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9/25/11 WHAT KEEPS MIRACLES FROM HAPPENING? U DO ! by VANDER KOK

9/25/11 cblog WHAT KEEPS MIRACLES FROM HAPPENING ? U DO ! cc, sheila, penner m:"God is immutable ...amazing miracles..here today..when we need a miracle..its ok to say 'Lord, we need a miracle' ..today excited re message..our ministry is banking on a miracle..we r banking that god will provide $50 mil in next few weeks..world will say 'wow, god is still in the miracle business'..we r compltely covered in prayer 24/7..if u have $500 send it today ..we need it ...lord your word says u r omniscient, omnipotent, all powerful ..all knowing..we praise your holy name ..give back 1/10 ..give in gratitude..take our tithes offerings..give a little more..not for grace & mercy..just in gratitude..[offering] ..[announcement re membership]..2 members kent & christina..longtime member..prays 1 hour for us ..member of band of brothers ...[vid of houses for mexico]. .why did u say yes to this ? [Partially inaudible response...wife saw a glimpse of how happy they were to have a house..s: do this again? A: absolutely ] ... ...the mom found out Friday she was getting a house ..s:thank u 4 saying yes , can we hv a prayer together ? MESSAGE by PENNER: one word ..[vid of rope swing] ..I kid u not ..that camp, hands of mercy...very quiet,peaceful, milky way..bonfire, campfire, ...harold shaw like a vegas announcer..went around the circle..the message being "u r important"..that message will never change..let's get on w/ the message..."rise! " Jesus is saying rise ..wha hinders us from trusting jesus fully..#1 jesus I trust u no matter what happens..#2 jesus where r u. #3 I'm not sure I like this miracle 3 attitudes..message..mary..same mary that pours fragrant oil ..she believes if jesus comes her brother will be made well ..lord I prayed..where r u..what's taking u so long..didn't I pray right ? My bank acct almost empty..lord when will u show up ? When jesus is told lazarus is sick...jesus loved lazarus so much ...he.stayed 2 more days ..in the midst of all this..sickness us not unto death ...Jesus is saying trust him no matter what ? My will, do u trust me..important ;miracles happen when we have faith to wait on the lord" is 40.28 "hv u not know..heard..his understanding is unsearchble." U shall faint & be weary..but those that wait on the lord ...shall renew their strentgh..run not be weary ..wait on the lord ..a few days later..let's go see lazarus..att#3 ...I'm not sure I like this miracle..disciples..were concerned b/c jews had just tried to kill jesus ..jesus..says trust..walk in day "trust me"..thomas says "let us go, so we may die w/ him" ..exasperation or submission ? What's your attitude.? 2 att's ..even in pain grief she recognizes that jesus is the lord ..what abt martha's sister? Mary stays lost in grief ..lord if only u had been there? Shrtest verse "jesus wept" ...."lazarus, come forth !" ..one word from jesus & lazarus arose..[penner gives alternative interp of "Jesus wept"] jesus wept b/c he knew the reaction of jews..they felt jealous b/c of Jesus' miracles ...one of the greatest lines by rhs "u just got fired? Congratulations! ..getting fired was your miracle..hallelujah..! Good news, change is a part of life , say hallelujah ..god will do miracles in the life of this church ? What keeps miracles fr happ? We do . ..guarantee moses didn't want 40 years, daniel didn't want den, but they said "lord not my will, but thy will" ...pray that u b/c a martha..no matter what..its up to u god ..

Pubblico Slayer - Alcatraz - Milano - 19 giugno 2013 - © Mairo Cinquetti-02 by Mairo Cinquetti

Slayer

Alcatraz - Milano

19 Giugno 2013

Tom Araya

Kerry King

Jeff Hanneman

Dave Lombardo

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From the opening squeals of the guitars of Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman and the punishing breakaway attack of Dave Lombardo's drums on "Flesh Storm" it's clear from the first thirty seconds the thrash metal titans have returned to pummel listeners with a raging onslaught of new music guaranteed to lay waste to MP3 players, car stereo speakers and whatever else gets in their way.

Christ Illusion marks the long-awaited return of the legendary Slayer. Its first record in five years and its first record in fifteen years with the original band line-up, Christ Illusion is a cacophony of brutality. A soundtrack for the post-Apocalypse. Steeped in scorching riffs and a litany of menacing tracks/tirades on religion and violence, Slayer forges ahead on its devastating path of aural destruction with ten new songs, each charged with the electric hostility for which Slayer is renowned.

Of the record Kerry King is ecstatic: "I love it. I really like God Hates Us All and I think that's the best record we've done in my opinion since Seasons In The Abyss, and I like this better than that one. I think it's a more complete record, I think sonically it better: all the performances are awesome. I think this one is more intense not because we're trying to do 'Reign In Blood: The Sequel,' it's just that's where our writing is taking us now."

Songs like the "Flesh Storm," "Eyes of the Insane," "Skeleton Christ," "Jihad" and the first single, "Cult" showcase the band at its most blazing intensity. The sonic excitement of speed, propelled by King, Hanneman and Lombardo and lead by the immutable roar of Tom Araya provoke the listener with Slayer's trademark fascination with terror, violence and religion.

For as long as Slayer has been making records it has been surrounded by controversy.

Since the band recorded its first album, "Show No Mercy," Slayer has been plagued with accusations of Satanism, fascism, racism and so on. Christ Illusion gives no quarter to critics who would mindlessly attack the band for, what the Germans call, "der Reiz des Unbekannten" (meaning "the attraction of the unknown"). A lyric fascination with violence and terror which guitarist King enthusiastically describes this way: "When I was I kid I would see a horror movie over a love story. Being shocked, being in an environment that's not reality might be frightening but is cool nonetheless. With a lot of our songs we put people in that place. It doesn't bother me because I enjoy it. It could easily be programming from all the fucking news channels."

Slayer is often assailed for its subject matter, though the band is unrepentant. " According to Araya, "Violence, darkness... So much of my inspiration comes from news articles or pictures and just start describing the images. Television- A&E, the History Channel, Court TV, Documentaries."

The singer continues, "With this record, as far as a theme: there is none. That's just our favorite subject matter. The common thread is death. I think that's just a common thread in general: we all share death, and we all share it at different times in different ways, but it's the one thing that we all have in common. We all die. It's how we live that makes us different."

Beyond being controversial Slayer is an exceptional force in music, highly praised for its trailblazing style of fast, heavy and aggressive music yet bristling with melody. The much-heralded return of Dave Lombardo to the drummer's throne will leave fans gasping for breath as he clobbers the listener on song after song.

Commenting on Lombardo's return to the fold, King notes, "Not to say the shine's worn off, but it's old news to us. I think the thing the kids are going to get into, besides just being the first Slayer album in five years, is that Dave's on it. When he came back he wasn't a member, he just came back to do a couple of tours and people started asking back then 'Is he gonna hang around?' And I would tell them that was up to Dave. But I could tell that Dave was having a killer time." King confided. "So it was just a matter of time before he said, 'Yeah, let's do it!' But it's great. And now that he's got a new Slayer album that he's played on, I think he's going to get some more enjoyment out of playing. He takes pride in everything he does and it's awesome to have him back with us."

Having the original members record their first album together in fifteen years is certainly newsworthy but the lasting might of the band and its continued popularity is an achievement few can boast. For each of the members, the band is resolute. There is no other band like Slayer.

"The staying power behind Slayer is that we've stuck to our guns," Says Araya. "Integrity... that would be number one. A lot of it has to do with the fact that we've stuck to what we do best. And the fact that we've been together as a band for so long. Ten years with Dave; another ten without Dave; and now Dave's back. It has a lot to do with compromise, that's just the way it has to be. You have to be able to compromise and give and take and that has a lot to do with why we're still together and a force to be reckoned with. I've learned that without each other, Slayer wouldn't exist, and that the whole is greater than its parts."

Kerry King is far more succinct. "Slayer to me is the coolest band on the planet. There is a timeless quality to Slayer. It's cool, but I can't explain it. It's our life."

Slayer has created one mesmerizing record after the next, has influenced many of today's most successful bands, including Slipknot, Sepultura, Killswitch Engage, and continues to earn new generations of fans, while staying true to its ceaselessly devoted followers. Slayer's legacy is cemented in music forever and the band remains undaunted in its directive to make punishing, aggressive and exciting music. With Christ Illusion the band marks its territory. Slayer has exceeded itself far beyond thrash metal to become an unstoppable juggernaut without equal.

Tom Araya sums it up: "I think the best thing is the band's longevity and the fact that we haven't bowed to anyone. That we were able to make a record like Reign In Blood, which, to us, was just another record, but to others, was something very special, it's had such an impact. People will remember it for a long time, and it's all because we did things our way, we didn't bow down to anyone. We didn't compromise. We stuck to being who we are."

DSC_1747 Niki's Oasis Restaurant & Jazz Bar 138 Bree Street Newtown Cultural Precinct Johannesburg South Africa with Moses Siso Tonic and Bushy Dubazana Jazz Band with the Immutable Themba Fassie by photographer695

Niki's Oasis Restaurant & Jazz Bar 138 Bree Street Newtown Cultural Precinct Johannesburg South Africa with Moses Siso Tonic and Bushy Dubazana Jazz Band with the Immutable Themba Fassie

Great Food and Music Highly Recommended

MAYA MUROFUSHI by Guido Fuà Eikona

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La tradizione orientale verte verso l'armonia, la razionalità, l'immutabilità; la bellezza delle forme trasformarsi in origami. Una cultura ricca d'arte, dove le relazioni emotive sono dense di affettività. In particolare verrebbero privilegiati i rapporti verticali: tra giovane e anziano, tra novizio e esperto, tra subordinato e superiore, dove il primo offre la sua dedizione fedeltà, il secondo comprensione e paterna protezione. La mentalità giapponese si muove lungo strade, agli occhi degli stranieri, irrazionali, inspiegabili e incomprensibili.

The Eastern tradition relates to harmony, rationality, the immutability; the beauty of the shapes turn into origami . A culture rich in art, where emotional relations are full of affection. In particular would be privileged vertical relationships: between young and old , novice and expert , subordinate and superior , where the first offers his dedication loyalty, the second understanding and paternal protection . The Japanese mentality moves along streets, in the eyes of foreigners, irrational, inexplicable and incomprehensible .

Model: Maya Murofushi

Styling: Giulia Grincia

Make Up: Rosy Alai

Maxie & me by Lori McCray

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Forever You

This is what it’s like to have felt forgotten. You climb into the back of your family car, excited by the prospect of an adventure, and at the first rest stop (you’re only a little girl. you need to stop lots), your family takes off without you. I’ve felt forgotten. Lost. Alone. Unrecognized. I set out looking for my people. Searching for belonging. The last piece of a complicated puzzle, which never seemed to fit.

I thought it was my fault. I didn’t believe in angels, or anyone looking out for me. I felt weak, longing for comfort and so I reinforced my armor. Somehow deserved my loneliness. The soul of me has always seen my beauty, but it was imprisoned and couldn’t communicate. Held hostage by my own terrorizing thoughts until Love freed it into seeing. To be known by soul is to be seen for who and what you are, your essence. This, I believe, stays steady and immutable. Forever you, through all Life’s changes. I couldn’t embrace the beauty of my soul because my mirror was so distorted, all I could see was shadow.

Keep your mirror polished so your soul can sparkle and shimmer. Be free of deep shadow, never lifting. Like a well-loved animal, find your sweet spot in the sun and settle in to it. Take courage. You will never be forgotten.

LBM 8/5/2019

Archive Dreaming / Documentation by Refik Anadol

Commissioned to work with SALT Research collections, artist Refik Anadol employed machine learning algorithms to search and sort relations among 1,700,000 documents. Interactions of the multidimensional data found in the archives are, in turn, translated into an immersive media installation. Archive Dreaming, which is presented as part of The Uses of Art: Final Exhibition with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, is user-driven; however, when idle, the installation "dreams" of unexpected correlations among documents. The resulting high-dimensional data and interactions are translated into an architectural immersive space.

Shortly after receiving the commission, Anadol was a resident artist for Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence Program where he closely collaborated with Mike Tyka and explored cutting-edge developments in the field of machine intelligence in an environment that brings together artists and engineers. Developed during this residency, his intervention Archive Dreaming transforms the gallery space on floor -1 at SALT Galata into an all-encompassing environment that intertwines history with the contemporary, and challenges immutable concepts of the archive, while destabilizing archive-related questions with machine learning algorithms.

In this project, a temporary immersive architectural space is created as a canvas with light and data applied as materials. This radical effort to deconstruct the framework of an illusory space will transgress the normal boundaries of the viewing experience of a library and the conventional flat cinema projection screen, into a three dimensional kinetic and architectonic space of an archive visualized with machine learning algorithms. By training a neural network with images of 1,700,000 documents at SALT Research the main idea is to create an immersive installation with architectural intelligence to reframe memory, history and culture in museum perception for 21st century through the lens of machine intelligence.

SALT is grateful to Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence program, and Doğuş Technology, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman for supporting Archive Dreaming.

Location : SALT Gatala, Istanbul, Turkey

Exhibition Dates : April 20 - June 11

6 Meters Wide Circular Architectural Installation

4 Channel Video, 8 Channel Audio

Custom Software, Media Server, Table for UI Interaction

For more information:

refikanadol.com/works/archive-dreaming/

Crypt Lake by Aaron Shx’a.eetί Mullin

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I was playing a game with my kids the other day

I asked:

What do you use to see?

She said 'your eyes'

He said 'your brain'

Both right

Next I asked what do you use to hear?

She said 'your ears'

He said 'your brain'

Both right, again

The wisdom of children!

The game ended there but it got me thinking about what we use to feel

The most straight forward answer is our skin

Your brain is what processes the sense of touch so that has to be included

What about your heart?

Where does it fit into the big scheme of things?

Isn't the heart the space where we process feelings?

I have to loosely define things and often turn them upside down

ruminate

reorder my worldview to make it copacetic

I'm pretty sure that I often walk in two worlds

If my mind is simply locked in the western paradigm then people look at me like I'm bizarre

I'm not joking when I say they've wanted to lock me up because of my views

When I allow my mind to get locked into this western paradigm,

I sometimes even feel like I belong in lockup.

That's even worse than being held against your will

You're being held because you've lost your will

So I play with definitions to better suit my needs

When you do this however, there is a risk

Last summer I unlocked a spectre as I drank deeply and greedily from Crypt Lake

Crypt Lake is a real place on this planet

How did it get it's name (you might ask)?

According to the Blackfoot, placenames aren't given,

they come from place

Let's contextualize ~ this is all part of the journey

The physical leads to the spiritual and vice versa

To get to Crypt Lake you have to enter Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

Found in the southwest corner of Alberta and the northwest corner of Montana

Once through the gates you have to catch a boat at a certain time

You have to be in the physical plane of existence at this point otherwise you're not getting on that boat

Once you get to the trailhead, then you can start to drift

That's what I did

As I walked, I let the stories come into me

I let them flow through me

They were sitting there waiting to be told

A spruce, arm in arm, with a pine

Hawks circling overhead

An ever present alertness for our bear brethren

Always open to the wildflowers

Indian paintbrush (I have red hair could I be considered an indian paintbrush?)

Pollinators flitting about

Oh, the water

Listen to the stories the water told:

First we come to Hell Roaring Falls

Next Twin Falls

Next Burnt Rock Falls

And to reach the Crypt, we have to pass through a mountain tunnel

Opening up to Crypt Falls

and finally Crypt Lake

This is a regular heroes journey if you allow it to be

I was in that place in my mind where I allowed it to unfold as it may

This is a place that's also known as the Crown of the Continent

Not far away is Chief Mountain, Turtle Mountain, and Crowsnest Mountain

Also Writing-On-Stone and the Milk River and Sweetgrass

These are holy names, this is a holy land

What I saw at Crypt Falls was the backbone of the continent

I saw the backbone of Turtle Island

I was floored

I had been on a continent wide spirit quest a few years previously

There was talk that the Deed for Turtle Island was coming due

And maybe it would be produced at one of these gatherings

We all waited but nobody produced it

I ruminated on that idea for a few years

I'm pretty sure that the Deed was there

Those who held it, just didn't realize

I learned something at the Crypt

I wanted answers and I made an assumption

I assumed that the water held the answers

So I drank deeply, even greedily from the Crypt

Right there in the international peace park, on the crown of the continent

With the Old Chief and the Crowsnest not far away

Writing-On-Stone just a sashay away

What about writing in calcium?

If I were the earth, I would encode important information in something

Transmutable

Not blood.

Bones

What I learned up there on the mountain as I gulped down knowledge from the Crypt was that the deed is written into the bones of the land and into the bones of those borne of that land

This is indigenous knowledge

It's in the water, the water is the medium for the message

The bones are the stock

But just like a double helix

A genetic sequence is an expression of time and place

On a certain spacetime continuum this innocuous looking structure

(take a look in the mirror)

Has all the necessary answers

hellopoetry.com/poem/886801/crypt-lake/

the gift that keeps on... by pinkbelt

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Trying to find some other use for the ginormous tube top-knitted-late-too-large-Christmas gift, (someone asked if it was made of sisal), here's what I came up with.

Inspired by Teddy's nojo for his little one, I tried using it as a sling to hold stuff:

* 1 paperback novel

* 1 old testament (lego edition)

* My PSP

* Bottle of Purell

* Nano, in pink metallic case

I'm pretty sure I could've fit in more too!

Then, following Immutably Me's suggestion I tried it out as a scarf, and found I could flip it over to cover my head.

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

lhasa07_0062f by dibattista

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Lhasa 2007: a timeless photo; the traditional market around the Jokhang temple, young and old Tibetans with their costumes, prayer flags, fabrics immutable in the designs and colors

DSC_1749 Niki's Oasis Restaurant & Jazz Bar 138 Bree Street Newtown Cultural Precinct Johannesburg South Africa with Siso Tonic and Bushy Dubazana Jazz Band with the Immutable Themba Fassie by photographer695

Niki's Oasis Restaurant & Jazz Bar 138 Bree Street Newtown Cultural Precinct Johannesburg South Africa with Siso Tonic and Bushy Dubazana Jazz Band with the Immutable Themba Fassie

Great Food and Music Highly Recommended

Rest yo weary feats by W. Michel Kiteley

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...why am I feigning a southern accent when the Valmont Stage Stop is in the North? Fact. Valmont Drive is certainly over a mile north of Baseline Road in east Boulder, Colorado. You work the names out yourself. Get it, Macy-Dixie Line? While Eddie thinks the stage stop entry was on the north of the building, I clearly think that this eaved vestibule on the south is the original entry. It still stands while the added lean-to structures to the left and right are tumbling. Were I a pioneer in the early day, I can't imagine that I'd build a main entrance to a public building as it were on the snow side. That sounds like extra work! Above Boulder and Nederland in the Rockies, the town of Caribou invented the two story entrances, as well as the two story outhouses! Let's face it, I'm right and Eddie is clearly wrong like usual. There are things in life that are immutable. Once in a long while, Eddie ends up on the right side of history. Some are buffoons. Eddie! Adam will catch you doing that! Stop it!

Settled.

The Valmont stage stop and railroad reconditioning yard are on the old UP and the pioneer stage routes into Boulder "City," southwest of Largemont, Colorado. It's along the drive of the same name. Valmont was originally the stage stop on the way to Boulder "City" and the "diggins" in the hills, when early on it outpaced Boulder's growth but eventually became a small agricultural center. It was located in the river valley and had fine bottom land. See Crofutt, comments. I remember reading about the first railroad to access Boulder County not being to Frogmont and thus steaming up the Frogmont city fathers instead of an engine! Here remains the vestiges of the old stage stop. It must have been pretty utilitarian what with accommodations, meals and smithy to keep the wagons rolling. We have yet to determine the location by the "right-of-way" (which side?) but folks feel it was a two track path up the valley and not a prepared roadbed. I believe that; it certainly was not worth the investment by the time the rails came through. Perhaps an aerial infrared photograph could find the location. Existing dirt roads are confusing. Subsurface is a flow of river rock flushed from the foothills above Boulder even though the water table stands at less than a man's height. It appears to me that the ancient entrance was the built-on structure on the south here. The railroad and 20 cent fares into Boulder were the stage stop's demise. Since, I see someone store now rotting lumber in the attic of the entry.

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man. by fotogirl MK

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~ Cristina Marrero

*

My love for you is elemental and immutable, and it will sustain me until I die.

~ Sharon Shinn

*

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Times to Remember

Blockchain has many potential non-financial applications by U.S. Government Accountability Office

This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:

www.gao.gov/products/GAO-22-104625

Blockchain: Emerging Technology Offers Benefits for Some Applications but Faces Challenges

Just My Luck by peterlmorris

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I forgot to sign up for this last year, hoping to dethrone Carter (although that might be impossible as he seems to be one of those people with a ridiculously high tolerance).

So I signed BOTH V and I up for this thing, and of course she'd get picked for it.

Damn that Murphy and his immutable law.

Archive Dreaming / Documentation by Refik Anadol

Commissioned to work with SALT Research collections, artist Refik Anadol employed machine learning algorithms to search and sort relations among 1,700,000 documents. Interactions of the multidimensional data found in the archives are, in turn, translated into an immersive media installation. Archive Dreaming, which is presented as part of The Uses of Art: Final Exhibition with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, is user-driven; however, when idle, the installation "dreams" of unexpected correlations among documents. The resulting high-dimensional data and interactions are translated into an architectural immersive space.

Shortly after receiving the commission, Anadol was a resident artist for Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence Program where he closely collaborated with Mike Tyka and explored cutting-edge developments in the field of machine intelligence in an environment that brings together artists and engineers. Developed during this residency, his intervention Archive Dreaming transforms the gallery space on floor -1 at SALT Galata into an all-encompassing environment that intertwines history with the contemporary, and challenges immutable concepts of the archive, while destabilizing archive-related questions with machine learning algorithms.

In this project, a temporary immersive architectural space is created as a canvas with light and data applied as materials. This radical effort to deconstruct the framework of an illusory space will transgress the normal boundaries of the viewing experience of a library and the conventional flat cinema projection screen, into a three dimensional kinetic and architectonic space of an archive visualized with machine learning algorithms. By training a neural network with images of 1,700,000 documents at SALT Research the main idea is to create an immersive installation with architectural intelligence to reframe memory, history and culture in museum perception for 21st century through the lens of machine intelligence.

SALT is grateful to Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence program, and Doğuş Technology, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman for supporting Archive Dreaming.

Location : SALT Gatala, Istanbul, Turkey

Exhibition Dates : April 20 - June 11

6 Meters Wide Circular Architectural Installation

4 Channel Video, 8 Channel Audio

Custom Software, Media Server, Table for UI Interaction

For more information:

refikanadol.com/works/archive-dreaming/

Rundle by Chris Weber

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Rundle

Mountains can represent so many things - like a rigid stubborness to resist change, immutability over malleability. A daunting challenge, a massive undertaking. Or in animism, a spiritual being emerged and integrated, breathing life into the world around it.

War Memorial, Dingwall, Highlands, Scotland. by PHOTOGRAPHY by DM & DBM.

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Dingwall is a town and a royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland. It has a population of 5,491. It was an east-coast harbour that now lies inland. Dingwall Castle was once the biggest castle north of Stirling. On the town's present-day outskirts lies Tulloch Castle, parts of which may date back to the 12th century. In 1411 the Battle of Dingwall is said to have taken place between the Clan Mackay and the Clan Donald.

Its name, derived from the Scandinavian Þingvöllr (field or meeting-place of the thing, or local assembly; compare Tynwald, Tingwall, Thingwall in the British Isles alone, plus many others across northern Europe), preserves the Viking connections of the town; Gaels call it Inbhir Pheofharain (pronounced [iɲiɾʲˈfjɔhəɾaiɲ]), meaning "the mouth of the Peffery" or Baile Chàil meaning "cabbage town".

The site of the Þingvöllr, and of the medieval Moothill, thought to have been established by the Vikings after they invaded in the 8th century, lies beneath the Cromartie memorial.

In the early Middle Ages Dingwall Castle, which was established in the 11th century, was reputed to have the largest castle north of Stirling.

King Alexander II created Dingwall a royal burgh in 1226, the burgh becoming the seat of the Earls of Ross. James IV renewed its royal burgh charter in 1497. On the top of Knockfarrel (Scottish Gaelic: Cnoc Fhearghalaigh), a hill about three miles (five kilometres) to the west, stands a large and very complete vitrified fort with ramparts.

An obelisk, 51 feet (16 m) high, was erected over the grave of George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie, near the parish church of St Clement after he died in 1717. It was affected by subsidence, becoming known as the "Leaning Tower", and was later replaced by a much smaller replica.

Dingwall Town Hall, which dates back to 1745, still survives.

The town has a pedestrian Heritage Trail, which launched in March 2023, with information boards at key historical sites around the town.

James Gillanders of Highfield Cottage near Dingwall, was the Factor for the estate of Major Charles Robertson of Kincardine and, as his employer was then serving with the British Army in Australia, Gillanders was the person most responsible for the mass evictions staged at Glencalvie, Ross-shire in 1845. A Gaelic-language poem denouncing Gillanders for the brutality of the evictions was later submitted anonymously to Pàdraig MacNeacail, the editor of the Canadian Gaelic column in which the poem was later published in the Nova Scotia newspaper The Casket. The poem, which is believed either to be or to draw upon eyewitness accounts, is believed to be the only Gaelic language source of information relating to the evictions in Glencalvie.

Dingwall formerly served as the county town of Ross and Cromarty: the headquarters of Ross and Cromarty County Council, established in 1889, was County Buildings in Dingwall.

The Ferry Road drill hall was completed in 1910.

As a result of storms in late October 2006, Dingwall was subject to widespread flooding the aftermath of which left the town and much of the Highlands north of Inverness, including the A9 and Far North Line, cut off for a time In August 2019 the town was once again flooded.

Dingwall's Post Office was named the UK's most improved delivery office of the year in Royal Mail's 2021 Awards.

Dingwall lies near the head of the Cromarty Firth where the valley of the Peffery unites with the alluvial lands at the mouth of the Conon, 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Inverness. The town contains a particularly short canal, the Dingwall Canal, also known locally as the River Peffery.

Dingwall is the home of football team Ross County, who won promotion to the Scottish Premier League in 2012 and finished the 2012/13 season in fifth place. Despite the town's small population, Ross County attract sizeable crowds to Victoria Park from across the whole surrounding area. The team reached the 2010 Scottish Cup Final, having knocked out Celtic in the previous round.

Ross County won their first piece of major silverware in 2016, winning the Scottish League Cup by beating Hibernian 2–1 in the final.

Dingwall railway station has been on what is now called the Far North Line since about 1865. It also serves the Kyle of Lochalsh Line.

Dingwall is on the former main road route to the north Highlands (A9). Since the completion of the Cromarty Bridge in 1979, the main road has bypassed Dingwall. Heading west, the A834 joins the A835 road which is the main route to the north west Highlands, including Ullapool.

Television signals are received from the Rosemarkie TV transmitter and the local relay transmitter situated in Fodderty.

Radio stations are provided by BBC Radio Scotland on 94.0 FM and BBC Radio nan Gàidheal (for Gaelic listeners) on 104.9 FM, MFR Radio on 96.7 FM and Highland FM on 107.1 FM which is an all-volunteer based community radio station.

The town is served by the local newspaper, Ross-shire Journal.

Dingwall has a primary school, Dingwall Primary, serving the town.

Dingwall Academy is the secondary school serving the town and the wider area, including communities such as Strathpeffer, Contin, Conon Bridge, Maryburgh and Muir of Ord.

The Highland Theological College is located within the town, housed in a former Scottish Hydro Electric office. It is part of the University of the Highlands and Islands. Its focus is upon Theological Education, and is an accredited university for training Church of Scotland and United Free Church ministers and workers.

Dingwall was a parliamentary burgh, combined with Dornoch, Kirkwall, Tain and Wick in the Northern Burghs constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. Cromarty was added to the list in 1832. The constituency was a district of burghs known also as Tain Burghs until 1832, and then as Wick Burghs. It was represented by one Member of Parliament (MP). In 1918 the constituency was abolished and the Dingwall component was merged into the county constituency of Ross and Cromarty which was itself abolished in 1983.

Notable people

James Fraser of Brea theologian and prisoner on the Bass Rock

Prof James Alexander MacDonald (1908–1997) botanist, born and raised in Dingwall.

Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, Son of a local Crofter at Rootfield, Dingwall.

John M'Gilligen of Fodderty who held conventicles in houses throughout the county

John Kennedy of Dingwall, Free Church of Scotland minister

Rev Duncan Leitch, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1952

Julie Fowlis, a folk singer and multi-instrumentalist

Kate Forbes, member of the Scottish Parliament for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch and former Cabinet Secretary for Finance at the Scottish Government. She was born and went to school in Dingwall.

Thomas Simpson (explorer), Arctic explorer and accused murderer (1808–1840)

Willie Logan, civil engineer and founder of aviation company Loganair

Colin Calder, founder of the Club Atletico Rosario Central - Argentina on December 24, 1889

Churches include:

Dingwall and Strathpeffer Free Church of Scotland

Dingwall Baptist Church

Dingwall: Castle Street Church of Scotland

Dingwall Evangelical Church

Dingwall: Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, opened in the mid/late 1890s, current building 1959.

Dingwall: St Clement's Church of Scotland

St James the Great Scottish Episcopal Church

St Lawrence's Church, Roman Catholic Church, opened in 1902.

The Highlands is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A' Ghàidhealtachd literally means "the place of the Gaels" and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands.

The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. During the 18th and early 19th centuries the population of the Highlands rose to around 300,000, but from c. 1841 and for the next 160 years, the natural increase in population was exceeded by emigration (mostly to Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and migration to the industrial cities of Scotland and England.) and passim The area is now one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. At 9.1/km2 (24/sq mi) in 2012, the population density in the Highlands and Islands is less than one seventh of Scotland's as a whole.

The Highland Council is the administrative body for much of the Highlands, with its administrative centre at Inverness. However, the Highlands also includes parts of the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Moray, North Ayrshire, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire.

The Scottish Highlands is the only area in the British Isles to have the taiga biome as it features concentrated populations of Scots pine forest: see Caledonian Forest. It is the most mountainous part of the United Kingdom.

Between the 15th century and the mid-20th century, the area differed from most of the Lowlands in terms of language. In Scottish Gaelic, the region is known as the Gàidhealtachd, because it was traditionally the Gaelic-speaking part of Scotland, although the language is now largely confined to The Hebrides. The terms are sometimes used interchangeably but have different meanings in their respective languages. Scottish English (in its Highland form) is the predominant language of the area today, though Highland English has been influenced by Gaelic speech to a significant extent. Historically, the "Highland line" distinguished the two Scottish cultures. While the Highland line broadly followed the geography of the Grampians in the south, it continued in the north, cutting off the north-eastern areas, that is Eastern Caithness, Orkney and Shetland, from the more Gaelic Highlands and Hebrides.

Historically, the major social unit of the Highlands was the clan. Scottish kings, particularly James VI, saw clans as a challenge to their authority; the Highlands was seen by many as a lawless region. The Scots of the Lowlands viewed the Highlanders as backward and more "Irish". The Highlands were seen as the overspill of Gaelic Ireland. They made this distinction by separating Germanic "Scots" English and the Gaelic by renaming it "Erse" a play on Eire. Following the Union of the Crowns, James VI had the military strength to back up any attempts to impose some control. The result was, in 1609, the Statutes of Iona which started the process of integrating clan leaders into Scottish society. The gradual changes continued into the 19th century, as clan chiefs thought of themselves less as patriarchal leaders of their people and more as commercial landlords. The first effect on the clansmen who were their tenants was the change to rents being payable in money rather than in kind. Later, rents were increased as Highland landowners sought to increase their income. This was followed, mostly in the period 1760–1850, by agricultural improvement that often (particularly in the Western Highlands) involved clearance of the population to make way for large scale sheep farms. Displaced tenants were set up in crofting communities in the process. The crofts were intended not to provide all the needs of their occupiers; they were expected to work in other industries such as kelping and fishing. Crofters came to rely substantially on seasonal migrant work, particularly in the Lowlands. This gave impetus to the learning of English, which was seen by many rural Gaelic speakers to be the essential "language of work".

Older historiography attributes the collapse of the clan system to the aftermath of the Jacobite risings. This is now thought less influential by historians. Following the Jacobite rising of 1745 the British government enacted a series of laws to try to suppress the clan system, including bans on the bearing of arms and the wearing of tartan, and limitations on the activities of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Most of this legislation was repealed by the end of the 18th century as the Jacobite threat subsided. There was soon a rehabilitation of Highland culture. Tartan was adopted for Highland regiments in the British Army, which poor Highlanders joined in large numbers in the era of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1790–1815). Tartan had largely been abandoned by the ordinary people of the region, but in the 1820s, tartan and the kilt were adopted by members of the social elite, not just in Scotland, but across Europe. The international craze for tartan, and for idealising a romanticised Highlands, was set off by the Ossian cycle, and further popularised by the works of Walter Scott. His "staging" of the visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 and the king's wearing of tartan resulted in a massive upsurge in demand for kilts and tartans that could not be met by the Scottish woollen industry. Individual clan tartans were largely designated in this period and they became a major symbol of Scottish identity. This "Highlandism", by which all of Scotland was identified with the culture of the Highlands, was cemented by Queen Victoria's interest in the country, her adoption of Balmoral as a major royal retreat, and her interest in "tartenry".

Recurrent famine affected the Highlands for much of its history, with significant instances as late as 1817 in the Eastern Highlands and the early 1850s in the West. Over the 18th century, the region had developed a trade of black cattle into Lowland markets, and this was balanced by imports of meal into the area. There was a critical reliance on this trade to provide sufficient food, and it is seen as an essential prerequisite for the population growth that started in the 18th century. Most of the Highlands, particularly in the North and West was short of the arable land that was essential for the mixed, run rig based, communal farming that existed before agricultural improvement was introduced into the region.[a] Between the 1760s and the 1830s there was a substantial trade in unlicensed whisky that had been distilled in the Highlands. Lowland distillers (who were not able to avoid the heavy taxation of this product) complained that Highland whisky made up more than half the market. The development of the cattle trade is taken as evidence that the pre-improvement Highlands was not an immutable system, but did exploit the economic opportunities that came its way. The illicit whisky trade demonstrates the entrepreneurial ability of the peasant classes.

Agricultural improvement reached the Highlands mostly over the period 1760 to 1850. Agricultural advisors, factors, land surveyors and others educated in the thinking of Adam Smith were keen to put into practice the new ideas taught in Scottish universities. Highland landowners, many of whom were burdened with chronic debts, were generally receptive to the advice they offered and keen to increase the income from their land. In the East and South the resulting change was similar to that in the Lowlands, with the creation of larger farms with single tenants, enclosure of the old run rig fields, introduction of new crops (such as turnips), land drainage and, as a consequence of all this, eviction, as part of the Highland clearances, of many tenants and cottars. Some of those cleared found employment on the new, larger farms, others moved to the accessible towns of the Lowlands.

In the West and North, evicted tenants were usually given tenancies in newly created crofting communities, while their former holdings were converted into large sheep farms. Sheep farmers could pay substantially higher rents than the run rig farmers and were much less prone to falling into arrears. Each croft was limited in size so that the tenants would have to find work elsewhere. The major alternatives were fishing and the kelp industry. Landlords took control of the kelp shores, deducting the wages earned by their tenants from the rent due and retaining the large profits that could be earned at the high prices paid for the processed product during the Napoleonic wars.

When the Napoleonic wars finished in 1815, the Highland industries were affected by the return to a peacetime economy. The price of black cattle fell, nearly halving between 1810 and the 1830s. Kelp prices had peaked in 1810, but reduced from £9 a ton in 1823 to £3 13s 4d a ton in 1828. Wool prices were also badly affected. This worsened the financial problems of debt-encumbered landlords. Then, in 1846, potato blight arrived in the Highlands, wiping out the essential subsistence crop for the overcrowded crofting communities. As the famine struck, the government made clear to landlords that it was their responsibility to provide famine relief for their tenants. The result of the economic downturn had been that a large proportion of Highland estates were sold in the first half of the 19th century. T M Devine points out that in the region most affected by the potato famine, by 1846, 70 per cent of the landowners were new purchasers who had not owned Highland property before 1800. More landlords were obliged to sell due to the cost of famine relief. Those who were protected from the worst of the crisis were those with extensive rental income from sheep farms. Government loans were made available for drainage works, road building and other improvements and many crofters became temporary migrants – taking work in the Lowlands. When the potato famine ceased in 1856, this established a pattern of more extensive working away from the Highlands.

The unequal concentration of land ownership remained an emotional and controversial subject, of enormous importance to the Highland economy, and eventually became a cornerstone of liberal radicalism. The poor crofters were politically powerless, and many of them turned to religion. They embraced the popularly oriented, fervently evangelical Presbyterian revival after 1800. Most joined the breakaway "Free Church" after 1843. This evangelical movement was led by lay preachers who themselves came from the lower strata, and whose preaching was implicitly critical of the established order. The religious change energised the crofters and separated them from the landlords; it helped prepare them for their successful and violent challenge to the landlords in the 1880s through the Highland Land League. Violence erupted, starting on the Isle of Skye, when Highland landlords cleared their lands for sheep and deer parks. It was quietened when the government stepped in, passing the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1886 to reduce rents, guarantee fixity of tenure, and break up large estates to provide crofts for the homeless. This contrasted with the Irish Land War underway at the same time, where the Irish were intensely politicised through roots in Irish nationalism, while political dimensions were limited. In 1885 three Independent Crofter candidates were elected to Parliament, which listened to their pleas. The results included explicit security for the Scottish smallholders in the "crofting counties"; the legal right to bequeath tenancies to descendants; and the creation of a Crofting Commission. The Crofters as a political movement faded away by 1892, and the Liberal Party gained their votes.

Today, the Highlands are the largest of Scotland's whisky producing regions; the relevant area runs from Orkney to the Isle of Arran in the south and includes the northern isles and much of Inner and Outer Hebrides, Argyll, Stirlingshire, Arran, as well as sections of Perthshire and Aberdeenshire. (Other sources treat The Islands, except Islay, as a separate whisky producing region.) This massive area has over 30 distilleries, or 47 when the Islands sub-region is included in the count. According to one source, the top five are The Macallan, Glenfiddich, Aberlour, Glenfarclas and Balvenie. While Speyside is geographically within the Highlands, that region is specified as distinct in terms of whisky productions. Speyside single malt whiskies are produced by about 50 distilleries.

According to Visit Scotland, Highlands whisky is "fruity, sweet, spicy, malty". Another review states that Northern Highlands single malt is "sweet and full-bodied", the Eastern Highlands and Southern Highlands whiskies tend to be "lighter in texture" while the distilleries in the Western Highlands produce single malts with a "much peatier influence".

The Scottish Reformation achieved partial success in the Highlands. Roman Catholicism remained strong in some areas, owing to remote locations and the efforts of Franciscan missionaries from Ireland, who regularly came to celebrate Mass. There remain significant Catholic strongholds within the Highlands and Islands such as Moidart and Morar on the mainland and South Uist and Barra in the southern Outer Hebrides. The remoteness of the region and the lack of a Gaelic-speaking clergy undermined the missionary efforts of the established church. The later 18th century saw somewhat greater success, owing to the efforts of the SSPCK missionaries and to the disruption of traditional society after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. In the 19th century, the evangelical Free Churches, which were more accepting of Gaelic language and culture, grew rapidly, appealing much more strongly than did the established church.

For the most part, however, the Highlands are considered predominantly Protestant, belonging to the Church of Scotland. In contrast to the Catholic southern islands, the northern Outer Hebrides islands (Lewis, Harris and North Uist) have an exceptionally high proportion of their population belonging to the Protestant Free Church of Scotland or the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Outer Hebrides have been described as the last bastion of Calvinism in Britain and the Sabbath remains widely observed. Inverness and the surrounding area has a majority Protestant population, with most locals belonging to either The Kirk or the Free Church of Scotland. The church maintains a noticeable presence within the area, with church attendance notably higher than in other parts of Scotland. Religion continues to play an important role in Highland culture, with Sabbath observance still widely practised, particularly in the Hebrides.

In traditional Scottish geography, the Highlands refers to that part of Scotland north-west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which crosses mainland Scotland in a near-straight line from Helensburgh to Stonehaven. However the flat coastal lands that occupy parts of the counties of Nairnshire, Morayshire, Banffshire and Aberdeenshire are often excluded as they do not share the distinctive geographical and cultural features of the rest of the Highlands. The north-east of Caithness, as well as Orkney and Shetland, are also often excluded from the Highlands, although the Hebrides are usually included. The Highland area, as so defined, differed from the Lowlands in language and tradition, having preserved Gaelic speech and customs centuries after the anglicisation of the latter; this led to a growing perception of a divide, with the cultural distinction between Highlander and Lowlander first noted towards the end of the 14th century. In Aberdeenshire, the boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands is not well defined. There is a stone beside the A93 road near the village of Dinnet on Royal Deeside which states 'You are now in the Highlands', although there are areas of Highland character to the east of this point.

A much wider definition of the Highlands is that used by the Scotch whisky industry. Highland single malts are produced at distilleries north of an imaginary line between Dundee and Greenock, thus including all of Aberdeenshire and Angus.

Inverness is regarded as the Capital of the Highlands, although less so in the Highland parts of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Perthshire and Stirlingshire which look more to Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth, and Stirling as their commercial centres.

The Highland Council area, created as one of the local government regions of Scotland, has been a unitary council area since 1996. The council area excludes a large area of the southern and eastern Highlands, and the Western Isles, but includes Caithness. Highlands is sometimes used, however, as a name for the council area, as in the former Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service. Northern is also used to refer to the area, as in the former Northern Constabulary. These former bodies both covered the Highland council area and the island council areas of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.

Much of the Highlands area overlaps the Highlands and Islands area. An electoral region called Highlands and Islands is used in elections to the Scottish Parliament: this area includes Orkney and Shetland, as well as the Highland Council local government area, the Western Isles and most of the Argyll and Bute and Moray local government areas. Highlands and Islands has, however, different meanings in different contexts. It means Highland (the local government area), Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles in Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service. Northern, as in Northern Constabulary, refers to the same area as that covered by the fire and rescue service.

There have been trackways from the Lowlands to the Highlands since prehistoric times. Many traverse the Mounth, a spur of mountainous land that extends from the higher inland range to the North Sea slightly north of Stonehaven. The most well-known and historically important trackways are the Causey Mounth, Elsick Mounth, Cryne Corse Mounth and Cairnamounth.

Although most of the Highlands is geographically on the British mainland, it is somewhat less accessible than the rest of Britain; thus most UK couriers categorise it separately, alongside Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and other offshore islands. They thus charge additional fees for delivery to the Highlands, or exclude the area entirely. While the physical remoteness from the largest population centres inevitably leads to higher transit cost, there is confusion and consternation over the scale of the fees charged and the effectiveness of their communication, and the use of the word Mainland in their justification. Since the charges are often based on postcode areas, many far less remote areas, including some which are traditionally considered part of the lowlands, are also subject to these charges. Royal Mail is the only delivery network bound by a Universal Service Obligation to charge a uniform tariff across the UK. This, however, applies only to mail items and not larger packages which are dealt with by its Parcelforce division.

The Highlands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. This part of Scotland is largely composed of ancient rocks from the Cambrian and Precambrian periods which were uplifted during the later Caledonian Orogeny. Smaller formations of Lewisian gneiss in the northwest are up to 3 billion years old. The overlying rocks of the Torridon Sandstone form mountains in the Torridon Hills such as Liathach and Beinn Eighe in Wester Ross.

These foundations are interspersed with many igneous intrusions of a more recent age, the remnants of which have formed mountain massifs such as the Cairngorms and the Cuillin of Skye. A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstone found principally along the Moray Firth coast and partially down the Highland Boundary Fault. The Jurassic beds found in isolated locations on Skye and Applecross reflect the complex underlying geology. They are the original source of much North Sea oil. The Great Glen is formed along a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands.

The entire region was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages, save perhaps for a few nunataks. The complex geomorphology includes incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and ice, and a topography of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have similar heights above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places.

Climate

The region is much warmer than other areas at similar latitudes (such as Kamchatka in Russia, or Labrador in Canada) because of the Gulf Stream making it cool, damp and temperate. The Köppen climate classification is "Cfb" at low altitudes, then becoming "Cfc", "Dfc" and "ET" at higher altitudes.

Places of interest

An Teallach

Aonach Mòr (Nevis Range ski centre)

Arrochar Alps

Balmoral Castle

Balquhidder

Battlefield of Culloden

Beinn Alligin

Beinn Eighe

Ben Cruachan hydro-electric power station

Ben Lomond

Ben Macdui (second highest mountain in Scotland and UK)

Ben Nevis (highest mountain in Scotland and UK)

Cairngorms National Park

Cairngorm Ski centre near Aviemore

Cairngorm Mountains

Caledonian Canal

Cape Wrath

Carrick Castle

Castle Stalker

Castle Tioram

Chanonry Point

Conic Hill

Culloden Moor

Dunadd

Duart Castle

Durness

Eilean Donan

Fingal's Cave (Staffa)

Fort George

Glen Coe

Glen Etive

Glen Kinglas

Glen Lyon

Glen Orchy

Glenshee Ski Centre

Glen Shiel

Glen Spean

Glenfinnan (and its railway station and viaduct)

Grampian Mountains

Hebrides

Highland Folk Museum – The first open-air museum in the UK.

Highland Wildlife Park

Inveraray Castle

Inveraray Jail

Inverness Castle

Inverewe Garden

Iona Abbey

Isle of Staffa

Kilchurn Castle

Kilmartin Glen

Liathach

Lecht Ski Centre

Loch Alsh

Loch Ard

Loch Awe

Loch Assynt

Loch Earn

Loch Etive

Loch Fyne

Loch Goil

Loch Katrine

Loch Leven

Loch Linnhe

Loch Lochy

Loch Lomond

Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park

Loch Lubnaig

Loch Maree

Loch Morar

Loch Morlich

Loch Ness

Loch Nevis

Loch Rannoch

Loch Tay

Lochranza

Luss

Meall a' Bhuiridh (Glencoe Ski Centre)

Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary at Loch Creran

Rannoch Moor

Red Cuillin

Rest and Be Thankful stretch of A83

River Carron, Wester Ross

River Spey

River Tay

Ross and Cromarty

Smoo Cave

Stob Coire a' Chàirn

Stac Polly

Strathspey Railway

Sutherland

Tor Castle

Torridon Hills

Urquhart Castle

West Highland Line (scenic railway)

West Highland Way (Long-distance footpath)

Wester Ross

●Cosmic Spirit-The Chi by Wonil Lee

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10 s□,

45.0cmX 45.0cm, 17 3/4" X17 3/4",

Oil on Canvas, 2002

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I paint pictures

Not for a purpose, but for a way.

The reason is

To be nearer to the God by knowing him.

There can be only one,

God, from whom all teachings are made.

The truth immutable,

Out of many of his image,

I can express only one small part of him.

Archive Dreaming / Documentation by Refik Anadol

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Commissioned to work with SALT Research collections, artist Refik Anadol employed machine learning algorithms to search and sort relations among 1,700,000 documents. Interactions of the multidimensional data found in the archives are, in turn, translated into an immersive media installation. Archive Dreaming, which is presented as part of The Uses of Art: Final Exhibition with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, is user-driven; however, when idle, the installation "dreams" of unexpected correlations among documents. The resulting high-dimensional data and interactions are translated into an architectural immersive space.

Shortly after receiving the commission, Anadol was a resident artist for Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence Program where he closely collaborated with Mike Tyka and explored cutting-edge developments in the field of machine intelligence in an environment that brings together artists and engineers. Developed during this residency, his intervention Archive Dreaming transforms the gallery space on floor -1 at SALT Galata into an all-encompassing environment that intertwines history with the contemporary, and challenges immutable concepts of the archive, while destabilizing archive-related questions with machine learning algorithms.

In this project, a temporary immersive architectural space is created as a canvas with light and data applied as materials. This radical effort to deconstruct the framework of an illusory space will transgress the normal boundaries of the viewing experience of a library and the conventional flat cinema projection screen, into a three dimensional kinetic and architectonic space of an archive visualized with machine learning algorithms. By training a neural network with images of 1,700,000 documents at SALT Research the main idea is to create an immersive installation with architectural intelligence to reframe memory, history and culture in museum perception for 21st century through the lens of machine intelligence.

SALT is grateful to Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence program, and Doğuş Technology, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman for supporting Archive Dreaming.

Location : SALT Gatala, Istanbul, Turkey

Exhibition Dates : April 20 - June 11

6 Meters Wide Circular Architectural Installation

4 Channel Video, 8 Channel Audio

Custom Software, Media Server, Table for UI Interaction

For more information:

refikanadol.com/works/archive-dreaming/

baby by Peter Yumi

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In the sphere of social relationships, the hexagram represents the institution

of marriage as the enduring union of the sexes. During courtship the young

man subordinates himself to the girl, but in marriage, which is represented by

the coming together of the eldest son and the eldest daughter, the husband is

the directing and moving force outside, while the wife, inside, is gentle and

submissive.

THE JUDGMENT

DURATION. Success. No blame.

Perseverance furthers.

It furthers one to have somewhere to go.

Duration is a state whose movement is not worn down by hindrances. It is

not a state of rest, for mere standstill is regression. Duration is rather the self-

contained and therefore self-renewing movement of an organized, firmly

integrated whole, taking place in accordance with immutable laws and

beginning anew at every ending. The end is reached by an inward

movement, by inhalation, systole, contraction, and this movement turns into

a new beginning, in which the movement is directed outward, in exhalation,

diastole, expansion.

Heavenly bodies exemplify duration. They move in their fixed orbits, and

because of this their light-giving power endures. The seasons of the year

follow a fixed law of change and transformation, hence can produce effects

that endure.

So likewise the dedicated man embodies an enduring meaning in his way

of life, and thereby the world is formed. In that which gives things their

duration, we can come to understand the nature of all beings in heaven and

on earth.

THE IMAGE

Thunder and wind: the image of DURATION.

Thus the superior man stands firm

And does not change has direction.

Thunder rolls, and the wind blows; both are examples of extreme mobility

and so are seemingly the very opposite of duration, but the laws governing

their appearance and subsidence, their coming and going, endure. In the same

way the independence of the superior man is not based on rigidity and

immobility of character. He always keeps abreast of the time and changes

with it. What endures is the unswerving directive, the inner law of his

being, which determines all his actions.

THE LINES Six at the beginning means: Seeking duration too hastily brings misfortune persistently. Nothing that would further. Whatever endures can be created only gradually by long-continued work and careful reflection. In the same sense Lao-tse says: "If we wish to compress something, we must first let it fully expand." He who demands too much at once is acting precipitately, and because he attempts too much, he ends by succeeding in nothing. Nine in the second place means: Remorse disappears. The situation is abnormal. A man's force of character is greater than the available material power. Thus he might be afraid of allowing himself to attempt something beyond his strength. However, since it is the time of DURATION, it is possible for him to control his inner strength and so to avoid excess. Cause for remorse then disappears. Nine in the third place means: He who does not give duration to his character Meets with disgrace. Persistent humiliation. If a man remains at the mercy of moods of hope or fear aroused by the outer world, he loses his inner consistency of character. Such inconsistency invariably leads to distressing experiences. These humiliations often come from an unforeseen quarter. Such experiences are not merely effects produced by the external world, but logical consequences evoked by his own nature. Nine in the fourth place means: No game in the field. If we are in pursuit of game and want to get a shot at a quarry, we must set about it in the right way. A man who persists in stalking game in a place where there is none may wait forever without finding any. Persistence in search is not enough. What is not sought in the right way is not found. Six in the fifth place means: Giving duration to one's character through perseverance. This is good fortune for a woman, misfortune for a man. A woman should follow a man her whole life long, but a man should at all times hold to what is his duty at the given moment. Should he persistently seek to conform to the woman, it would be a mistake for him. Accordingly it is altogether right for a woman to hold conservatively to tradition, but a man must always be flexible and adaptable and allow himself to be guided solely by what his duty requires of him at the moment. Six at the top means: Restlessness as an enduring condition brings misfortune. There are people who live in a state of perpetual hurry without ever attaining inner composure. Restlessness not only prevents all thoroughness but actually becomes a danger if it is dominant in places of authority.

Slayer - Alcatraz - Milano - 19 giugno 2013 - © Mairo Cinquetti-28 by Mairo Cinquetti