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Assignment: PCA125 – Intentional Blurs
OCT3-OCT17 2010
Image Tag: pca125
From: Fastball95 (Steve)
Mission:
Attempt to create an artistically appealing image using one of the many ways to create an intentional Blur.
This technique is gaining popularity in the Landscape and Nature Photo world rapidly. Look around at various print pieces for book covers, magazines and print ads, You will see less detail and more blur.
So the concept here is to attempt (knowing this is not easy, the attempt is the key in learning this process) an intentionally blurred photograph.
The preference here is NOT to create the blur in software.
Be aware of composition here, use the lines and motion as well as the changes in color since nothing is going to be in focus.
WIT
I went hiking with Anne today in the White Mountains. We went up a path called Falling Waters which gave me plenty of opportunities for capturing blur in waterfalls (which were going to be my fallback).
On the way to the first water crossing, I tried a few tricks including walking quickly toward Anne with the shutter open, jumping off a rock and panning very quickly past fall foliage.
The image of me rushing toward Anne caught my eye when I got home. There are interesting shapes and lines in here and Anne is discernable as a person in the shot too.
I used Lightroom 3.0 to process the image. Increased the contrast and saturation a little. The camera had overexposed it a little so I adjusted for that.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
These grass shots seem to be becoming a bit of a fallback for me. But I like this one. It makes me feel hopeful. Also, it contrasts with my last grass shot.
Thursday: Work sucked. Some people decided to sit on the benches outside, & I had to take a heavy, over-filled tray out there, & I didn't have any hands free to open the freaking door, & nobody bothered to help me, & then the big tea pot had been positioned to freaking face me & I shouldn't have to check this everytime, & as I tried to open the door the teapot poured hot tea all down my clevage. I wanted to cry. I was finally rescued by Phil Barratt, the photographer, seeing me & opening the door for me. & then I still had to serve the customers like there was nothing wrong. I then went & put ice & cold water down my clevage until it stopped freaking hurting. In the evening my Mom gave me my reading for tomorrow night at church. I read through it once, & then read it outloud while purposefully not pronouncing any 't', just to irritate my Mom.
Friday: Work was tiring. I'm getting more & more down about it. & then we my Dad picked me up today I said I just wanted a nice family dinner, & he reminded me that I couldn't because me & my Mom were going to a Women's World Day of Prayer thing at church. *Sigh* I'd forgotten all about it. I just figured I'd go in my work clothes but wear my hair down.
We parked by the petrol station, like I did with my Dad at Christmas, & then walked down the street to the church. I was already cracking jokes before we reached it - I just can't help myself. When we sat down I told my Mom I wanted to go home and have a long bath and wash the religion off of me. I'm actually more religious than I appear though. It was cold there. I forgot that. & my Mom freaked out cos she had a reading too & was nervous about the mic. You just forget about it & read - it's not a big deal. I had a pen with me, so I wrote notes to my Mom throughout the service. We laugh like school girls during these things. But we have fun. My reading was awesome, of course. It'd be embarrassing if it wasn't.
Afterward my Mom made me hang around for tea and biscuits, but the hot water in the church wasn't working or something, so there was no tea. We bought some organic chocolate, & people we knew complimented me on my reading, & how I must have done public speaking. 5-6 years of public speaking competitions, actually. It's so freaking awesome that I have that grounding though. We were speaking to Gwen at one point & she kept saying I should go travelling this year. Ugh. I'm now really against this. I have travelled more than most people, & definitely more than most in this town, & I'm just now a big fan of sightseeing, but I'll do it with m family, simply because it's time with them. But by myself, or with a friend I just think it'd be a waste of money. So yeah. Sssshut up.
When we got home we had drinks & we told my Dad about all the hilarious things that had happened. The really religious woman who was sat in the front pew started clapping along to a song, & she tried to do a procession with a tambourine at the beginning, but nobody joined in, so she just shuffled off to the back of the church. Then there was a really long pause as the vicar had disappeared somewhere. Some got up to speak at one point & the vicar had run off with the mic. & nobody knew the words to any of the songs (most of them were really obscure) & so there was just an odd droning or at some points nobody sang while the organ played on. It was so funny. & my notes on my program made it so much funnier. My Mom took it off me at the end so that nobody could see what I'd written.
312/365
I'd seen an idea in a photo mag about abstracts from oil and water, so enlisted Megan to help me drop some olive oil onto a glass plate of water. It didn't work, so we binned the water and tried dropping balsamic vinegar into oil instead. Megan lost interest at about that point, but I spent a while trying to create interesting droplet patterns before discovering that actually vigorously mixing created these rather cool bubble patterns. I don't do many abstracts, but maybe I should try some more - certainly a good fallback on a low inspiration day.
Transoceanic Series
( Resistance in Acid, Partisan Terror, Liguria, IT )
Panel g.
oils on poplar 48cm x 73.5cm vnframed / vnuarnished
Hunting Art Prize twenty15 svbmission
Breach the open air, pierced by a sorta intelligence that lends clarity to all the animated months’ combined easelworks, now the tovch-haruest clocking spring svmmer fallback. heard uoices haue been collected, encamped in the ear as ignorant armies* do. only once in awhile euery now and then their lyricality yield sense as they ’tempt-seize yov from yovr hovrs straightening perspectiual lines, lost in the intrauenovs yolk redefining what colovr is.
when yov think yov are so smart, less politely time embodies how yovr shovlders ache from strain - and still poised tense. bleary-eyed, the magnification settling the dvel between two worlds, three padlocks deep and behind the black gate exists a fire, the door is blameless, the girl’s crying inside from electronic jet-lag, from time-zoned complexities, and her parents are jealous and afraid that the painter, their creator, loues adjvstments more to heauing sloganed tits than the uery meat of meat itself. behind power lines and smvdges and follow and lose again and again the sovrce. yet first it mvst havnch fovr legged to the grovnd, yov rend, and strip, and man-handle and the form twists itself becavse it wants more than anything to get away from the bestiality of the tvbes vpright, in strokes discharged to retreat into the dimension of birch ... yet it’s oliue trees instead that catch the light in the distance, beyond this City of Pickvp Trvcks ... meantime an amatevr painter walks ovt of a bar with his svpposed masterpiece vnder his arm and heads right for the clay terrain of rooftops, this rvined apse, scales the crow’s nest. he kicks ovt the lattice with his wingtips, raise yovr lamplike eyes and peer ovt. today the glyph all yovr friends seem to haue missed yov see, sharper in the recyclable dawn of pigmentation - a qviet svpper, among long drinks, a tease of conuersation, yov’ue bvilt more than jvst a motherfvckin’ sandwich from sawdvst with those hands and raw fingertips. straight lips gesso across a smile, nonetheles dammit its fvlness is knowingly felt, becavse this is the inuisible regalia of two worlds when they combine: becavse the can reads TONNO GENOVA.
yes. yes. what took an amatevr months, will consvme a little less of his logic and fire, seasons in the fvtvre. for months we’ue allowed ovrselues few recreations beside all those disciplines yovr friends deem absvrdities. what are yovr conceits? are yov prepared to strip? motherfvcker, are yov?
yes, euerything, all for the sake of what colovr is.
- *M. Arnold
British Real Photograph postcard, no. 81. Photo: Warner Bros.
May McAvoy (1899-1984) was an American actress of the silent screen, best known as Esther in the classic epic Ben-Hur (Fred Niblo, 1925).
Born in New York City in 1899, within a well-to-do family that owned and operated a livery stable, May left school at the age of 17 to act in her first role in the film Hate by Walter Richard Stahl. From then she had small parts, even uncredited roles in films, for various Californian film companies, until she did a few films for the J. Stuart Blackton Company. Blackton, the co-founder of and regular director at Vitagraph, had started his own production company in 1917. After two smaller parts in films for the company, she got her first lead in The House of the Tolling Bell (1920), a mystery film about a haunted house, directed by Blackton himself. Blackton let her star again, again opposite Bruce Gordon, in The Forbidden Valley (1920). In 1921 she acted e.g. in Chester M. Franklin's A Private Scandal, which script had been purposely written by Hector Turnbull for McAvoy. The film was the first of a series of seven films at Realart Pictures, in which McAvoy constantly starred, directed either by Frank O'Connor or William Desmond Taylor. The apparent success of these films convinced Paramount to lure her away with a contract. Petite as she was, McAvoy was independent enough to defend her interests.
In 1922 May McAvoy started to act at Paramount/ Famous Players-Lasky, where she already had done an occasional film in the past. It was William C. DeMille who mostly directed her at Paramount: in Clarence (1922), starring Wallace Reid and Agnes Ayres, Grumpy (1923), starring Theodore Roberts, Only 38 (1923), in which she herself had the lead, and The Bedroom Window (1924), another starring role with Malcolm McGregor and Ricardo Cortez as her co-stars, and probably McAvoy's last film for Paramount. In 1923 McAvoy got into a row with director-producer Cecil B. DeMille, because she refused the role in his film Adam's Rib, as it meant her hair would be bobbed and she had to show partial nudity. Instead, she complained parts she wanted were given to other actresses: to Betty Bronson in Peter Pan and to Betty Compson in Little Minister. After she had been suspended, she bought off her contract and started freelancing.
This didn't mean a fallback at all, as May McAvoy managed to play memorable parts in e.g. The Enchanted Cottage (John S. Robertson, 1924) starring and produced by Richard Barthelmess, Tessie (Dallas M. Fitzgerald, 1925) and in particular Lady Windermere's Fan (Ernst Lubitsch, 1925) with Ronald Colman, while McAvoy replaced Gertrude Olmstead in her best known silent film, MGM's classic super production Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo 1925). McAvoy played Esther, the love interest of the title character, played by Ramon Novarro. Her former rival at Paramount, Betty Bronson, would play the small part of the Virgin Mary. Two years after, McAvoy had an important part in what is often credited as the first sound feature, The Jazz Singer (Alan Crossland 1927), which, actually, was a part-talkie, in which most actors, including McAvoy, did not talk yet. She played Mary, girlfriend of the male lead, played by singer-actor Al Jolson.
Afterward, May McAvoy did act in all-talkie movies, such as The Lion and the Mouse (Lloyd Bacon, 1928), and The Terror (Roy Del Ruth, 1928), shot at Warner's studio in Burbank with failing technology, distorting her voice. Not so much because of her voice, but on request of her new (1929) husband, Maurice Cleary, banker and treasurer of United Artists, she withdrew to private life and took care of their son, Patrick (1932-2012). Despite some sources write they remained married until his death, English Wikipedia has convincing proof they divorced in 1940. It also explains that in 1940 McAvoy went back to the set, but had to satisfy with bit parts. Hollywood was not kind to its former stars. Still, until 1959 she had small parts, even uncredited ones - her last part being an extra in the remake of Ben-Hur (1959) by William Wyler, himself a former assistant-director on the silent version. May McAvoy died on April 26, 1984, in Los Angeles, as the consequence of a heart attack one year earlier. She was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. May McAvoy has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1731 Vine Street.
Sources: Dave Lobosco on greatentertainersarchives.blogspot.com/2013/07/may-mcavoy..., Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
Today did not go well in many ways.
There was a Tall ships Regatta in Dublin and my understanding that it would be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I visited on Saturday and was more than a little bit disappointed but my fallback was that I could photograph the ships leaving on Tuesday. On Sunday night I discover that the was cancelled and that the ships would make their own arrangements to set sail at noon on Monday.
Up until today i always chose Westlink Bridge as the best location from which to photograph the departing ships but this year I decided that Bull Island would be a better location. I decided to get the 130 bus and despite a number of problems I arrived at Bull island just before noon but the ships did begin to appear until bout thirty minutes later and because of a blue haze it was almost impossible to photograph them. The upside was that I met four other photographrs.
When I arrived at the bus stop to return home a bus was due within 9 minutes but it failed to arrive the next bus which was due twenty minutes later also failed to arrive at the bus stop so I had to wait about an hour for a bus and this really annoyed me.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
Steve's birthday cake, from Barrel and Whisk. Our fallback for his birthdays in years past has been the seasonal chocolate raspberry cupcake from Trophy, so I decided to request a cake based on those flavors. Megan did a dark chocolate cake with freeze-dried raspberry buttercream, chocolate ganache and fresh raspberries. The inspiration for the appearance was a chocolate cake with blackberries and gold leaf on top that I found when searching for images. I'm actually not a huge fan of fresh raspberries by themselves, but I liked how this looked, with the berries, the ganache drips and a little gold luster. It was delicious too. Steve, who doesn't typically eat much birthday cake, had a small piece of it on two nights instead of just one.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
On a warm afternoon in the heart of Brooklyn, distress calls flood the airwaves of a madman in full body armor terrorizing the streets. As NYPD clears the area of civilians, strategically placed bombs bring local government buildings crumbling to the ground. The NYPD special task force has arrived on the scene to find the assailant has placed a bio-weapon in one of the devastated buildings. Realizing the situation is beyond their ability – the commander decides to fallback and contacts the Commissioner…
…after receiving the SITREP by Task Force Commander Higgins; and appropriately grilling his team for their incompetence, the Commissioner calls in a personal favor to one of his poker buddies — a 3-Star general over at the Pentagon.
In less than an hour, COBALT Team arrives on the scene with their orders in-hand:DISARM AND DETAIN.
The following narration is a first-person perspective of that mission...cont' at bit.ly/1iwBymq
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
-- Lao Tzu
I should confess, I am not really a follower of that quote, because in real life I like to know where I am heading (had trips where there were meticulously detailed spreadsheets of what to eat for breakfast, where to wash stuff, how many coins the machine took, whether there's a microwave in hostel etc, etc.), and I would like to be on places on time (I get annoyed at people for delays, and if you don't hold your end of bargain and don't show up, you might as well hang yourself and spare my lecture ... ).
But plans get derailed, things go awry and you need to fallback on to something else. In my perfectionist trait, that's one thing I've learned with experience. If things are not going as per plan, just let it go and chill out ... No point in pulling your hair, that ain't gonna fix anything. Enjoy the adventure of the unknown :)
In this case it was destined to be such when I decided not to book campgrounds in Joshua. The only reservable ones were at the two ends of park, not where I wanted them. So I decided to try walk-in at the other sites which were situated towards the center of the park, conveniently close to most of the trails and points of interest. I mean how hard could it be ?
I couldn't have been any more wrong. By the time I drove and reached the park, I was welcomed by the familiar "all campgrounds full" sign board. Not something to be amused about, it was a long weekend, but ... So the other options were either to get a backcountry permit and backpack to no-where and camp in the desert or to drive and find a motel to crash for the night in the neighboring Twentynine palms. The day was cloudy and windy which meant staying out in the desert had no added benefits ... there won't be any stars to shoot. So I decided to head out to the town. May be I'll find something.
So I drove straight into the town (Finding a place to crash is always my first priority) and swung into the first small, cozy motel I saw. It was run by a nice lady of possibly mediterranean descent and it took me only the first few seconds of conversation to gather that she should be the owner as well. I am a people person (No, not the social kind, but the psychology kind, I can read the average person inside out without much effort ).
You can always tell by the way they talk if they own it or work there. The passion in the words cannot be faked. I asked her the same and she confirmed my doubts.
I had also noticed a couple of murals and stuff on my way in and broke into a casual conversation with her of what is around while she was filling in my details. And lo behold, I was handed down a wealth of information about what murals are where, brief history and even a small map with most of the stuff marked in order.
Alas, I had ran into an artsy-minded town in the middle of the desert.
Lao was right, too bad I'm still not his follower.
I managed to explore quite a few of the murals in between my trips to the park. While some of them were just that, - paintings on walls, Some were more complex form of art. As a person who likes abstractions, this was like opening another dimension in what I knew so far. Complex forms I hadn't conceived before. I had run onto an ilusion art by accident.
This one, is a part from John Pugh's "Valentine's day".
Here's a riddle for you. Which part of this shot is a real painting on the wall and which of these are three dimensional structures ?
Your eyes can deceive you; don't trust them.
-- Obi-wan Kenobi
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I snow-slithered around Columbus this morning looking for inspiration and, not finding any in the glove-compartment, or the trunk, I ended up back at my favourite old car lot downtown. There are fewer cars there than when the missus first told me about it, but it's still a wonderful place for a fallback photo opportunity!
Downtown, Columbus.
iPhone with Hipstamatic and Diptic.
Today did not go well in many ways.
There was a Tall ships Regatta in Dublin and my understanding that it would be on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I visited on Saturday and was more than a little bit disappointed but my fallback was that I could photograph the ships leaving on Tuesday. On Sunday night I discover that the was cancelled and that the ships would make their own arrangements to set sail at noon on Monday.
Up until today i always chose Westlink Bridge as the best location from which to photograph the departing ships but this year I decided that Bull Island would be a better location. I decided to get the 130 bus and despite a number of problems I arrived at Bull island just before noon but the ships did begin to appear until bout thirty minutes later and because of a blue haze it was almost impossible to photograph them. The upside was that I met four other photographrs.
When I arrived at the bus stop to return home a bus was due within 9 minutes but it failed to arrive the next bus which was due twenty minutes later also failed to arrive at the bus stop so I had to wait about an hour for a bus and this really annoyed me.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
It's the fallback (non-shoyu) chicken bento again! And assorted extras.
Please read more about this bento at my blog: happylittlebento.blogspot.com/2013/09/herby-chicken-lunch...
◆ Unrigged
◆ Resize in HUD
◆ 18 Textures for Beads&Moon Charms, 6 For Chain
◆ PBR&Fallback
◆ Left and Right Versions
◆ Copy/Modify/No Transfer
Now available in the Mainstore&on the Marketplace!
Inworld: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ruined%20Mine/151/177/835
Marketplace: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Tealeaf-Treasures-Moon-Nose-...
Now available at the Veles Souls-Like Hunt, Oct 20 - Nov 10. All 4 items are L$25 each, copy/mod, and PBR only (no fallback).
Click here for the Landing Point and look for the lil' soul orbs!
Horned Hellmask
Obsidian Orb
This item has animated rings that rotate around the inner orb.
Rune Projector
This item has an animated face that shows different runes, can be pulled apart or resized and used how you like.
Soul Knight Doll
Has big/small versions for different avatars, L/R, and flickering particle soul inside.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
The kit and its assembly:
This project was initially inspired by a set of decals from an ESCI A-4G which I had bought in a lot – I wondered if I could use it for a submission to the “In the navy” group build at whatifmodelers.com in early 2020. I considered an FJ-3M in Australian colors on this basis and had stashed away a Sword kit of that aircraft for this purpose. However, I had already built an FJ variant for the GB (a kitbashed mix of an F-86D and an FJ-4B in USMC colors), and was reluctant to add another Fury.
This spontaneously changed after (thanks to Corona virus quarantine…) I cleaned up one of my kit hoards and found a conversion set for a 1:72 CAC 27 from JAYS Model Kits which I had bought eons ago without a concrete plan. That was the eventual trigger to spin the RAN Fury idea further – why not a navalized version of the Avon Sabre for HMAS Melbourne?
The result is either another kitbash or a highly modified FJ-3M from Sword. The JAYS Model Kits set comes with a THICK sprue that carries two fuselage halves and an air intake, and it also offers a vacu canopy as a thin fallback option because the set is actually intended to be used together with a Hobby Craft F-86F.
While the parts, molded in a somewhat waxy and brittle styrene, look crude on the massive sprue, the fuselage halves come with very fine recessed engravings. And once you have cleaned the parts (NOTHING for people faint at heart, a mini drill with a saw blade is highly recommended), their fit is surprisingly good. The air intake was so exact that no putty was needed to blend it with the rest of the fuselage.
The rest came from the Sword kit and integrating the parts into the CAC 27 fuselage went more smoothly than expected. For instance, the FJ-3M comes with a nice cockpit tub that also holds a full air intake duct. Thanks to the slightly wider fuselage of the CAC 27, it could be mounted into the new fuselage halves without problems and the intake duct almost perfectly matches the intake frame from the conversion set. The tailpipe could be easily integrated without any mods, too. The fins had to be glued directly to the fuselage – but this is the way how the Sword kit is actually constructed! Even the FJ-3M’s wings match the different fuselage perfectly. The only modifications I had to make is a slight enlargement of the ventral wing opening at the front and at the read in order to take the deeper wing element from the Sword kit, but that was an easy task. Once in place, the parts blend almost perfectly into each other, just minor PSR was necessary to hide the seams!
Other mods include an extended front wheel well for the longer leg from the FJ-3M and a scratched arrester hook installation, made from wire, which is on purpose different from the Y-shaped hook of the Furies.
For the canopy I relied on the vacu piece that came with the JAYS set. Fitting it was not easy, though, it took some PSR to blend the windscreen into the rest of the fuselage. Not perfect, but O.K. for such a solution from a conversion set.
The underwing pylons were taken from the Sword kit, including the early Sidewinders. I just replaced the drop tanks – the OOB tanks are very wide, and even though they might be authentic for the FJ-3, I was skeptical if they fit at all under the wings with the landing gear extended? In order to avoid trouble and for a more modern look, I replaced them outright with more slender tanks, which were to mimic A-4 tanks (USN FJ-4s frequently carried Skyhawk tanks). They actually come from a Revell F-16 kit, with modified fins. The refueling probe comes from the Sword kit.
A last word about the Sword kit: much light, but also much shadow. While I appreciate the fine surface engravings, the recognizably cambered wings, a detailed cockpit with a two-piece resin seat and a pretty landing gear as well as the long air intake, I wonder why the creators totally failed to provide ANY detail of the arrester hook (there is literally nothing, as if this was a land-based Sabre variant!?) or went for doubtful solutions like a front landing gear that consists of five(!) single, tiny parts? Sadism? The resin seat was also broken (despite being packed in a seperate bag), and it did not fit into the cockpit tub at all. Meh!
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
New Gacha Release @ Age Of Avalon Event!
Herbarium Wildflower Cloche Collection
Free Limited Edition 20 Play Prize
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Flying visit to Southwold, for family reasons, but couldn't resist an early morning at this brilliant location. Actually planned Herringfleet windmill but when I got there is was wet, grey and blustery so back to Southwold Pier as a fallback.
Wasn't great, rain started straight after this, but happy there is something to show for the effort
Coming for the next round of The Warehouse Sale opening September 23rd!
Landmark: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rotten/127/141/23
Another entry into the Gentleman's Manicure line of nails we have the Ghosties and Skulls Halloween Nails which feature 30 different options for showing dressing up for the Halloween season! As always you can change each nail or all five at the same time!
These have been updated for PBR and now feature PBR and fallback textures! The other varieties of nails are being updated as well. Old HUDs will not be compatible with the new nails/HUDs but we are getting those converted over as well. Please see group notices in world for more information soon.
More info:
Captivating, polished nails for the discerning gentleman. These come with two options, a longer rounded nail or as lightly shorter and pointed dhampir claw. These are rigged for Belleza Jake, Legacy Male, CZ Slim, Anatomy and Gianni. Please try the demos!
Update: We've added three sizes for the ladies as well. Ebody Reborn, Legacy F and Maitreya. Please try the demos!
There is no fatpack for these, each set comes individually (with both nail style options).
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Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
I was going to head to Barrack Point (South East from Boonerah on the seaside) but tought I might head to Windang 'just in case'.. This bolt is probably somewhere near Barrack Point so I'm glad I did take the fall back point :-)
Pentax K1 w DAF15-30/2.8
ISO100 f/16 10s -1.7ev Av triggered via the Pluto trigger - f/16 as some of the bolts were significantly brighter.
Single frame raw developed in DxO PhotoLab6, patched and polished in Affinity Photo2 with trips to both Nik6 Color Efex and Topaz Ai from within Affinity, finally finished off back in PhotoLab.
Windang Foreshore Park, Windang, Lake Illawarrra, Wollongong, NSW
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
When I really hit a hard rock in editing and have to deal with what is in reality unusable footage, I have often found that my best fallback positition and one of my most versatile and powerful tools for video correction and restoration is the absolute gem of a program VirtualDub. Here is an example of some basic color grading done through VirtualDub. Original footage off a Canon 5d Mkii.
VirtualDub is open source, freeware and there are hosts of freely available plug-ins for it developed by highly competent people. VirtualDub is not a non-linear editing application, but a dedicated video-processing power-horse which can be a useful addition to any post-production arsenal. Below is an example video and a few steps to 32-bit color-grading in VirtualDub, as well as some settings to download and load into VirtualDub to try it out on your own videos. Thanks to Tønnes Brekne for the video used in the example.
Looking at the video there is little or no noise or artifacting at all in the processed versions of the clip, even though some of the changes are pushed quite far and saturation boosted over the top in the second clip in the sequence. Of course in the compressed Flickr file you wouldn't see it anyway, but the original final export is very noise free. This is partly do to the source H.264 file off the Canon 5D MkII being interpolated to a 32-bit RGB colour space in VirtualDub before any changes are applied, allowing for much more latitude in color processing. But also it is do to the superior and highly customizable denoising filters available for VirtualDub that can be a good idea to run before applying any color work.
I have prepared a simple VirtualDub setting ready to load into VirtualDub. Included you'll find the extra filters needed to run the settings. This filter hierarchy works very well for most fundamental color grading needs and can give very good and clean results as long as your source file is of reasonable quality. The filter hierarchy runs like this:
colour space conversion ->
subtle denoising ->
de-interlacing (if you're working off an interlaced video signal, if not just disable)->
Levels adjustment ->
6-vector Hue/saturation/Intensity(lightness) adjustment ->
RGB adjust (tint) ->
subtle smart sharpen.
Download and extract the file, copy the vdf filters into the 'plug-ins' (not the plug-ins32) folder of VirtualDub, start VirtualDub and open a video file. Click 'Load processing settings' under the 'File' tab, and open HD1920_1080CC.vcf from where you saved it. Go to the 'Video' tab and click 'filters'. This will bring up your filter hierarchy.
Color conversion is already set to 32-bit and denoising is set to the lowest. This is usually enough to clean up the hidden artifacts that can become a problem once you start pushing it in color correction. In the 'Levels' dialogue click 'Show Preview' and then 'Sample Frame'. This will give you a window with a full resolution preview of the changes you are applying as well as a histogram. I usually leave the 'Operate in luma...' box ticked, as I don't want to start blowing out colors and oversaturating at this stage. Also, If you're going for a bleach bypass type of look, this option to correct levels in luma is very handy.
After this comes the color work itself. I have loaded the same HSL filter six times in the settings - one pass for each color channel. Tweaking your colors in these passes will give you very precise control over the color correction. Having converted to 32-bit and denoised to begin with, you will be able to play quite a lot around with these color passes as well as the levels without being annoyed with artifacts and noise - but be careful with the 'intensity' lever on your HSL passes.
After this I've put in a simple and nice tint filter with precise control over the RGB channels. I usually use this only for very slight tints to accentuate textures or add subtle moods to the grading. And then finally a little sharpening. This is quite optional, but a good idea. The particular filter used here is very risk-free, and used at low settings it will not generate noise.
When you are satisfied, click 'Video' and make sure that 'Full Processing Mode' is enabled in the drop-down menu. Then go to 'File' and click 'Save as AVI'. Here you choose your preferred compression for the output and where to export the file. If you intend on using the video for further work, I would suggest exporting to a visually lossless codec like f.ex. Cineform or Lagarith (free). If you're finished working on your video, then you can export to a delivery codec like x264, h.264 or mpeg2.
Finally, one note on the MSU filters for VirtualDub - a couple of which are included here, they are free to use for non-commercial work but require a license for commercial work.
You can also read this post at my blog.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
Glover Bluff Impact Breccia (field of view 11.9 centimeters across) - it’s not well known that south-central Wisconsin was the site of a significant meteorite impact during the Early Ordovician. The Glover Bluff Impact Crater in northern Marquette County, Wisconsin is not well-defined in terms of its size. Size estimates vary from 8 to 22 km in diameter.
The age of the impact is fairly well constrained by the presence of an impact breccia (fallback breccia) in the Oneota Formation, which is below the Sauk-Tippecanoe Measequence boundary (Prairie du Chien Group, Lower Ordovician). The Glover Bluff impact breccia is a multicolored jumble of angular fragments in a reddish matrix.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
On a warm afternoon in the heart of Brooklyn, distress calls flood the airwaves of a madman in full body armor terrorizing the streets. As NYPD clears the area of civilians, strategically placed bombs bring local government buildings crumbling to the ground. The NYPD special task force has arrived on the scene to find the assailant has placed a bio-weapon in one of the devastated buildings. Realizing the situation is beyond their ability – the commander decides to fallback and contacts the Commissioner…
…after receiving the SITREP by Task Force Commander Higgins; and appropriately grilling his team for their incompetence, the Commissioner calls in a personal favor to one of his poker buddies — a 3-Star general over at the Pentagon.
In less than an hour, COBALT Team arrives on the scene with their orders in-hand:DISARM AND DETAIN.
The following narration is a first-person perspective of that mission...cont' at bit.ly/1iwBymq
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
The kit and its assembly:
A popular what-if/Luft ‘46 topic: a Fw 190 with a late Bf 109 nose, and sometimes other transplants, too. This one was triggered by a fictional profile created by fellow user ysi_maniac at whatifmodelers.com, but it’s rather a personal interpretation of the idea than a hardware recreation of the artwork. The reason is simple: virtually putting together 2D profiles is an easy task, but when the 3rd dimension comes to play, things become more complicated.
One of the consequences is that such an aircraft would have been very unlikely in real life. Another factor against the idea is that the Daimler Benz engines were primarily earmarked for Messerschmitt products, esp. the late Bf 109. Even Kurt Tank’s Ta 152, powered by his favored DB 603, was hard to realize – and the RLM’s unwillingness to provide him with this engine delayed this high potential aircraft so far that the Fw 190 D-9, with its Jumo 213 as a fallback option, was realized as an interim/second best solution.
However, whifworld offers the freedom of creativity, and I have never seen a hardware realization of a Fw 190/Bf 109 hybrid, so I created the Fw 190E through the mating of a Fw 190D (Academy kit) with the engine/front end of a Bf 109K (Heller).
The transplantation was basically straightforward, starting with the Bf 109 engine cut off of the fuselage. Then a matching section from the Fw 190 nose was cut away, too. While the diameters of both sections (in a side view) match each other quite well, the fuselage diameter shapes are to tally different, and the Bf 109 engine is MUCH too narrow for the Fw 190. That’s the problem the CG whiffers can simply ignore.
The eventual solution concerned both donor parts: the DB 605 was widened by ~2mm through the insertion of wedge-shaped pieces of styrene between the halves. As an unwanted side effect, the Bf 109’s machine guns on the cowling would squint now, so they had to be erased with putty and re-drilled, once the body work was finished.
The fuselage section in front of the Fw 190’s cockpit was, on the other side, narrowed through wedges taken out, and some force – again narrowing the fuselage width by another ~2mm. That does not sound much, but at 1:72 these 4mm mean a major disparity! This modification also created a gap between the fuselage and the wing roots towards their front end, which had to be filled, too, and the wing roots themselves had to be re-shaped in order to match the much more narrow DB 605’s underside.
Furthermore, the engine internally received a styrene tube adapter for the propeller’s new metal axis, and the oil cooler intake was filled with foamed styrene (it would normally remain empty). Once the engine had dried and the fuselage halves with the OOB cockpit closed, both elements were mated and the cowling gap filled and re-sculpted with 2C putty, since the OOB part with the Fw 190’s engine-mounted machine guns would not fit anymore.
As a result, the profile view of the aircraft is O.K., it looks slender and quite plausible, but when you take a look from above, the (still) wide section in front of the cockpit looks odd, as well as the widened rear section of the BD 605 cowling.
Another central issue was the radiator installation for the DB 605. In real life, I’d expect that an annular radiator would have been the most probable solution, and the aircraft wouldn’t have differed much outwardly from the Dora. But for the sake of a different look, and following the idea of a rushed emergency conversion program that would use as many stock elements as possible, I rather went for the complete Bf 109K nose, coupled with a separate ventral radiator under the fuselage. Wing coolers (as used on board of the Bf 109) were ruled out, since I expected them to be too complicated to be quickly added to the Fw 190’s airframe and wing structure.
The radiator fairing was scratched from leftover ship hull parts – thanks to its wide and relatively flat shape, the arrangement looks quite aerodynamic and plausible.
The propeller had to be modified, too: I retained the Bf 109’s spinner, but rather used the Fw 190’s slightly bigger propeller blades, for a balanced look.
The canopy became another issue. While the Academy kit is very nice and goes together well, the clear parts, esp. the sliding part of the canopy, has a major flaw: the headrest is to be glued into it, and in order to give the builder some help with the proper position, Academy added some locator slots to the clear part. This could be nice, and the rear pair will later be covered under paint, but the front pair is plainly visible and reaches up very high into the side windows! WTF?
You can hardly sand them away, and so I dediced outright to replace the canopy altogether - I was lucky to have a Rob Tauris vacu canopy, actually for the Hasegawa Fw 190A/F in the donor bank. This does naturally not fit 100% onto the (modified) Academy fuselage, but with some (more) PSR work the vacu parts blend in quite well, and the thin material is an additional bonus.
Apart from the engine and the canopy, not much was changed. The landing gear is OOB, I just replaced the wing root gun barrels with hollow steel needles.
Inspiration levels low tonight, but I figured I'd try to go for the "musical instrument Monday" fallback. I wanted to try and mimic the look of stage lighting on my practice amp, so I broke out the strobes and the gels and experimented a bit. I suppose this shot is OK, but there's something about it I'm still not entirely pleased with that I can't quantify. It's the best of what I shot today, though.
I used the low shutter speed to capture the glow of the power lamp on the amp, despite using flash for the remaining lighting.
Nikon D7000 w/Nikkor 50m ƒ/1.8 prime, 1/6s @ ƒ/5.6, ISO100. Exposure compensation -1.0ev (forgot to zero it out). One SB-700 above and behind the amp, 120mm zoom, 1/16 power, firing through a 1/4" speed grid that had red and blue gels attached; second SB-700 firing at the front of the amp from camera left, using the built-in diffuser (24mm zoom), 1/32 power. Some white balance adjustment and cropping in Aperture.
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
Four Interlocking Octahedra 48 units
Not wanted to infringe on Francesco Mancini's Four Intersecting Tetrahedra, I folded this along the same hull of triangles instead. This was a fallback project, and not what I had in mind when I started it, but the result still looks good. Designed by me. Folded out of memo.
All rights reserved Chris Nickl
One of the best songs out right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0becMdqGHyo
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
Thousands of antifascists, trade unionists and members of the local community marched in victory through Whitechapel today after the English Defence League failed in its bid to demonstrate in Tower Hamlets.
Only around 600 members of EDL made it to their final rally point – at Aldgate, outside the Tower Hamlets borough boundary in East London.
The racists and fascists of the EDL had bragged that they were coming to the heart of Tower Hamlets – “marching into the lion’s den” in the multiracial, multicultural borough. Despite a national mobilisation, they failed utterly.
Electric
Instead the day belonged to antifascists and antiracists, with an electric atmosphere of solidarity as white, black and Asian people, of all religions and none, came together.
Throughout the day, the antiracists gathered, with speeches, trade union banners, flags and music at the UAF/United East End protest close to East London Mosque, with anti-EDL protesters and local people also gathered directly outside the mosque and occupying key road junctions and streets to make sure EDL supporters could not enter the borough.
The groups converged at the junction of Whitechapel Road and Commercial Street in the afternoon and cheered the news that EDL leader “Tommy Robinson” had been arrested, along with 72 other EDL members before the racists and fascists were escorted away by police.
Railworkers
The first blow against the EDL was struck early by the RMT railworkers’ union, which prevented the organisation’s planned “muster” at Liverpool Street station, by threatening to close the station down if the violent racists were allowed to gather there.
They had already been refused any venue in Tower Hamlets, including Sainsbury’s car park.
The EDL were instead forced to gather at Kings Cross – after their fallback plan to meet at pubs in Euston was scuppered when the pubs declared they would not host the racists either. Their journey south was then held up when RMT members closed the tube station.
The EDL were eventually escorted by police to Aldgate. A group of EDL members, who went direct to a pub in Liverpool Street, showed the organisation’s violent character, throwing flash bombs, attempting to attack passers by and setting fire to a journalist who was reporting events.
Chanting
But the EDL were unable to enter Tower Hamlets, instead moving through the City of London to their rally point.
Tommy Robinson – who arrived at the EDL event disgracefully dressed up as a rabbi – was arrested there, sparking more scuffles between the EDL and police.
When the EDL had left the area, the antiracist protestors marched in their thousands back down Whitechapel Road, chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “Black and white unite and fight, smash the EDL”.
As the march passed the East London Mosque, demostrators broke into spontaneous applause.
The mosque is the symbol of the area’s Muslim community – the particular target of the EDL’s anti-Muslim racism.
Afterwards, UAF national officer Martin Smith said:
Today we have won. We haven’t had anybody arrested. We have stopped the EDL coming into this borough. Tommy Robisnon has been arrested. We have marched on the streets today, the EDL have gone and we have won.
Speakers
The UAF/United East End demo had earlier heard from speakers including CWU deputy general secretary Tony Kearns, East London Mosque’s Dilowar Khan, former MEP Glyn Ford, veteran local antifascist Phil Maxwell, Terry Stewart of LGBT group Out East, former council leader Phil Maxwell and a range of other local trade union and community representatives.
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone sent a message of support, saying: “This is a fitting response to those who peddle hatred and fear.”
Musicians and DJs added to the wonderful atmosphere of unity and solidarity, with trade union banners from all over the country lining the street.
Brilliant
The UAF/United East End mobilisation was called because it was clear that the EDL still intended to come to Tower Hamlets for a static demonstration, despite the home office ban on marching.
The aim was to show the greatest possible opposition to the racists and fascists and ensure they could not threaten the borough’s multiracial, multicultural community.
Today’s brilliant day of antiracist, antifascist solidarity showed why that was right.
For more information and further stories check out www.uaf.org.uk and www.socialistworker.co.uk
The kit and its assembly:
A popular what-if/Luft ‘46 topic: a Fw 190 with a late Bf 109 nose, and sometimes other transplants, too. This one was triggered by a fictional profile created by fellow user ysi_maniac at whatifmodelers.com, but it’s rather a personal interpretation of the idea than a hardware recreation of the artwork. The reason is simple: virtually putting together 2D profiles is an easy task, but when the 3rd dimension comes to play, things become more complicated.
One of the consequences is that such an aircraft would have been very unlikely in real life. Another factor against the idea is that the Daimler Benz engines were primarily earmarked for Messerschmitt products, esp. the late Bf 109. Even Kurt Tank’s Ta 152, powered by his favored DB 603, was hard to realize – and the RLM’s unwillingness to provide him with this engine delayed this high potential aircraft so far that the Fw 190 D-9, with its Jumo 213 as a fallback option, was realized as an interim/second best solution.
However, whifworld offers the freedom of creativity, and I have never seen a hardware realization of a Fw 190/Bf 109 hybrid, so I created the Fw 190E through the mating of a Fw 190D (Academy kit) with the engine/front end of a Bf 109K (Heller).
The transplantation was basically straightforward, starting with the Bf 109 engine cut off of the fuselage. Then a matching section from the Fw 190 nose was cut away, too. While the diameters of both sections (in a side view) match each other quite well, the fuselage diameter shapes are to tally different, and the Bf 109 engine is MUCH too narrow for the Fw 190. That’s the problem the CG whiffers can simply ignore.
The eventual solution concerned both donor parts: the DB 605 was widened by ~2mm through the insertion of wedge-shaped pieces of styrene between the halves. As an unwanted side effect, the Bf 109’s machine guns on the cowling would squint now, so they had to be erased with putty and re-drilled, once the body work was finished.
The fuselage section in front of the Fw 190’s cockpit was, on the other side, narrowed through wedges taken out, and some force – again narrowing the fuselage width by another ~2mm. That does not sound much, but at 1:72 these 4mm mean a major disparity! This modification also created a gap between the fuselage and the wing roots towards their front end, which had to be filled, too, and the wing roots themselves had to be re-shaped in order to match the much more narrow DB 605’s underside.
Furthermore, the engine internally received a styrene tube adapter for the propeller’s new metal axis, and the oil cooler intake was filled with foamed styrene (it would normally remain empty). Once the engine had dried and the fuselage halves with the OOB cockpit closed, both elements were mated and the cowling gap filled and re-sculpted with 2C putty, since the OOB part with the Fw 190’s engine-mounted machine guns would not fit anymore.
As a result, the profile view of the aircraft is O.K., it looks slender and quite plausible, but when you take a look from above, the (still) wide section in front of the cockpit looks odd, as well as the widened rear section of the BD 605 cowling.
Another central issue was the radiator installation for the DB 605. In real life, I’d expect that an annular radiator would have been the most probable solution, and the aircraft wouldn’t have differed much outwardly from the Dora. But for the sake of a different look, and following the idea of a rushed emergency conversion program that would use as many stock elements as possible, I rather went for the complete Bf 109K nose, coupled with a separate ventral radiator under the fuselage. Wing coolers (as used on board of the Bf 109) were ruled out, since I expected them to be too complicated to be quickly added to the Fw 190’s airframe and wing structure.
The radiator fairing was scratched from leftover ship hull parts – thanks to its wide and relatively flat shape, the arrangement looks quite aerodynamic and plausible.
The propeller had to be modified, too: I retained the Bf 109’s spinner, but rather used the Fw 190’s slightly bigger propeller blades, for a balanced look.
The canopy became another issue. While the Academy kit is very nice and goes together well, the clear parts, esp. the sliding part of the canopy, has a major flaw: the headrest is to be glued into it, and in order to give the builder some help with the proper position, Academy added some locator slots to the clear part. This could be nice, and the rear pair will later be covered under paint, but the front pair is plainly visible and reaches up very high into the side windows! WTF?
You can hardly sand them away, and so I dediced outright to replace the canopy altogether - I was lucky to have a Rob Tauris vacu canopy, actually for the Hasegawa Fw 190A/F in the donor bank. This does naturally not fit 100% onto the (modified) Academy fuselage, but with some (more) PSR work the vacu parts blend in quite well, and the thin material is an additional bonus.
Apart from the engine and the canopy, not much was changed. The landing gear is OOB, I just replaced the wing root gun barrels with hollow steel needles.