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Work Day, 03/10/2020, Brooklyn, OH
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"Erotically Sparking and Steamy"
Early marriage was borne of ancient societies' need to secure a safe environment in which to breed, handle the granting of property rights, and protect bloodlines. Ancient Hebrew law required a man to become the husband of a deceased brother's widow.
But even in these early times, marriage was much about love and desire as it was social and economic stability. In its roundness, the engagement ring, a custom dating back to the Ancient Rome, is believed to represent eternity and everlasting union. It was once believed a vein or nerve ran directly from the 'ring' finger of the left hand to the heart.
Many other modern day marriage traditions have their origins in these ancient times. Newly-weds are said to have aided fertility by drinking a brew made from honey during certain lunar phases and it is this tradition from which we derive the origins of the word 'honeymoon'.
ONE WIFE OR TWO?
Understanding of marriage contrasted greatly from culture to culture. Some cultures viewed the institution as endogamous (men were required to marry within their own social group, family, clan, or tribe), exogamous (marrying outside the geographical region or social group) or polygamous (allowing men to take more than one bride).
Polygamy was formally banned towards the end of the Roman Empire with laws against adultery, fornication and other relationships outside a monogamous lifelong covenant. The seeds of modern marriage were sowed here and they extended into the modern Western world.
“Here be dragons” means dangerous or unexplored territories, in imitation of a medieval practice of putting illustrations of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons
It may be that Medieval Map Makers wrote, “Here be dragons,” to indicate untold dangers and to warn away some exploration, or at least ask any such explorers to bring back a few line illustrations to update maps, charts and guides. When I say Dirleton Castle Here Be Dragons, I mean Dirleton Castle Here Be Dragons. The Dragon was posing for pictures and stating that Photoshop was allowed to bring out his armoured scale magnificence and to sparkle the light of gentle soft slightly flaming snores illuminating sleepily tinkling pillowed to perfection golden hoards of the past, the present and those yet to come within his eyes.
I saw the Dragon Eggs hatch and fly away for Winter and it is possible that the Dragon, as pictured here, may have flown away til Spring 2023. Please do ask if you are looking to see either The Dragon, as pictured here, or The Nest, either with, or without The Eggs. The Dragon, The Nest, The Eggs and The Man at Arms Presentations are all worth a visit for and along with them there is a Castle and Grounds that are superb.
For updates on The Dragon, The Nest, The Eggs and The Man at Arms Presentations and for artistic recreations of Castles and Historic Scenes I follow their creator on Twitter.
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The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is an art museum located in the South Bank precinct of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of the Queensland Cultural Centre.
GOMA opened on 2 December 2006. It is the Queensland Art Gallery's second building, and is the largest gallery of modern and contemporary art in Australia. It complements the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) building, situated only 150 metres (490 ft) away. Queensland's Gallery of Modern Art also houses Australia's first purpose built cinematheque. The gallery is situated on Kurilpa Point next to the Queensland Art Gallery and State Library of Queensland and faces the Brisbane River and the CBD. The Gallery of Modern Art has a total floor area over 25,000 square metres (270,000 sq ft) and the largest exhibition gallery is 1,100 square metres (12,000 sq ft). The building was designed by Sydney architecture firm Architectus.
In July 2002, Sydney-based company Architectus was commissioned by the Queensland Beattie Government following an Architect Selection Competition, to design the Queensland Art Gallery's second site, the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). A main theme of Architectus's design was a pavilion in the landscape, one which assumes its position as both hub and anchor for this important civic precinct. Critical to this is the building's response to the site, its natural topography, existing patterns of urban generation, and the river. Architectus was awarded the 2007 RAIA National Award for Public Architecture for the design of GOMA.
The design concept proposes a lightweight, open riverside pavilion containing two major levels of exhibition space, two cinemas, education facilities, a restaurant and boardwalk cafe. The Gallery is organized into flexible, adaptive spaces which can house changing programs and exhibitions.
The urban design concept for the Gallery acknowledges the city grid and axis of Tank Street to the historic windmill, whilst maintaining the river connection for the west end district. The new Gallery is the largest cultural project to be undertaken in Queensland’s recent history. The resulting building stands as a landmark against Brisbane’s skyline. The new building more than doubles the Queensland Art Gallery’s size, and enhances Brisbane as a world city.
Environmentally, the generous roof solves around 90% of the issues facing the Gallery by shading the walls at critical times of the day. The Gallery will focus on modern and contemporary Australian and international art, indigenous Australian art, and the art of the Asia-Pacific region.
Past and current exhibitions at GOMA include:
Water (07 December 2019 – 26 April 2020)
I, Object (3 August 2019 - 29 August 2021
Work, Work, Work (3 August 2019 - 19 July 2020)
Perceptions of Time (25 May 2019 - 28 June 2020)
Geometries (25 May 2019 - 2 February 2020)
Quilty ( 29 June - 13 October 2019)
Margaret Olley: A Generous Life ( 15 June - 13 October 2019)
Patricia Piccinini: Curious Affection (24 March - 5 August 2018)
Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow (4 November 2017 - 11 February 2018)
Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images (14 October 2017 - 4 February 2018)
Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe (27 May - 3 September 2017)
Cindy Sherman (28 May - 3 October 2016)
David Lynch: Between Two Worlds (14 March - 8 June 2015)
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion (1 November 2014 – 15 February 2015)
Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth (23 November 2013 – 11 May 2014)
Matisse: Drawing Life (3 December 2011 – 4 March 2012)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, The Image & The World (28 August - 27 November 2011)
Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams (11 June - 2 October 2011)
21st Century: Art in the First Decade (18 December 2010 – 26 April 2011)
Valentino, Retrospective: Past/Present/Future (7 August – 14 November 2010)
Ron Mueck (8 May – 1 August 2010)
The China Project (28 March – 28 June 2009)
Picasso & his collection (9 June - 14 September 2008)
Andy Warhol (8 December 2007 – 13 April 2008)
The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) hosts the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art jointly with the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), since opening in 2006.
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9) (24 November 2018 - 28 April 2019)
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8) (21 November 2015 - 10 April 2016)
The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) (8 December 2012 – 14 April 2013)
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT6) (5 December 2009 – 5 April 2010)
The 5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5) (2 December 2006 – 27 May 2007)
The 4th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT4) (12 September 2002 - 27 January 2003)
The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) (9 September 1999 - 26 January 2000)
The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT2) (27 September 1996 - 19 January 1997)
The 1st Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT1) (17 September -5 December 1993)
Source: QAGOMA, Architectus Australia.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 0.50m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DSM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
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from a series "Somewhere in Poland" (2009-2015)
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This view shows the variety of coastal environments in this portion of Humboldt County. This is the mouth of Guthrie Creek southwest of Ferndale. The dry growth in the foreground is representative of the south facing slope leading down to the creek. In the background to the right is the Pacific Ocean. To the left is a north facing slope of redwood, coast cypress and Douglas fir
iss060e022737 (Aug. 5, 2019) --- Expedition 60 Flight Engineer Andrew Morgan of NASA works with the BioFabrication Facility that is researching whether the weightless environment of space may support the fabrication of human organs. He set up the device to begin test-printing tissues. An incubator houses the tissue samples to promote cohesive cellular growth over several weeks.
(2007) Environment concept sketches and visualization with color for an escape from hell horror game pitch back in 2007.
Created imagery for General Snus which was published in Last Months Maxim Magazine (November 2012) of Thomas Christensen Kayaking in Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas. Thomas is a proud customer of General Snus Smokeless Tobacco. The assignment was to capture him enjoying the product in his natural environment.
River fragmentation - The interruption of a river’s natural flow by dams, inter-basin transfers or water withdrawal - is an indicator of the degree to which rivers have been modified by man (Ward and Stanford, 1989, and Dynesius and Nilsson, 1994, as cited in Revenga et al., 2000). A fragmentation analysis carried out by the University of Umea and the World Resources Institute showed that, of 227 rivers assessed, 37% were strongly affected by fragmentation and altered flows, 23% were moderately affected, and 40% were unaffected. Analysis indicates that: - Strongly or moderately fragmented systems accounted for nearly 90% of the total water volume flowing through the rivers analyzed. - Strongly fragmented river systems are defined as 'rivers with less than a quarter of their main channel remaining without dams, where the largest tributary has at least one dam, as well as rivers where the annual flow pattern has changed substantially.' Fragmented rivers are only considered unaffected if their main channel has no dams or, if their tributaries have been dammed, the total river discharge has only declined by less than 2% (Revenga et al., 2000). - The combined length of rivers altered for shipping increased from less than 9,000 km in 1900 to more than 500,000 km in 1997 (Naiman et al., 1995, as cited in Revenga et al., 2000). - The only remaining large free-flowing rivers in the world are found in the tundra regions of North America and Russia, and in smaller coastal basins in Africa and Latin America. - Considerable parts of large rivers in the tropics, such as the Amazon, the Orinoco and the Congo, remain basically unaffected. China’s Yangtze River will become strongly affected with the completion of the Three Gorges Dam project (Revenga et al., 2000). The last three decades have seen several inland ecosystems (e.g. the Aral Sea, Lake Chad, and the Mesopotamian Marshlands) decline in size and function.
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Well I thought I could resist the ol chipmonk photo but I was wrong. They are just too dang cute too resist and they know it. However at least I didn't feed this little guy who was hanging around the picnic area at Lake Jenny in Teton National Park.. He doesnt need my higher calorie diet when there are so many nuts, pincones and seeds to harvest. I love the lichen on the stone as well. Blessings.
Zimbabwe Parliament visit with Hon. Adv. Speaker Jacob Francis Nzwidamilimo Mudenda of Parliament to the New Nordics, i.e. Sweden, Latvia, and Finland.
With the focus on Environment, Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Waste Management, tech as Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Photos and videos credit: Lars Ling.
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