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Macro Mondays 3/04/17 theme Orange and Blue.
For this theme I chose my clownfish Crichton (named after the character John Crichton in the TV series Farscape and yes I have a Aeryn as well) as it was the first thing I saw after reading this week's theme.The only problem was the backdrop in my aquarium is black.So after finding a safe piece of plastic I put it into the water and waited for the fish to get used to it.Once they were happy the next problem was focusing and the flash on the surface of the glass but that was easy to fix.
The common clownfish is a small fish which can grow up to 4.3" but my male is about 1.3/4" at most with the female being 2.1/2".
I wish I could share with you the sense I get from sitting alone with my dog, asleep under my sweatshirt to my heart on a cool breezy night at the edge of the ocean -- the edge of the world where it rounds to the next. At the edge of an abyss. Staring at the stars on a clear moonless night, no matter the picture, they don't do justice to the beauty and serenity. It calms the beast, eases the frustration, quiets the screams, slows the pace, fools the anxiety. Despite the pangs of longing, more than I thought I would, more than I think I should, but not as much as I could. What drives me closer to the edge of infinite? What is this fascination? What would I give to be up there, farther away, and closer to nothing? Here I do find peace, if only briefly, to the tune of the wind and waves that accompany the sight of the stars. Yes... there is light in the infinite black.
One could get lost trying to map out the epic landscape of the Palouse, so many roads to 'nowhere'. Again I failed to annotate where this was, sorry. Have a safe, fun, and as dry as can be Halloween all! :-)
What a fun surprise when I was frantically looking for something that started with F, that I found I had a fair number of fans. Freaky, huh!
Quite frankly, fans can be be frilly, fancy, and yes, sometimes even frightening but most importantly they must be functional. In addition to this small collection, we also have fans on the floor and on the ceiling, but unfortunately, I couldn’t fit any of those in this shot.
This "collection" includes an oscillating fan, two folding fans, three fans on sticks, and a small battery-operated handheld fan which is just plain fun.
____________________________________________________ ** The old, fragile stick fan is an insurance promo from Florida – no date found.
The Tales from the Crypt is dated 1996. It also has holes in the eyes you can peek through.
The Farscape Fan is dated 2004.
Stargate Multigate Panel with Martin Gero, Jewel Staite, Ben Browder, Paul McGillon, and Jason Momoa
Ahhh,at last......the mist in Sherdley park was back this morning,I love it there when its like this,superb :).Any way,dropped Gill off at work and took my camera down to see what I could find.Spotted this photographer with the same idea as me!,turns out he is Simon Halstead/Farscape photography,another flickr-ite!,good to meet you Simon.
Anyway,I thought he added a nice foreground to my pic,so cheers Si! ;)
Chris.
I was trying to reflect something of my radio show's content and this about covers....a good five percent or so. (At least!)
Just a bit of fun really, a tabletop set up using daylight and a locked off camera and a fair bit of patience setting it all up.
Is it scary I have this many toys? No, it's scary I have more Iron Man toys than this...
Yeah, I know, party at Stark's !!!
(Strewth, a Zero-G post without a gazillion lines of text! Who are you, and what have you done with Rob?)
Actually, it's just occurred to me that I really have interviewed a couple of the actors behind these folks...what a lark!
Oh, and yes, there are two "Wallys" !!
(To save a little angst, the two figures you may have trouble with are my personal custom modified Iron Man variants, the "My Little Tony" Iron Horse and the "Iron Cyberman".)
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This is meant to be Moya from Farscape. I started with using the old dinosaur tails pieces and the 3x3 dish on the nose. The rest was kind of cobbled together from there.
I don't know, this is one of those models where I've been looking at it for months now, and it reached that point where I see a bunch of things I don't like and need to get it out of my hair.
Crichton circling the wormhole. Wha? So I'm a crazy-serious fan of Farscape, what of it?! :o)
Y'all should see the show. It is pretty much as good as it gets.
Interestingness: March 7th, 2007
This view shows the cloak spread out to show all panels. There is a complete list of all the badges, starting on the first picture in this set, and extending over several others.
In the end (and I have a feeling this project will never really end!) there were so many badges that could be included that I decided to make a second cloak.
BADGE LIST FOR FANTASTIQUE #1
ROBERT JAN'S MIXED GENRE UNIVERSE
KLINGON/PREDATOR
TROPHY CLOAK WEARABLE ART/COSTUME
PART TWO- D TO L
Dark Angel
-Jam Pony Bicycle Courier company supervisor designed logo. U.S.A flag on organe background with stylised hand giving the 'thumbs up!' Red letters JAM PONY
and yellow letters Ride With Pride.
-Original Jam Pony logo- Stylised blue bicycle courier on red oval.
-Manticore Project insignia. Black outline of skull with black elipses on stylised blue-grey Manticore on light blue oval with wide black border
-Joshuah’s Freak nation flag. Stylised white dove on horizontally white, red and black stripes. The black stripe has a red bar-code.
Dark Star
-Yellow Sun Arm patch. Stylised yellow sun and flames on black rectangle with yellow border.
-Yellow Sun and lightning bolts arm patch. Yellow star on black upper rectangle with yellow lighting flashes over lower red rectangle.
-White letters PINBACK on black stripe
Dominion Tank Police (Manga)
BONAPARTE TANK POLICE Red heart containing yellow star and white U-shaped stripe.
Doctor Who
McCoy era question mark
Supervoc Robots Of Death chest badge
Earth police insignia-(as worn by the Master in The Space War)
Cyberman tomb insignia
Classic UNIT Cap badge
Classic U.N.I.T shoulder flash.
Timelord symbol
Ace Demolitions-Nitro-9
-The Doctor's calling card, Rememberance Of The Daleks. Gold question mark on black circle with diagonal black stripe with flanking Gallifrean letters on white rectangle.
-Scrap metal merchants where Doctor first materialised in first serial. White letters I.M. FOREMAN Scrap Merchants, 76 TROTTERS LANE on blue rectangle.
The Dream
Roy and H.G's Fatso the Wombat patch.
Dune (Movie)
-Atriedes red hawk collar patch. Red and black stylised hawk facing left on black square background with red border.
-Atriedes gold hawk collar patch. Gold stylised hawk facing right on black square background with red border.
-Bene Gesseret Rune
Escape From New York
-Snake Plissken namestripe. Black stenciled letters PLISSKEN on green stripe.
-USPF blue letters on white stripe. United States Police Force stylised white eagle on red and blue shield with blue border.
Evolution
Three eyed Smiley badge
Fantastic Voyage
Submarine Proteus
Farhenheit 451 (Movie)
-“451” silver letters on black circle with silver border
-Fireman’s badge. Styised red salamander on black rectangle with grey border.
Farscape
-Crichton's IASA patch. IASA on blue gridded Earth globe with diagonal red orbit track
-Crichton's Farscape 1 Mission Patch. Black FARSCAPE letters on yellow stripe on large white 1 on red bordered, dark blue roundel with white stars and white and blue orbital ellipses.
Fawlty Towers
-Black WARTY TOWELS letters on white stylised pointing hand
Felix The Cat
Felix
Final Fantasy
-”DEEPEYES” black letters on grey stripe
-Stylised Deepeyes ocular logo in circle on grey background.
Fireball XL5
“XL5”
The Fifth Element (Movie)
-Council Of Federated Territories badge. White letters COUNCIL OF FEDERATED TERRITORIES on black circle around blue cartographic ellipse grid with diagonal red ellipse orbit superimposed. Gold and yellow plant sheaves on stellar background.
-Police shield. POLICE 2167 with other indecipherable black letters on yellow shield.
-Zorg corporation building logo. ”ZORG” stylised blue letters on orange rectangle on red rectangle
The Flintstones
-Fred’s Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes lodge badge. Orange letters GRAND IMPERIAL POOHBAH-FRED FLINTSTONE, LOYAL ORDER OF WATER BUFFALOES around light blue roundel with cartoon of Fred wearing Water Buffaloe lodge hat.
F-Troop
-Black FORT COURAGE F-TROOP letters on black bordered white stripe.
Futurama
Planet Express
Galaxy Quest-
Ship badge, silver ringed planet and stars
Get Smart
KAOS Vulture standing on globe.
Ghostbusters
-White ghost with universal NO red circle and bar overlay. As used in film.
-Stanz name stripe. Red letters STANZ on black, red bordered stripe.
-Spengler name stripe. Red letters SPENGLER on black, red bordered stripe.
-Venkman name stripe. Red letters VENKMAN on black, red bordered stripe.
Gigantor
-“GIGANTOR- JAMES SPARKS” white letters on rectangular border around picture of Gigantor and James Sparks in action
G.I Joe
Cobra
The Greatest American Hero
Chest logo from the supersuit. Red wedge with handles on white circle with black indented border
The Green Hornet
Green Hornet logo on light blue circle.
Gunsmith Cats
Gunsmith Cats stripe. Light orange letters GUNSMITH CATS on red stripe.
Hellboy
-Red letters BUREAU FOR PARANORMAL RESEARCH AND DEFENSE on dark red circle with stylised hand holding sword on inner circle.
Hill Street Blues
-Standard Hill Street Shoulder patch. Gold HILL ST. PCT. METROPOLITAN POLICE letters and gold stylised torch on gold borderd black kite shield.
-Howard Hunter’s Emergency Action Team patch. Yellow letters EMERGENCY ACTION TEAM on yellow bordered black circle around stylised gold red flamed torch on black roundel
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
-Neon blue SIRIUS CYBERNETICS CORPORATION letters on black rhoboid with scircuitry and neon blue border.
-Don’t Panic. Red stencil letters DON’T PANIC on black rectangle with red border.
Home Improvement
-Binford stripe. Green letters Binford on white stripe with red border.
Home Improvement House logo
H.R Puffnstuff
Hunt For Red October
-U.S.S Dallas patch. Red and black flag with flower imposed over map with letters
USS DALLAS SSN 700 on white hatch shaped background with black stripe surrond.
-Red October patch. Red Cyrillic letter RED OCTOBER above black ssilhouette of submarine with red star on irregular white plaque.
The Incredibles
-Incredibles uniform insignia. Yellow i on black and orange swirl on red rectangle
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Brotherhood Of The Grail Cross. Stylised red three horizontal barred cross on white rectangular background with red border.
International Space Station
Large rectangular patch with station and national flags International Space Station
-White letters INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION on dark blue rectangle above stylised white space station over Earth globe with two white orbits on red borderd dark blue shield above green laurel leaves.
James Bond
MI5 Intelligence Triangle. British crown on black triangle with gold letters EIIR-U.K.-M-V-INTELLIGENCE-007
-SPECTRE, Special Executive For Crime, Terror, Revenge And Extortion. Stylised white octopus (four tentacles only) in oval frame. From Russia With Love.
-Cover company. White letters UNIVERSAL EXPORTS LTD on blue border around white globe with yellow continents.
Kenny Everett Video Show
-Captain Kremin insignia. Red letter K with single wing, outlined in white with black border
Kill Bill
-Red Apple Cigarettes label. Red letters RED APPLE above green, grinning worm coring out red apple on yellow rectangular tin with chrome trim
Kimba The White Lion
-“WHO’S THE REAL LION KING IN DEEPEST, DARKEST AFRICA? KIMBA !!” black letters on tan circle with picture of Kimba the white lion againts blue sky
Kingdom Hospital
-Hospital logo. Split, red, inverted pike head on whit rectangle with black border.
A Knight's Tale
Sir Ulrich von Lichenstein's Phoenix banner. Stylised Black phoenix emerging from red flame
Knight Rider
-Knight Rider 2000 door logo. Gold TKR letters on triangle with brown Team Knight Rider on triangular border
Jaws-
Amity Police shield
Joe 90
-World Intelligence Network badge. Red letters WIN MOST SPECIAL AGENT on light blue shield badge with blue globe
Jonny Quest
-Red letters JONNY QUEST on white inverted triangle with portrait of JQ on red roundel above yellow letters JONNY on black oval
Jurassic Park
-Jurassic Park logo. White letters JURASSIC PARK on black stripe over black skeletonic dinosaur on white roundel all on green rectangle.
The Kenny Everett Video Show
Red K Captain Kremmen Of Star Command
Kimba The White Lion
-Kimba standing proud on Arican background with black letters WHO’S THE REAL KING IN DEEPEST, DARKEST AFRICA? on tan circle
La Lune a un Metre
(A Trip To The Moon) Melies film, 1898. Man in the Moon with spaceship in eye.
Land of The Giants-
Sub Orbital Shuttle Spindrift
The Last Starfighter
Arcade logo with winged sword on circular space background with flanking red and blue stripes with blue planet
LEXX
-Black letters STANLEY TWEEDLE, KAI, ZEV,790 on red trimmed, blue rectangular border, surrounding photo of crew with white letters LEXX
The Lord Of The Rings (Films)
-Rohan banner. Stylised white horse and red sunburst on black rectangle with red border
-Gandalf’s Rune. Black rune on light grey square with white border
-White handprint of Saruman on black roundel.
-Gondorian banner. Stylised white tree surmounted by white crown and 7 stars on blue square
Laurel & Hardy
-Sons Of The Desert Lodge Cap Badge. Yellow letters SONS OF THE DESERT on red half roundel with stylised yellow sun rise and yellow border
Lost In Space
Jupiter 2- Robinson - West Settler's Wagon being pulled by atom across oval space background
Alpha Control October 16th. 1997 Colonization Mission Jupiter Two bow elevation on light blue circle.
The Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortunae, is a concept in medieval and ancient philosophy referring to the capricious nature of Fate. The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna, who spins it at random, changing the positions of those on the wheel - some suffer great misfortune, others gain windfalls. Fortune appears on all paintings as a woman, sometimes blindfolded, "puppeteering" a wheel.Origins[edit]
The origin of the word is from the "wheel of fortune" - the zodiac, referring to the Celestial spheres of which the 8th holds the stars, and the 9th is where the signs of the zodiac are placed. The concept was first invented in Babylon and later developed by the ancient Greeks. The concept somewhat resembles the Bhavacakra, or Wheel of Becoming, depicted throughout Ancient Indian art and literature, except that the earliest conceptions in the Roman and Greek world involve not a two-dimensional wheel but a three-dimensional sphere, a metaphor for the world. It was widely used in the Ptolemaic perception of the universe as the zodiac being a wheel with its "signs" constantly turning throughout the year and having effect on the world's fate (or fortune). Ptolemaic model of the spheres for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with epicycle, eccentric deferent and equant point. Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum, 1474.
Vettius Valens, a second century BC astronomer and astrologer, wrote. There are many wheels, most moving from west to east, but some move from east to west.
Seven wheels, each hold one heavenly object, the first holds the moon... Then the eighth wheel holds all the stars that we see... And the ninth wheel, the wheel of fortunes, moves from east to west, and includes each of the twelve signs of fortune, the twelve signs of the zodiac. Each wheel is inside the other, like an onion's peel sits inside another peel, and there is no empty space between them.[this quote needs a citation] In the same century, the Roman tragedian Pacuvius wrote: Fortunam insanam esse et caecam et brutam perhibent philosophical, Saxoque instare in globoso praedicant volubili: Id quo saxum inpulerit fors, eo cadere Fortunam autumant. Caecam ob eam rem esse iterant, quia nihil cernat, quo sese adplicet; Insanam autem esse aiunt, quia atrox, incerta instabilisque sit; Brutam, quia dignum atque indignum nequeat internoscere. Philosophers say that Fortune is insane and blind and stupid, and they teach that she stands on a rolling, spherical rock: they affirm that, wherever chance pushes that rock, Fortuna falls in that direction. They repeat that she is blind for this reason: that she does not see where she's heading; they say she's insane, because she is cruel, flaky and unstable; stupid, because she can't distinguish between the worthy and the unworthy.
—Pacuvius, Scaenicae Romanorum Poesis Fragmenta. Vol. 1, ed. O. Ribbeck, 1897
The idea of the rolling ball of fortune became a literary topos and was used frequently in declamation. In fact, the Rota Fortunae became a prime example of a trite topos or meme for Tacitus, who mentions its rhetorical overuse in the Dialogus de oratoribus. Fortuna eventually became Christianized: the Roman philosopher Boethius (d. 524) was a major source for the medieval view of the Wheel, writing about it in his Consolatio Philosophiae - "I know how Fortune is ever most friendly and alluring to those whom she strives to deceive, until she overwhelms them with grief beyond bearing, by deserting them when least expected. … Are you trying to stay the force of her turning wheel? Ah! dull-witted mortal, if Fortune begin to stay still, she is no longer Fortune."
The Wheel was widely used as an allegory in medieval literature and art to aid religious instruction. Though classically Fortune's Wheel could be favourable and disadvantageous, medieval writers preferred to concentrate on the tragic aspect, dwelling on downfall of the mighty - serving to remind people of the temporality of earthly things. In the morality play Everyman (c. 1495), for instance, Death comes unexpectedly to claim the protagonist. Fortune's Wheel has spun Everyman low, and Good Deeds, which he previously neglected, are needed to secure his passage to heaven. Geoffrey Chaucer used the concept of the tragic Wheel of Fortune a great deal. It forms the basis for the Monk's Tale, which recounts stories of the great brought low throughout history, including Lucifer, Adam, Samson, Hercules, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Nero, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and, in the following passage, Peter I of Cyprus. O noble Peter, Cyprus' lord and king,
Which Alexander won by mastery, To many a heathen ruin did'st thou bring; For this thy lords had so much jealousy,
That, for no crime save thy high chivalry, All in thy bed they slew thee on a morrow. And thus does Fortune's wheel turn treacherously And out of happiness bring men to sorrow.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Monk's Fortune's Wheel often turns up in medieval art, from manuscripts to the great Rose windows in many medieval cathedrals, which are based on the Wheel. Characteristically, it has four shelves, or stages of life, with four human figures, usually labeled on the left regnabo (I shall reign), on the top regno (I reign) and is usually crowned, descending on the right regnavi (I have reigned) and the lowly figure on the bottom is marked sum sine regno (I am without a kingdom). Dante employed the Wheel in the Inferno and a "Wheel of Fortune" trump-card appeared in the Tarot deck (circa 1440, Italy). The wheel of fortune from the Burana Codex; The figures are labelled "Regno, Regnavi, Sum sine regno, Regnabo": I reign, I reigned, My reign is finished, I shall reign
In the medieval and renaissance period, a popular genre of writing was "Mirrors for Princes", which set out advice for the ruling classes on how to wield power (the most famous being The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli). Such political treatises could use the concept of the Wheel of Fortune as an instructive guide to their readers. John Lydgate's Fall of Princes, written for his patron Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester is a noteworthy example. Many Arthurian romances of the era also use the concept of the Wheel in this manner, often placing the Nine Worthies on it at various points....fortune is so variant, and the wheel so moveable, there nis none constant abiding, and that may be proved by many old chronicles, of noble Hector, and Troilus, and Alisander, the mighty conqueror, and many mo other; when they were most in their royalty, they alighted lowest. ~ Lancelot in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Chapter XVII.[3] Like the Mirrors for Princes, this could be used to convey advice to readers. For instance, in most romances, Arthur's greatest military achievement - the conquest of the Roman Empire - is placed late on in the overall story. However in Malory's work the Roman conquest and high point of King Arthur's reign is established very early on. Thus, everything that follows is something of a decline. Arthur, Lancelot and the other Knights of the Round Table are meant to be the paragons of chivalry, yet in Malory's telling of the story they are doomed to failure. In medieval thinking, only God was perfect, and even a great figure like King Arthur had to be brought low. For the noble reader of the tale in the Middle Ages, this moral could serve as a warning, but also as something to aspire to. Malory could be using the concept of Fortune's Wheel to imply that if even the greatest of chivalric knights made mistakes, then a normal fifteenth-century noble didn't have to be a paragon of virtue in order to be a good knight. The Wheel of Fortune motif appears significantly in the Carmina Burana (or Burana Codex), albeit with a postclassical phonetic spelling of the genitive form Fortunae. Excerpts from two of the collection's better known poems, "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Fortune, Empress of the World)" and "Fortune Plango Vulnera (I Bemoan the Wounds of Fortune)," read: Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus,
vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Fortune rota volvitur; descendo minoratus; alter in altum tollitur; nimis exaltatus rex sedet in vertice caveat ruinam! nam sub axe legimus Hecubam reginam.Fate - monstrous and empty, you whirling wheel, status is bad,
well-being is vain always may melt away, shadowy
and veiled you plague me too; now through the game
bare backed I bear your villainy. The wheel of Fortune turns;
I go down, demeaned; another is carried to the height;
far too high up sits the king at the summit - let him beware ruin! for under the axis we read: Queen Hecuba. Later usage:
Fortune and her Wheel have remained an enduring image throughout history. Fortune's wheel can also be found in Thomas More's Utopia. Wheel of fortune in Sebastian Brant`s Narrenschiff, woodcut by A. Dürer William Shakespeare in Hamlet wrote of the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and, of fortune personified, to "break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel." And in Henry V, Act 3 Scene VI[4] are the lines: Bardolph, a soldier who is loyal and stout-hearted and full of valour, has, by a cruel trick of fate and a turn of silly Fortune's wildly spinning wheel, that blind goddess who stands upon an ever-rolling stone—
Fluellen: Now, now, Ensign Pistol. Fortune is depicted as blind, with a scarf over her eyes, to signify that she is blind. And she is depicted with a wheel to signify—this is the point—that she is turning and inconstant, and all about change and variation. And her foot, see, is planted on a spherical stone that rolls and rolls and rolls. Shakespeare also references this Wheel in King Lear.[5] The Earl of Kent, who was once held dear by the King, has been banished, only to return in disguise. This disguised character is placed in the stocks for an overnight and laments this turn of events at the end of Act II, Scene 2:Fortune, good night, smile once more; turn thy wheel! In Act IV, scene vii, King Lear also contrasts his misery on the "wheel of fire" to Cordelia's "soul in bliss". Shakespeare also made reference to this in "Macbeth" throughout the whole play. Macbeth starts off halfway up the wheel when a Thane, but moves higher and higher until he becomes king, but falls right down again towards the end as his wife dies, and he in turn dies.
In Anthony Trollope's novel The Way We Live Now, the character Lady Carbury writes a novel entitled "The Wheel of Fortune" about a heroine who suffers great financial hardships.
Selections from the Carmina Burana, including the two poems quoted above, were set to new music by twentieth-century classical composer Carl Orff, whose well-known "O Fortuna" is based on the poem Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi.
Jerry Garcia recorded a song entitled "The Wheel" (co-written with Robert Hunter and Bill Kreutzmann) for his 1972 solo album Garcia, and performed the song regularly with the Grateful Dead from 1976 onward. The song "Wheel in the Sky" by Journey from their 1978 release Infinity also touches on the concept through the lyrics "Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin' / I don't know where I'll be tomorrow". The song "Throw Your Hatred Down" by Neil Young on his 1995 album Mirror Ball, recorded with Pearl Jam, has the verse "The wheel of fortune / Keeps on rollin' down". The term has found its way into modern popular culture through the Wheel of Fortune game show, where contestants win or lose money determined by the random spin of a wheel. Also, the video game series character Kain (Legacy of Kain) used the wheel of fate. Fortuna does occasionally turn up in modern literature, although these days she has become more or less synonymous with Lady Luck. Her Wheel is less widely used as a symbol, and has been replaced largely by a reputation for fickleness. She is often associated with gamblers, and dice could also be said to have replaced the Wheel as the primary metaphor for uncertain fortune. The Hudsucker Proxy, a film by the Coen Brothers, also uses the Rota Fortunae concept and in the TV series Firefly (2002) the main character, Malcolm Reynolds, says "The Wheel never stops turning, Badger" to which Badger replies "That only matters to the people on the rim". Likewise, a physical version of the Wheel of Fortune is used in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, a film by George Miller and George Ogilvie. In the movie, the title character reneges on a contract and is told "bust a deal, face the wheel." In the science fiction TV series Farscape, the fourth episode of the fourth season has main character Crichton mention that his grandmother told him that fate was like a wheel, alternately bringing fortunes up and down, and the episode's title also references this. Unlike many other instances of the wheel of fortune analogy, which focus on tragic falls from good fortune, Crichton's version is notably more positive, and meant as a message of endurance: those suffering from bad fortune must remain strong and "wait for the wheel" of fortune to turn back to eventually turn back to good fortune again. Ignatius J. Reilly, the central character from John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces, states that he believes the Rota Fortunae to be the source of all man's fate. In the Fable video game series, the wheel of fortune appears twice, somehow perverted. The Wheel of Unholy Misfortune is a torture device in Fable II. It is found in the Temple of Shadows in Rookridge. The Hero can use the wheel to sacrifice followers to the shadows. In Fable III, Reaver's Wheel of Misfortune is a device that, once activated, sends to The Hero a round of random monsters. The Wheel of Fortune is featured in a Magic: the Gathering card by that name that forces all players to discard their hands and draw new ones.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rota_Fortunae
Wheel of Fortune is R.O.T.A or TARO and TORA all 3 are born in same meaning :the workings of a social engine ROTARY'S WHEEL EMBLEM
A wheel has been the symbol of Rotary since our earliest days. The first design was made by Chicago Rotarian Montague Bear, an engraver who drew a simple wagon wheel, with a few lines to show dust and motion. The wheel was said to illustrate "Civilization and Movement." Most of the early clubs had some form of wagon wheel on their publications and letterheads. Finally, in 1922, it was decided that all Rotary clubs should adopt a single design as the exclusive emblem of Rotarians. Thus, in 1923, the present gear wheel, with 24 cogs and six spokes was adopted by the "Rotary International Association." A group of engineers advised that the geared wheel was mechanically unsound and would not work without a "keyway" in the center of the gear to attach it to a power shaft. So, in 1923 the keyway was added and the design which we now know was formally adopted as the official Rotary International emblem. www.icufr.org/abc/abc01.htm
www.rotaryfirst100.org/history/history/wheel/
The most popular symbol is the All seeing eye, and most popular hand signs are the Horn and the 666. Any study of Music and ... Circle (Rotary symbol)
[These are the symbols used by the Reptilian proxy group, the Reptoids (Illuminati, & Freemasons), collectively are known as Satanists or Luciferians. The signs of Evil. The most popular symbol is the All seeing eye, and most popular hand signs are the Horn and the 666. Any study of Music and Movies will find all the usual suspects (proving Satanic control), along with some symbols for mind control. If you want a symbol to use stick with the heart, the exact opposite of Evil. They like to cut them out and offer them to Lucifer, see Blood sacrifice. All the worshiped 'Gods' are a few Anunnaki/Reptilians going under various names down the years such as: Nimrod/Anubis/Horus/Osiris/Baal/Shamash/Janus/Quetzalcoatl/Baphomet/Lucifer/Moloch etc, hence all the snake and horn symbols. The symbols are their secret language, and you can see the connections down the years by the use of the same symbols, e.g. Freemasonry, the US Government, and Communism with the Hidden hand, the hidden hand of history.]
This is meant to be Moya from Farscape. I started with using the old dinosaur tails pieces and the 3x3 dish on the nose. The rest was kind of cobbled together from there.
I don't know, this is one of those models where I've been looking at it for months now, and it reached that point where I see a bunch of things I don't like and need to get it out of my hair.
This is meant to be Moya from Farscape. I started with using the old dinosaur tails pieces and the 3x3 dish on the nose. The rest was kind of cobbled together from there.
I don't know, this is one of those models where I've been looking at it for months now, and it reached that point where I see a bunch of things I don't like and need to get it out of my hair.
The license plate says "Frell", which basically means "fuck" in Farscape. Spotted at the Farscape Convention in Los Angeles, November 2004.
i was thrilled to see claudia black at E3. i loved her on stargate sg-1. she's also on farscape.
edited to add: having just played uncharted 2, she's an amazing voice actress as well and the game was one of the best i've played.
This is meant to be Moya from Farscape. I started with using the old dinosaur tails pieces and the 3x3 dish on the nose. The rest was kind of cobbled together from there.
I don't know, this is one of those models where I've been looking at it for months now, and it reached that point where I see a bunch of things I don't like and need to get it out of my hair.
Playing with the flashlight-under-the-chin campfire effect, I got the urge to hold it over my head instead. Heh. A lucky shot, this, with lots of texture and ambiguity. Different from the way I usually present myself to the world.
Warren calls this my "Rygel" picture -- like the character in Farscape (chuckle).
2000 Farscape Series 1
John Crichton (Commander Crichton)
Toy Vault Limited to 30,000
Photo: TDelCoro
Experimenting again, different images mixed and various custom lightning effects. i took my inspiration from an old psdtuts tutorial on a concept art.
Charlie Chaplin Studios is a motion picture studio built in 1917 by silent and sound film star Charlie Chaplin just south of the southeast corner of La Brea and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
After being sold by Chaplin in 1953, the property went through several changes in ownership and has served at various times as Kling Studios, the Red Skelton Studios, the shooting location for the Adventures of Superman and Perry Mason television series, and as the headquarters for A&M Records and The Jim Henson Company. In 1969, it was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.
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The Jim Henson Company (also known at various times as Muppets, LLC., Henson Associates, Ltd., and Jim Henson Productions, Inc.) is an American entertainment company, a leading producer of children's and family entertainment (despite some of the company's works containing mature content), and best known as the creators of the renowned Muppets characters. Founded in 1958 by puppeteer Jim Henson and performing partner and wife Jane Henson, the company is independently owned and operated by the children of its founders.
Henson has produced many successful television series, including The Muppet Show (later owned by Disney), Fraggle Rock, Dinosaurs, Bear in the Big Blue House, and Farscape, and creates the Muppet characters for the long-running PBS television series, Sesame Street. The company has also produced many films, including The Muppet Movie, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth. Henson also operates Jim Henson's Creature Shop, a puppet, animatronics, and visual effects workshop, which has created characters and effects for Henson productions, as well as outside producers.
Since 2000, The Jim Henson Company has been headquartered at the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios in Hollywood, California.
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Lisa Gerrard,frontwoman from the band "Dead Can Dance" - The only women until now for win the Golden Globe Award for composing (with Hans Zimmer) and singing the Soundtrack in the movie "Gladiator".
To met Lisa and to shoot pics from this amazing Lady made us really proud.
Pic and postwork: www.darksightberlin.com