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Siamese tomcat 7 month
* Kop: wigvormig en dient in het ideale geval samen met de grote, schuingeplaatste oren een perfecte gelijkzijdige driehoek te vormen. De kin mag niet al te geprononceerd zijn, maar ook zeker niet terugwijken. Lange neus, bij voorkeur met een Romeins profiel, maar in elk geval zonder inkeping vloeiend doorlopend in het schedeldak.
* Ogen: amandelvormig, zuiver donkerblauw en staan iets schuin geplaatst.
* Oren: groot, schuingeplaatst.
* Lichaam: elegante en lenige bouw. Het sierlijke lichaam is lang, slank en gespierd, het mag nergens grofheid vertonen. De achterhand behoort hoger te zijn dan de voorhand. De poten zijn slank en lang, de voetjes ovaal.
* Staart: lang en dun en loopt spits toe als een zweep.
* Vacht: zijdezacht en kort en fijn van structuur. Betrekkelijk weinig ondervacht.
* Kleur: Kittens worden geheel wit geboren. Later krijgen ze hun gekleurde points. Oorspronkelijke kleuren zijn: seal-, blue-, chocolate- en lilacpoint, ze zijn er in tortie en tortietabby. Cinnamon-, fawn-, smoke-, silvertabby- en bi/tricolourpoint.
My first time ever at this particular stretch of coast at Howick Haven and i proceeded to get soaked by rain and covered in mud walking back to the car.That said,i saw enough potential for photography,so 24 hours later i was back and very pleased i was.
i covered just about every square inch of the rocks to the north of Sugar Sands and had the time of my life.
i just love being on the Northumberland coast,there is something about it that makes me return,time and time again.This is an absolute gem of a place,rocks that lead out into the North sea were being exposed by the retreating tide and i found myself walking further away from the shore in pursuit of more shots.
This is a must do place on my sunrise list,it has so much to offer and is backed by the fantastic landscape that is Howick Haven,ideal indeed.
EXIF....F13....1.5 SECONDS....ISO 100....10MM....LEE 0.6 ND GRAD (HARD) + KOOD ND4 FILTERS
The dark haired girl was my first Tammy. I found her and her brother in original clothing for $8 at a flea market. And it all began there.
Tammy by Ideal
It seems to me that many artists today (in which I include myself) are investigating the present via the parts of the past that were sidelined as lightweight by the so called higher culture.
Perhaps a kind of rearview mirrorism, an attempted retro-pop culture reification - the past, paradoxically, is/was more real in part because it formed the ideas of the present.
If I'm at all right it might indicate that, rather than a flight into hipster nostalgia for a past never experienced by most, it's an expression of a sense of inauthenticity within the present popular culture and a search for what has been erroneously discarded.
(Please bear with the clumsiness of a half formed new year idea.)
Vision conceived as "transparency" is the Buddhist ideal: "as one sees through clear water, the sand, the gravel, and the color of the pebbles, simply by reason of its transparency, so one who
seeks the path of liberation must have just such a clear mind."
The image that illustrates the manner in which an ascetic apprehends the four truths of the Ariya is this: "If at the edge of an alpine lake of clear, transparent and pure water there were to stand a man with keen sight looking at the shells and shellfish, the gravel and the sand and the fish, watching how they swim and how they rest; this thought would come to him: 'This alpine lake is clear, transparent, and pure; I see the shells and shellfish, the gravel, the sand and the fish, how they swim and rest'”.
In this same manner an ascetic apprehends "in conformity with truth" the supreme object of the doctrine. The formula "in conformity with truth" or "with reality" is a recurrent theme in the texts, like the attributes, "eye of the world", or "become eye", or "become knowledge", of the Awakened Ones.
This is naturally an achievement only through a gradual process. "As an ocean deepens gradually, declines gradually, shelves gradually without sudden precipices, so in this law and discipline there is a gradual training, a gradual action, a gradual unfolding, and no sudden apprehension of supreme knowledge."
Again: "One cannot, I say, attain supreme knowledge all at once; only by a gradual training, a gradual action, a gradual unfolding, does one attain perfect knowledge. In what manner? A man comes, moved by confidence; having come, he joins (the order of the Ariya); having joined, he listens; listening, he receives the doctrine; having received the doctrine, he remembers it; he examines the sense of the things remembered; from examining the sense, the things are approved of; having approved, desire is born; he ponders; pondering, he eagerly trains himself; and eagerly training himself, he mentally realizes the highest truth itself and, penetrating it by means of wisdom, he sees." These are the milestones of the development.
It is hardly worth saying that the placing of "confidence" at the beginning of the series does not signify a falling back into "belief": in the first place, the texts always consider that confidence is prompted by the inspiring stature and the example of a master; in the second place, as we can see clearly from the development of the series, it is a matter of a provisional admission only; the real adherence comes when, with examination and practice, the faculty of direct apprehension, of intellectual intuition, absolutely independent of its antecedents, has become possible.
Therefore it is said: "He who cannot strenuously train himself, cannot achieve truth; through strenuous training (an ascetic) achieves truth: therefore strenuous training is the most important thing for the achieving of truth."
Naturally, there is here an implicit assumption, which we shall discuss before long in detail, an assumption, that is to say, that the men to whom the doctrine was directed were not entirely in the state of brute beasts: that they recognised, not as an intellectual opinion, but through a natural and innate sense, the existence of a reality superior to that of the senses. For the "common man," one who thinks in his heart: "There is no giving, no offering, no alms, there is no result of good and bad actions, there is no this world, there, is no other world, there is no spiritual rebirth, there are not in the world ascetics or Brāhmans who are perfect and fulfilled and who, having with their own understanding comprehended, and realised this world and the other world, make known their
knowledge" - for such the doctrine was not considered to have been expounded, since they lack the elementary quality of "confidence" that defines the "noble son" and that is the first member of the series we have mentioned.
Such men, according to an apt textual illustration, are as "arrows shot by night”.
As for the preeminence accorded (in a pragmatic and anti-intellectualistic spirit) to action in the Doctrine of Awakening, we quote another Buddhist simile. A man struck by a poisoned arrow, for whom his friends and companions wish to fetch a surgeon, refuses to have the arrow extracted before learning who struck him, what his name might he, who his people are, what his appearance, if his bow was great or small, of what wood it was made, with what it was strung, and so on. This man would not succeed in learning enough to satisfy him before he died. Just so (says the text) would a man behave who followed the Sublime One only on the condition that the latter gave him answers to various speculative problems, telling him if the world was eternal or not, if body and the life-principle are distinct or not, what happens to the Accomplished One after death, and so on. None of this—says the Buddha—has been explained by me. "And why has it not been explained by me? Because this is not salutary, it is not truly ascetic, it does not lead to disgust, it does not lead to detachment, it does not lead to dispassion, it does not lead to calmness, it does not lead to contemplation, it does not lead to awakening, it does not lead to extinction: therefore has this not been explained by me”.
In the opposing theories regarding the world and regarding man, characteristically reminiscent of the Kantian antinomies, either one opposite or the other might he true. One thing is certain, however: the state in which man actually finds himself, and the possibility of his training himself, during his lifetime, to achieve the destruction of this state.
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Julius Evola: The Doctrine of Awakening - Part I., Chapter 4. - Destruction of the Demon of Dialectics (excerpt)
Landscape photos from my recent adventures trough the mountains in the west of Macedonia. Beautiful places. If i made a collection I'd call it Winter wonderland. Please leave some feedback :D
Desculpe a demora, Driuks ;-; Viajar me buga toda, mas achei que agora seria o momento ideal pra postar :v
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Azami: Papai Noel malvado T^T Já se passou o Natal, já se passou o meu aniversário e nada dele me dar o que eu pedi... Eu achava que era um menino tão bonzinho...
Satsuki: Azami... Faz um chá pra mim *de ressaca* To com uma dor de cabeça que, mano, ta doendo pra c@%@&#!
Azami: Você tem bebido muito! Ficou 3 dias seguidos com uns amigos no seu quarto. Isso não faz bem ao seu fígado!
Satsuki: Só estava aproveitando meu presente de Natal, do meu Papai Noel *piscada*
Azami: Ãhn?! E-existe mais de um papai noel?? *surpreso*
Satsuki: hahahahhaha! *vê a carta* me dá *pega rapidamente*
Azami: Ãhn?! N-não le--
Satsuki: "Querido Papai Noel,
Creio que fui muito bonzinho esse ano. Sempre fui educado e atencioso com as pessoas ao meu redor, tirei notas altas na faculdade, aprendi várias receitas diferentes e até criei minha própria receita de biscoitos que vou fazer para você na véspera de Natal. Com isso, o que eu venho lhe pedir de presente é que fale com o cupido pra me ajudar a achar alguém que tenha interesse em mim. Me sinto muito solitário TT^TT.
Ps: Também aceito utensílios de cozinha.
Obrigado ♥"
Acho que você mandou pro papai noel errado. Ta agora vem me fazer o chá!
Azami: *corado* O-okay U////////U *vai com ela*
Funny: Acho melhor nem contar o que ouvi por aí pra ele :3 Quero que ele se surpreenda :3
One of a series of geometric abstractions which celebrate the twin legacies of Roman classical and Georgian neo-classical architecture in the city of Bath. These works mimic the linear formal classicism of the city's architecture and streets and the colours and forms of the stone and decorations (internal and external) of the buildings. These works are influenced by the later works of Chuck Close and also the geometric abstracts of Paul Klee. The entire series can be seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/david_lewis_baker_arts/sets/7215760...
The concept of the ideal city is taken from the Italian Renaissance, as applied by John Wood in Bath to recreate the greatness of Roman Bath and its presumed Christian ideals. This dream of living in Roman splendour amist beautiful landscapes was also expressed in the contmporary Latin expression "Et in Arcadia Eco" - I too in Arcadia Lived! Wood wrote of creating a city 'that sets paradise itself before one's Eyes...the very Elysium Fields of the Ancients [which if viewed] from the summit of Beeching Cliff [would] ...appear much the same as Virgil declares Catthage to have appeared to Aeneas'. (John Wood, 'An Essay Towards a Description of Bath', second edition, 1765, p. 238 and 441 - quoted in 'Obsession: John Wood and the Creation of Georgian Bath', by the Buildings of Bath Museum, 2004, pp15-16).
[...] I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out [...]
-- Quote by Anne Frank (German Jewish girl Author of a diary of her family's two years in hiding during World War II, 1929-1945)
Nikon D70, Tokina 28-70 f/2.8 - 52mm - f/2.8 - 1/160s
Rome, Italy (December, 2010)
To be honest, I always thought Dodi walked the thin line between cute and creepy. Originally part of the 60's era Tammy/ Pepper line, Ideal brought "young" Dodi back in 1977 as part of its [then new] Tuesday Taylor line.
Mitzi -- Ideal's answer to Barbie. Here she is wearing my favorite Barbie outfit, escorted by clone Ken. He's marked EG / 1961.
Texture: "Rust Never Sleeps" by SkeletalMess
Quite old really this, but I guess I now know an awful lot more about Photoshop to enable me to get something decent out of it. A bit of a texture, some Gaussian Blur and you get something quite evocative. Looe is a really nice place for a break, should you ever wish to go and take a look at Cornwall. There were views there I'd happily spend the rest of my life looking at. Some way right was a house on the market at around £1m and it needed gutting from top to bottom to make it livable - what some people will pay for a harbour view.