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Do you remember when I said the picture of Captain Marvel I took back in February was a test shot for my February Alphabet Fun Month project? Well, she was also serving as a test for another series of shots I was taking that same day. My friend Scott loves Thanos, so I decided to take some pictures of him (in minifig form!) for Scott for his birthday. I came up with the idea last February, but unfortunately it was too late to do then because I didn't have the minifigures yet. I wasn't sure exactly what these shots would look like, but I knew I wanted the infinity gauntlet in them too, so I got both the regular-sized minifigure of Thanos and the big one. I originally envisioned a picture of the regular-sized minifigure holding the Infinity Gauntlet, but when everything came in, it was pretty obvious that wasn't going to work very well. I ended up going with a shot of the Gauntlet in the foreground, and Thanos in the background.
I should also note, this is not the shot I gave Scott for his birthday (although I was debating between this one and the other one). The two shots are very similar, but this one has everything a little further back. The one I gave him was closer, and I just really liked it better! :)
Es una tontería, lo sé, y no me acaba de convencer, y la Y està del revés:$ jajaja, pero me hacía ilusión subirla, a ver qué os parece:)
The Viewminderette's and I have readied Infinity to hit the water and we should be sailing on May 10th!
My OMEGA Constellation watch (a 21st birthday gift) turned into a spiral. I woke up with a headache this morning and this is the result.
Infinity Clock Backdrop Full Perm Mesh. More info Here: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Infinity-Clock-Backdrop-Full...
104/365 Infinity.
Some infinities are bigger than others" - The Fault in Our Start.
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Infinito.
"Algunos infinitos son mas grandes que otros" - Bajo la misma estrella.
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a rivermoving in you, a joy.
When actions come from another section, the feelingdisappears.
Don't let others lead you.
They may be blind or, worse, vultures.
Reach for the rope of God.
And what is that?
Putting aside self-will.
Because of willfulness people sit in jail, the trapped bird's wings are tied, fish sizzle in the skillet.
The anger of police is willfulness.
You've seen a magistrate inflict visible punishment.
Now see the invisible.
If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.
We are born and live inside black water in a well.
How could we know what an open field of sunlight is?
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go.
Ask the way to the spring.
Your living pieces will form a harmony.
There is a moving palace that floats in the air with balconies and clear water flowing through, infinity everywhere, yet contained under a single tent."
("Moving Water" from "The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting" by Jalāl ad-Dīn Rumi - Sufi mystic & poet, 1207-1273)
This man was swimming in the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras) when a seagull came down and joined this moment of infinity...
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Early morning shot, with the sunrise to the left. Clouds reflected in the infinity pool in the foreground.
Another shot of my Valkyrie that I hope you'll enjoy! Hopefully the Avengers Infinity War trailer will drop soon and we'll see her again!
Titulo / Title: Infinito.
Modelo / Model: Desconocido (Unknown)
Locación / Location : La Defense, París - Francia.
Categoría/ Category: Classic.
© Copyright photo. Arq.blancoc
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This photo Is the Winner in the "IF PHOTO AWARD" Celebrated In the Carrara City, Italia. 01/10/2011
This contest was performed by "F stone Magazine" and the group of Flickr "If photo Award".
Thank you to all for your support.
The jury panel met to lay down the selection criteria and select the winners; the first three winners are listed below.
Panel members were:
Chairman:
Roberto Franzoni
Architect, Editor in chief, F stone magazine
Members:
Decio Giulio Carugati
Deputy editor in chief, F stone Magazine
Federigo Salvadori
Professional photographer
Nicola Pedrini
Art Director
Prof. Pier Giorgio Balocchi
Full Professor of Sculpture
Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara
Dr Francesco Gorlandi
Publisher
After establishing that no jury members had any relations of potential interest in the nominees and after reading out the rules of the award, the following four selection criteria were laid down:
1. Consistency with the subject of the award
2. Personal approach
3. Aesthetics
4. Technical standard
After a wide discussion, the jury declared the following three winners:
First place:
Johan Armando Blanco,
flickr nickname arq.blancoc, country: Venezuela, photo title: Infinity, place: Parigi.
Second place:
Alberto Lovisetto, flickr nickname AlberoL Photo, country: Italy, photo title: 3 columns, place: Phanteon, Parigi.
Third place:
Gabriele De Palo, flickr nickname DePalo, country: Italy, photo title: Modulor, place: Palace of Justice, Palermo.
Here is the link of the contest and the winners too.
The Infinity Bridge is a public pedestrian and cycle footbridge across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north east of England. The bridge is situated one kilometre downriver of Stockton town centre, between the Princess of Wales Bridge and the Tees Barrage and it links the Teesdale Business Park and the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Thornaby-on-Tees on the south bank of the Tees with the Tees Valley Regeneration's £320 million North Shore development on the north bank.
Built at a cost of £15 million with funding from Stockton Borough Council, English Partnerships and its successor body the Homes and Communities Agency, One NorthEast, and the European Regional Development Fund the bridge is a major part of the North Shore Redevelopment Project undertaken by Tees Valley Regeneration.
The bridge had the project title North Shore Footbridge before being given its official name Infinity Bridge, chosen by a panel made from the funding bodies, using names suggested by the public. The name derives from the infinity symbol formed by the bridge and its reflection.
A special feature is made of the way the bridge is lit at night. This lighting scheme was designed by Speirs and Major Associates who also designed the lighting for the Burj Al-Arab. At night the bridge handrail and footway are lit with designer blue and white LED lighting built into the handrail that changes colour as users cross. Attached to the steel cable ties are white metal-halide up-lighters to illuminate the white painted bridge arches, and blue LED down-lighters to illuminate the water and ground surfaces immediately below the deck.At night from certain viewing angles when the river surface is flat calm, the twin arches together with their reflection in the river appear as an infinity symbol ∞, and it is this effect that inspired its name.
At the start of construction a temporary jetty was built on the south bank to enable the building of a cofferdam for the safe construction of the central pier. In April 2008 the supporting legs were added to the central pier.Steel falsework was constructed in the cofferdam by Dorman Long[ to support the ends of both incomplete arches as they cantilevered over the river during construction. The first steel arch made from four pieces of fabricated steel welded together, was put in place in June 2008 and was later used to stabilise the cantilevering lower portions of the main arch using a strand-jack and tie cable between the top of the small arch and the large arch and then to reduce sway stress during its progressive construction of the large arch.
The final section of the main arch came in four pieces which were welded together on site and on 5 September 2008 all 170 tonnes of it was lifted into place by a 1,500 tonne mobile crane, the largest in the country. The crane, a Gottwald AK680 owned by Sarens UK is based in nearby Middlesbrough. The crane is 80 metres (262 ft) high with a maximum of 1200 tonnes of superlift, requires 45 transport wagons to move it,and takes three days to set up using a 100 tonne crane.
The concrete deck panels were cast on site using three steel moulds in temporary sheds in a construction compound on the north bank of the river. Using a short temporary jetty on the north bank the deck panels were floated out on a small barge and jacked into position working progressively away from the river pier. The concrete deck sections are held together by steel welds and adhesive.
The footbridge was completed on time and to budget in December 2008 with 530 workers and uses in total some 450 tonnes of Corus steel,1.5 km of locked coil steel cable, 780 lights, 5,472 bolts and weighs 1040 tons. Almost all labour, materials and components were sourced locally.
The bridge was officially opened on 14 May 2009 with celebrations including a sound, light and animation show, parkour freerunners who climbed the bridge arches with flares, and a specially composed music track and synchronised pyrotechnics from the bridge itself with big screens for the estimated audience of 20,000 spectators along the banks. The bridge was opened to the public two days later. Foot traffic is anticipated to rise to some four thousand people a day as the North Shore site develops.
The bridge won the Institution of Structural Engineers' Supreme Award for Structural Excellence 2009,] the premier structural engineering award in the UK. It also won in its own category of Pedestrian Bridges. The other awards the bridge has won include the Structural Steel Design Award 2010,] the Concrete Society Civil Engineering Award 2009, the ICE Robert Stephenson Award 2009, the North East Constructing Excellence Awards 'Project of the Year',and the Green Apple Award for the environment.
Picture by Steven Iceton of www.steveniceton.co.uk
[...] The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds [...]
-- Quote from "Infinity and the Mind" (1995) by Rudy Rucker.
Paris, France (September, 2007)
A very foggy evening at The Infinity Bridge. the far side of the bridge disappeared into freezing fog! Thanks to Scott for the invite on his southwards bound trip. :)
The Infinity Bridge at Stockton on Tees which links the town with the University campus on the south side of the river.
This was early evening on a still December day.
Last of the set !! Building work going on over the other side so couldnt get the better composition.
Now it has been a few years since rewatching, but this was the film I was the most excited to revisit in my “Road to Infinity War” watchathon! But out of all the solo films in the first phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I’ve probably seen Captain America: The First Avenger the most! I remember wanting to see this movie so bad, but for some odd circumstances, I remember watching this movie for the first time weeks after its release, but I loved it the first time. I was a fan of Captain America before the film, but the tone was just perfect for me as a 12 year old. Anyways, I just finished watching the film so let’s check out if Captain America: The First Avenger still holds up for me after this incredible journey we’ve seen Cap go through after his first outing!
Good: I think the biggest thing I’ve picked up after this rewatch is how much I love and respect on how the filmmakers handled the mythology of Captain America in this movie. It’s so interesting to watch Steve Rogers start out as propaganda through comics and shows, it was a genius idea of the filmmaker’s! This movie perfectly captures the tone of the original comics, yet still grounds itself through the great character development. The introduction to Steve Rogers into this cinematic universe was absolutely perfect in this film, Marvel Studios casted the perfect man for the job in Chris Evans and I can’t quite possibly see anyone else as the character now! This film is one of the few Marvel films that actually gets better after seeing the films that followed it. Now after watching everything that’s gone down with the relationship between Cap and Bucky in Winter Soldier and Civil War, it’s really cool to watch them as pure friends in this movie. I also believe that this film also has a very underrated villain in the Red Skull. Hugo Weaving does a great performance as Red Skull and I really wish we could see more of him in the future, I mean he’s one of the biggest villains of the Marvel universe, having this great character in one movie seems a bit odd. The last thing I’ll say about this film is I really like how different this feels from the rest of the MCU. Some of the best MCU films are some of the most original in terms of its tone and technical aspects, and the way The First Avenger looks and sounds makes it stand out from the rest of the films. Alan Silvestri created an amazing theme for the character, and I would be upset that it hasn’t returned in the other Captain America films, but I really like the soundtracks for Winter Soldier and Civil War so I don’t mind.
Bad: My biggest complaint with this film is the pacing. This film feels very rushed in terms of the plot and character development. I wish the filmmakers made Steve Rogers Captain America longer in the 40s, it feels like he became Captain America then was frozen in ice in a matter of weeks. It would’ve been cool if there was a time jump so maybe we could return to Steve in the 40s doing stuff as flashback in other films *cough*BlackPanther*cough*. I also wasn’t a fan of how fast Bucky was “killed off,” I really liked their relationship but I wanted to see more of it!
Overall, Captain America: The First Avenger is an amazing first film for an amazing character that ultimately gets dragged down with its rapid pacing. This film is only two hours and I feel like they could’ve added 30 more minutes of development to truly make us feel Cap’s loss when he ultimately gets woken up in the present. That being said, this film is still a solid entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but merely a stepping stone to greater and more memorable films. For these reasons, I’m going to give Captain America: The First Avenger a 7.75/10. Let me know your thoughts on the First Avenger are in the comments below and look forward to my review of the film that brought all these heroes together next week!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_Bridge
The Infinity Bridge is a public pedestrian and cycle footbridge across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north-east of England. The bridge is situated one kilometre downriver of Stockton town centre, between the Princess of Wales Bridge and the Tees Barrage and it links the Teesdale Business Park and the University of Durham's Queen's Campus in Thornaby-on-Tees on the south bank of the Tees with the Tees Valley Regeneration's £320 million North Shore development on the north bank.
A crossover of Marvel and Star wars where Tony Stark collected all of the different kyber crystals to create the ultimate lightsaber, the Infinity Saber!
I can probably recite Toy Story 1, 2 and 3 verbatim. We've watched the movies so many times in recent months at Maisie's request. She loves them. So much so, that we bought her Woody and Buzz Lightyear dolls for Christmas, although I think Jack has actually played with them more. Maybe she'd prefer if they actually came to life. Who knows?
I wanted to have a play with a light setup this evening so thought it would be fun to take a photograph of Buzz. Somewhat overkill with the size of the modifiers for a small toy but it was straightforward enough to get the look I was after.
I used Joel Grimes' method, that I'd recently seen on Kelby Training, to process Buzz in Photoshop, which turned out to be pretty quick work. I then extracted the figure and spent quite some time just messing around with the background. It was generated using Knoll Light Factory, which is a great plugin for generating all kinds of weird and wonderful lighting effects. A bit of warping, colourizing (to match Buzz's wings) and radial gradients for the white light sources and you get what you see here. All good fun.
Ironically, when Maisie got home today she asked to watch Mary Poppins! Go figure.
Strobist:
Ranger A Head, B port at 2.0, 135 Midi Octa with both diffusers, behind Buzz
Ranger Quadra A Head, B port at 4.4, 130x50 Strip with both diffusers, rear camera left
Ranger Quadra A Head, B port at 4.4, 130x50 Strip with both diffusers, rear camera right
Ranger Quadra A Head, B Port at 0.4, 70cm White Maxisoft with silver deflector and sock, above camera
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