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Stocks are devices used internationally, in medieval, Renaissance and colonial American times as a form of physical punishment involving public humiliation. The stocks partially immobilized its victims and they were often exposed in a public place such as the site of a market to the scorn of those who passed by.
The stocks are similar to the pillory and the pranger, as each consists of large, hinged, wooden boards; the difference, however, is that when a person is placed in the stocks, their feet are locked in place, and sometimes as well their hands or head, or these may be chained.
With stocks, boards are placed around the ankles and the wrists in some cases, whereas in the pillory they are placed around the arms and neck and fixed to a pole, and the victim stands. However, the terms can be confused, and many people refer to the pillory as the stocks.
Since stocks served an outdoor public form of punishment its victims were subjected to the daily and nightly weather. As a consequence it was not uncommon for people kept in stocks over several days to die from exposure.[citation needed]
The practice of using stocks continues to be cited as an example of torture, cruel and unusual punishment. Insulting, kicking, tickling, spitting and in some cases urinating and defecating on its victims could be applied at the free will of any of those present. The hapless feet were also taken advantage of by such savage cruelties as inserting burning materials between the toes or by such nuisances as carefully rubbing feces all over the feet and hair.
One of the earliest reference to the stocks in literature appears in the Bible. Paul and Silas, disciples of Jesus, were arrested. Their treatment by their jailer was detailed in the Book of Acts: "Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks." The Old Testament's book of Job also describes the stocks, referring to God: "He puts my feet in the stocks, he watches all my paths."
The stocks were also popular among civil authorities from medieval to early modern times, and have also been used as punishment for military deserters or for dereliction of military duty. In the stocks, an offender's hands and head, or sometimes their ankles, would be placed and locked through two or three holes in the center of a board. Offenders were forced to carry out their punishments in the rain, during the heat of summer, or in freezing weather, and generally would receive only bread and water, plus anything brought by their friends.
The stocks were popular during the Colonial days in America. Public punishment in the stocks was a common occurrence from around 1500 until at least 1748. The stocks were especially popular among the early American Puritans, who frequently employed the stocks for punishing the "lower class."
In the American colonies, the stocks were also used, not only for punishment, but as a means of restraining individuals awaiting trial.
Photo taken at Bewdley Museum, Bewdley Worcstershire.
This shape, a two-dimensional structure distorted by the gravitational pull of light, is the perfect form to hold my thoughts on form. Two points need to be clarified: it obviously only holds for this particular form (shape?), and, most importantly, as a two-dimensional structure the shape (form?) could only come into being by being distorted by light because we do talk about ‘photo-graphy’ after all, and, equally importantly, as a two-dimensional structure no other forces are visible that could have worked on it to create this shape. To be sure, this is not a representation of one of Einstein's theories of relativity, nor an infinite number of unfolding polyhedra. This form, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi's soon disappearing work ‘Mesh sculpture’ of 1961, can currently still be seen at the Tate Modern. It merges the two distinctions, form and shape. Imagine that you pull the corners of the wire mesh in the four directions of the compass simultaneously and then Ctrl-Z the process once accomplished. Form and shape thus become inseparable, intertemporally united. If you think that this interpretation hangs by the tiniest of threads, that is precisely what this form (shape?) actually does (check the photo).
from the garden and going back there again!
these kale leaves were a little too old, but they still make elegant organic forms, in rich tones, to me, anyway
Cambio de nuevo radicalmente de temática y registro y subo esta imagen tomada con el móvil. Hoy en día da gusto usar estas pequeñas maravillas por las que a veces, incluso, muy esporádicamente, hablamos por teléfono.
Tengo que reconocer que me cuesta llevar la cámara cuando estoy "bicheando" por la montaña concentrado en busca de huellas e indicios de fauna de pelo, y no precisamente de las amigables cabras monteses; no me riñáis, ¿vale?. Es una cuestión práctica, simplemente de concentración, o estoy a una cosa o estoy a otra, mis neuronas no dan para más; jejeje, no puedo hacer dos cosas a la vez, ya sabéis chicas. Con las manos en los bolsillos se puede estar mucho más pendiente del suelo, de realizar transectos mucho más largos, de abandonar los senderos y meterse campo a través cual jabalí en el monte. En una de esas jornadas mi mujer y yo nos abstrajimos durante mucho rato, saltando de charco congelado en charco congelado, buscando detalles increíbles como este. No es más que hielo en el suelo, repleto de burbujas de aire congeladas, atrapadas, una pradera tapizada de agua solidificada con mil y una formas y figuras, a cual más llamativa, extraña o atractiva. Líneas rectas, curvas, tonos, superficies esmeriladas, opacas, transparentes,...
Espero que os guste esta serie tanto como a mí. Un saludo a todos.
La pointe de Pen-Hir (en breton Beg Penn Hir) est une pointe de terre qui se trouve dans la presqu'île de Crozon, en Bretagne. Elle est située au sud-ouest sur le territoire de la commune de Camaret-sur-Mer. Les falaises à pic, hautes, avec une différence de niveau d'environ 70 mètres avec la mer d'Iroise, formées de grès armoricain.
An unidentified Arriva Cross Country Class 220 Voyager unit forms 1M18, the 05:09 Southampton - Manchester Piccadilly as it approaches Culham
The remains of the generating hall of Didcot A power station can be seen in the background.
While being prepared for demolition, the half of the building to the left of the chimney collapsed in February 2016, sadly killing 4 people
It must be milking time. This herd of dairy cows have formed a queue and are waiting for the farmer to fetch them for their turn in the milking parlour.
Church of St Peter is listed (grade II).
Questo succedersi, mi sembra ormai chiaro, non lo afferriamo con la ripetizione di gambe, di braccia, di figure, come molti hanno stupidamente supposto, ma vi giungiamo attraverso la ricerca intuitiva della forma unica che dia la continuità nello spazio.
(Umberto Boccioni)
during my second shoot with Alexis, I happened to lie on the ground to get a different angle, and realized the puddle in front of her was throwing a reflection! Managed to snap this frame when the wind stopped blowing, giving a perfect mirror effect. I'm very thankful it rained the day before :D
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Esta questão me acompanha faz tempo.
Aqui está um exemplo. Nem só como calçado um tênis ou qualquer outro artefato precisa ou deva ser usado apenas para atender suas funções.
Nas mãos de um vitrinista pode tornar-se matéria prima para a confecção de uma obra de arte!
BSO una canción de uno de mis grupos preferidos:
Recuerda tus tropiezos,
tropieza en tu recuerdo,
busca en el camino,
algo que guardar,
los malos tragos tambien forman parte de este circo
Y en la noria de la vida
una vez abajo y otra arriba
y apenas te levantas tropiezas
y apenas tropiezas te levantas
y mejor que sea asi que acostumbrarse
es empezar ... a morir...
"Nunca he sentido pasión por la fotografía "en si misma", sino por la posibilidad de captar - olvidándome de mí mismo - en una fracción de segundo, la emoción que el tema desprende y la belleza de la forma. En otras palabras, una geometría desvelada por lo que se ofrece.
La fotografía es, para mí, el impulso espontáneo de una atención visual perpetua, que atrapa el instante y su eternidad"
(Henri Cartier-Bresson)
Le triage de Delloye est construit en 1929. En 1950, pour 1100 tonnes de charbon extraites journellement, on obtient 620 tonnes de charbon brut trié. On crible alors deux qualités de charbon et quatre calibres.