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Ok, no quiero sonar "violado" como me dirĆa alguien por ahĆ, pero hay cosas que me pasan que no puedo evitar.
Siento que este Ćŗltimo tiempo, ha sido en verdad maravilloso, tengo todo lo que siempre quise, soy tal como siempre soƱƩ ser, entre muchas otras cosas. No desconozco lo anterior, de hecho de aquello se trata mi felicidad en estos dĆas, pero hay detalles que me preocupan de vez en cuando.
Es extraƱo, por demĆ”s difĆcil, que alguien se gane mi cariƱo (no se trata de que me crea el meollo del universo, pero tampoco vivo regalando aquello), y cuando asĆ resulta ser, entrego todo lo que pueda, dado que el dĆa de maƱana no se sabe si esa persona o el cariƱo estarĆ”n. Es por lo mismo que trato de hacer hasta lo imposible por demostrar el sentimiento; lo malo de eso, es que tambiĆ©n se espera mucho a cambio... Lamentablemente asumo mi culpabilidad en el tema de expectativas, ya que mal que mal, nadie tiene la culpa de mis anhelos, pero hay ocasiones en las que me gustarĆa recibir algo de esto a cambio.
Ahora se viene el paso al cuestionamiento... :
ĀæSerĆ© acaso el responsable de esperar mucho de las personas? ĀæTendrĆ© la culpa de entregar mucho sin pedir nada a cambio? ĀæEs quizĆ” una tontera entristecerse por no recibir demostraciones en reciprocidad?
Hay dĆas como hoy, en los que la nostalgia y melancolĆa logran ganarme el gallito un rato...
With valentines tomorrow I expect that there will be alot of roses and flowers and hearts, so I thought I would get in early. This is from a boquet of Gerboras for my wife tomorrow. The flower has featured throughout our time together and she loves them as much as I do her.
This World Class attraction was everything we expected and more. Construction has just begun on a major expansion, but that has been managed in such a way that it does not in any way detract from the experience now.
This album focuses on the artwork inside the buildings and on the other interior spaces including the Eleven Restaurant and the Gift Shop. A separate album posted a few days ago is devoted to the two April mornings that we spent exploring just some of the trails that crisscross the 120 acres of Arkansas forest around the museum.
Alice Walton and her co-creative team can be proud of the vision and execution of everything on this 120 acre site.
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"Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie, officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission.
Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges. The museum's glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds and forest trails. The 217,000 square feet complex includes galleries, several meeting and classroom spaces, a library, a sculpture garden, a museum store designed by architect Marlon Blackwell, a restaurant and coffee bar, named Eleven after the day the museum opened, "11/11/11". Crystal Bridges also features a gathering space that can accommodate up to 300 people. Additionally, there are outdoor areas for concerts and public events, as well as extensive nature trails. It employs approximately 300 people, and is within walking distance of downtown Bentonville."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Bridges_Museum_of_American_Art
crystalbridges.org/nature-trails/
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As expected, the drier weather has caused the seed pods to start opening up again. The next few days will see similar clear weather, so what are the odds this is finally the final countdown?
A series of photos of a New South Wales waratah flower (Telopea speciosissima) unfolding in spring 2021 at Bunjaree Cottages near Wentworth Falls.
Wasn't expecting to see this in Coxheath near Maidstone, and this ex Swallow's Buses of Essex vehicle, is now used by Rumwoods Garden Farms to transport Farm workers around Five Wents and Langley Heath, and is used along with many other vehicles, including some ex Stagecoach Vehicles, and according to Google Maps Satellite Imagery many other Farm Workers Buses can be found around according to Recently Updated Google Maps Satellite Imagery some others can still be found around Five Wents, Langley, Langley Heath, Warmlake, Chart Sutton, Sutton Valence, Linton, Collier Street, Yalding, Coxheath and Mereworth, all near Maidstone in Kent.
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Muita expectativa e animaĆ§Ć£o foram marcas registrada do nosso evento e as atraƧƵes nĆ£o decepcionaram. Teve muito rock, mas tambĆ©m teve reggae, alto astral de sobra, gente bacana e alegria contagiante. DĆ” sĆ³ uma olhada no que rolou por lĆ” no 1Āŗ dia de evento.
OK, so.. Insect Mecha Girl. As mentioned yesterday, I was actually kind of confused when I received this - I was expecting a Good Smile Company branded box, or something along the lines of that, but instead it seems to be direct from Big Firebird Build.... which got the Spidey Senses tingling. ... it's not exactly a secret that I hae some issues with the QC at Big Firebird Build.
I believe that once upon a time, this was meant to be a add on for the very much failed Magical Girl Henshin series that gave us the combiner with a multitude of QC issues. Guess they tweaked the design to have it be a stand alone, and to be fair it seems they did a pretty good job of doing that. But aesthetically, especially the robot mode torso and face, well, there's no mistaking it's heritage.
Decent number of accessories including hands and weapons , along with two pieces of hardware to mount the weapons to the body. Not a fan of the hands with the ball joint as a wrist peg but I guess that isn't really going anywhere. I had thought that BFB had learned its lesson about weapon grips with Nicee/Mocha, but overall it seems the weapon gripping hands are really meant for the two larger handled pieces, as the Katana and Pistol are really loose in hand. The sole exception would be the spear, which has a dedicated hand for wielding it... but it's a right hand only.
The manual... well, it's there. It's not very good, as usual.
It would seem either the workers at the factory got some upgrade training or something, but the overall Build for this figure was found to be better thant Nicee and Mocha, and without question the Henshin Girls. Joints were stiff, but not overly stiff. Use of die cast metal for the Insect Wings/Robot Shins helped to balance the figure in a variety of poses. Arms were actually strong enough to support the weight of the weapons, including the metal spear. There are concerns with paint wear though , particularly with the larger Sheath that holds the Katana.
The thing LOOKS pretty cool. Brown isn't exactly the colour I would have gone with, but it is what it is. I like the Samurai motif and they worked that into the figure quite nicely, despite the transformation into a Beetle. Clever ways of hiding the insect legs are appreciated, such as the bow on the back.
Articulation is... I'd say roughly the same as Nicee/Mocha, though in some ways not as good. In general, the lack of ball joints used in the body made for some annoying posing. There are a few ball joints, but for some reason they don't use them as much as they should. It's almost like there's some computer software that helps with the transformation design, but it's one that likes two dimension movement only. Like pretty much all their Fembot products, the emphasis is on the curves. There's no waist swivel and no butterfly shoulder joints so she can't cross or arms or arch them back. Due to the lack of the Nicee/Mocha thigh transformation joint, she can't cross her legs either.
Paint Work is, for the most part, solid. There was a hilariously bad paint app on one of the insect legs that form the bow, resulting in one looking like it didn't get enough red paint. As expected, it's paint by exception for the most part, with the base plastics being mostly Brown or White. The colour matching for the die cast metal shins with the Brown plastic is not bad, but a shade too light for a perfect match. But, at least it is clean. The face and a few other areas showed signs of poor masking, but it's mostly Macro level photography that would pick those up.
The real anger starts when you actually transform this thing. The actual transformation isn't terribly hard, though it did involve some Partsforming. The not so good instructions, coupled with the fact that like most other people, I could not for the life of me get he legs to tab into the head, made for a very frustration endeavor. It's almost like some changes were made for the Production copy, but it was never tested to make sure nothing was wrong. It's a shame because Beetle does look pretty good, and unlike many other toys, the Insect legs are actually strong enough to hold the body up.
So all in all, somewhat of a let down. I'm happy to see that some of the QC issues I've experienced in the past aren't on this product (especially after the Henshin Girls) but I'm still not convinced that the final products are properly play tested to ensure full functionality.
Ah well.. guess I'll just relax for until Nocha comes out, then I can get angry again.
George Washington, c. 1821
Gilbert Stuart
West Building, Main Floor ā Gallery 60-A
The leading portraitist of a new nation, Gilbert Stuart painted each of the first five US presidents from life. Trained in England and Ireland, the artist introduced a looser, brushy style to American portraits, painting figures that were both grand and lifelike.
Stuart was also a shrewd businessman. He made many copies of his presidential paintings, especially those of George Washington, to sell to eager patrons. Stuart reportedly told a friend, āI expect to make a fortune by Washington alone.ā
He created just two full sets of the five presidential portraits, meant to be displayed together. One set was partially destroyed in a fire. This is the only surviving complete group.
Shown from the chest up, a cleanshaven, middle-aged man with pale skin and silvery gray hair, wearing a white, ruffled shirt under a velvety black, high-necked jacket, looks out at us in this vertical portrait painting. His body is angled to our left, and he turns his face slightly to look at us with gray eyes under slightly arched eyebrows. He has a long nose and his thin lips are closed in a straight line. Shadows define slightly sagging jowls along his jawline and down his neck. His light gray hair is pulled back from his forehead and swells in bushy curls over his ears. Part of a black ribbon seen beyond his shoulder ties his hair back. Light illuminates the person from our left and creates a golden glow on the light brown background behind him.
Gilbert Stuartās ambition when he left Dublin in 1793 was to paint the first president of the United States ā he supposedly declared to a friend: āI expect to make a fortune by Washington.ā After the artist traveled to Philadelphia in the late autumn of 1794 with a letter of introduction from Chief Justice John Jay, the president sat for Stuart sometime the following year. Attracting commissions from prominent patrons in the colonies and abroad, Stuartās portraits of Washington were a success from the start, and two more such sittings would occur over the next several years.
One of four Stuart portraits of George Washington owned by the National Gallery, this 1821 work is derived from Stuartās second life portrait from 1796 (now jointly owned by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Portrait Gallery). Here, Washington is shown looking to the left, wearing a black velvet suit and a white shirt with a ruffle of lace or linen. The work demonstrates Stuartās extraordinary ability to capture an individualās likeness, which was based on a gift for assessing each sitterās personality through conversation and on his close observation. Each portrait reflects Stuartās knowledge of anatomy and his belief in theories of physiognomy, which hold that a study of the outward body can reveal a personās character.
Over the course of his career, Gilbert Stuart painted at least 100 portraits of George Washington, most of them also copies of the 1796 painting. Centuries later, Stuartās portrayal of Washington remains the best-known image of the United Statesā first presidentāas writer and critic John Neal wrote in 1823, āSo, Stuart painted him; and though a better likeness of him were shown to us, we should reject it; for, the only idea that we now have of George Washington, is associated with Stuartās Washington.ā
More information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century, pages 265-266, 268-270, and 273, which is available as a free PDF.
Gilbert Stuart was the preeminent portraitist in Federal America. He combined a talent for recording likeness with an ability to interpret a sitter's personality or character in the choice of pose, color and style of clothing, and setting. He introduced to America the loose, brushy style used by many of the leading artists of late eighteenth century London. He recorded likenesses of lawyers, politicians, diplomats, native Americans, their wives and children. His sitters included many prominent Americans, among them the first five presidents, their advisors, families, and admirers. He is known especially for his numerous portraits of George Washington.
Born in 1755 in North Kingston, Rhode Island, Stuart was baptized with his name spelled "Stewart". His father, an immigrant Scot, built and operated a snuff mill that may have led to the artist's addiction to snuff. He grew up in the trading city of Newport, where itinerant Scottish portraitist Cosmo Alexander (1724-1772) gave him his earliest training in painting. He accompanied Alexander to Scotland in 1771, returning home at the older artist's death. Three years later in 1775, on the eve of the American Revolution, he went to London, where he worked for five years (1777-1782) as assistant to the Anglo-American painter Benjamin West. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1777 to 1785, using the name Gilbert Charles Stuart the first year. The success of The Skater (NGA 1950.18.1), painted in 1782, enabled him to establish his own business as a portrait painter. In 1786 Stuart married Charlotte Coates, and the following year they went to Dublin, where Stuart painted portraits of the Protestant ruling minority for over five years.
Stuart returned to the United States in 1793, planning to paint a portrait of George Washington that would establish his reputation in America. After about a year in New York City, he went to Philadelphia, the capital of the United States, with a letter of introduction to Washington from John Jay. He painted the president in the winter or early spring of 1795. He was not satisfied with his first life portrait of Washington, but others were. Martha Washington commissioned a second and Mrs. William Bingham commissioned two full-lengths. His success led immediately to many other commissions. His sitters were politically prominent and wealthy, from the merchant and landed classes. After Washington, D.C. became the new national capital, Stuart moved there in December of 1803, and this group continued as his patrons. There he painted the Madisons, Jefferson, the Thorntons, and others from Jefferson's administration.
In the summer of 1805 Stuart settled in Boston. In his Roxbury studio he continued to paint politically and socially prominent sitters and, on request, to make replicas of his second "Athenaeum" portrait of George Washington. Throughout his life younger artists, including John Trumbull, Thomas Sully, Rembrandt Peale, and John Vanderlyn, sought his advice and imitated his work. Among his students were his children Charles Gilbert (1787-1813) and Jane (1812-1888). One indication of Stuart's popularity is the number of portraits he painted, over a thousand during his long career, excluding copies of the portraits of Washington. Another indication is the number of copies of his work that other artists made. His sitters indicated their fascination for his talent and personality by recording lengthy anecdotes and descriptions of their sittings, producing an unusally rich written record about an American portraitist. Stuart died in Boston in 1828. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography published in the NGA Systematic Catalogue]
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Galleryās original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias GrĆ¼newald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht DĆ¼rer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and EugĆØne Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculpturesānot nearly enough to fill the galleryās massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellonās vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his leadāamong them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactorsāto whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the galleryās opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, āthe dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.ā
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Galleryās original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias GrĆ¼newald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht DĆ¼rer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and EugĆØne Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculpturesānot nearly enough to fill the galleryās massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellonās vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his leadāamong them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactorsāto whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the galleryās opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, āthe dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.ā
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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The average person in Vancouver can expect to hear a variety of different types of music at an event. Popular genres will always be a part of the mix, but in the next five to ten years, you will see a rise in the following types of music:
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Blipfoto Post for Tuesday 13 December 2011: Unexpected and Expected
Unexpected: my daughter came back from her school trip to the new Transport Museum with little presents for everyon in the family...I got this new car! Always nice when you get an unexpected present from someone you love....the cars going to work with me and can sit on my desk t remind me.
Expected: the god awfully bad customer service experience continues. Repeated calls today have managed to force some sort of progress from the incompetent company....they finally managed to get the boiler part delivered to them today but it seems it will take another two days for an engineer to come out and fit it. If this happens as promised (which I doubt) that will be a grand total of nine days without heating and hot water. It also seems that today they finally realised that we should be a priority as we had a complete loss of heating and hot water.....this depite the fact they have been told as much every single day since last Wednesday by us!
PS: I beleive that once this company have finally manged to get our boiler fixed that they have plans to expand their business into organising a p*ss up in brewery....I have my doubts that they will be succesful though...
Expectadores observando o show aĆ©reo com Embraer T-27 Tucano, durante apresentaĆ§Ć£o em VitĆ³ria-ES, na PraƧa do Papa, 25/06/2011.