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The golden age of Elmoreden came about a thousand years after its establishment, during the reign of Emperor Baium. With great charisma and leadership skills, Baium created the strongest army in the history of the kingdom. This army drove the orcs, who had considerable influence in the northern parts of Elmore, into the black woods, known later as the Orc Kingdom. In addition, Baium's army led repeated attacks against the kingdom of Perios, and eventually occupied the southern parts of Gracia.
In his later years, Baium lost interest in conquests and used his kingdom's forces to begin construction of an elaborate tower rising into the clouds.
"My name inspires fear in every corner of the continent. Tens of thousands of lives can be lost or saved by the movement of my hand. My power is absolute. That I can only have this power for a few decades, I cannot bear! No -- I shall obtain everlasting life from the gods and rule my kingdom forever!"
The magnificent tower of Baium's design took thirty years to construct. He intended to use the tower to climb to the residence of the gods and obtain the secret of everlasting life. When he climbed the tower, the gods objected to his plans and gave him this response:
"Child of lowly humans, and a lowly human yourself: You dare to soil our abode for your own everlasting life? Have you learned nothing from the lesson of the giants? Very well, if eternal life is what you desire, we shall grant you your request. But you shall never leave your tower."
Having brought the fury of the gods upon himself, Baium was trapped for all eternity at the top of his tower. After the sudden disappearance of the emperor, a fierce competition broke out among members of the royal family as each vied for ascension to the throne. Numerous aristocrats also seized the opportunity to stake their claim to the throne, leaving the entire kingdom of Elmoreden enmeshed in internal conflict. The costs and labor requirements for construction of the tower had already weakened the kingdom. The added conflict and backbiting over the vacant throne was the last straw. The resplendent kingdom of Elmoreden, powerful on the continent for more than a thousand years fell into rapid decline. Within a mere twenty years, the kingdom was in shambles.
I remember being about five and sitting down to write my first novel. it went, "the cat said 'hi' said the cat." after that I got hopelessly enmeshed in revisions and abandoned the project.
but I'm going to finish it this winter.
These closeups demonstrate the texture of the leaves and how each individual leaf has maintained its form. The side profile and a closeup of the enmeshed leaves provide different perspectives of the Headdress
Curated by the UTSOA Materials Lab.
Photographed by School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Photography TA, Panchajanya Gudigar.
Curated by the UTSOA Materials Lab.
Photographed by School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Photography TA, Panchajanya Gudigar.
I love your lips when they're wet with wine
And red with a wild desire;
I love your eyes when the lovelight lies
Lit with a passionate fire.
I love your arms when the warm white flesh
Touches mine in a fond embrace;
I love your hair when the strands enmesh
Your kisses against my face.
From I Love You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
2013, Etching and embossed on Velin Arches.
Edition Size: 10
Editions Available: 4
47.5cm x 47.5cm
Abdullah M. I. Syed
2013, Etching and embossed on Velin Arches.
Edition Size: 10
Editions Available: 4
47.5cm x 47.5cm
Abdullah M. I. Syed
This whole cute baby animals in cups thing is kind of like a video game: at first you wonder why all the mushrooms hate some gymnast plumber so much, but after looking at it for a while, you get enmeshed in the alternate logic and it starts to make sense to you.
Curated by the UTSOA Materials Lab.
Photographed by School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Photography TA, Panchajanya Gudigar.
Curated by the UTSOA Materials Lab.
Photographed by School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Photography TA, Panchajanya Gudigar.
it has come to this . . .
. . . The 20th century scene
This is what we, our fathers and grandfathers,
have done to England. This is the product of
a century of progress. The mischief is done. The monstrous town enmeshes our life and wealth. We regret, we condemn. But what can we do ?
This: We can reconsider the aims of building, establish a new standard of integrity and realism in architecture, so that as we rebuild we recreate. What are the essential conditions of
this architecture ?
Curated by the UTSOA Materials Lab.
Photographed by School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Photography TA, Panchajanya Gudigar.
Tonight was the first of what I expect will be many long days at work. Roughly, it was a 14 hour day. The morning was pretty exciting as we prepared for upcoming appointments and Rep Peña's activities for the day. I kind of got sucked into Committee work earlier than expected, but I suppose the need was there. We did what needed doing.
The hearing ended a while ago, but the committee work is not done. We have to start preparing for next week already. So far, we have over 200 bills in the criminal jurisprudence committee. Given the amount of time available before the end of session, there is no way we can hear all of them. Tonight, the Chairman mentioned setting up subcommittees to allow a hearing for as many bills as possible. I agree that the need is there. What immediately comes to my mind is that it will complicate the process of organizing the hearings. We would have to juggle multiple timetables to perform certain tasks on different days. In addition, the more difficult aspect would be having multiple bosses with the subcommittee chair. I've had this situation before, where there is more than one boss. It's always a recipe for problems. Nobody can serve two masters (or three or four). Still, it must be done. The alternative would be to leave many bills unheard.
In terms of my work, I find myself more and more enmeshed in the committee because of the volume of work headed our way. Consequently, I am becoming less connected with the goings on upstairs. I'm hitting that two masters issue again. If I concentrate more on one job, the other suffers.
I've already got a list of stuff to do tomorrow. If we'd got out of committee earlier, I may have put some work into getting it done. In practical terms, I could have stayed tonight to start on some work, but it is still too early in the session to start burning the candle on both ends. I need to ensure there is enough candle to last through the end of the session.
Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science
(University of Washington Press, 2005)
Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Oceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking into account the roles of the U.S. Navy, United States foreign policy, and scientists throughout the world. Jacob Hamblin demonstrates that to understand the history of American oceanography, one must consider its role in both conflict and cooperation with other nations.
Paradoxically, American oceanography after World War II was enmeshed in the military-industrial complex while characterized by close international cooperation. The military dimension of marine science--with its involvement in submarine acoustics, fleet operations, and sea-launched nuclear missiles--coexisted with data exchange programs with the Soviet Union and global operations in seas without borders.
From an uneasy cooperation with the Soviet bloc in the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, to the NATO Science Committee in the late 1960s, which excluded the Soviet Union, to the U.S. Marine Sciences Council, which served as an important national link between scientists and the government, Oceanographers and the Cold War reveals the military and foreign policy goals served by U.S. government involvement in cooperative activities between scientists, such as joint cruises and expeditions. It demonstrates as well the extent to which oceanographers used international cooperation as a vehicle to pursue patronage from military, government, and commercial sponsors during the Cold War, as they sought support for their work by creating "disciples of marine science" wherever they could.
This series of allegorical felting needles stitch together the sky, sea and land by pivoting through the skins of each element. The three bodies are enmeshed in the sand via a process beginning with a fishing cormorant, that is tethered to the needle. The bird can fish and do nothing else, thus building up a fishy liver (to be made into Foie Gras later) and guano beneath it. The guano is mixed with the oil, cornflower, water and iron filings that fall from the Pre-ontological Chandelier (collectively known as Narcissi) into a shallow pool of sea water on the collecting plate. The needle shafts allow this material to drain through a number of vessels (anEchoic Chambers) to feed and pump through Bacillus pasteurii before being expressed as an Echo Location by the calcification of the loose sand. This (trans)literal relation however expresses itself to the world by affecting the build up and erosion of the sandbanks, thus creating new wave patterns on the skin of the sea, interfering and conversing with the waves created by the movement of the above water needle, having knowingly been created by that movement in the first place.
The black lines, when wide and together, show time in a continuity, like being a child in a family. The single black line is a journey without a known destination, like becoming an adult, or in college. Other (red) figures are enmeshed and influence.
This image is one of several drawings of visions, images or mental modes of time. We’d like to collect more as part of this online exhibition. To participate, you can send us a photo of a drawing to time(at)mw2mw.com or tweet an image with the hashtag #seetime.
Curated by the UTSOA Materials Lab.
Photographed by School of Architecture Visual Resources Collection Photography TA, Panchajanya Gudigar.
Hardly been doing any photography recently; just too cold and windy. Had a mooch around the garden today though, turning over bit of bark etc.
Found this Pogonognathellus flavescens? which (as usual), paused for a second and then made a dash for it. Fortuntately (for me), it got entanged in this silken mesh and was temporarily halted. This allowed a couple of "grabbed" shots.
[It wasn't until I just glanced at the EXIF data, that I realised I had the camera set at ISO 400 for this, instead of 100. Must pay more attention in future!]
Enmeshed in the Hindi-Urdu class these past few weeks, I forget about the fact that my move up north is approaching, fast. I think of San Francisco fondly, and now it seems like a sort of Emerald City that I will be journeying to.
A closer look at one echinacea flower revealed it to be supporting strands of spiderweb, but I could not see the spider.
This winter in Moscow sometimes I feel spring in my mind, in my heart, sometimes even the weather prove it.
I always dream of this photo, I wanted to make atmospheric picture, because I wanted to make frame about old town and cushy building, sun`s shining in frost and about gossamer in the air, like this intricate weave of twigs. They are like branches of the sky enmeshing windows and balconys, the cracks, the World.
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2013, Sugar Lift, aquatint and embossed on Velin Arches 300gsm paper.
Edition Size: 10
Editions Available: 4
47.5cm x 47.5cm
Abdullah M. I. Syed
Ayutthaya Historical Park, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
Ayutthaya city is the capital of Ayutthaya province in Thailand. Located in the valley of the Chao Phraya River, the city was founded in 1350 by King U Thong, who went there to escape a smallpox outbreak in Lop Buri and proclaimed it the capital of his kingdom, often referred to as the Ayutthaya kingdom or Siam. Ayutthaya became the second Siamese capital after Sukhothai. It is estimated that Ayutthaya by the year 1600 CE had a population of about 300,000, with the population perhaps reaching 1,000,000 around 1700 CE, making it one of the world's largest cities at that time, when it was sometimes known as the "Venice of the East".
In 1767, the city was destroyed by the Burmese army, resulting in the collapse of the kingdom. The ruins of the old city are preserved in the Ayutthaya historical park, which is recognised internationally as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ruins, characterised by the prang (reliquary towers) and gigantic monasteries, give an idea of the city's past splendour. Modern Ayutthaya was refounded a few kilometres to the east.