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The most effective way to do it, is to do it… by Sandeep Thomas

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- Amelia Earhart.

While I take a lot of landscape photos, when I first fell in love with photography, it was with shooting wildlife. I remember watching the Animals are Beautiful People documentary multiple times at my cousin’s home and thinking about doing the same at our local wildlife sanctuary. And later, when I started to explore photography, landscapes and nature photography seemed more like an attainable goal compared to wildlife photography, and naturally, it took a backseat.

But the desire never really went away, and whenever I got a chance, I visited the local zoos and pretended my 70-200 f4 was a super telephoto and practiced my craft for the big opportunity. And later, I set up our little garden with bird feeders to attract birds so I can hone my skills capturing bird shots. I think its important to keep practicing, and wildlife photography is one branch of photography that demands a lot of technical expertise as well as knowledge of the subject’s behavior and mannerisms.

Since the day I started setting up our backyard garden with a bird feeder, I have consistently had a visitor that helped me practice quite a lot. And that visitor is the mourning dove, they are not as timid as the other songbirds and allow you to get close, which helped me a lot initially. They also are relatively larger, enabling you to fill the frame with a relatively short birding focal length of 300mm. So while many consider them familiar or even a pest, I have had a great deal of appreciation for these beautiful little birds, and I have decided to post the best shot I have as a tribute for these lovely little helpers.

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Favorite Books of 2020 by Kirstie

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Did you know that cats have favorite authors and genres? Jarvis Cocker prefers non fiction and so his favorite authors are Claudia Rankine, Sasha Geffen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Broadcast prefers experimental Asian fiction and so her favorite authors are Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Bae Suah, Can Xue, Banana Yoshimoto, Kazuo Umezz, Shin Kyung-Sook, Karen Tei Yamashita,Keiichirō Hirano, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Krys Lee and Banana Yoshimoto. PJ Harvey prefers poetry so her favorite authors are Rumi, Hanif Abdurraqib, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, Nikki Giovanni and Eve L. Ewing. When I asked her what she thought of Nick Cave’s lyrics, you should have seen her reaction! What all my cats can agree on is that Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest is a masterpiece and so, I always have to read that one out loud to them during cat story hour. Though I didn’t read Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor this year either, it’s still a solid second choice for our story hour together.

I have to always preface these lists by making the disclaimer that while no human being can read all of the books in existence put out in one year, I read even less this year having only finished a little under 150 books (I read 365 last year). Not all of these books were released this year and some of these books may be released in the future depending on which alternative timeline of reality you exist in. The pandemic really put a dent into my reading because I typically read while on the elliptical at the gym for a couple of hours every day but, with the gyms closed, I had to turn to memorizing K pop dance moves off of Youtube for my exercise for several months (I am not good at this), which caused me to almost get murdered by my downstairs neighbor until I straight up invested in an elliptical a couple of months ago and saved myself from the sudden doom that would have rivaled any gruesome ending of a Chan-wook Park film.

These books represent a few different genres-nonfiction, fiction, graphic novels, poetry-and are in a general order but I decided not to number them as I kept changing the order depending on my mood and that didn’t seem very efficient (I am not a journalist) Feel free to share your favorite books that you read this year. You may be stuck in a black hole reading books that we don’t even have in our reality. I want to hear about those too!

And, without further ado, my feline fanatic friends and literature lovers, gather around for this is my Favorite Books of 2020:

The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

Sometimes it’s actually hard to take science fiction seriously….why? Maybe because it’s so fun and engaging….either way, it’s actually quite hard to write something that is very inventive and also relevant in our modern times. In a way, it speaks to the high ability of the author to also be able to make it grounded in reality enough to be just believable but imaginative enough to get truly lost in a unique story. Such is the case for The City We Became, which has all of the NYC buroughs represented by different humans with vivid personalities fitting their areas who have to work together to stop an evil takeover and, of course, have a really tough time with that pesky and racist ignorant Ms. Staten Island. N.K. Jemisin creates a world of actual monsters and proud boy like art dealer/real estate mogul monsters (the kind we don’t actually have to work hard to imagine because they exist in real life). This looks like what will be the first in hopefully a long series of riveting books!

Tropic of Orange: Karen Tei Yamashita

I read Through the Arc of the Rainforest last year and this year Tropic of Orange was my exceptional read by this Japanese American author who is so imaginative in the way she writes both memorable characters and interwoven plots. I can’t predict any endings for any of their lives and that is quite something indeed. If you don’t like magical realism or complex storylines, you may miss out on the brilliance that is Yamashita and the bulk of her work. But, if you find yourself wanting to explore what creative literature is capable of, please look no further!

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi-

Just released this year and highly recommended by me! This book was philosophically engaging from start to finish. Set in the fictional town of Lucille, the residents have conquered all of the “monsters” (who are basically Trump voters and the like) until an angel (who looks like a monster) emerges from a painting to find a “family monster” who is abusing a child. The protagonist is a trans adolescent whose mom reads the great Nnedi Okorafor to her and speaks through sign language. I loved the layers of moral complexity here. Pet gets into what truly makes a monster and how insidious monsters (again, basically republicans) can hide in plain sight and if a monster is redeemable too. I liked Freshwater (Emezi’s 1st novel) but this was 100x better imo

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

This novel is both imaginative and also heart breaking…its main plot involves a country overtaken by American forces who also can’t trust their own government and a corpse that reanimates from other corpses to seek revenge. Though it delves into a little bit of black comedy and takes on a creature who may seem more familiar to those who enjoy the horror genre, it’s the horror of reality with the violence of the American invasion of Iraq that the novel is actually about. What Saadawi does is to create a vivid metaphor that evolves throughout the book and forces us to think deeply about morality. We must remember that Saadawi may also be coming to terms with his own grief, mortality, and the modern reality of living in Iraq. He has had friends lost through suicide bombs that he narrowly missed being killed in himself, for instance.

Catherine Lacey: Pew

I am always a little hesitant to promote the work of someone who is white when there are many women of color who are under-recognized and struggling to earn both critical acclaim and also just a living. So, I will just say that I found Catherine Lacey’s very recent novel Pew incredibly moving and relevant for our times. She writes about race and gender identity in a way that feels fully realized. This book is about identity that words cannot define and the frustrations that result in a white community (who considers themselves super religious) because they cannot take ownership over human identity. There’s a real sense of the frustration of language and lack of it and of not being in control and the way these humans handle that feeling. It is a postmodern masterpiece and I would highly recommend it. On a side note, it doesn’t really matter or seem worth mentioning the personal romantic life of a female author but, in this case, I must mention that she is currently the partner of one of my favorite authors who also resides in Chicago, Jesse Ball, and has a funny statement about him at the end in the thank-you section that is worth taking a look at.

Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

This novel is fiercely feminist following so many female friends from all walks of life in Turkey and the way the body lives on after death. This book starts with death but is really filled with life! As our heroine protagonist, murdered yet still filled with extreme senses, dies a little more on each page, we find out a little more about her and what in her life brought her to this point. And therein lies the largest devastation of this novel because we fall in love with dear Leila but it’s too late to save her. Her life was doomed from the beginning because she happened to be born female and poor and did not have any rights to make her own happiness despite having all the ambitions to do so.

Imani Perry: Breathe, A Letter to My Sons:

This book was a little reminiscent of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” but I actually was even more moved by this mothers take on raising her two boys in America with it’s racist past and present. Really wise and incredible. This was such a gift to be added to the canon of American literature and as a resource to help nurture the modern African American family and was both honest and insightful.

Yaa Gyasi: Transendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi’s second novel is quite a bit different than her first, Homegoing. This one is about a family from Ghana but one that lives in Alabama and struggles to make their way in the American South. It is a portrait of a family in turmoil as the family unit as a whole is severed in a couple of major ways…and, I am hesitant to say more on that end as I don’t want to spoil the novel. Gyasi writes us a very strong female protagonist in Gifty who is a neuroscientist studying mice and both reward seeking and inhibition in her quest to understand and make sense of addiction. It is one of those soul searching types of books that is well worth reading and without artifice or cliché, which is sometimes quite a challenge to find in literature.

The Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

In some ways, this was not as profound as an earlier fiction work by this Israeli author, Waking Lions, but is still however very meaningful and relevant about lies that take on a life and storyline of their own between Israel and Poland and between both a young and a much older female protagonist. To me, this book was incredibly relevant especially in these times about how a little bit of dishonesty ends up leading to incredibly different results in the lives of humans. It’s a short read but very worthwhile in the way it makes you think of the role of truth in one’s life.

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Dr. Monique W. Morris

This was a really difficult read by the Founder and President of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute (NBWJI). Yet, it was also an important read for me not just as an educator but as someone who also wants to do right by all students I support. Morris gets into some of the facts behind racial profiling in schools and does well to expose how it is often overlooked what impact early racism in schools has on young women (although, it is often acknowledged and still very damaging for young Black men). The treatment of young women in a place of learning is very important and could be instrumental in nurturing and encouraging these girls to succeed and to set ambitious yet achievable goals but they have to not only be taught skills but believe in their own worth. We also need to recognize signs of trauma and ensure that we are addressing the whole child. We cannot ignore these facts and we cannot assume that every educator before us was kind and acted within the best interest of every student. So, when we consider what a child’s perception of education may be, for a student of color especially a young human who may be Black, there may be a lot of work to do in changing a negative sense of school. What we see in our schools is not “safe spaces” but punishment that sets the stage for a cruel future. Do we really want this as a society? We must accept that we have failed and that we must change.

We must actively change schools across America! It is a gift to be able to teach and nurture and abuses of power are the most heinous kind. On a personal note, I spent much of my time this summer protesting against police brutality and cops in schools. Our mayor and Board of Ed. in Chicago has kept a few incidents of racially motivated violence against students in schools from the public and, instead of hiring nurses and ending our contract with the cops, tax payers are still footing the bill. They’ll make us take a mandatory online training about stopping the school to prison pipeline but, in terms of policy and where our tax dollars are going, Chicago is far from walking the same walk they are preaching.

Brit Bennett-The Vanishing Half

This reminded me of a modern day Passing by Nella Larsen and a great follow up novel to The Mothers. Bennett shows a portrait of two sisters, one who decides to pass and leads a much different life than the other who ends up having a child with a man who has a much darker skin tone than herself and returns to their small town in Louisiana where there is an obsession about shades of skin. This novel is as much an examination about race as it is about the human desperation driven by racism and what humans are capable of denying about themselves and others they love to continue to live safely within a certain space and level of comfort. There is also a second layer that is about transitioning genders that adds to the storyline and characters overall.

The Atlas of Reds and Blues by Devi S. Laskar

The story of racism that a Bengali immigrant family experiences in the American south (in a suburb of Atlanta) is important but what elevates this work is the unique writing style. I literally felt like I was slipping to and fro through time and seeing these glimpses of a vivid life in all its joys and sorrows. Laskar is incredibly poetic in her exploration of police violence and trauma and was also herself a victim of racial profiling. She’s another author who I hope continues to gain readers and write more books. For a debut, this is exceptional and really reads like it come from an author who has written her whole life.

Disability / Visibility edited and FW by Alice Wong

This is nonfiction at its finest because it has the power to open your mind to the struggles of a group of humans you may not have had a clue about before you opened the first page. Wong did an excellent job of finding an incredibly diverse group of perspectives not just in terms of race, class and religion but also in terms of ability level and opinions on ableism and world perspectives. Keah Brown and Haben Girma are probably the most well known authors in this collection but each of these essays is enlightening in a different way-some focus more on technological aspects, others on fashion, others on abortion, and still others on deficits in terms of public transport. All of these perspectives are valid and insightful and should give able bodied humans a clue as to what obstacles need to be examined and removed in our society to make a better world exist.

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho.

In an alternative reality where white American born humans also need to pass a citizenship test, this would be required reading. Acho comes from Nigerian parents and grew up in Texas. I didn’t realize he wasn’t just a political science philosopher type of author (He’s also an NFL player) when I started reading as I don’t really follow the actual sports game but he does a fantastic job with these questions, which are actual questions submitted by white people in America. Some of these questions show a huge lack of understanding of history and privilege. Other questions are more related to wanting to help and be anti-racist but not knowing where to start. Acho calmly rewinds and takes us through some background and gives suggestions on how to live differently and be better as well as some valuable resources. And, in order to keep in mind white privilege, I will say that it is definitely not the responsibility of Black or African American humans to educate us but when they do make an effort (and hopefully like Acho are compensated for it), it’s definitely our duty to listen. As ignorant as some of these questions seem, we must all be humble and willing to ask questions and all the more willing to listen to the answers. It’s also worth noting that this nonfiction was written after the murder of George Floyd so it is incredibly current and Acho also writes very calmly and in a way that most people probably won’t find having a huge adverse reaction to when confronting white privilege and entitlement.

A Man by Keiichirō Hirano

What an engaging read! I don’t think I’ve ever read a novel that so effectively skirted the line of experimental fiction in its exploration of identity and story lines before. First, there is the identity based on an exchanged one and a lie for a human being who lives a quiet life as someone else. But, then there is the exploration of identify of what it means to be S. Korean and living in Japan and the xenophobia experienced by humans in this predicament. In some ways, A Man reads like a thriller and mystery novel but in many other ways, it is a deeply philosophical work that cannot be contained by genre but makes you wonder about and question the human stories were are assigned, we tell ourselves, and that we make up altogether. I can’t wait for At the End of the Matinee to be released April 15th, 2021!

Hidden Colors by Nillu Nasser

The book explores the struggles of Syrian refugees in Berlin putting on a magical circus but after a couple of years. the anti-immigrant sentiment rises and politicians and journalists have to choose which side to take. This book feels fantastical in the sense of the circus production but realistic in its depiction of the hardship of existence as a mere pawn in politics and left vulnerable to political whims and opinions of the public. There’s a great deal here about the ethics of journalism as well and the responsibilities in terms of telling of the human story. Though this book is technically a work of fiction, it is highly relevant to our current world.

A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Andurraqib

I didn’t do as much poetry reading this year as I did last year but this one definitely stood out. I read it for book club. Full disclosure-I love everything by Hanif and would recommend Go Ahead in the Rain, his nonfiction regarding A Tribe Called Quest if you are fan of the band. I follow Hanif on Twitter and am a fan of him both in terms of his politically conscious side and his human side where he bakes and talks about his love of music and Columbus, Ohio. He’s also great to see speak. He’s an incredibly lovable human. Anyway, this poetry is so rich with imagery and soul and, though it definitely explores topics of racism, I would also say that it explores the full range of what it means to be human and does so artfully. So many of the lines should be read more than once and contemplated. Read a poem and put it down for a while and think about the full complexity of what Hanif was exploring and picture the photograph he created with his masterful words that appears in your head.

Just Us by Claudia Rankine:

Rankine is an extraordinary poet who is also insightful when it comes to race in America and her observations based on both casual encounters and a whole lot of systemic racism. At the end of the day, Rankine is aware of the damning impact of white supremacy and she wants humans to heal and for the world to become a better and safer place for all human to exist in. And, that isn’t going to happen without some conversations taking place that are sometimes challenging to initiate and to explore. We find ourselves sometimes in situations that might at first seem perplexing but have a history based in reality. If you haven’t read Citizen, the collection of poetry by Rankine, you might be blown away but this work of nonfiction. If, like me, you have read Citizen, you might at this point be more impressed by the fact that with all of the facts and insights Rankine has, she still is willing to have conversations about race and that speaks to the kind of beautiful human being she is.

The Drifting Classroom Volume 1-3 by Kazuo Umezz

This is a riveting 700+ page graphic novel about a school that disappears from the present and travels to a desolate future with a lot of human psychological issues of those trapped in this new reality. I will say one key thing in this epic journey through the minds and choices of these young children is that both the surreal storyline and the art work are captivating and I was soon hooked and couldn’t wait for the third volume to be released a couple of months ago. I devoured it like a piece of decadent chocolate cake while soaking in my bathtub for night after night. I became very invested in these creatures who first had to fight for their lives when there was a struggle for power and then when their dreams came alive and then when there was a plague and then when there was still extreme scarcity of food and water….and somehow our hero and protagonist is able to community at some points with his mom living in the time and reality they came from even though they are far from it. Just a fantastic imaginative series for Japanese graphic novel fans especially.

Myla Goldberg’s Feast Your Eyes-

Tis is a very well done and complex portrait of a photographer living in NYC in the 60s-70s who didn’t actually exist but you’ll be convinced did exist by the way this book is laid out describing her photographs with fictional journal entries and fictional accounts of friends and family. This is a lot about artistic rights and the line between art and child protection. Interesting philosophically and based on several other female photographers who actually did exist like Vivian Maier and Diane Arbus. It really reads like a very engaging nonfiction work instead of fiction, which is an interesting experience for the reader.

Sharks in the Time of Saviors: by Kawai Strong Washburn

I had two books by native authors, this one and Rebecca Roanhorse’s Black Sun become available around the same time from my Chicago Public Library holds list and they couldn’t be more different. But while I did love the imagination of Black Sun overall, I didn’t feel as connected to the characters and just saw it as a starting point for hopefully a long series whereas Sharks in the Time of Saviors feels like a truly stand alone work. This book is, in many ways, a portrait of a native Hawaiian family struggling to get by and having a son with healing powers. There is a bit of a leap in terms of what you can believe here but it is written with enough reality that the surreality is very effective. Our hero Noa is trying to find himself and come to terms with a crucial error he makes. In the meantime, his brother and sister are also floundering between not being the most brilliant basketball star (former) and with same sex preferences (latter) and no one has any money to fly home to Hawaii from college because, of course, it’s just far too expensive even for the natives to get home. What is the most interesting to me is how the relationships between family members is explored and the idea that you shouldn’t ever encourage someone to define their identity with just one main thing or being good at one thing because it destines them to an unhappy sort of life and failure. I found the writing here very engaging and it dealt with some of the real issues Natives face in our country, especially in areas where cost of living has become insurmountable.

A Burning: by Megha Majumbar

This was a very difficult book to read, primarily because Majumbar writes us a story where you easily feel connected to and devastated by the chain of events that bring our heroine, Jivan, a poor Muslim girl in the Indian slums to a prison cell wrongfully accused of being a terrorist. In some ways, it made me think of a modern day Kafka-esque tale where it just seems all odds are stacked against our protagonist and it just keeps getting worse. Majumbar explores the corruption in modern day India but also interestingly enough explores the life and rise of a transgender fried of the protagonist at the very same time. This book is filled with politicians and political opportunists and liars who don’t seem to mind making Jivan a fall girl for their own political agenda and it made me wonder how possible all of this might actually be, especially as Majumdar was born and raised in Kolkata herself though is now living in NYC. This is Majumdar’s first novel and shows a promising career.

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

One of the reasons why this nonfiction is so powerful is because these voices are so often not heard or misheard. Johnson takes us through his life and what it was like to grow up with two identities, sometimes at odds with himself and what it meant to be both an African American and one who questioned his gender and preferred humans of the same sex to his biologically given gender. Johnson takes us through his very harrowing struggle to fit in and the relief of finding members in his family who at least partially understood what he was going through. He takes through what it’s like to be sexually abused and have assumptions made about him. It is harrowing and honest and makes you grateful that he has created something that shows us the whole range of humanity and helps some of us find comfort in who we are and others of us understand how to be better and more compassionate humans.

Glitter up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary by Sasha Geffen

Sasha Geffen is a human who has devoted countless hours to exploring how we came to this exact moment in music history and all of the steps that led us here in an all inclusive non fiction epic journey examining how, in just about every genre of music I can think of, gender identity and transforming gender norms was a part of both image and sound of musicians. I am a huge fan of music and many of these musicians and bands I was already familiar with and own albums by. However, Geffen caused me to view many songs, concerts, and even album covers a different way and I also learned about many artists I was not familiar with. This is a must read for those who love music and for those who seek to accept and appreciate all genders (male, female, and non-binary) and their artistic contributions within this very flawed yet sometimes quite beautiful world.

A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer duBois

This book fascinated me….Irina knows she is going to die and it is going to possibly be horrible and painful when she does the genetic testing and finds out she inherited Huntington’s Disease. She knows what the future holds because she saw her father progressively lose abilities and she starts to lose control in ways that signal to her what her future could hold. And so, she decides she’s going to go on adventure to Russia in order to find a chess master who is an active political opponent of Putin because, after all, what exactly does she have to lose? This book is about the idea of taking your life into your own hands and controlling your destiny instead of letting genetics define you. It is also about trying to make the most out of a life that many others would consider doomed. It also has a really great joke about Adam and Eve actually being soviets and it takes a lot to make me laugh in the middle of a pandemic.

Vivian by Christina Hesselholdt

This work explores all ll different points of view including Vivian Maier’s own on life and photography with interesting narrator interjections and musings based on what is known of this photographer. I have to admit that I have a personal bias of loving many of Maier’s photographic works so this was a very engaging read for me based on my familiarity with and admiration of the photographer that was the focus of this technically “biographical fiction” work. I think it might be a key point to get acquainted with some of Maier’s photographs and read this book if you are enamored. But, you might also enjoy this book if you in general love photography and think often about what might a photographer be like as a human and what makes for a good photographer as well.

Empire of Wild: Cherie Dimaline

This is the first novel I have read by a Métis (Native French Canadian) author and I really loved it. It was definitely wild and centered around the traditional Native myth of the Rogarou as it kills and steals souls. This was as much about human deception and religion and racism as it was about this creature and it was impossible for me to not visualize the horror while, at the same time, see Rogarou as a metaphor for white opportunists who will do whatever it takes to steal Native land. I had my heart in my throat for a lot of this journey and I think the power of the writing really showed its effectiveness.

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves edited by Glory Edim.

Fantastic autobiographical accounts of prominent African American female authors of today and how they were inspired by literature that uniquely spoke to them. This book does well to emphasize the importance of representation and I would advocate that those who define curricula across the country on every level should start considering whether we are really celebrating our current list of authors because they were talented and had something relevant to say then and now or whether it goes within our nation’s history of white supremacy to promote primarily white male authors as the definitive standard even though they had every advantage over their women of color possible colleagues. What is hopeful is that now more than ever talented women of color are being published and truly heard but, in my opinion, there is still a lot of history around celebrating only or primarily only white male authors that should be challenged in this country. In any case, this collection features a great deal of talented contemporary female authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Jacqueline Woodson, Zinzi Clemmons, N. K. Jemisin, Tayari Jones and more and speaks to the power of literature and it’s transformative qualities!

The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep by Guy Leschziner.

I thought this was nonfiction about dreams but it was mainly about different sleep disorders…still very interesting and informative though! Did you know you can have something called Restless Chest Syndrome? Yikes! I tend to love neuroscience and yet besides this book and The Telomere Effect by Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, I didn’t read nearly as many science oriented books in 2020. I read far more nonfiction books about race, gender, and immigrant memoirs. Still, I love to learn about all facets of the human brain and I believe in life long learning. The case studies in this book were especially fascinating and made me feel like my reoccurring insomnia is really not so bad at all compared to what it could be!

Wow, No Thank You: Samantha Irby

This nonfiction collection of essays made me laugh so hard (especially the chapter on cat vs. dog ownership) that I instantly fell in love with Irby as both an author and as a human being and, though she no longer lives in Chicago, it was cool to see what living in Chicago twenty or so years ago was like through her eyes. Irby is happily married and has encountered both homophobia and racism in her life and these essays showed both an intellectual and a quick witted approach to dealing with it. Irby is so candid and does not hold anything back when it comes to her own biology, either, which is almost shocking (and also appreciated) at times in its brutal honesty and well worth reading. Irby is also my age so I could relate to some of these chapters quite a bit because of that. Hello 911, filled with imagined 911 calls as well as Love and Marriage where she answers ridiculous questions are also not to be missed chapters if you want to laugh hysterically.

The Monk of Mokha (Story of Mokhtar Alkhanshali) told by Dave Eggers

I actually led a two hour remote book club on this book last month and, though I love discussing books, what is odd is that I liked the book better before the discussion. This is an incredible story of a Yemeni American man who risks literally his life more than once to bring back viable coffee beans and establish a coffee trade between his homeland of Yemen and the United States. Dave Eggers insists emphatically that this is 100% nonfiction and it is unfathomable the lengths that Mokhtar goes to. There’s an undying sense of the human spirit that can be both courageous and also lucky in this book. There’s also a component of the struggle itself against both the violent conflict situation in Yemen and the racism encountered in America. In any case, if you are interested, here’s an article about the book.

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I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me: Juan Pablo Villalobos

Good, because they probably won’t! This is an adventure in surrealist experimental fiction walking the line between humor and existential dread. In the end, you honestly don’t know exactly what really happened and if the protagonist is even still alive. There are doubling of characters, journal entries, a talking dog, and lots of unsavory types I wouldn’t trust with my favorite pencil (or even my least favorite pencil). Our extremely flawed hero is a Mexican intellectual who wants to study humor in literature in Catalonia, Spain but is side tracked before he can even get there by a group of mafia like henchmen in an impossible scheme his cousin roped him into involving seducing a woman identifying as a lesbian amongst other crazy shenanigans. This is a wild ride! If you’re an intellectual who dislikes thrillers, try this one out to see if maybe it was just the writing style in those other books wasn’t enough for you in the first place.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

I expected a lot from Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens because of the human (a coworker and friend) who recommended it to me and I did think it was worth reading. I like the sense of looking into isolationism and classism as well as the justice system in the American South plus there’s a courtroom cat! (Sunday Justice) but probably best of all was the fierce individualism of the female protagonist, Kya, the “Marsh Girl” who learns to make her own way in life. Kya’s unusual personality and talents drew me into the story line as a whole but it was the ending that made it truly worthwhile and landed it on my best of 2020 list.

Junji Ito’s Yon & Mu:

This is a super adorable autobiographical #catlife graphic nonfiction about his wife’s 2 cats that he learns to 💕 and who turn him into a cat person. I loved the drawings in this book and the little stories about getting his cat neutered, going on a business trip and missing his cats, cats around his chair where the heater was, cats on his lap, cats in his bed….you know the drill. A lot of these are relatable and silly but sweet and the book also includes photos! I’ve read Ito’s harrowing fiction, graphic horror novels and this was quite a departure but it gave me a glimpse into his lovable human side. Though this was maybe not the best book I read critically, it was still definitely one of my favorites as someone who is a fan of Ito’s graphic novels and cats!

Cats of the Louvre: Taiyo Matsumoto

Full disclosure here that I didn’t really think anyone would take me seriously if I started with these last two books/graphic novels because, honestly, I love cats and so I cannot be objective about extreme cat topics and/or cat protagonists. This one is perfection-a wildly imaginative storyline centered around the cats that live in Le Louvre. What more do you need to know? Ok, there’s a human trapped in a painting and also all the cats take on human traits at night when no on is looking. Is this not a good enough reason to read this book right now?!?! Oh wait, you’re a dog lover??? Well, forget you anyway! 😹

Honorable mentions:

Ok, so again this list only represents about 30% of the books I read this year. I can’t write about 100+ more books but here are the books I would still recommend:

Little Gods by Meng Jin

I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

Eatheater by Dolores Reyes

Dear Girls by Ali Wong (so funny!)

Telephone by Percival Everett

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire by David Mura

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Telomere Effect by Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn

1919 by Eve L. Ewing

**All photos are copyrighted**

Little grebe by Workfree photography

17 15

Effective focal length 1792 mm. Trying out new wildlife set-up for distant subjects.

ARMT-M01X-SR Dash Baron by Lu Sim

205 12

ARMaTech

Effective Range: N/A - Civilian Use

Classification: Racing - MRL Rumbler

Armaments: N/A

A heavily modified version of the Baron Prototype, the DASH Baron was made purely to compete in the Mecha Racing League. Designed to withstand a beating during races while still maintaining high top speeds, the DASH is definitely something you should watch out for in MRL.

Pilot: Baron Ishi

No one knows for certain if Baron Ishi is his real name or if he's even a human being but his patient yet deadly driving style has earned him a reputation in the league. Some say he's actually a cyborg with an advanced AI program designed by ARMaTech to drive their hulking speedster mech while others swear he's just a really cold human being, sick of piloting war machines and opts to drive a humanoid coffin at high speeds instead.

Special Ability: Shell Rush

Using both heavy arm guards, the DASH will charge towards an opposing mech, crushing them with deadly blunt force.

Special Ability: DASH Rush

The special Quorus heatsinks at the rear of the DASH activates and grants the reFrame increased speed, mobility, and reaction time although using this ability puts a lot of stress on the machine and can only be used once or twice before having the heatsinks replaced.

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Build notes:

You can find more about the build in my blog article :D

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More info, WIP details, and other LEGO mechs over at my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/

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For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

NEW RATES EFFECTIVE March 1,2016. by Mitsushiro Nakagawa

76 2

title.

NEW RATES EFFECTIVE March 1,2016.

(LUMIX G3 shot)

Manhattan. New York. America. 2017. … 5 / 14

(Today's photo. It has not been published yet.)

Images.

Toshiki kadomatsu … If you ….(FM LIVE 1985)

youtu.be/7yV48tZy8Sk?t=916

Important Notices.

I have relaxed the following conditions.

I will distribute my T-shirt to the world for free.

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50656401427/in/dateposted-p...

m.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/50613367691/in/dateposted-p...

ユーチューブ更新しました.

その、歴史に刻む事件と藪の中に見るミライを若い人たちへ

youtu.be/JzPamaa8rEE

その、歴史に刻む事件と藪の中に見るミライを若い人たちへ

１週間経ちましたので、僕の個人的な意見を残します。

僕は今年５４才になりますが、写真を始めた頃はまだ３０代でした。

その最初の数年間のうち、一度だけ、ニコンに公募したことがあります。

が、うざいことを言われたのでやめました。

それ以降、僕はいっさい公募していません。

なぜそうしなかったのか？

僕は若い人たちに期待していたからです。

そう言う話をここではしました。

お時間がある方は是非、聞いてください。

_________________________________

Exhibition in 2023

theme

The camera kisses time.

Mitsushiro --Nakagawa

The schedule for 2023 is unstable.

I plan to do one of the following two.

Both are scheduled around November.

I give priority to museums.

1 This will be done when the 1st attached gallery is released in 2023.

place

DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art 1st attached gallery

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

2 This is planned as a spare.

place

Design Festa

designfesta.com

images.

BTS… Film out Lyrics (방탄 소년단 / BTS Film out Japanese subtitles 가사) [Color Coded Lyrics / Kan / Rom / Eng]

youtu.be/az_6PrN-biI

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最新のお知らせ。

以下の僕のTシャツ。無料配布。

コロナの影響で、運送方法は国によって変わります。

1/25

一人目が決まりました。

それはドイツの人です。

m.flickr.com/photos/ute_kluge/favorites/

僕は心から感謝します。ありがとう。

:)

２０２０年１２月３日。発送しました。

船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。

2/25

二人目はタイの女性です。

youpic.com/photographer/Abbozzo/

僕は彼女へ受け取って欲しいとお願いしました。

:)

２０２０年１２月１０日。発送しました。

船便です。２ヶ月から３ヶ月を要します。

3/25

3人目はメキシコの女性です。

www.facebook.com/OvejaDeSion

彼女はfotologの頃からずっと僕を支えてくれました。

彼女は僕の道案内をしてくれました。

ありがとう。

:)

２０２０年１２月１０日発送しました。

EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。

4/25

4人目は、セルビア共和国の女性です。

youpic.com/photographer/IvanaPopov/

２０２０年１２月１４日発送しました。

船便です。たぶん２ヶ月から３ヶ月以内で到着します。

:)

5/25

５人目は、インドネシアの男性です。

www.flickr.com/photos/33836533@N04/

２０２０年１２月２４日。発送しました。

EMSです。たぶん１ヶ月から２ヶ月以内で到着します。

１月８日。到着しました。

6/25

6人目は、フランスの方です。

youpic.com/image/18158054/ombre-chinoise-by-ce-pe

www.flickr.com/photos/191604817@N04/

２０２１年１月７日。

僕は発送しました。

:)

7/25

7人目も、フランスの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/151630891@N07/

www.flickr.com/people/liveworkcreate/

２０２１年１月７日。

僕は発送しました。

:)

8/25

８人目の方はルーマニアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/63mr/

2021年１月中に発送します。

:)

9/25

9人目は日本の方です。16歳です。

www.instagram.com/kai.kawazu/

受賞歴

2017 小国町フォトコンテスト2部門

2018 EPSONmeet up selectionデータ部門優秀賞

2020 熊本高文連前期写真コンテスト優秀賞

Webフォトコンテスト協賛メーカー賞

10/25

10人目は、ブラジルの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/mangelo/

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

:)

11/25

11人目は、アメリカの方です。

youpic.com/photographer/HeathBrunner/

www.flickr.com/photos/181948650@N04/

vmaxrecords.bandcamp.com

soundcloud.com/vmaxrecords

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

:)

12/25

12人目は、イタリアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/122700703@N05/

youpic.com/photographer/raffadepa2019/

cacciatoredisogniblog.wordpress.com

２０２１年２月中に発送します。

13/25

13人目は、ロシアの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/183731920@N08/

youpic.com/photographer/Andjey/

２０２１年３月中に発送します。

14/25

14人目は、フィリピンの方です。

www.flickr.com/photos/44681455@N00/

youpic.com/photographer/Stitch/

２０２１年１１月１１日に発送しました。

Mitsu.

_________________________________

” Lot No.402_ ” に関するお知らせ。

今後、僕は、” Lot No.402_ ”を主催します。

このロットナンバーは、眠っていたレオナルドダヴィンチの作品がオークションにかけらた際に付されたものです。

作品にはサインなどがいっさい記されていなかったため、彼の作品だと断定できませんでした。

しかし、様々な鑑定の結果、陽の光を浴びました。

誰にも気づかれない作品。肩書がなくとも静かに語りかける作品。

僕はこれから様々な形で、多くの皆様に提供できるよう努めてゆきます。

2020年10月24日 by Mitsu - Nakagawa.

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プロフィール

2014年11月、たった1機種で世界を塗り替えた携帯電話の広告を請け負った選考者の目に留まり、秘密保持同意書を結ぶ。

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

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インタビューと小説。

僕の本について。

僕は、昔に本を出版しました。

その際に、僕のインタビューをPDFでネット上へアップロードしていました。

その日本語と英語。

僕は、無料でを公開します。

詳細は、アマゾンのサイトへ解説しました。

小説の書き方。

写真の撮影方法。

作品への距離感。

これらはすべて共通項があります。

僕は、僕が感じたことを文章にして、残しました。

僕のテキストが多くの人に読んでもらえることを望みます。

ありがとう。

Mitsushiro.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

１　インタビュー　英語版

２　小説。unforgettable’ 英語版。

３　インタビュー　日本語版

４　小説。unforgettable’ 日本語版。(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)

(四百字詰め原稿用紙４５６枚)

　あらすじ

　大学を目指している北見ケイは、SNS上で、6歳年上のイベントコンパニオン、上村香織に出会う。

　上京してきた香織の夢は、有名なアーティストの友達になるためだ。

　そのためにはラジオ局のプロデューサー、大沢亮の存在が必要だった。

　大沢は、ラジオの生放送中、香織へ語りかける。

　「僕には妻子がある。しかし、僕は君に会いたいと思っている」

　ケイの同級生で、彼を想っている三條里香は、香織の動向を探っていた。。。。。

本編

人が海へ向かう理由には、二つある。

　ひとつは、波打ち際ではしゃぐ子供のように、今の瞬間の海の輝きを楽しむこと。

　もうひとつは、その輝きを静かに見据えて、過ぎ去った日々を懐かしむ老人のように記憶の埃を払うこと。

　二つは重なり合わないようではあるけれども、たったひとつの意味しか生まない。

　再生だ。

　明日っていう、曖昧な日を確実なものへと変えてゆくために、自分の存在に向き合う。

　それが再生の意味だ。

　十八歳だった僕には大切な人がいた。

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

５　流線形の軌跡。　日本語のみ。

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

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iBooks.電子出版。（現在は無料）

0.about the iBooks.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

1.unforgettable’ ( ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216576828?ls=1&...

For Japanese only.

2.unforgettable’ ( JNP.ver.)(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)

itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...

3.流線形の軌跡。

itunes.apple.com/us/book/%E6%B5%81%E7%B7%9A%E5%BD%A2%E3%8...

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僕の小説。英語版　

My Novel Unforgettable' (This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)

Mitsushiro Nakagawa

All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .

www.fotolog.net/yuming/

1/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24577016535/in/dateposted...

2/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24209330259/in/dateposted...

3/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/23975215274/in/dateposted...

4/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24515964952/in/dateposted...

5/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24276473749/in/dateposted...

6/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24548895082/in/dateposted...

7/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24594603711/in/dateposted...

8/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24588215562/in/dateposted...

9/9

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/24100804163/in/dateposted...

Fin.

images.

U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related

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Title of my book : unforgettable'

Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa

Out Now.

ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

in Amazon.

www.amazon.co.jp/Unforgettable’-Mitsushiro-Nakagawa/dp/...

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次の小説の予定。

Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)

（いつまでもなくならないだろう）

もう少し時間をください。それは日本語です。

_________________________________

２０２３年の展示

テーマ

カメラは時間にキスをする。

Mitsushiro - Nakagawa

２０２３年のスケジュールは不安定です。

以下の二つのいずれかを予定しています。

どちらも１１月頃を予定しています。

僕は美術館を優先します。

１　こちらは、２０２３年に第１付属ギャラリーが解放されたら実施します。

場所

DIC川村記念美術館　第１付属ギャラリー

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

２　こちらは、予備として予定します。

場所

デザインフェスタ

designfesta.com

images.

BTS … Film out Lyrics (방탄소년단/防弾少年団 Film out 日本語字幕 가사) [Color Coded Lyrics/Kan/Rom/Eng]

youtu.be/az_6PrN-biI

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僕の作品。

1 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48072442376/in/dateposted...

2 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48078949821/in/dateposted...

3 www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/48085863356/in/dateposted...

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あなたは僕の声を聞きたいですか？

:)

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

1

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。１種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw

2

フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。２種類目。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=443

3

Fotologを始めた時について。建築家の視点。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=649

4

なぜ、今までカメラを手にしなかったのか？

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=708

5

何が一番かっこいいのか？　写真はありのままに。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=776

6

現在のユーチューバーについて。僕も伝え、残したい。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=964

7

日本人の写真家について。日本のユーチューバーはピストルズ。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1059

8

写真の構図は、感性。ミラノのデザイナーに会って。二つの質問。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1242

9

良い構図とは？　悪い構図とは？

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1482

10

カメラを向ける時とは？　ファインダーやディスプレイを覗いていては遅い。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1662

11

家族写真。他人では撮れない。被写体の内面。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=1745

12

ユーチューブの写真家について。カメラの技術等。感性は、本を読むことで磨く。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2144

13

日本の新聞について。良い新聞の写真はロイター。ダメな写真を見続けるとダメになる。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2305

14

日本の写真家について。その展示について。

まとめ。僕が書いた小説など。僕が最も伝えたいこと。

youtu.be/b1o6Xf-Mjhw?t=2579

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作品制作について 1/2

youtu.be/ZFjqUJn74kM

作品制作について 2/2

youtu.be/pZIbXmnXuCw

１　それまでの写真展。自分は行きたいと思ったか？

２　じゃ、自分が足を運んででも行きたい展示とは何か？

３　原宿デザインフェスタで個展を開くまでに、毎月ひとつの作品を展示することにチャレンジ。

４　作品とは、素材とシルエット。ファッションと似ている。

５　自分が好きなアーティストは誰か？　どんなものなのか？　そこをはっきりさせる。

６　コラージュの作成も写真の撮り方と全く同じ。インタビューに書いたように小説の書き方とも同じ。

７　誰かに見せたい、見せるがために作品は作らない。写真と同じように自分の部屋に飾りたい作品を目指す。

８　パクリとは何か？　昨今、叩かれるパクリ疑惑。ミメーシスとは？

　　https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ミメーシス

　　https://kotobank.jp/word/ミメーシス-139464

９　個性とはなにか？　オリジナリティってなに？

おまけ　眞子さまについて

という流れです。

お時間がある方は是非聴いてください。

:)

www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/

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構図の解説２

1.構図の解説２ ... 1/4

2.構図の解説２ ... 2/4

3.構図の解説２ ... 3/4

4.構図の解説２ ... 4/4

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僕のシャッター感覚

youtu.be/3JkbGiFLjAM

In the Eurostar to Venice . 2005. shot ... 1 / 2

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/49127115021/in/dateposted...

_________________________________

Miles Davis sheet 1955-1976.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

_________________________________

flickr.

www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/

_________________________________

YouTube.

www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/

_________________________________

instagram.

www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/

_________________________________

Pinterest.

www.pinterest.jp/MitsushiroNakagawa/

_________________________________

YouPic

youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/

_________________________________

fotolog

www.fotolog.com/stealaway/

_________________________________

twitter.

twitter.com/mitsushiro

_________________________________

facebook.

www.facebook.com/mitsushiro.nakagawa

_________________________________

Amazon.

www.amazon.co.jp/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHSKI3YMYPYE5UE...

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僕の統計。（2021年5月11日現在）

youtu.be/UpezrGm4HYA

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Japanese is the following.

drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...

Title of my book unforgettable' Mitsushiro Nakagawa Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2

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#小説 #文章の書き方 #小説の書き方

【小説ってむずかしい？】

youtu.be/KZgaWyNZkLA

ここでは自分が書いた以下の小説（掌編）を解説して、文章の組み方や流れなどを、一行ずつ、徹底的に解説しました。

わかりやすいように、初稿と最終稿の比較で解説しています。約２時間半もかけました😃😅

まずは最終稿を読んでいただけるとわかりやすいです。

小説（掌編）【　夏のはじまりは、すりガラスの向こうに　】

あらすじ

遠藤　シュン　22才と、同級生、関口香奈のお話。

シュンは商社へ就職し、7月からオーストラリアへ。海外赴任前に実家へ帰る。

images

Base Ball Bear --short hair

youtu.be/kDc2VebfUdktitle

_________________________________

” Lot No.402_ ” に関するお知らせ。

今後、僕は、” Lot No.402_ ”を主催します。

このロットナンバーは、眠っていたレオナルドダヴィンチの作品がオークションにかけらた際に付されたものです。

作品にはサインなどがいっさい記されていなかったため、彼の作品だと断定できませんでした。

しかし、様々な鑑定の結果、陽の光を浴びました。

誰にも気づかれない作品。肩書がなくとも静かに語りかける作品。

僕はこれから様々な形で、多くの皆様に提供できるよう努めてゆきます。

2020年10月24日 by Mitsu - Nakagawa.

_________________________________

Exhibition in 2023

theme

The camera kisses time.

Mitsushiro --Nakagawa

The schedule for 2023 is unstable.

I plan to do one of the following two.

Both are scheduled around November.

I give priority to museums.

1 This will be done when the 1st attached gallery is released in 2023.

place

DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art 1st attached gallery

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

2 This is planned as a spare.

place

Design Festa

designfesta.com

images.

BTS… Film out Lyrics (방탄 소년단 / BTS Film out Japanese subtitles 가사) [Color Coded Lyrics / Kan / Rom / Eng]

youtu.be/az_6PrN-biI

２０２３年の展示

テーマ

カメラは時間にキスをする。

Mitsushiro - Nakagawa

２０２３年のスケジュールは不安定です。

以下の二つのいずれかを予定しています。

どちらも１１月頃を予定しています。

僕は美術館を優先します。

１　こちらは、２０２３年に第１付属ギャラリーが解放されたら実施します。

場所

DIC川村記念美術館　第１付属ギャラリー

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

２　こちらは、予備として予定します。

場所

デザインフェスタ

designfesta.com

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BTS … Film out Lyrics (방탄소년단/防弾少年団 Film out 日本語字幕 가사) [Color Coded Lyrics/Kan/Rom/Eng]

youtu.be/az_6PrN-biI

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#展示 #写真 #コラージュ #川村記念美術館 #Exhibition #Pic #kawamuramemorialdicmuseumofart #collage #BTS #Filmout #FUJIFILM #GFX50R #富士フィルム #日本 #九十九里浜 #山武市 #本須賀海岸 #japan #kujyukuribeach #sanmushi #motosukabeach

#展示 #写真 #コラージュ #川村記念美術館 #Exhibition #Pic #kawamuramemorialdicmuseumofart #collage #BTS #Filmout #FUJIFILM #GFX50R #富士フィルム

Exhibition in 2023

theme

The camera kisses time.

Mitsushiro - Nakagawa

place

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art 1st attached gallery

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

images.

BTS … Film out Lyrics (방탄소년단/防弾少年団 Film out 日本語字幕 가사) [Color Coded Lyrics/Kan/Rom/Eng]

youtu.be/az_6PrN-biI

２０２３年の展示

テーマ

カメラは時間にキスをする。

Mitsushiro - Nakagawa

場所

DIC川村記念美術館　第１付属ギャラリー

kawamura-museum.dic.co.jp/

images.

BTS … Film out Lyrics (방탄소년단/防弾少年団 Film out 日本語字幕 가사) [Color Coded Lyrics/Kan/Rom/Eng]

youtu.be/az_6PrN-biI

#展示 #写真 #コラージュ #川村記念美術館 #Exhibition #Pic #kawamuramemorialdicmuseumofart #collage #BTS #Filmout #FUJIFILM #GFX50R #富士フィルム

#展示 #写真 #コラージュ #川村記念美術館 #Exhibition #Pic #kawamuramemorialdicmuseumofart #collage #BTS #Filmout #FUJIFILM #GFX50R #富士フィルム #日本 #九十九里浜 #山武市 #本須賀海岸 #japan #kujyukuribeach #sanmushi #motosukabeach

ユーチューブ更新しました.

その、歴史に刻む事件と藪の中に見るミライを若い人たちへ

youtu.be/JzPamaa8rEE

その、歴史に刻む事件と藪の中に見るミライを若い人たちへ

１週間経ちましたので、僕の個人的な意見を残します。

僕は今年５４才になりますが、写真を始めた頃はまだ３０代でした。

その最初の数年間のうち、一度だけ、ニコンに公募したことがあります。

が、うざいことを言われたのでやめました。

それ以降、僕はいっさい公募していません。

なぜそうしなかったのか？

僕は若い人たちに期待していたからです。

そう言う話をここではしました。

お時間がある方は是非、聞いてください。

#藪の中 #芥川龍之介 #事件 #真相 #ミライ #未来 #若者 #若い人たち #希望 #ポジティブ #ネガティブ #切り開く #Nikon #ニコン #写真の公募 #写真 #公募 #日本 #千葉 #千葉県 #八街 #八街市 #japan #chiba #yachimata

Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), -NL-Canada by Helen

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What a delight to have these animals accept our presence. We used the car as a very effective blind. We visited the area five times with wonderful times at each visit.

We were not sure if there was salt mixed with grit that the caribou sought off the road

Simple but effective by MG&A. Canada's Rural Ruins

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Effective Neon Sign of Dragon's Head - Sydney 4 by John Hallam

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safe and effective by percy seaton-smythe

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nattokinase recommended...

Striking tones of Tricolour plant in our garden by Viv.....

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Trachelospermum - Star Jasmine, Confederate Jasmine, is a genus of evergreen woody vines in the dogbane family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1851. All species are native to southern and eastern Asia. Tricolour is a favourite for its versatility and year round colour. Grown as a twining low ground cover, or as a climber up a trellis. Can be clipped to an effective tight low hedge. Variegated pink-cream evergreen leaves, highly scented white starry flowers in spring and summer. 3237

rockstar riddick by Ramon Hermans

19 1

effective semi-dry cleaner

Effective by AFK My Homework

24 4

Just some quick combos~

RD-VIKSKAL Skalmöld by Lu Sim

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Medium reFrame

Effective Range: Close

Classification: Melee / Close Combat

Armaments: (1) SW-SKALSO, (1) SH-SKALRO

Ragnarsdóttir holds the reputation of being one of the most ruthless military organizations in the region that was previously known in old history as Northern Europe. Their most known trait though is having all female members in their ranks. Practicing strict military code accompanied by superior tactics and skilled warriors, these battle maidens or Valkyries ride highly customized reFrames that excel in close quarter combat skirmishes.

The Skalmöld model in particular is equipped with the SW-SKALSO, a cleaving heat sword that penetrates the toughest of armors, and the SH-SKALRO, a shield that offers superior deflection and blocking given its compact size.

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Build notes:

You can find more about the build in my blog article :D

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More info, WIP details, and other LEGO mechs over at my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/

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For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

7.5 cm PaK 40 by ModernBrix

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With an effective range of 1,000-1,500 yards, the PaK-40 could fire a 15-lb armour-piercing round at 2,598 feet per second, enabling it to penetrate up to 106 mm of steel at 500 yards. Later a 7-lb tungsten-cored round (AP40) was developed with a muzzle velocity of 3,060 feet metres which could punch through 115 mm of steel at 500 yards allowing it to take on virtually every Allied tank in production, with the exception of the Soviet IS-2 and American M.26 Pershing. With an experienced crew of eight the gun could fire up to 10 rounds per minute. In addition High Explosive and Hollow Charge (in small quantities) rounds were also available for the PaK-40.

(ww2db.com)

Front armor panel design goes to Fighting~Freefall, other than that, the rest of the model is my design.

Hope you guys like it!

btw if you'd like to see a breakdown I would be glad to post one.

Moon mosaic by StormLV

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16MP equivalent from 14 movies of 5000 images each.

Kept best 3% of frames from each movie

---Hardware---

Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT

Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M

Tube : Celestron 11 EDGE HD

Effective focal length : 2800 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/10

---Software---

Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE

Processed with Lightroom & Topaz SharpenAI

AL-VZ01FAH Vzir' Rin by Lu Sim

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Hybrid / L-reFrame

Effective Range: Short

Classification: Close Combat

Armaments: (1) PA-ALVZRAXE

Created specifically for the Kingdom of Vzir's twin female monarch, Rin Al' Vzir, this unique Ascendant Lord reFrame is one of the most intricate reFrames in current existence.

While not as robust as his twin brother's reFrame, the Vzir' Rin was built to be both highly mobile and deadly with the AX-ALVZR, an elegant axe that could split entire reFrames in two. It is also equipped with a special flight back unit with a mirror-like polished golden Quorus core, allowing it to glide gracefully in the battlefield.

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Build notes:

My first reFrame for our ongoing Mech Wars over at our LUG (PhLUG). This was built with a grand color scheme in mind, sporting mostly white and gold details. It was a challenge making this both look feminine and ornate considering there's not really much golden parts to use (all those gold bad robot arms!)

The idea for the huge back was taken from those 18th century big poofy dresses. Wanted to give her something that would resemble a rear balloon skirt but ended up making her a flight pack instead.

Pretty happy with this and I really like her axe XD

P.S. she has a mean looking twin brother ;)

www.flickr.com/photos/messymaru/sets/72157656125283971

Rabies vaccine effective even after warm storage https://t.co/rFCgNtdNb4 by Joella Doggett

Rabies vaccine effective even after warm storage t.co/rFCgNtdNb4 (via Twitter twitter.com/Doggy_IQ/status/819653107244269569)

Simple yet effective! by AC Pin

22 1

Doesn't take much to figure it out!

inelegant but effective by Graham Robb

15 1

Although Zac has always enjoyed paddling now he's beginning to learn to swim...

USNS Effective (T-AGOS-21) by Minoru Tanaka

28 1

USNS Effective (T-AGOS-21) / Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship / U.S. Navy / 2021.01

Birkenhead Art by Andrew Ross

6 4

Auckland, New Zealand

Bdelloid rotifer. Zeiss 40x bright/pol. by Denis

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Effective magnification 400x.

A typical denizen of pond water.Here it,s in feeding mode.

Thanks for your comments and faves, they are truly appreciated.

ARMT-H07LA Waltz by Lu Sim

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Hybrid / Medium reFrame

Effective Range: Long

Classification: Tactical Assault

Armaments: (1) LG-MKSA03A

The ARMT-H07LA Waltz was originally conceived as a reFrame capable of being stationed in sub-orbital or beyond environments, sniping down targets with its Linear Gun from extreme distances while at the

same time being too far from any potential retaliation from enemy troops. Featuring a more compact design that most of it's ARMaTech siblings, it's constructed of light weight yet durable alloy.

While it has never been intended to be deployed anywhere else but space, recent sorties have forced ARMaTech to deploy a few Waltz reFrames on Earth atmosphere, often designated as extremely long sniper

support.

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Build notes:

This reFrame actually started out with the gun as a core concept. I badly wanted to make a linear gun using the long 1x16 railed piece (apparently a Train track 16L) and while I already had a decent idea

on the gun design, I needed a mech to go with it :P Opted to make something a little more futuristic to go with the gun. Oddly enough this guy started in LBG but after making the head and body, I

scrapped it and rebuilt it in white and orange.

ARMT-M01A Aras by Lu Sim

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Medium reFrame

Effective Range: Medium

Classification: Assault/Tactical

Armaments: (1) AR-FMS00

One of ArmaTech's newest designs, the ARMT-M01A Aras is a high specification machine built for highly tactical operations that require a lot of maneuverability and combat efficiency.

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Build notes:

This is the very first reFrame that is equipped with the new reFrame v2.0 as its base which features a LEGO minifig pilot in the backpack and double-jointed elbows. It's also using my new favorite foot design taken from the H'Da (heck yeah feet with heels!). The entire build took around 12 hours (roughly 2 days of building on and off). The assault rifle was a design I've been wanting to do for a while and it is modeled after the Famas assault rifle.

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More info, WIP details, and other LEGO mechs over at my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/

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For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

simple yet effective by photography_lgpro

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Hillside View by Astronism

117 1

A simple, yet effective photo. The green and rocky hillside and the bright blue sky divide this photo, making it unique but also quite peculiar.

Simple but effective by Ursula Balling

32 6

Goldfinch by Mike Dunlevy

21 5

Simple but effective.

Press L for the detail.

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AL-PRGNKGT Paragon by Lu Sim

104 10

Ascendant Lords

Effective Range: Close

Classification: Melee / Close Combat

Armaments: (1) PA - LNCPRGN, (1) SH-DIAMDNX

Awarded to only the most battle-hardened knights and reFrame pilots, the silver-plated Paragon reFrame is a heavily improved version of the Ritter. Overall battle performance has been improved with a special emphasis was given to thrust capacity, allowing the Paragon to swiftly close in and engage opponents in melee combat where these units truly excel. As with its predecessor, it is equipped with the PA-LNCPRGN. an improved and deadlier polearm that first skewers opponents then shreds them to bits with the side blades, and the SH-DIAMDNX, a diamond-shaped shield that is well balanced and offers superior deflection both in CCQ.

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Build notes:

You can find more about the build in my blog article :D

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More info, WIP details, and other LEGO mechs over at my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/

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For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

A Doorway - Castle Combe by Elisabeth Redlig

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The village takes its name from the 12th-century castle which stood 600 metres to the north.

The 14th-century market cross, erected when the privilege to hold a weekly market in Castle Combe was granted, stands where the three principal streets of the lower village converge. Next to the cross is one of Castle Combe's two village pumps.

Small stone steps near the cross were for horse riders to mount and dismount, and close by are the remains of the buttercross, built in the late 19th century from old masonry.

The village prospered during the 15th century when it belonged to Millicent, the wife of Sir Stephen Le Scrope and then of Sir John Fastolf (1380–1459), a Norfolk knight who was the effective lord of the manor for fifty years. He promoted the woollen industry, supplying his own troops and others for Henry V's war in France. The parish was in the ancient hundred of Chippenham.

Notable houses include the Dower House, from the late 17th century and now Grade II* listed.

A National School was built in 1826, on a site between the upper and lower villages. The school was taken over by the county council in 1909, and educated children of all ages until 1956 when older pupils were transferred to secondary schools in Chippenham. It closed in 1998 on the opening of a new primary school at Yatton Keynell.

900mm effective by MedicineMan4040

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Wheat Grass by Michele

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I love wheat grass. I grow it and snip off a bit to put in my fruit smoothies. It might sound odd to some (as it did to me at first), but it's sweet and loaded with nutrients. It's fun to grow this over the winter, as it brings a bit of summertime into the house.

Here's some info on wheat grass:

~Wheatgrass is the young wheat plant. It is 70% chlorophyll in its juice form.

~The high chlorophyll content of wheatgrass acts as a "magnet" in drawing out toxins from the body.

~Chlorophyll has been shown to produce an unfavorable environment for bacterial growth in the body and therefore effective in increasing the body's resistance to illness.

~Wheatgrass has more vitamin C than oranges and twice the vitamin A as carrots. It is also rich in vitamins E, K, and B-complex.

Here's my favorite 'Green Smoothie' recipe:

* 1 cup green grapes

* 1/2 cup fresh pineapple

* 1/2 cup wheat grass

* 1 cup ice

USNS Effective (T-AGOS-21) by Minoru Tanaka

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USNS Effective (T-AGOS-21) / Victorious-class ocean surveillance ship / U.S. Navy / 2021.01

F-100D Super Sabre by Bear Lamp

43 2

1:42 scale

The North American F-100 Super Sabre was a supersonic multiple-role fighter-bomber from the cold war. It was introduced in the early 50's as a replacement for the Korean War F-86 Sabre. Its design was revolutionary for the time, and was a huge step in fighter jet development. It was the first jet capable of supersonic speeds at level flight. The F-100 deployed to Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965. It was one of the most effective bombers of the war, and was continued to be used in Vietnam until 1972 when it was totally replaced by the more advanced F4 Phantom.

This model was quite a challenge in some bits, but in the end I am very pleased with how it turned out. The camouflage was hard to pull off in olive green, so I felt stickers would be the best option to fill in some nasty gaps. This might be a bit controvertial, but I think it looks fine. Instructions for this model will be available in due time! Thanks, -Bear

reFX01 Type D by Lu Sim

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Medium reFrame

Effective Range: Medium

Classification: Ranged Assault

Armaments: (1) AR-G91COMBAT

(1) SMG-A54-00

(4) GRE-FLAK

An assault variant of the reFX01, Type D is equipped with reinforced mobile shields on its shoulders, reducing the need to carry a shield as compared to the A and B types. This model also comes with a modified backpack, designed specifically for short burts of thrust to quickly change direction, making it a highly mobile unit on the battlefield.

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Build notes:

The primary intention for the reFX series was to create a more unified look with my mech designs and just evolve them slowly with upgrade parts. I figured I was creating too many new designs and had deviated from my original concept for Mech Wars, which was to create a modular LEGO mech system where I could simply swap out parts and create different mechs by just changing the individual part components.

The Type D is basically a rework version of the shoulders of the Type A/B. Following the same aesthetic as the A and B's shield, I made it more compact and mounted it on the top (similar to how Zaku II shoulders are). I initially wanted to add spikes or studs on it but ended up keeping it flat due to the assembly of the attached grenades.

The backpack was also rebuilt to have huge fuel tank canisters and verniers that could change direction, giving the Type D enhanced manueverability.

The rest of the body parts have some slight variations to it such as the elbows, the rear of the thighs, and the assembly of the lower shin.

Aside from the slight modifications, I badly wanted to experiment on different color schemes. So far I've done color palettes that apply to the entire mech but for this, I wanted the legs to be primarily white and the upper body (minus the arms) to be in another color.

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More about this on my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/2016/05/06/moc-refx01-type-d/

For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

by CHAUD.

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looks can be dangerously Effective for some that trust people fast

Reflêts du soir au Louvre by Zed The Dragon

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Pyramide du Louvre

La légende des 666 vitres prend sa source dans les années 1980, quand la brochure officielle publiée durant la construction cite effectivement ce chiffre (deux fois, bien que des pages précédentes indiquent également 673). Le chiffre 666 est alors repris par des journaux divers. Toutefois, la direction du Musée du Louvre affirme que la pyramide complète compte un total de 673 plaques vitrées (603 losanges et 70 triangles). David A. Shugarts, pour sa part, en dénombre 689 (Secrets du Code, édité par Dan Burstein, p. 259). Il a été procédé à plusieurs décomptes, aboutissant à des résultats divers, mais toujours supérieurs à 666.

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The story of the 666 panes originated in the 1980s, when the official brochure published during construction did indeed cite this number (even twice, though a few pages earlier the total number of panes was given as 672 instead). The number 666 was also mentioned in various newspapers. The Louvre museum however states that the finished pyramid contains 673 glass panes (603 rhombi and 70 triangles).[5] A higher figure was obtained by David A. Shugarts, who reports that the pyramid contains 689 pieces of glass.[6] Shugarts obtained the figure from the offices of I.M. Pei. Various attempts to actually count the panes in the pyramid have produced slightly discrepant results, but there are definitely more than 666.

CaméraSony DSLR-A850

Exposition0,008 sec (1/125)

Ouverturef/8.0

Longueur focale24 mm

Vitesse ISO200

Détection du degré d'exposition+0.3 EV

Cardinal 840mm effective by MedicineMan4040

27 1

Using the 400DOii + c1.4TC with the Rii in 'crop' mode

Please Help Puerto Rico Now!!! General Honoré, We Need You by Chic Bee

22 4

If we can send effective missions to Mars, let's, right now, send an effective logistical mission to American Puerto Rico!!!

They urgently need food, water, medical supplies, prescription drugs, personal health and hygiene supplies, and fuel to run hospitals and safe havens.

Time is of the essence!!!

More than 3 million American citizens will begin getting sick and dying if we don't help!! Or id our help is ineffective due to lack of an effective commander. ! suggest the appointment of General Honoré to take command.

I created this on Facebook.It was serendipitous. I entered the text. It said, pick a background for your text. The sample backgrounds were too small to see. This is the first one I tried, and I liked the result. I was in a rush and neglected to put commas before and after 'right now'

Moon by StormLV

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Kept best 5% of 2000 frames

---Hardware---

Mount : Skywatcher AZ-EQ-6 GT

Camera : PointGrey Grasshopper GS3-U3-23S6M

Tube : Astro-Physics 130 EDF F/6 with 4x barlow (Televue Powermate)

Effective focal length : 3120 mm

Effective aperture : ~ F/24

---Software---

Acquired with FireCapture

Stacked with AutoStakkert

Mosaic done with Microsoft ICE

Processed with Lightroom & Topaz DenoiseAI

^ It's Altered State ^ by greg Robinson

11 2

Effective Gravity on OUR MINDS...

Skyhammer by Jon Hall

103 17

The P-72A gunship, codenamed “Skyhammer” was developed by Arcadia Aeronautics for the Kovlakian Airborn Artillery. It was devised as a counter measure to the threat of the new armoured Zeppelins, and proved extremely effective against them. It also saw extensive use in the Battle of Syrrah where squadrons flew low in night attacks to destroy the city’s heavily fortified walls. The plane here is painted in night camo colours and is piloted by Lt Colonel Dirk Salvo. It is armed with two 20mm front–firing machine guns and a 400mm artillery cannon which carries a maximum of six shells.

AL-PRGNKGT Paragon by Lu Sim

104 8

Ascendant Lords

Effective Range: Close

Classification: Melee / Close Combat

Armaments: (1) PA - LNCPRGN, (1) SH-DIAMDNX

Awarded to only the most battle-hardened knights and reFrame pilots, the silver-plated Paragon reFrame is a heavily improved version of the Ritter. Overall battle performance has been improved with a special emphasis was given to thrust capacity, allowing the Paragon to swiftly close in and engage opponents in melee combat where these units truly excel. As with its predecessor, it is equipped with the PA-LNCPRGN. an improved and deadlier polearm that first skewers opponents then shreds them to bits with the side blades, and the SH-DIAMDNX, a diamond-shaped shield that is well balanced and offers superior deflection both in CCQ.

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Build notes:

You can find more about the build in my blog article :D

---

More info, WIP details, and other LEGO mechs over at my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/

---

For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

Simple and effective by Marco Aurélio Conde

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Bled, Slovenia, 2015.

NESF-M01TS Command by Lu Sim

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Medium reFrame

Effective Range: Medium

Classification: Tactical Assault

Armaments: (1) AR-NC021B Rifle, (1) RL-FRPG01

The Command is a reFrame piloted only by those most experienced of NEST veterans. Designed to withstand prolonged battles while not sacrifing mobility and performance, the Command strikes with speed and

deadly accuracy in urban and jungle scenarios.

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Build notes:

Had built this guy as a superior model of the Seeker, taking and evolving it's design into a bulkier and more formidable looking mech. The head and wearable "eye" design was something I've been wanting

to do previously on the Seeker but was only able to pull it off on this guy (thanks to a droid body). Wanted to actually make it with a full olive green color scheme but apparently I didn't have too much

of it so had to use some old dark grey and DBG so it turned out okay.

The RPG is probably the piece I enjoyed building the most here hehe modeled it like one of those WW1-WW2 military RPGs and really happy with how it turned out.

Parsley.. by DigiDi

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~Petroselinum crispum~ An effective diuretic and relieves indigestion. It is best known as a natural cleaning treatment for kidneys. It is a Blood Tonic. It also helps to regulate Blood Pressure. It's Anti-Inflammatory so the minerals in parsley helps diminish pain of arthritis

Also, great for Culinary uses.

May 18, 2015:

Entered into the "Incredible Plants" and "AWAKE" Challenge as one without date limits. Incredible Plants Awake Challenge

Aigle–Ollon–Monthey–Champéry railway line by Jeremy Segrott

11 2

The metre gauge Aigle–Ollon–Monthey–Champéry railway line climbs approximately 2000 feet to its mountain terminus at Champéry which sits 3,441 feet above sea level. We travelled on the train from the Corbier stop - on the outskirts of Monthey, with a seamless change from the mainline station nearby. The line features on street running in Monthey where following a call at the Ville station, the train retraces its steps northwards before the line to Champéry diverges from the Aigle line. The Monthey-Champéry section was a dramatic ride into the mountains, with several sections of rack railway, permitting some impressive gradients. The line is operated by smart Stadler two car EMUs - comfortable, panoramic views from the large windows, and very effective air conditioning. This photos was taken from the upper terminus of the Champéry-Croix Crulet cable car, which achieves an altitude of around 6,348 feet. The train in the photo has just departed Champéry, bound for Aigle.

The only effective public transport in LA by Kris

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Greenfinch by Workfree photography

9 2

Effective focal length 1792 mm. Trying out new wildlife set-up for distant subjects.

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