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I painted this in one of the coolest spots in the wold
for the first time i did the proper spelling of my name
Big ups to Sno Grus Nam and Cafie
it was fun to paint with my girl agian
Probably My last video for the year. There is no greater equalizer than love.
Thanks everyone - Aki , Tia , Maia , Deckard , Khin Park
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Created for EXPLORE Worthy, The Number Games 11 (Art from 2015)
Thanks to Grace and Alan for giving me the idea to make the eleven even more eleven ;-).
"Now is the time to make justice a reality for all God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment." -- MLK
Words as relevant today as they were over 52 years ago.
I wonder what Dr. King would think about the state of our country these days?. We have made so many advances as a society, but when it comes to equality for ALL, we are still struggling.
Let's keep striving to wipe out prejudice and hate in our hearts and learn to be tolerant and accepting of everyone.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
(a mural in Philadelphia)
This Frame is about the same general size as the red one, but a few bricks taller, and built at the same scale (1 brick and 1 plate is equal to a human or ~6ft). I actually made this frame with all the left over travis bricks and headlight bricks that I didn't use for the red frame. This resulted in a lot of creative problem solving and forcing me to break from the tried and true methods of making arms/legs/joints, because I didn't have very many of those brick left.
I have to say though, this is probably my favorite frame. The whole purpose of making it was to have another frame to pose with and get beaten up by the red frame. So I was just throwing pieces together to form really "cheap" connections, by that I mean I was just trying to spread out my plates with clips, my travis bricks, and headlight bricks etc. This resulted in my new favorite hip connection, two travis bricks sandwiched between two plates.
This doesn't give a whole lot of back and forth movement to the legs at the hip level, but I found a little way to work around that. I also rationalized the lack of movement with the type of frame that I was trying to build, a fast, mobile, aerial frame. This meant the legs are only really used for stabilizing and landing, so a simpler leg would seem more appropriate.
Lastly I thought photographing this would be a huge pain, but it was actually way easier than the red one, which is great because I'm a huge fan of building in mostly grey. I especially love mixing old grey and new grey. I'm also really happy that the light hit that transparent green plate and made it look like the eye is lighting up.
"Because the world does not belong to us
Because we're nothing, leftovers
Because we are tumbleweeds on roads
Because we are every lost, dashing, shadow
Because we're poems on sidewalks
Because you are the needle in my arm
We are equals
We are mirrors
We cut the night."
"Perché il mondo non ci appartiene
Perché siamo niente, avanzi
Perché siamo rotolacampi sulle strade
Perché siamo ogni vivace ombra persa,
Perché siamo poesie sui marciapiedi
Perché sei l'ago nel mio braccio
Siamo uguali
Siamo specchi
Tagliamo la notte."
(20160712 042_pp_cr16_9)
What weighs more?
In one hand still unopened and unread book of world's history, in the other hand a random bunch of beautiful and informative books.They speak of secret societies, dream psychology and therapy, a short history of the world, a world atlas, huge dictionary and a something more.
There could have been also books of religions, medicine, something of biology and technology mythology and space and other million themes, but it is not physically possible.
The idea is clear I guess.
This is for 118 pictures in 2018, #13, "Equal". It is two 1/2 teaspoon scoops of spices - ground cumin on top and ground cayenne on the bottom. Two of my favorite spices.
The Pinwheel Galaxy or Messier 101 is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It was first discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 27, 1781.
M101 is a large galaxy comparable in size to the Milky Way. With a diameter of 170,000 light-years it is roughly equal the size of the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses.
Colour image taken at the remote observatory from the E-Eye site in Spain. The image is composed of 25 hours of exposure time with the ZWO ASI-2600MC colour camera using a Takahashi CCA250 f3.6 astrograph, riding a unguided 10Micron GM2000. Other then a UV/IR cut filter, no filters were used.
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Can you imagine a world were we did not look at the colour of someone skin or their religion and looked at them as equals. Why do we have to imagine?????
All of the pictures are © copyright by P1ay "All rights are reserved" worldwide. Please do not use, copy or edit any of my photographs. However please feel free to contact with me if you are interested in using any of my images.
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Among the best photos of equal worth in April 2012 in the group: FOTOPEDIA
Tra le migliori foto a pari merito di Aprile 2012 nel gruppo: FOTOPEDIA
Venice stands on millions of wooden poles like a big pile-dwelling house.
Venezia sorge su milioni di pali di legno come una enorme palafitta.
History and culture
The first human settlements on the Venice Lagoon islands date back to the 5th and 6th centuries, when the inhabitants from the mainland came to this semi-swamp area to escape the barbaric invasions that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. The populations coming from mainland Venice settled in the lagoon, fighting as hard as they could to survive: little by little this group of pieces of land surrounded by water took on the semblance of a real town, a town that was so unique and special that it would become the only one of its kind in the world. The new inhabitants built several rafts of various sizes, supported by strong wooden poles that were fixed to the underside. The rafts were connected to each other with wooden walkways and houses, buildings and monuments were then built on them.
When Venice had a big enough population to begin to deserve the title of city, it was then annexed to the Byzantine Empire, while maintaining its own independence. In 697, Venice elected its first Doge, giving life to a new government: the Dogado (Maritime Empire). However, the event that finally made Venice’s name in the world took place in 828, when two enterprising Venetian merchants stole the Apostle Mark’s body from Alessandria in Egypt, and secretly transported it to Venice. A huge church, consecrated in 1094, was built to house the remains of the Saint, who then became the patron saint of the city: the Basilica of San Marco.
Since the very beginning, Venice showed strong inclinations towards trade. This increased to the point that at the end of the 11th century, the city set up close trading connections with Byzantium. This was the start of the Republic of Venice, which was finally consecrated in 1202 through the 4th crusade that saw the conquering of Byzantium and then the islands in the Aegean and Ionian Seas. The eastern city was sacked and the booty was taken to Venice, where it was used to decorate churches and palaces. The four bronze horses that still adorn the main facade of the Basilica of San Marco were also part of that booty.
After the 4th crusade, Venice gained a strong political role due to the fact that it now controlled a large part of the Mediterranean and it also increased its military power and its trading.
The city’s historical rivalry with Genoa exploded under the form of four wars that were fought one after the other until a truce was finally agreed at the end of 1381, when Venice beat Genoa in the famous Battle of Chioggia (1380). Venice then realized that it was necessary for the city to have bases on the mainland too and began to expand towards Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Brescia and Bergamo. Venice’s prestige grew at the same rate as the increase in the land it controlled and was thus given the name of Serenissima. However, danger was round the corner: the Serenissima was so busy expanding on the mainland that it did not realize that the Turks’ power was expanding rapidly, to the point where they took over Constantinople (Byzantium) and some cities on the Greek and Albanian coastlines.
The League of Cambrai was founded in 1508: this was a sort of coalition against Venice which most of the European powers joined. Venice managed to maintain some of its land after seven years of war, but it lost its control over the Mediterranean.
In the 17th century, the Serenissima had to give up Crete, one of its historical lands and the whole of the Peloponnesus area to the Turkish Empire. In the period that followed, Venice’s political power was seriously damaged but there was a considerable increase of the arts and literature in the city, which gave rise to the creation of works of art by Tiepolo, Pietro Longhi and Canova and to theatre plays by Carlo Goldoni.
In 1797, Napoleone Bonaparte conquered Venice, and sacked the whole area, just as he did in the rest of the country. A short while later the Emperor handed over the city to Austria, a ruler that was never accepted by the Venetians: in 1848, the Austrians were run out of the city by a group led by Daniele Manin, and the second Republic of Venice was proclaimed. This new republic did not last for long, however, as Venice was annexed to the new Kingdom of Italy in 1866.
The islands which the town is built upon are steadily sinking, yet the Venetians themselves keep them afloat using pumping stations. They are also building a big engineering project called Mose, which is a system of big movable barriers able to lift up when the tides exceed a certain level, so to prevent the water from flooding the town, causing the picturesque - not for the Venetians - phenomenon of acqua alta.
Did you know that Venice stands on millions of wooden poles like a big pile-dwelling house?
Did you know that, until 8 centuries ago, there were no bridges in Venice?
And that most of the street names are not dedicated to famous men and women, but to the crime chronicle of the city and the most common professions?
Venice was founded between the 5th and 6th century by wealthy people from the mainland who were fleeing the barbarians. They took a collection of islands in a lagoon and built a city connected by canals.
The geography of Venice is marshy with lots of islands. More land was made available for building by draining the water. The topsoil was very unstable, and would change according to the tides, so houses and buildings were designed to sit on large wooden platforms on the soft clay soil. For the larger structures, support piles were pushed into the ground, hopefully to a layer of firmer clay.
Since the platforms and piles were wet most of the time, they presented a problem for builders of that time. Water proof stone blocks from Istria were used in foundation walls to keep some of the moisture out.
Houses could not be too heavy on the wooden platforms, so that dictated the use and wood and brick for the main building materials. Builders used a soft mortar made of lime that was flexible enough to withstand the settling of the buildings. They needed to spread out the weight, so there would not be areas of stress, so the closely spaced beams of the floor were nailed into beams of the walls which spread out the weight over the whole length of the wall.
Venetian Architecture
The style of houses and buildings had to take into account the special conditions of Venice. Because of the weight distribution issue, domes and vaults were rarely used. Open truss roofs were used on churches, and vaulting was used later as they were made more secure by tie beams.
Windows were used a lot because glass was in good supply and they did not add too much weight to the house or building. This led to the use of colonnades and loggias.
Since the city could not expand outwardly, it expanded up. It was usually cheaper to build another floor onto your house than to buy land or another house. In a typical house:
•The ground floor housed your business, with offices, storage, and a warehouse for customers.
•The second floor was used to entertain and was beautifully decorated.
•The upper floor housed the family, and the attic had rooms for the servants.
The way Venetians obtained fresh water had a bearing on the architecture. Since they could not drink the salty water of the lagoon, and it rained a lot in Venice, they devised a system of collecting rain water. Roofs were very steep and had gutters to collect the rain water and channel it to underground collection areas called cisterns. These cisterns were accessed by carved, stone well heads and were placed all over the city wherever there was a small open space. Large houses usually had their own cistern.
Since guests arrived at your home by boat, the side of the house facing the canal would be highly decorated while the rest was plain. Most houses have three stories, with the kitchen either on the main floor, for access to water, or on the upper floor to allow the smells of cooking to escape.
A City of Cities
Each island of Venice is pretty much self-contained. Each had its own water supply, and a square, or Campo, in the center, where many activities took place. Also, a church with a bell tower usually was built in the Campo. Around the Campo would be Palazzi, or palaces, where the ground floor had a warehouse where people could shop.
There are not as many bridges are you might think. The Grand Canal has only one which is made of white marble. Other bridges are often privately owned, and sometimes charge tolls.
LAGUNA
La laguna di Venezia venne formandosi circa 6000 anni or sono quando in seguito all’ultima glaciazione il livello delle acque prese a risalire. Sabbia e detriti apportati dai fiume e modellati dalle correnti marine si depositano sul fondale dando luogo ai cordoni litoranei: la laguna si richiude su se stessa. A partire dal XIV secolo il corso dei maggiori fiumi che sfociavano in laguna venne deviato per evitare il completo insabbiamento degli estuari.
I detriti trasportai dalla marea e dai fiumi hanno generato basse formazioni pianeggianti in superficie, chiamate "barene", sommerse solo dalle maree più notevoli e solcate da piccoli canali i "ghebi". Le barene sono colonizzate da piante che si sono adattate al luogo salmastro. Sono tratto tipico del paesaggio veneziano e lagunare gli innumerevoli pali o "bricole" che segnalano le vie di navigazione alle imbarcazioni della laguna. Esse punteggiano le acque, variando nel numero nel colore e nella forma secondo un preciso codice segnaletico. Nella parte emersa fungono, inoltre, da tappa di riposo per gli uccelli, mentre nella parte immersa accolgono una varia vita animale e vegetale, offrendo riparo a numerose specie di molluschi e di alghe.
URBANISTICA
Venezia sorge su 118 isole. La struttura urbana veneziana è caratterizzata, in primo luogo, dalla netta distinzione tra due sistemi di viabilità: quello delle vie d’acqua (canali, rii) e quello dei percorsi pedonali (calli, campi, fondamente, salizzade, rive, rughe). Nel corso del tempo i percorsi pedonali e i ponti hanno dato luogo a una vera e propria rete di collegamenti. I ponti, che uniscono fra di loro le varie isolette sono 364 e sono costruiti in maggior parte in pietra. Una volta erano tutti in legno e senza gradini, affinchè vi si potesse transitare a cavallo.
La città comprende sei "sestieri", secondo una ripartizione amministrativa che risalirebbe al 1170.
Tutte le piazze si chiamano "campi", poiché in antichità vi erano alberi ed erba, sicchè servivano anche al pascolo del gregge e dei cavalli, alle giostre e alle cacce dei tori. La denominazione piazza va solo alla Piazza di San Marco." Campiello" è l’equivalente di piazzetta, la "salizzada" è una via importante, che era lastricata già all’epoca della sua costruzione al contrario delle calli, il termine "calle" indica le vie, le strade. "Calletta" è dunque una stradina stretta. "Riva" indica i punti più ampi del lungo canale, dove un tempo potevano ormeggiare le navi. Il "ramo" è una calle molto breve per lo più senza uscita. Le "fondamente" sono tratti di lungo canale più stretti delle rive. La "piscina" è un piccolo braccio di laguna circondato da edifici e oggi coperto, dove un tempo i bambini facevano il bagno. Prendono il nome di "rio" i piccoli canali veneziani, "rio terà" è un canale coperto e trasformato in strada. La "corte" è uno spiazzo pubblico comune a più case, mentre il "cortile" si trova all’interno dei palazzi. Si chiamava "lista" una via adatta per il passeggio, ove si trovava la residenza di qualche ambasciatore.
Ogni campo ha la sua chiesa, che volge la facciata verso il canale. La ricchezza della chiesa evidenziava gli aspetti autocelebrativi dello stato (es. San Marco), degli ordini religiosi (es. dei Gesuiti) o delle grandi famiglie patrizie (es. Santa Maria del Giglio). D’importanza vitale per risolvere il problema dell’acqua potabile, i pozzi, per lo più d’uso privato, furono scavati nei campi e nelle corti. Le vere da pozzo in pietra sono l’unica parte visibile. Un pozzo è composto da una cisterna profonda 5 m, con pareti d’argilla. L’acqua piovana convogliata delle bocche di scolo poste sulla pavimentazione del campo, veniva raccolta nella cisterna.
Le fondazioni di Venezia sono costituite da un insieme di pali conficcati nel suolo, per rinforzare il terreno, fino a raggiungere il "caranto" (strato di argilla solida e sabbia situato a grande profondità), su questo primo livello viene posto uno "zattaron", specie di pontone composto da due strati di tavole di larice cementati da un composto di pietra e mattoni (sistema in uso dal XVI sec). Sullo "zattaron" vengono poggiate le fondazioni in pietra d’Istria, per procedere infine alla messa in opera della muratura.
CENNI STORICI
Il nome Venetia designava nel I sec a.c. una regione amministrativa dell’impero romano, che comprendeva l’attuale Veneto, l’Istria, il Friuli e il Trentino. Nel 568 i longobardi cominciarono a dilagare nel nord della penisola e sfuggendo alla loro progressiva avanzata (VI-VII sec), la popolazione venetica, ormai provincia bizantina, confluì verso la costa e si rifugiò sulle isole. Venezia fu fondata in questo modo. Nel VII sec. il patriarca era insediato a Grado mentre il centro del potere bizantino, che sino al VII sec. era a Eraclea, si traferì a Malamocco. Gli abitanti della laguna cominciarono a eleggere i propri dogi (dal latino dux, ovvero comandante). Dopo l’810 il doge eletto lasciò Malamocco per Rivoalto nel cuore della laguna, che si estendeva su un gruppo di piccole isole (le isole realtine) e intorno al rio Businiacus il futuro Canal Grande. Nel 827 l’arcipelago passò sotto l’autorità religiosa di Aquileia, città franca. Nel 828 due mercanti portarono da Alessandria d’Egitto il corpo di San Marco, il che consentì alle isole realtine di affermare la propria indipendenza religiosa, nonché di salvare l’autonomia politica. Il leone, emblema del nuovo santo patrono, divenne il simbolo del giovane stato.
CURIOSITA’
Le strade di Venezia hanno per lo più nomi antichissimi ed estremamente curiosi. Alcuni che rinviano a mestieri comuni, si ripetono frequentemente, come nel caso delle calli del pestrin (lattaio), del pistor (panettiere), del fruttariol (fruttivendolo) ecc., altri nomi consentono di ricostruire l’antica ripartizione geografica delle attività economiche più specialistiche. Così le Fondamenta degli Ormesini nel sestiere di Cannaregio devono probabilmente il nome alla presenza di botteghe per la lavorazione di stoffe provenienti da Ormuz in Asia o alle pellicce che bordavano i cappelli dei nobili. Nella zona di San Marco si trovano le "frezzerie" dove venivano fuse le frecce, le "mercerie" dove si trovavano i mercanti di tessuti, la "spadaria" dove si fabbricavano le spade, e la "calle fiubera" dove si confezionavano fibbie per le scarpe, la "caselleria" ove c’erano i fabbricanti di casse che servivano a spedire le merci o a riporvi il corredo delle spose. I nomi delle strade conservano anche memoria delle comunità religiose che vi vivevano, come le diverse calli dei preti e delle muneghe (monache), nonché delle grandi famiglie patrizie che vivevano nei paraggi, come la Calle Contarini. I nomi danno anche conto della massiccia presenza di stranieri a Venezia, si trovano così Calle dei Ragusei (abitanti di Ragusa l’attuale Dobrovnik), la Calle delle Turchette, la Riva degli Schiavoni (per i dalmati), le Calli degli Armeni e dei Tedeschi.