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As a lot of you know, the great Leonard Nimoy passed away. :( He was and is a legend that was the very start for so many of us down the path of geekdom. :3 Any vulcan after him had such big shoes to fill.
As a tribute to Spock.. and to the man who played & created this amazing character, Leonard Nimoy, I created a little gift to you all.
Please join the group, enjoy & join me in watching a little Spock tonight. :)
<3 geek.
" Replaying in my mind. .. I should get more tutoring.. "
Presenting,
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This is one set that I feel any anime loving gamer should have!
Features:
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Chair has 7 single animations for male and female as well as 7 couple animations.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Bed has 11 single animations and 24 couples animations.This bed has 9 color change options for the blanket and 2 for the pillow.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Beds Together has 18 single animations and 12 couples animations. This bed has 8 color change options. The 4 pillows on top each have 5 graphics to choose from.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Tv Shelf Has 5 screen options. 4 anime pictures and 1 off option.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Poster Hanger can be resized.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Trolley has 8 color change options.
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in a very joe chan moment, i found myself with a rare opportunity to get onto the rooftop of my hotel. anybody who knows joe knows *exactly* what i am talking about. ;o)
at the end of that road, you can just see the convention center, where the 2011 comic-con event is being held. that will be my home for the next three days!
Never knew studying anatomy could be so fulfilling. .. ? Let me show you the chapter where I. .
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Presenting,
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This is one set that I feel any anime loving gamer should have!
This special set will be EXCLUSIVE at the Ebento The Event. The event opens April 11th at 2PM SLT.
Features:
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Chair has 7 single animations for male and female as well as 7 couple animations.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Bed has 11 single animations and 24 couples animations.This bed has 9 color change options for the blanket and 2 for the pillow.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Beds Together has 18 single animations and 12 couples animations. This bed has 8 color change options. The 4 pillows on top each have 5 graphics to choose from.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Tv Shelf Has 5 screen options. 4 anime pictures and 1 off option.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Poster Hanger can be resized.
The [Vile] - Anime Gaming Trolley has 8 color change options.
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So I got to go to my first Comic/Horror Con. It was a small one in Nashville, but I was like a kid in a candy store. I walk through the door and and man starts shouting at me "you got here just in time, Michael Myers is here for just 20 more minutes around the curtain to your right!" I ask, "which one?" Come to find out it was the one from H20, but the guys enthusiasm kicked my geekdom into overdrive. I take a couple more steps to my right and I find myself facing a Dawn of the Dead booth with two actors from the film. I will discuss them more on my next image, but they had the pictured treasure above on their table.
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Chilly, foggy, damp.
Subtle hues hidden in raw files.
Had been holding onto images such as this as I had no method of bringing out what was hidden.
But studying Ps LAB color editing via youtube tutorials, and then extensive reading in Dan Margulis' Photoshop LAB Color, the Canyon Conundrum, has enabled revealing those hues.
The Canyon Conundrum book is not for the faint of heart.
One needs to have a geek side. But he writes well, both knowledgeably and entertainingly, and the first half of the book has chapters divided in two. The first half of each chapter isn't tough. The second half of each chapter goes into geekdom.
But it is so worth it.
Best viewed large.
GUESS WHAT'S FREAKIN BACK IN STORES? And on a slightly mildly related note, GUESS WHO'S FREAKIN EXCITED ABOUT IT?
Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
April 18th, 2018
All photos © Joshua Mellin per the guidelines listed under "Owner settings" to the right.
136/365: This photo was inspired by this photo from Michele (aka oneworldmj)...I wanted to somehow show a bit of support for a weird situation her photo caused her (which imho is just bizarre and so not offensive).
Anyway, I was tagged last week by two of my dear flickr friends Anisha & Jen so apparently I need to post a selfie and list 10 things about myself...Also for tagging, I decided to go with ladies and tried to chose people who have never been tagged for this particular thing already. If you would prefer to remove yourself, I totally understand :)
1) I am an utter computer nerd. My day job consists of supporting both Sharepoint and SQL servers and developing reporting applications. In my spare time (prior to discovering photography, lol) I was building networks in my basement to have Diablo battles and tearing apart my computers.
2) To add to the computer geekdom, I am also a gamer...my all time fav is Zelda - Ocarina of Time for N64...nothing has beaten that for me yet (yes, laugh it up)!
3) I suffer from road rage. Nothing more to say except I probably shouldn't be on the road.
4) I had no interest or understanding of photography until I had my first son three years ago. My husband bought me a D60 for Christmas in 2009 and it took me 6 months to even attempt to get out of automatic mode, lol. Anyway, once I started to understand the link between aperture/shutterspeed/iso, I couldn't get my hands on enough stuff to read about photography...still have a loooong way to go and loving every minute of it!
5) I'm addicted to chocolate bars (any will do) and coca cola classic.
6) I've probably played every sport invented at one time or another. I stuck with Fastball and played in the Canadian Nationals a few times and was invited to try out for the Canadian Women's Olympic team at one point...obviously didn't make it or I'd be saying somethign else here, lol.
7) I write 'To Do' lists for myself probably twice a day...and I will rewrite them if I decide I'm going to change the order of when I plan to do them, ha ha.
8) I live in Canada but detest the snow (except for the first snowfall and then I've had enough)
9) I'm a huge fantasy and/or sci-fi fan. My favourite book series is "A Song of Fire and Ice" by George RR Martin. I've read this series 3 times already and am contemplating reading it again before the next book is released this July.
10) My biggest fear is public speaking (I'd even choose sky diving over this)
there were a few people I was unable to tag, so you are off scott free! Cheers and have a great day :)
It’s Tuesday morning, and half an hour or so before sunrise. The colourful sky suggests a ‘shepherd’s warning’, which basically means it’s going to piss down shortly. A short ballast train arrives, and because the quarry siding a mile of so away faces the colliery, the only reason for the train being here is so that the engine can run around its wagons before heading back to the mainline.
The local spotters will later be distraught to hear that this minor celebrity of a loco, 20064 ‘River Sheaf’ has been allocated to this working which is usually a class 47 turn. But of course the internet isn’t yet a thing, so keen spotters have to know someone that works on the railway for the latest ‘gen’.
On the left, Harry the Hammer wanders out to peruse the scene, to him it’s just the arrival ‘that train’, which twice a week appears half an hour or so before the end of his night shift. So for that reason, he’s pleased to see its arrival.
Light bulb enthusiasts (they do exist), will notice the mercury vapour yard lamps giving off their distinctive slightly eerie soft green glow, but they’ll be sad to hear that they’re due to be replaced with those orange sodium bulbs which give faces a zombie like complexion. But I’m sure in time, they too, will have a following in one of the many circles of geekdom, something us Brits are world leading experts at.
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Writer/Director George Lucas used the trappings of the "space opera" form originating in the 1920s to tell a heroic, coming-of-age story with human dimension and mythological scale. His Star Wars movies are among the most influential ever made, both technically (in special effects pioneering) and commercially (grossing well over a billion dollars combined). Characters and colloquialisms featured in his epic saga are now deeply ingrained in the lexicon of popular culture. He created a universe that rivaled and permeated our own.
I was 11 years old in May of 1977, at the time of the first Star Wars film release. Being an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy novels growing up, the affect the movie had on my young psyche was incalculable and indescribable in its enormity. I made scrapbooks from newspaper and magazine articles, fashioned an entire Darth Vader costume out of cardboard and fabric, and spent the rest of my teenage years trying to become more in tune with "the force" of life around me. It was my official initiation into Geekdom.
Once the ravenous onslaught of fanatics get their collective space rocks off, I'll make a point to sit myself down at the local theater with a bucket of popcorn covered in imitation butter-flavored grease and see the final installment in the series. I'm certain I'll feel as awe-struck as I did 28 years ago. Amazing how a movie, book, or piece of music can spark the imagination like a star in the night.
Thanks, Mr. Lucas. You're as golden as C-3PO in my book.
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UPDATE: Read one of the coolest Star Wars related blogs (as told by Darth himself) here: darthside.blogspot.com/
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If you dig cameras and drp, then take a look at this post, and maybe help a brotha out.
Peace.
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As a way of returning the extraordinary generosity and support you
have all shown me in this great community, whenever I upload a new
pic or series of shots this year, I'll provide a link to another flickr
photog whose work, personality, or spirit I feel you should discover.
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Open your eyes to Blurred Vision today.
If I said that this photo was taken the same time as the previous one...none would doubt that. In actuality this shot was made in the spring of 2009. It just shows that wildlife / nature photographs are quite timeless.
The computer is back...and working at least for now. We've made a number of changes internally and externally. Replaced the power supply with a big honking 700 watt unit. Replaced the (possibly faulty) RAM with 16 gig of the fastest RAM the processor will support. Added an external UPS / Battery Back-up / AVR (auto voltage regulator) unit. Updated the external hard drive USB 3.0 drivers, and the video card driver. One by one we'll address things until the puter is once more completely stable.
Ain't geekdom grand. (o;
For the Geology Geeks — Oh, we love ya, and we know there's more of you out there than would like to admit. But, if you're still not sure if you want to open up about your geologic geekdom, then just read this REALLY LONG caption and bathe in the geologic awesomeness that is the Strike Valley Overlook in Capitol Reef National Park.
Perhaps the most amazing view in Capitol Reef National Park is this scene looking south from the Strike Valley Overlook along a great, warping arc of strata exposed in the Waterpocket Fold. The scene encompasses about a 2 kilometer thick section of sedimentary rocks representing about 130 million years of earth history in the region. The oldest sedimentary rocks on the right (the Navajo Sandstone) represent a great blanket of desert dunes that extended across the region in Early Jurassic time. Beneath the valley of Halls Creek is a sequence of Jurassic-age sedimentary units that includes the Carmel (red, above the Navajo), Entrada, Curtis and Summerville Formations. The Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic) and Dakota Sandstone (Late Cretaceous) are exposed along the ridge in the center of the valley. These formations reflect the changes in Jurassic time when the great dune fields gave way to coastal tidal flats, floodplains, swamps, and shallow, marginal marine environments associated with inland seas. The Mancos Shale (gray layer on slope on left) represents the formation of a great inland Western Interior Seaway that existed in the region through much of Late Cretaceous time. The sandstone rimrock of Tarantula Mesa on the left is Mesaverde Formation. The Mesaverde Formation consists of materials deposited in nearshore and coastal environmental settings as the Western Interior Seaway gradually withdrew from the region near the end of the Late Cretaceous period. The great upwarp of the Waterpocket Monocline is a prominent Laramide structural fold that formed in Early Tertiary time.
Thanks to Ida & Leo (ida_leo on Flickr) for sharing this photo with the USGS Science in Action Flickr Group and allowing USGS to share it! Share your earth science photo for a chance to be featured in upcoming USGS products and social media: www.flickr.com/groups/usgsscience.
district 9 mothership, designer greg broadmore 2008, meets the ginásio do clube atlético paulistano by paulo mendes da rocha, 1958...
district 9 made science fiction make sense for a 112 minutes which is no mean feat. I couldn't help thinking I had seen that spaceship before, though, except last time around it was a midcentury tennis club for the rich in sau paulo, brazil: a perfect flying saucer from mendes da rocha, one of my modernist heroes.
and so, rem koolhaas and OMA's awful death stars are not the first projects by serious architects to have borrowed from sci-fi, but as you will notice, mendes da rocha didn't need to be menacing to be interesting. the tennis club was his real break-through, by the way, much like the movie is expected to be for actors and director alike.
and since we are already deep within the confines of geekdom: rino levi led the jury for the tennis club competition in 1958. but you all know mendes da rocha's miesian ground floor inserted into levi's neo-brutalist FIESP on the avenida paulista some twenty years after the original building's completion. there, mendes da rocha was all sensitive abstraction next to levi's own version of the modernist building as spaceship :)
This was a chocolate cake with chocolate butter cream icing. It was for a 6 year old boy. My husband kindly pointed out that Yoda was holding the light sabre incorrectly and would have had has hands cut off and that I missed out the gun turrets on the ship. In all other ways he is very supportive but he can be a stickler when it comes to geekdom.
Some time ago my good friend ladigue_99 told me about little wild gardens that grow in natural bowls scalloped out of the top of Dance Hall Rock. The first time I saw them it occurred to me that the environment was one of isolation, with each little community completely separated from the outside world; but also it was one of protection: from predators, the wind, bad weather, and a provider of life-giving water. You don’t see these trees growing in the area surrounding the rock. They could not survive without the protection and nourishment that the bowl provides.
It made me wonder whether life would be worth living in a bowl, whether the benefit of closeness of community would outweigh the isolation. (Or, if you’re a habitual loner, vice-versa.) And then after my last trip in April I realized that we all live in a bowl, one carved not by weather and erosion but by the very geometry of space-time, curved by the mass of the earth into gravity. And the earth exists in another bowl created by the sun. And the solar system rotates in a gravitational bowl created by our galaxy. These thoughts led to the making of this video. It takes a certain amount of geekiness, I guess, to get it. But Geekdom is just another bowl ...
Stefano Mocini’s “Once we were angels” is the perfect soundtrack. If you want to hear more of his work, look here:
www.jamendo.com/en/artist/365142/stefano-mocini
Watch the video in full-screen HD if possible, and turn up the sound.
The photostream has been lookin a little too pretty for a little too long. I still have a ton of strobist pics to catch up on, I've been a bit distracted lately. Please check out my strobist set for more ventures into lighting geekdom.
Bare flashes left and right, also a flash of very low power directly above. Cybersyncs.
Never been all that au fait with Birmingham, apart from the environs of New Street Station and the walk up to the City Hall. I was there often, but usually on the way to or from somewhere beyond. Sometimes, on outward journeys, if the shops were open and I were in need of film, I would use the time otherwise wasted in a change of trains to nip out to Boots. At others I would break my journey on the way back to Bristol and continue on the following train, usually about an hour later. This gave enough time to pop up to Hudson's bookshop, which had an excellent stock of Bradford Barton publications. I was collecting them like mad at the time. Apart from that I could never seem to get my bearings in post-redevelopment Birmingham. It was all ring roads, roundabouts and pedestrian subways. Everywhere seemed to look like everywhere else. I am not "knocking" Birmingham you understand ...in fact I'm fond of the place... these are the impressions of an outsider. To a native-born Brummie I'm sure these streets are as differentiated as chalk from cheese.
So it was with a view to making good my ignorance that, on Tuesday 21st June 1983, I determined upon a day trip to the fabled metropolis of the Midlands. At the time I was in thrall to the Gothic Revival and Victoriana generally. Spotting yonder tower'd edifice I thought I'd stroll down for a good long stare and a photo. I had a girlfriend with me. Women neither understand male nerd interests, nor appreciate geekdom in its wider aspects. After traipsing resentfully alongside me for several hundred yards, she said, with a sulky droop of the chin that I'd already identified as one of her characteristic expressions, "Can't you just take a photo from here?" So this was as close as I got, and I've never known what the building was. It was off to the shoe shops after that.
Pictober day eight. Prompt - eight
Being of no artistic merit whatsoever.
This was the first attempt, but since it was from below it ended up looking more like 23 (10111b) than 8 (01000b).
For those who didn't catch it in yesterdays photo, my dad taught all of us kids how to count to 31 (2**5 - 1) on one hand in binary. If you are really dedicated and use both hands, you can get to 1023 (2**10 - 1).
I'm 71 and I come by my geekdom honestly, from both sides.
#blackandwhite,
#pictober2021, #pictober, #hand, #binary,
copyright Ian MacDonald 2020. Permission required for any use.
Eventually science will bring Cov Sars 2 to heel.
Prior to germ theory, immunology, molecular and cellular biology, atomic physics and many other scientific disciplines of the 20th century, combined with power of logic and thought and experiment, humanity has cowed many of the viruses, parasites, and bacteria that have plagued humans since the beginning of time. Where we havent eliminated or reduced their power against us, we can at least understand how they work, where they live, how to avoid them and treat the symptons of their disease.....The greatest gift to humanity has been the power of scientific thought. No power on earth has delivered so much to the human condition than our abilities to identify, understand and deal with the pathogens all around us. Yet as Carl Sagan warned and most other scientists echo, Science and scientists are relegated to the world of nerdom, geekdom, the mad scientist, liberal academic, egg head, socially awkward wierdo, Mr. Spock or Cmdr Data, etc...at our own peril. Healing crystals, prayer, quackery, unshakable belief, "gut feeling"...while some of these are surely important for a person's meaningfulness, these have not returned any real improvement in the human condition over thousands, and presumanly hundreds of thousands of years of hominid history. Arguably science has delivered its share of problems such as nuclear weapons, but in balance humanity has benefitted exponentially because of it. The same nuclear physics that led to the bomb also produced the electron micrscope that confirmed the existence of viruses around 1926.
As a society there is a trend of distrusting science and scientists. This is stoked daily by ignorants without an iota of scientific training or even the smallest speck of understanding...despite most them benefitting highly from science's bounty. Those with money usually benefit the most from science, while also espousing a medieval society. In the current outbreak of Covid19 it is notable that our wealthiest, and often our most conservative politicians are at the front of the queue getting tested, recieving the best medical care, paid for generously at taxpayer expense. The rest of us are told to wash hands, wear scarves and die off for the good of the economy. This un-Christianly sentiment I would think would make the Christ, I read about in the Bible weep. The Christ I was taught about, was by the thoughtful, beautiful, smart and sadly departed soul, Rev Paul Pearson. A materials engineer, trained in mathematical physics, who loved Theology and was drawn to be like Christ, and became a much lower paid minister, to spread the word and minister to all in need, no matter what their status in life. The "devout" and religous christians of my childhood church relieved him of his ministry there, because he was wasting the church's money ministering to anyone who wanted it rather than just our church's members at the local hospital. I myself do not feel there is a god or afterlife, I do hope so and I'm sure Mr. Pearson is there. However history on earth, for many things, but especially with respect to infectious disease and suffering, leads me to think god isn't there or is extremely cruel and sadistic to let people suffer with infectious disease. Alas Mr. Pearson knew science and its power, and knew that his role was to comfort the sick, perhaps with HIV, and remind them that it wasnt some punishment, but was a virus. And he believed Science would deliver, just like the Space Shuttle he worked on, delivered the Hubble Telescope to let us see the cosmos. In the late 2020 HIV is no longer a death sentence because of HIV1 protease inhibitors. But it didn't come easily, only under pressure from many gay activists who were told initially it was their wages of sin.
Anyway the amount of suffering pathogens have heaped on humanity is incalculable. As I pick my brain for examples I come up with a, certainly incomplete, list that is a disgusting murderer's row...TB, typhoid, yellow fever, malaria, leprosy, black plague, bubonic plague, cholera, ebola, small pox, measles, mumps, meningitis, hepatitis, helicobacter, scabies, fleas, lice, yeast infections, fungal infections, flu, rubella, diptheria, polio, staph, tetanus, roundworms, flat worms, hookworms, tapeworms, guineaworms, ecoli, salmonella, botulism, sleeping sickness, listeria, rotovirus, norovirus, pseudomonas, zika, dengue fever, conjunctivitis, syphilis, gonorrhea, hpv, HIV, leishmania, rabies, pneumonia, rotavirus, hantavirus, anthrax, SARS, MERS, pertussis, brucellosis, cryptosporidium, encephalitis, haemophilis influenza, herpes, histoplasmosis, lyme disease, pneumonic plague, srep rocky mountain spotted fever, shigella, trichomoniasis, trichinosis....and more but I cant think of them. And all the praying, and wishing them away, and quackery, has done nothing. Only the power of science has turned the tide, sometimes by highlighting simple truths like sanitizing our drinking water. Anyway Science will succeed again with Covid19, not at this point before it has claimed too many lives. Im afraid this horse has left the barn, due to the unconscionable incompetence of our federal govrrnment. As the death toll grinds on and scientists struggle to put a boot on this virus' neck hopefully we will fund our CDC and agencies and scientists...its unrealistic...but like we do basketball players or movie stars. After all what have they really done for humanity? And scientists will go back to underfunded labs, and bashing from ignorants who'd turn time back to the days when religous order killed witches and commited self flagellation to appease god, but never even slowed a plague.
For Self Portrait Challenge - 'Childhood'
I was only three years old when the original Star Wars was released in 1977, but it played a role in my childhood, so I had to acknowledge it this month for the 'childhood' theme.
See various notes for some additional information.
Engineers from MIT's RadLab and their wives celebrate Halloween in perhaps 1942. This may be at my grandparents' rented duplex in Belmont, MA.
A slide titled by my grandparents "Halloween Boston" in a box labeled "Radiation Lab". The men I assume worked with my grandfather finalizing designs for radar. He later traveled to Europe to oversee installation during World War 2.
These were just a few people from "the greatest cooperative research establishment in the history of the world". The book Five Years at the Radiation Laboratory said, "The fact is, the people of the Laboratory didn't act at all like people who were changing the whole art of war. For five years they bubbled happily away, creating their awsome contraptions, and feeling no funnier than they always did."
Taken by my grandfather David C. Cook. Here are more slides of Boston. And here are photos by my grandfather from other cities around the world.
It's taken me a few days to get around to this (I've been very busy of late) but here is my Tribute to Leonard Nimoy, created using various pictures of Spock that I've done over the years.
I have never before known a world without Leonard Nimoy.
Before I could read or write, I knew who Mr.Spock was (and cringed whenever someone called him "Doctor Spock" - a common mistake). I recall owning a jersey shirt with a wonderful painting of Spock, tricorder slung over his shoulder on some alien world when I was a toddler. I loved this shirt so much that when it no longer fit, I put it on a large teddy bear I had back then rather than part with it. I remember watching Star Trek with my father before there even was a Star Wars to geek out over.
As the narrator of the original "in Search of" series, Leonard Nimoy showed me just how strange and interesting our own world could be, touching off a life long interest in the paranormal.
As I got older, I lost interest in the original Star Trek series for awhile, dazzled by Star Wars and it's ilk, it seemed cheesy and dated in comparison, but I did enjoy (most of) the movies featuring the original cast. Later, I would rediscover TOS (the original series for those of you who are uninitiated into the geekdom of Trek), at first enjoying it for it's kitchy, somewhat campy at times "cheese factor", then later appreciating it for it's philosophy, originality, and the trails it blazed both in the worlds of fiction and the real world. Leonard Nimoy and his amazing portrayal of the iconic Mr.Spock was an integral part of the Star Trek success story, right from the very beginning in the pilot episode "The Cage" up to the latest films directed by J.J. Abrams.
It is impossible to imagine Star Trek becoming the worldwide phenomenal success it has been without Spock and Nimoy.
As a biracial child (Caucasian and Hispanic) I could relate to the biracial Spock and his struggle to find a balance between his Vulcan and Human natures and the pressure to choose one heritage over the other.
As a passionate person who in the past has struggled to contain my anger and lust, I could appreciate the philosophy of pure logic that Spock lived by as a way to avoid doing things I would regret later and making a complete fool of myself.
As a fan, I could appreciate that Leonard Nimoy in his personal life always seemed to be so kind and insightful. We shared many similar interests : writing, acting, photography, etc. I'd like to think that if I'd have had the chance to meet him, and could actually get over my "OMIGOD! You're Leonard Nimoy!" moment long enough spend some quality time with him, that we would've gotten along great and I would've learned many things from him.
As it was, I learned a great deal from him just by watching his work.
The world was a better place for having him in it, and is a slightly darker place without him. Now he is off to explore that final frontier that waits us all, in some undiscovered country, blazing a brilliant trail for us in death as he did in life....
1. Spock- now with Tricorder action!, 2. The Coolness of Logic Masks the Fires of Passion, 3. I am/not Spock, 4. Science Officer, 5. I Want to Know What You're Thinking, 6. King of the Plastic Vulcans!, 7. We are all made of stars, 8. Science, 9. "Go boldly over yonder!", 10. A Question of Honor, Chapter 1, part 13, 11. Time Wars Book 2: Stranger Than Fiction, Chapter 1: A Wrinkle In Spacetime Part 34, 12. Time Wars Book 2 : Stranger Than Fiction, Chapter 2 : A State of Flux Part 31, 13. Live Long and Prosper1
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Bicycle geekdom not my thing, but as I spent Saturday morning cleaning a whole winter's worth of c**p off I though the least it deserved was a photograph on my weekend ride !
A Scott P55 if you're interested. I know. You're not.
Hollow Ponds, East London, UK
I'm doing a photoshoot later today and that will be today's picture. This is one making up for yesterday....aaaaand black and white was replaced! I just wanted some color, it's not meant to be a sad photo. It's also fun to play on photoshop, what can I say.
fyi: this ARE my prescription glasses. I don't go around with fake frames, thank you very much...
I was helping my sister move today and as we were packing up her art supplies, we came across this rebreather. Thoughts of post-apocalyptic movies and the Fallout series of games immediately came to mind.
Strobist:
B800 into white umbrella, above camera right @ 1/32 power
New York Comic Con 2010 and New York Anime Festival 2010.
October 8-10, 2010.
I'll never look at Darth Vader the same way again.
I can't help but to be reminded of the hilarious meeting of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog & Star Wars Nerds ;)
For almost every year since 1997, the Star Wars faithful have traveled to Disney's Hollywood/MGM Studios to celebrate their love for that glorious franchise. Only the craziest of craziest (and me) get there before the break of day, for the chance to acquire exclusive merchandise, or those highly sought after autographs.
You are looking at the early arrivals for the merchandise line. This was taken at 5:24 AM, from my 4:00 AM arriving spot in the Temuera Morrison autograph line. Hey... I gotta get it all out before the baby comes. ;) .... excuses, excuses
I know I could've composed this a tiny bit better by standing up; but I didn't feel like moving. Plus, that souvenir cart would still be very much in this shot.
Star Wars Weekends 2010
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Walt Disney World, FL
Check out my Disney's Human Element Photo Blog
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My grandfather pushes an accordion while a friend plays the keys. At a Halloween party for engineers from MIT's Rad Lab and their wives in perhaps 1942. This may be at my grandparents' rented duplex in Belmont, MA.
Read more about the party in another photo's caption.
Taken by my grandfather David C. Cook. Here are more slides of Boston. And here are photos by my grandfather from other cities around the world.
blue duotone/faux cyanotype
Gibson Les Paul Custom "Black Beauty", glossy black body, gold hardware, dual-humbucker model.
Oh, how I wanted to be the next Robert Fripp...
[UPDATE 20080117: Holy crap, I just found out I made Explore with this photo. Wow. Uh, thanks to everyone and the Magic Interestingness Donkey? :-D ]