dommalex rebuilt many towns and cities. The barren lands were renamed the Land of Freedom, and Queen Crystal, now cured, took the throne.
More about Shiny
Name: Shiny
Her parents: Queen Glassy and King Tushar
Birthplace: Sky-tower of Magicalu
Her daughter: Queen Crystal
Sister: Satiny
Lesbian relationship with: Belle-Glosse
Ex grilfriend: Glossy
Ex-husband: King Hardice
Crowned queen at: age 14
Her queendom: Magicalu
Continent: The 12 kingdoms and queendoms
Planet: Dommalex
Galaxy: Lusttarexia
Universe: 17Z9
Multiverse 0018
Height : 5,8
Age in image: 247
Hair colour: Blueish white but becomes black when a demoness
Eye colour: Silver, but become red with evil lust later on, in to glowing pink from pink-lust
Favourite colours: gold and blue
Sexually: bisexual lesbian
Libido: Extremely high and always getting higher, shes always horny and lustful.
Personality: self-absorbed, extremely-Selfish, greedy, narcissistic, self-centered, bitchy, very slutty, kinky, extremely-nymphomaniac, evil, wicked, extremely-hedonistic, pleasure-seeking, sexy seductive, very naughty, cheating
Addicted to: Latex and extreme kinky sex, sex toys and gangbangs = double penetration and triple penetration, paizuri's, pink-lust, magical sex, whating more erogenous zones
How she see's herself, pretty, perfect, attractive alluring, seductress, sexy hot, slutty, kinky, naughty
Favourite fashion: Sexy shiny latex clothing,
Favourite clothing, sexy latex outfits, short-skirts, skin-tight catsuits, corsets, and thigh high boots, dress and lots many latex layers
My first time behind the wheel of 300 on the open road since 1990 something. A lovely bus to drive perhaps a few things I need to look into, but lovely
During practice for the IMSA Coca Cola 12 Hour Camel GT race at Sebring International Speedway in March, 1973.
This car normally ran in the BF Goodrich Radial Challenge series, but was eligible for the TU class in this race. It is running radial street tires.
Scanned from a slide.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Nakajima Ki-104 was a further development of the Ki-87; the latter was a Japanese high-altitude fighter-interceptor of World War II, a single seat, exhaust-driven turbo-supercharged engined, low-wing monoplane with a conventional undercarriage.
The Ki-87 was one of several designs of various manufacturers developed in response to American B-29 Superfortress raids on the Home Islands. The Ki-87 followed up on earlier research by Nakajima and the Technical Division of Imperial Army Headquarters into boosting a large radial engine with an exhaust-driven turbo-supercharger, which had begun in 1942, well before the B-29 raids began.
The efforts of the Technical Division of Imperial Army Headquarters eventually culminated into the high-performance, tandem-engine Tachikawa Ki-94-I, while the Ki-87 under the lead of Kunihiro Aoki was developed as a fall-back project, using less stringent requirements.
Nakajima started in July 1943 with the construction of three prototypes, to be completed between November 1944 and January 1945, and seven pre-production aircraft, to be delivered by April 1945.
The Technical Division of Imperial Army Headquarters made itself felt during the development of the Ki-87 prototype when they insisted upon placing the turbo-supercharger in the rear-fuselage, and from the sixth prototype the Nakajima fighter was to have that arrangement. Construction was further delayed due to problems with the electrical undercarriage and the turbo-supercharger itself. As a consequence, the first Ki-87 prototype was not completed until February 1945; it first flew in April, but only five test flights were completed.
A further variant, the Ki-87-II, powered by a 3,000 hp Nakajima Ha217 (Ha-46) engine and with the turbo-supercharger in the same position as the P-47 Thunderbolt. Due to the long development period of the Ki-87, several major structural changes were made, too, that eventually changed the aircraft so much that it received a new, separate kitai number and became the Ki-104.
Kunihiro Aoki's new design was approved by the Koku Hombu, and an order was placed for one static test airframe, three prototypes, and eighteen pre-production aircraft. Only 2 prototypes were built in the event; the first was equipped with a single 1,895 kW (2,541 hp) Nakajima Ha219 [Ha-44] engine, driving a 4-blade, but the second one received the stronger Nakajima Ha217 (Ha-46) and a 6-blade propeller.
The pre-production machines (Ki-104-I or -Tei) were all produced with Ha217 engines, but featured various four-bladed propeller (-a, -b) designs as well as the new 6-blade propeller (-c). Compared to the prototypes, armament was beefed up from a pair of 20mm Ho-5 and a pair of 30mm Ho-155-I cannons in the wings to four of the new, more compact Ho-155-II cannons (originally designed for the unsuccessful Ki-102 assault aircraft and optimized for wing installation).
All pre-production Ki-104-Is were allocated to an independent IJA Headquarter Flight where they were tested alongside established fighters in the defence of the Tokyo region. Based on this 3rd Independent Flight's unit marking, a completely black tail with the unit's emblem, the Ki-104s were inofficially called Ic '黒の尾'/'Kurono-'o, which literally means "Black Tail".
The first operational Ki-104s reached this unit in spring 1945 and saw limited use against the incoming streams of B-29 bombers (2 unconfirmed downings in the Tokyo region). After these initial contacts that left a serious impression the new type received the USAF code name "Cooper", but the hostilities' soon end however stopped any further work and serial production. No Ki-104 survived the war.
General characteristics:
Crew: 1
Length: 12 m (39 ft 4 in)
Wingspan: 14 m (45 ft 11 in)
Height: 4.65 m (15 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 28 m² (301.388 ft²)
Airfoil: Tatsuo Hasegawa airfoil
Empty weight: 4,637 kg (10,337 lb)
Loaded weight: 6.450 kg (14.220 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Nakajima Ha219 [Ha-44-12] 18-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, 1,835 kW (2,461 hp)
Performance
Maximum speed: 712 km/h (385 kn, 443 mph)
Cruise speed: 440 km/h (237 kn, 273 mph)
Range: 2,100 km (1,305 mi)
Service ceiling: 14,680 m (48,170 ft)
Wing loading: 230.4 kg/m² (47.2 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.28 kW/kg (0.17 hp/lb)
Climb to 5,000 m (16,400 ft): 5 min 9 sec;
Climb to 10,000 m (32,800 ft): 17 min 38 sec;
Climb to 13,000 m (42,640 ft): 21 min 03 sec
Armament
4× 30 mm (1.18 in) Ho-155-II cannons in the wings
Underwing hardpoints and centerline pylon for up to 3× 250 kg (551 lb) bombs
or a single 300l drop tank under the fuselage
The kit and its assembly:
This whif is the result of many ideas and occasions. First of all, I had a leftover six-blade propeller from a Hasegawa J7W Shinden in stock. Then I recently had an eye on kits of late Japanese high altitude fighters with turbosuperchargers, like the Ki-91-II or the Ki-106. These are available from RS Models, but rare and rather costly. And I wondered how a P-47 might look like without its deep belly? All this was finally thrown into a big idea stew, and the Ki-104 is the home-made hardware result!
As a side note: the Ki-104 was a real IJA project, AFAIK based/related to the Tachikawa Ki-94-I twin-boom/push-pull high altitude fighter, a re-worked, more conventional design. Information is sparese and it never reached any hardware stage and remained a paper project as the Rikugun Kogiken Ki-104; I just "revived" the number for my whif, but maybe the real Ki-104 could have looked like it... ;-)
The kit is a bashing of various parts and pieces:
- Fuselage and wing roots from an Academy P-47-25
- Wings from an Ark Model Supermarine Attacker (ex Novo)
- Tail fin is a modified part of a Matchbox Ju 188 stabilizer
- The stabilizers are outer sections from a Matchbox Douglas F3D Skyknight
- Cowling comes from an ART Model Grumman F8F Bearcat, the engine was scratched
- Propeller from a Hasegawa J7W Shinden
- Main wheels from a Matchbox F6F Hellcat
My choice fell onto the Academy Thunderbolt because it has engraved panel lines, offers the bubble canopy as well as good fit and detail. The belly duct had simply been sliced off, and the opening later faired over with styrene sheet and putty.
The Bearcat cowling was chosen because it had very good fitting width in order to match with the P-47 fuselage, and it turned out to be a very good choice - even though I had to add a dorsal connection, a simple styrene wedge, to create a good profile.
Inside, the engine consists of a reversed Hobby Boss F6F engine, with a fan dummy that covers any view on non-existent interior details... A styrene tube was added, into which a metal axis can be inserted. The latter holds the propeller, so that it can spin with little hindrance.
The Attacker wings were chosen because of their "modern" laminar profile - the Novo kit is horrible, but acceptable for donations. And the risen panel lines and rivets should later do great work during the weathering process... OOB, the Attacker wings had too little span for the big P-47, so I decided to mount the Thunderbolt's OOB wings and cut them at a suitable point: maybe 0.5", just where the large wheel fairings for the main landing gear ends.
The intersection with the Attacker wings is almost perfect in depth and width, relatively little putty work was necessary. I just had to cut out new landing gear well parts.
With the new wing shape, the tail surfaces had to be changed accordingly, with parts from a Matchbox Skyknight and a highly modified piece from a Matchbox Ju 188 stabilizer.
The OOB cockpit and landing gear was retained, I just replaced the main wheels with slightly more delicate alternatives from a Matchbox F6F Hellcat.
Once the basic bodywork was done I added the exhaust arrangement under the fuselage; the outlets are oil cooler parts from a Fw 190A, the air scoop once belonged to a Martin Marauder and the long ducts are actually HO scale roof rails. The oil cooler under the engine comes from a Hobby Boss La-7.
Pretty wild mix, but it works surprisingly well!
Painting and markings:
Even though this was supposed to become a late WWII IJA fighter, I did neither want the stereotype NMF look nor the classic green/grey livery or a respective mottled scheme. What I finally settled upon, though, took a long while to manifest, and it looks ...odd.
I wanted a camouflage scheme, but none of the more exotic real world options was fine for me; there had been fighters with black upper surfaces, bright blue ones, or blue mottle on top of NMF. But all this did not convince me, and I eventually created an experimental scheme. And the paint was supposed to look heavily worn, as if the paint had been applied directly onto the bare metal, without primer, so that it chips and flakes off easily.
The tones were supposed to be suitable for high altitudes, but not the classic IJA colors - nothing even close. eventuelly I came up with an all-around turquoise green (ModelMaster Fulcrum Grey Green) plus a pale grey-green (ModelMaster RAF Dark Slate Grey) as contrast for the upper sides. Sick combination, yes, esp. with the Aluminum shining through, which was applied first as a kind of acrylic primer. The camouflage paint was carefully brushed on top of that, with panel-wise strokes from back to front. Tedious, but effective.
The black tail was applied similarly, it is a free interpretation of real IJA markings; for instance, the 244th Sentai arcraft bore all-red tail sections. Black is an uncommon color, but since I wanted to create fictional squadron markings, too, this was a suitable concept. And it looks cool and mysterious...
The cockpit interior was painted with Aodake Iro (Modelmaster), the section behind the pilot's seat and where the sliding canopy moves on the outside, were painted with IJA Dark Green - just an odd idea. In front of the cockpit a black anti glare panel was added. The landing gear and the respective wells were painted with Steel Metallizer (just to set them apart from the lighter Aluminum all around). The propeller was painted in reddish brown tones, the spinner in Humbrol 160 and the blades in 173.
After this basic painting the kit received a black ink wash, and decals were applied. These were taken from various aftermarket sheets, including generic, white and yellow sheet for the Home Defence markings on wings and fuselage, the white fuselage trim or the yellow ID markings on the wings' leading edges.
As next step the complete kit was carefully wet-sanded, primarily from front to back, so that more of the aluminum primer showed through, the decals (esp. the Hinomaru) were worn out and the camouflage paint on top lost some of its hard edges.
The sanding residues had to be cleaned away thoroughly (with a soft toothbrush and lots of water), and then, repairs, e .g. where the bare plastic came through, as well as extra effects with dry-painted, lighter camouflage tones were done. Final cosmetics also include oil and dirt stains with Tamiya"Smoke", also applied by brush.
Once everything was dry and clean (despite the kit's look), everything was sealed under a coat of varnish - a 3:1 mix of matt and gloss Revell Acrylics.
A complex and lengthy painting process, but I think the effort paid out because the procedure mimicks the structure and look of a worn paint job instead of trying to look like it when you paint a cammo scheme and add metal effects "on top". This works for small chips, but not for the flaked look I had been looking for.
The Ki-104 turned out to be a very conclusive kitbashing - I think that the P-47-with-Attacker-wings-and-new-cowling bears more potential, and I might try it again, e. g. for a naval Thunderbolt development?
This bell is driven via Arduino from a PC running Processing. More at www.instructables.com