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Placement Working Group takes a break, Education: Not Knowing. Raven Row, London. As part of Artists Placement Group (APG) exhibition at Raven Row, a ThinkTank at Chelsea College of Art and Design convened a public discussion based on APG’s discursive format of The Sculpture.
Because I slaughtered his crew, I'm going to finish off the rest of them, then kill him (Iraq) And Lucky Quinn.
(Just a glorified hitwoman :p)
Placement Working Group notes, Education: Not Knowing. Raven Row, London. As part of Artists Placement Group (APG) exhibition at Raven Row, a ThinkTank at Chelsea College of Art and Design convened a public discussion based on APG’s discursive format of The Sculpture.
Not Knowing (background) and Gallery (foreground) Working Groups at work, Education: Not Knowing. Raven Row, London. As part of Artists Placement Group (APG) exhibition at Raven Row, a ThinkTank at Chelsea College of Art and Design convened a public discussion based on APG’s discursive format of The Sculpture.
We are tied to earth during our time here, but our true self is our energy connected to all that is.
Some things in life are certain, like death and taxes. Add knowing that when you shoot with Ashana you are in for an incredible experience. She is a definite A List model in all the photographer's book - the complete person. She brings a great attitude, incredible outfits, and natural sweetness to the shoots with her. Wow - I can't picture getting tired of shooting with her!
We did a nice, relaxed very small group shoot with Ashana in Lynn Ary park in West Anchorage in August 2011; it was a nice place to shoot.
Strobist info: I used a Canon 580 EXII shot through a white umbrella and a bare Vivitar 285HV. I set the light stands about 10-15 feet away from Ashana and really liked out the lighting turned out - but it's very hard to get a bad shot of Ashana!
Knowing that the shot from last week on Hill Street was the back of the former Futurist Cinema. I decided to get some shots of this former cinema from the front on John Bright Street.
It was Wildcats most recently (possibly a nightclub of lap dancing club). Not nice to think it went from a cinema to a place with dancing women.
It also currently houses Rouge Gentlemen's Club.
I've seen a poster in Nosalgia and Comics (a comic book shop on Smallbrook Queensway) for the film Cobra and it says Futurist on it (that was back in 1986).
Previously this building was occupied by Spearmint Rhino Extreme.
The Futurist Cinema is by Arthur Stockwell of Newcastle upon Tyne, started 1914, slightly simplified during construction by Essex & Goodman, and completed 1920. A classical, rather civic, design in pink-red brick and cream terracotta, a contrast with Birmingham work in the same materials. Open Ionic arcade above the entrance. Impressive blank rear elevation on Hill Street.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
The below is from Images of England: Birmingham Cinemas -
The cinema was built by one of Birmingham's own impresarios Sol Levy. Construction started before the First World War and the cinema opened in 1919, like other city-centre cinemas it had a cafe bar, which served as a meeting place for people not neccessarily going to see a film. The building is now used as a nightclub.
Without knowing any history, a visitor to Hiroshima might not realize what happened here over 60 years ago. The Genbaku Dome stands as a reminder to the past in this otherwise typically modern Japanese city. Notable in the first images showing the devistation of Hiroshima after the atomic bombing, portions of this building including the steel framed dome remained standing despite being less than 500 feet from ground zero. Virtually everything around it was completely leveled.
Through the efforts of many people, including those of the city of Hiroshima, it has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing. Not only is it a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind; it also expresses the hope for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons. It was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1996.
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Is human life just a dream, from which we never really awake, as some great thinkers claim? Are we submerged by our feelings, by our loves and hates, by our ideas of good, bad, beautiful, awful? Are we incapable of knowing beyond those ideas and feelings?
Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead.
Is between these pendulums - the positive, the one that gives happiness and meaning, and the negative - that our lives are lived. And when we meditate about all that, we arrive at a diverse and disagreeing set of thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life.
Taken: Somewhere in Mansehra, NWFP, Pakistan
Aa orangutan comes down from the trees to say hello at Gunung Leuser National Park, Sumatra. ...and gives me a smile.
It's wonderful when we decide to become transgendered and start to see our body in a different way and what it potentially means as we start our adventure. But it's also wonderful when we become mature and confident both sexually and in the way we dress. I think it's very easy to make excuses and be down on ourselves but it's all about self-belief as we have if we live this way cracked it and probably done wonderful things others only dream of. Moralists might see it as sin and weakness but it's not as simple as that as it's there in our genes we can't all be Mr. Straight and like a plant placed in the right spot we are now flowering as Miss Right.
Knowing that the shot from last week on Hill Street was the back of the former Futurist Cinema. I decided to get some shots of this former cinema from the front on John Bright Street.
It was Wildcats most recently (possibly a nightclub of lap dancing club). Not nice to think it went from a cinema to a place with dancing women.
It also currently houses Rouge Gentlemen's Club.
I've seen a poster in Nosalgia and Comics (a comic book shop on Smallbrook Queensway) for the film Cobra and it says Futurist on it (that was back in 1986).
Previously this building was occupied by Spearmint Rhino Extreme.
I think the Leasehold is available, but still for use as a club. Why not turn it back into a cinema?
The Futurist Cinema is by Arthur Stockwell of Newcastle upon Tyne, started 1914, slightly simplified during construction by Essex & Goodman, and completed 1920. A classical, rather civic, design in pink-red brick and cream terracotta, a contrast with Birmingham work in the same materials. Open Ionic arcade above the entrance. Impressive blank rear elevation on Hill Street.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
The below is from Images of England: Birmingham Cinemas -
The cinema was built by one of Birmingham's own impresarios Sol Levy. Construction started before the First World War and the cinema opened in 1919, like other city-centre cinemas it had a cafe bar, which served as a meeting place for people not neccessarily going to see a film. The building is now used as a nightclub.
Knowing this is a champagne bottle
I surrounded the bottle with artificial grapes, so yeah lol
1/250th
f/5.6
ISO 160
580ex II into small softbox as high key
580ex II with snoot to specifically pop the brand name "Andre"
edited with LR3
Critiques and comments welcomed
Knowing that you all love a picture of Pawz I thought I would invite him to the party today. He has developed a real love for playing with ice cubes recently when I put them in his water dish. He has a great time putting his paw in and then shaking it off, then repeating the procedure with the other paw, normally until the offending ice cubes have been turfed out or melted. However being a cat he is very much an independant boy, so upon noticing that I was trying to get a clever photo of him making a mess he promptly ignored the ice cubes and sauntered off up stairs!!! Luckily I managed to get a few shots before his ego took hold :)
A couple of the runner up shots for todays 7days are here and here
Knowing that the shot from last week on Hill Street was the back of the former Futurist Cinema. I decided to get some shots of this former cinema from the front on John Bright Street.
It was Wildcats most recently (possibly a nightclub of lap dancing club). Not nice to think it went from a cinema to a place with dancing women.
It also currently houses Rouge Gentlemen's Club.
I've seen a poster in Nosalgia and Comics (a comic book shop on Smallbrook Queensway) for the film Cobra and it says Futurist on it (that was back in 1986).
Previously this building was occupied by Spearmint Rhino Extreme.
This is the entrance to Rouge Gentlemen's Club on John Bright Street.
The Futurist Cinema is by Arthur Stockwell of Newcastle upon Tyne, started 1914, slightly simplified during construction by Essex & Goodman, and completed 1920. A classical, rather civic, design in pink-red brick and cream terracotta, a contrast with Birmingham work in the same materials. Open Ionic arcade above the entrance. Impressive blank rear elevation on Hill Street.
From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster
The below is from Images of England: Birmingham Cinemas -
The cinema was built by one of Birmingham's own impresarios Sol Levy. Construction started before the First World War and the cinema opened in 1919, like other city-centre cinemas it had a cafe bar, which served as a meeting place for people not neccessarily going to see a film. The building is now used as a nightclub.
The Albertina
The architectural history of the Palais
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Image: The oldest photographic view of the newly designed Palais Archduke Albrecht, 1869
"It is my will that the expansion of the inner city of Vienna with regard to a suitable connection of the same with the suburbs as soon as possible is tackled and at this on Regulirung (regulation) and beautifying of my Residence and Imperial Capital is taken into account. To this end I grant the withdrawal of the ramparts and fortifications of the inner city and the trenches around the same".
This decree of Emperor Franz Joseph I, published on 25 December 1857 in the Wiener Zeitung, formed the basis for the largest the surface concerning and architecturally most significant transformation of the Viennese cityscape. Involving several renowned domestic and foreign architects a "master plan" took form, which included the construction of a boulevard instead of the ramparts between the inner city and its radially upstream suburbs. In the 50-years during implementation phase, an impressive architectural ensemble developed, consisting of imperial and private representational buildings, public administration and cultural buildings, churches and barracks, marking the era under the term "ring-street style". Already in the first year tithe decided a senior member of the Austrian imperial family to decorate the facades of his palace according to the new design principles, and thus certified the aristocratic claim that this also "historicism" said style on the part of the imperial house was attributed.
Image: The Old Albertina after 1920
It was the palace of Archduke Albrecht (1817-1895), the Senior of the Habsburg Family Council, who as Field Marshal held the overall command over the Austro-Hungarian army. The building was incorporated into the imperial residence of the Hofburg complex, forming the south-west corner and extending eleven meters above street level on the so-called Augustinerbastei.
The close proximity of the palace to the imperial residence corresponded not only with Emperor Franz Joseph I and Archduke Albert with a close familial relationship between the owner of the palace and the monarch. Even the former inhabitants were always in close relationship to the imperial family, whether by birth or marriage. An exception here again proves the rule: Don Emanuel Teles da Silva Conde Tarouca (1696-1771), for which Maria Theresa in 1744 the palace had built, was just a close friend and advisor of the monarch. Silva Tarouca underpins the rule with a second exception, because he belonged to the administrative services as Generalhofbaudirektor (general court architect) and President of the Austrian-Dutch administration, while all other him subsequent owners were highest ranking military.
In the annals of Austrian history, especially those of military history, they either went into as commander of the Imperial Army, or the Austrian, later kk Army. In chronological order, this applies to Duke Carl Alexander of Lorraine, the brother-of-law of Maria Theresa, as Imperial Marshal, her son-in-law Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, also field marshal, whos adopted son, Archduke Charles of Austria, the last imperial field marshal and only Generalissimo of Austria, his son Archduke Albrecht of Austria as Feldmarschalil and army Supreme commander, and most recently his nephew Archduke Friedrich of Austria, who held as field marshal from 1914 to 1916 the command of the Austro-Hungarian troops. Despite their military profession, all five generals conceived themselves as patrons of the arts and promoted large sums of money to build large collections, the construction of magnificent buildings and cultural life. Charles Alexander of Lorraine promoted as governor of the Austrian Netherlands from 1741 to 1780 the Academy of Fine Arts, the Théâtre de Ja Monnaie and the companies Bourgeois Concert and Concert Noble, he founded the Academie royale et imperial des Sciences et des Lettres, opened the Bibliotheque Royal for the population and supported artistic talents with high scholarships. World fame got his porcelain collection, which however had to be sold by Emperor Joseph II to pay off his debts. Duke Albert began in 1776 according to the concept of conte Durazzo to set up an encyclopedic collection of prints, which forms the core of the world-famous "Albertina" today.
Image : Duke Albert and Archduchess Marie Christine show in family cercle the from Italy brought along art, 1776. Frederick Henry Füger.
1816 declared to Fideikommiss and thus in future indivisible, inalienable and inseparable, the collection 1822 passed into the possession of Archduke Carl, who, like his descendants, it broadened. Under him, the collection was introduced together with the sumptuously equipped palace on the Augustinerbastei in the so-called "Carl Ludwig'schen fideicommissum in 1826, by which the building and the in it kept collection fused into an indissoluble unity. At this time had from the Palais Tarouca by structural expansion or acquisition a veritable Residenz palace evolved. Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen was first in 1800 the third floor of the adjacent Augustinian convent wing adapted to house his collection and he had after 1802 by his Belgian architect Louis de Montoyer at the suburban side built a magnificent extension, called the wing of staterooms, it was equipped in the style of Louis XVI. Only two decades later, Archduke Carl the entire palace newly set up. According to scetches of the architect Joseph Kornhäusel the 1822-1825 retreaded premises presented themselves in the Empire style. The interior of the palace testified from now in an impressive way the high rank and the prominent position of its owner. Under Archduke Albrecht the outer appearance also should meet the requirements. He had the facade of the palace in the style of historicism orchestrated and added to the Palais front against the suburbs an offshore covered access. Inside, he limited himself, apart from the redesign of the Rococo room in the manner of the second Blondel style, to the retention of the paternal stock. Archduke Friedrich's plans for an expansion of the palace were omitted, however, because of the outbreak of the First World War so that his contribution to the state rooms, especially, consists in the layout of the Spanish apartment, which he in 1895 for his sister, the Queen of Spain Maria Christina, had set up as a permanent residence.
Picture: The "audience room" after the restoration: Picture: The "balcony room" around 1990
The era of stately representation with handing down their cultural values found its most obvious visualization inside the palace through the design and features of the staterooms. On one hand, by the use of the finest materials and the purchase of masterfully manufactured pieces of equipment, such as on the other hand by the permanent reuse of older equipment parts. This period lasted until 1919, when Archduke Friedrich was expropriated by the newly founded Republic of Austria. With the republicanization of the collection and the building first of all finished the tradition that the owner's name was synonymous with the building name:
After Palais Tarouca or tarokkisches house it was called Lorraine House, afterwards Duke Albert Palais and Palais Archduke Carl. Due to the new construction of an adjacently located administration building it received in 1865 the prefix "Upper" and was referred to as Upper Palais Archduke Albrecht and Upper Palais Archduke Frederick. For the state a special reference to the Habsburg past was certainly politically no longer opportune, which is why was decided to name the building according to the in it kept collection "Albertina".
Picture: The "Wedgwood Cabinet" after the restoration: Picture: the "Wedgwood Cabinet" in the Palais Archduke Friedrich, 1905
This name derives from the term "La Collection Albertina" which had been used by the gallery Inspector Maurice von Thausing in 1870 in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts for the former graphics collection of Duke Albert. For this reason, it was the first time since the foundation of the palace that the name of the collection had become synonymous with the room shell. Room shell, hence, because the Republic of Austria Archduke Friedrich had allowed to take along all the movable goods from the palace in his Hungarian exile: crystal chandeliers, curtains and carpets as well as sculptures, vases and clocks. Particularly stressed should be the exquisite furniture, which stems of three facilities phases: the Louis XVI furnitures of Duke Albert, which had been manufactured on the basis of fraternal relations between his wife Archduchess Marie Christine and the French Queen Marie Antoinette after 1780 in the French Hofmanufakturen, also the on behalf of Archduke Charles 1822-1825 in the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory by Joseph Danhauser produced Empire furnitures and thirdly additions of the same style of Archduke Friedrich, which this about 1900 at Portois & Ffix as well as at Friedrich Otto Schmidt had commissioned.
The "swept clean" building got due to the strained financial situation after the First World War initially only a makeshift facility. However, since until 1999 no revision of the emergency equipment took place, but differently designed, primarily the utilitarianism committed office furnitures complementarily had been added, the equipment of the former state rooms presented itself at the end of the 20th century as an inhomogeneous administrative mingle-mangle of insignificant parts, where, however, dwelt a certain quaint charm. From the magnificent state rooms had evolved depots, storage rooms, a library, a study hall and several officed.
Image: The Albertina Graphic Arts Collection and the Philipphof after the American bombing of 12 März 1945.
Image: The palace after the demolition of the entrance facade, 1948-52
Worse it hit the outer appearance of the palace, because in times of continued anti-Habsburg sentiment after the Second World War and inspired by an intolerant destruction will, it came by pickaxe to a ministerial erasure of history. In contrast to the graphic collection possessed the richly decorated facades with the conspicuous insignia of the former owner an object-immanent reference to the Habsburg past and thus exhibited the monarchial traditions and values of the era of Francis Joseph significantly. As part of the remedial measures after a bomb damage, in 1948 the aristocratic, by Archduke Albert initiated, historicist facade structuring along with all decorations was cut off, many facade figures demolished and the Hapsburg crest emblems plunged to the ground. Since in addition the old ramp also had been cancelled and the main entrance of the bastion level had been moved down to the second basement storey at street level, ended the presence of the old Archduke's palace after more than 200 years. At the reopening of the "Albertina Graphic Collection" in 1952, the former Hapsburg Palais of splendour presented itself as one of his identity robbed, formally trivial, soulless room shell, whose successful republicanization an oversized and also unproportional eagle above the new main entrance to the Augustinian road symbolized. The emocratic throw of monuments had wiped out the Hapsburg palace from the urban appeareance, whereby in the perception only existed a nondescript, nameless and ahistorical building that henceforth served the lodging and presentation of world-famous graphic collection of the Albertina. The condition was not changed by the decision to the refurbishment because there were only planned collection specific extensions, but no restoration of the palace.
Image: The palace after the Second World War with simplified facades, the rudiment of the Danubiusbrunnens (well) and the new staircase up to the Augustinerbastei
This paradigm shift corresponded to a blatant reversal of the historical circumstances, as the travel guides and travel books for kk Residence and imperial capital of Vienna dedicated itself primarily with the magnificent, aristocratic palace on the Augustinerbastei with the sumptuously fitted out reception rooms and mentioned the collection kept there - if at all - only in passing. Only with the repositioning of the Albertina in 2000 under the direction of Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the palace was within the meaning and in fulfillment of the Fideikommiss of Archduke Charles in 1826 again met with the high regard, from which could result a further inseparable bond between the magnificent mansions and the world-famous collection. In view of the knowing about politically motivated errors and omissions of the past, the facades should get back their noble, historicist designing, the staterooms regain their glamorous, prestigious appearance and culturally unique equippment be repurchased. From this presumption, eventually grew the full commitment to revise the history of redemption and the return of the stately palace in the public consciousness.
Image: The restored suburb facade of the Palais Albertina suburb
The smoothed palace facades were returned to their original condition and present themselves today - with the exception of the not anymore reconstructed Attica figures - again with the historicist decoration and layout elements that Archduke Albrecht had given after the razing of the Augustinerbastei in 1865 in order. The neoclassical interiors, today called after the former inhabitants "Habsburg Staterooms", receiving a meticulous and detailed restoration taking place at the premises of originality and authenticity, got back their venerable and sumptuous appearance. From the world wide scattered historical pieces of equipment have been bought back 70 properties or could be returned through permanent loan to its original location, by which to the visitors is made experiencable again that atmosphere in 1919 the state rooms of the last Habsburg owner Archduke Frederick had owned. The for the first time in 80 years public accessible "Habsburg State Rooms" at the Palais Albertina enable now again as eloquent testimony to our Habsburg past and as a unique cultural heritage fundamental and essential insights into the Austrian cultural history. With the relocation of the main entrance to the level of the Augustinerbastei the recollection to this so valuable Austrian Cultural Heritage formally and functionally came to completion. The vision of the restoration and recovery of the grand palace was a pillar on which the new Albertina should arise again, the other embody the four large newly built exhibition halls, which allow for the first time in the history of the Albertina, to exhibit the collection throughout its encyclopedic breadh under optimal conservation conditions.
Image: The new entrance area of the Albertina
64 meter long shed roof. Hans Hollein.
The palace presents itself now in its appearance in the historicist style of the Ringstrassenära, almost as if nothing had happened in the meantime. But will the wheel of time should not, cannot and must not be turned back, so that the double standards of the "Albertina Palace" said museum - on the one hand Habsburg grandeur palaces and other modern museum for the arts of graphics - should be symbolized by a modern character: The in 2003 by Hans Hollein designed far into the Albertina square cantilevering, elegant floating flying roof. 64 meters long, it symbolizes in the form of a dynamic wedge the accelerated urban spatial connectivity and public access to the palace. It advertises the major changes in the interior as well as the huge underground extensions of the repositioned "Albertina".
Christian Benedictine
Art historian with research interests History of Architecture, building industry of the Hapsburgs, Hofburg and Zeremonialwissenschaft (ceremonial sciences). Since 1990 he works in the architecture collection of the Albertina. Since 2000 he supervises as director of the newly founded department "Staterooms" the restoration and furnishing of the state rooms and the restoration of the facades and explores the history of the palace and its inhabitants.
99 Names of Allah
AL-A'ZIZ - The All-Mighty
AL-MUHAYMIN - The Protector
AL-MU'MIN - The Guardian of Faith
AS-SALAM - The Source of Peace
AL-QUDDUS - The Holy
AL-MALIK - The Sovereign Lord
AL-RAHIM - The Merciful
AR-RAHMAN - The Beneficent
AL-WAHHAB - The Bestower
AL-QUHHAR - The Subduer
AL-CHAFFAR - The Forgiving
AL-MUSAWWIR - The Fashioner
AL-BARI - The Evolver
AL-KHALIQ - The Creator
AL-MUTAKBBIR - The Majestic
AL-JABBAR - The Compeller
AL-MU'ZIZ - The Honorer
AL-RAFT - The Enchanting
AL-KHAFID - The Degrading
AL-BASIT - The Munificent
AL-QUBID - The Constrictor
AL-A'LIM - The All Knowing
AL-FATTAH - The Revealer
AR-RAZZAQ - The Provider
AL-HALIM - The Forbearing One
AL-KHABIR - The Aware
AL-LATIF - The Most Courteous
AL-ADL - The Just
AL-HAKAM - The Judge
AL-BASIR - The All-Seeing
AS-SAMI - The All-Hearing
AL-MUZILL - The DisHononer
AL-HASIB - The Keeper of All Account
AL-MAQIT - The Maintainer
AL-FAFIZ - The Preserver
AL-KABIR - The Most Great
AL-A'LI - The Most High
ASH-SHAKUR - The Appreciative
AL-GAHFUR - The All-Forgiving
Al-A'ZIM - The Supreme
AL-HAKIM - The Wise
AL-WASH' - The All-Embracing
AL-MUJIB - The Responsive
AR-RAQIB - The Watchful
AL-KARIM - The Generous One
AL-JALIL - The Sublime One
AL-WAKIL - The Trustee
AL-HAQQ - The Truth
ASH-SHADID - The Witness
AL-BA'TTH - The Resurrector
AL-MAJID - The Most Glorious One
AL-WADUD - The Loving
AL-MUHYI - The Giver of Life
AL-MU'ID - The Restorer
AL-MUBDI - The Originator
AL-MUHSI- The Reckoner
AL-MAHID - The Praiseworthy
AL-WALI - The Protecting Friend
AL-MATIN - The Firm One
AL-QAWI - The Most Strong
AL-QADIR - The Able
AS-SAMAD - The Eternal
AL-WAHID - The Unique
AL-MAJID - The Noble
AL-WAJID - The Finder
AL-QAYYUM - The Protector
AL-HAYY - The Alive
AL-MUMIT - The Annihilator
AL-WALI - The Governor
AL-BATIN - The Hidden
AZ-ZAHIR - The Manifest
AL-HAKHIR - The Last
AL-AWWAL - The First
AL-MUAKHKHIR - The Delayer
AL-MUQADDIM - The Expediter
AL-MUQTADIR - The Powerful
MALIK-UL-MULK - The Eternal Owner of Sovereignty
AR-RA'UF - The Compassionate
AL-A'FUW - The Pardoner
AL-MUNTAQIM - The Avenger
AT-TAWWAB - The Acceptor of Repentance
AL-BARR - The Source of All Goodness
AL-MUTA'ALI - The Most Excited
AD-DARR - The Distresser
AL-MANAT - The Preventer
AL-MUGHNI - The Enricher
AL-GHANI - The Sufficient
AL-JAMIAT - The Gatherer
AL-MUQSIT - The Equitable
DHUL-JALALI-WAL-AKRAM - The Lord of Majesty & Bounty
AS-SABUR - The Patient
AR-RASHID - The Sage
AL-WARITH - The Supreme Inheritor
AL-BAQI - The Everlasting
AL-BADII - The Innovator
AL-HADI - The Guide
AN-HUR - The Light
AN-NAFI - The Propitious
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Whitley, Nova's daughter, in SoulCalibur V
WALL OF TEXT.
Whitley, the second child, was Victor and Nova's little princess when she was a little girl. Unfortunately, Regina(Victor's mother) wasn't amused. Regina stressed for Whitley to be stronger.
Whitley, age 4 1/2, escaped for a moment from her maid-guards. She witnesses a group of Victor's soldiers commit a gang rape(It happens in war, sorry - HISTORY -- I won't show the scene but smart people will get the image).
Due to the mental scar, this event left Whitley, Victor had a public execution of those people.
In a gladiator arena, Victor used his "sphere of annihilation"(DBZ's "Spirit bomb"-like attack www.flickr.com/photos/cliffather/31809166823/in/dateposted/ ) and killed those soldiers involved, the soldiers who watched and didn't report/stop the event and despite her pleas; the blue-skinned alien woman who was the victim.
Years later, A Devil Lord named Fork helps conquer Victor taking Victor's crown from him. Victor becomes a servant. Victor later plans and staged an insurrection.
Knowing the day of "The Victor's Insurrection" against him, Fork captures Victor's family - Nova, disabled son Raj, Whitley and Victor Jr.
Victor Jr is beaten and left with scars over his entire body.
Whitley wasn't beaten or touched but she had the spell "nightmare" cast on her by Fork. The Spell put Whitley as the rape victim(The gang rape Whitley seen as a small child was her nightmare).
Nova and Raj were in a cell together; they were to be the last ones punished. But with the help of Roxanne & Selena, Nova and her kids escape. A teammate name Euforia was killed for Victor's betrayal and Nova's escape.
Whitley was damaged mentally because of the spell. Making a "wicked Whitley" and "wyrd Whitley"(evil and "good"). When the baby sister STAR is born, Whitley managed to control herself, with the training from Annie Sue S (Evil Sue - Victor's most powerful telepath on his team - the opposite of Wilma for William's team).
After Star's death, Whitley bipolar condition got worse.
When she heard about "STAR II", she wanted to meet her. (Star II is Victor's adult daughter from alternate universe captured by the Angel of Vengeance. STAR II will not have a role in the comic until almost at the end of the series)
Life is kind of hard on Nova's Kids, huh.
If you haven't caught on about all of my main characters - Nova(1st - killed by Bernice), Victor(2nd - speared by Fork after his insurrection attempt), William(3rd - similar to Vegeta's "final explosion" during the DBZ's Buu saga) and the last chara Wilma Sue (technically, she's second - killed by her teen self) faced death in my comic. They are killed ONCE. Their deaths will have meaning(think Goku in Dragonball Z) before I bring them back.
Whitley is a Tychokinesis striker class I
WEAPONLESS:
ARMED: Razor edge - hula hoop size chakram
This doll was a gift for my boyfriend.
It is the cat form of a druid, from world of Warcraft (a game). It was made in incredible 14 days! I don't know how many hours it took.
About the doll: this is a handmade one of a kind ball jointed doll, entirely made from scratch of cold porcelain. The doll is made of purple clay and has some airbrushing and painted details. The eyes and the stones of the collar are handpainted glass cabochons and both glow in the dark. The rest of the collar and the bracelets are made from craft foam, and the bracelets has golden details made with 3d paint. And it also has some faux fur. The mark on it's back is made of clay but painted with a transparent ink that glows under UV light. Felt was used on some joints to protect the painting from scratch.
Character reference: www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/druidcat(1).jpg
It is hard to find pictures of this character!
The story: I was suffering to find a gift for my boyfriend to celebrate our dating anniversary. I had no ideas... After some long time thinking, I decided to make a doll for him. I never made him one before XD The idea was to have something to distract the mind when he wasn't being able to solve a problem while working, something to relax, to play. Then, there was a problem: which doll to make? Which character or whatever? More days thinking. I remember seeing he plays WoW, and that there was a druid that could transform itself in other critters, being a panther like the one I saw more frequently. That was called the cat form, even it looking like a big wild feline. More and more days passed thinking on which kind of doll to make. Chibi? Standard? Deluxe?! Chibi was not very poseable, so next. Deluxe was too hard and there wasn't enough time to finish. Standard was the chosen one. I was going to follow a cute style as well. But I wasn't being able to imagine how the doll would look, I couldn't draw it.... the time was passing.... How to make the open mouth? The accessories? Wow, and if I make the eyes and the collar, and that mark on the back glows like in the game? But how?? Well, Happens that there was only 14 days left to the dating anniversary and I started to freak out! So I just had to start even not knowing that the hell I was going to do and how! Sculpting like crazy XD The eyes needed 4 or five attempts, and paints and adhesives to find something that work fine to glow in the dark. I found a nail polish that glows under UV lamp for the marking at the back. But my boyfriend didn't have a UV light. So I discovered a tiny laser pen like thing that was originally made to check if money is real or not. The thing had a UV led. Bought it. In the middle of the craziness my boyfriend asked me if I was going to give him a coffee maker (espresso one). And I was like "crap! I forgot he want one of those!! XD" but I said it was indeed what I was going to give him, just to surprise in the end. Back to work, I wake up very early and laid down very late all days working on the doll. Go out to buy all the supplies, and still have to hide everything when he came to my place! He stays at my place like Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So, many days I couldn't work of the very few I already had when started! T___T Finished the sculpting process like crazy, still remade 4 pieces. Then I decided to airbrush the doll, you know, because weren't enough stress already. And when airbrushing, I had to cover every claw and the nose, and the pawpads, because those were in the correct color already................. I bought a latex mask (not sure if it is the word) for watercolor and it thank goddess worked!! But oh, soooo much work to cover all those tiny tiny things... And then after airbrushing and removing the mask, there was a gap around all the claws (the latex ran a bit..) and I needed to mask everything again, airbrush again..... Then paint all the little details. Seal everything, make all the accessories, glue all the faux fur.... Also, had to glue something on the joints to avoid scratching the paint. I found a felt - no kidding - that was exactly the same color as the light purple on the doll! Couldn't be better. I think you can barely see it on the pictures. Well, I still have to find a package for it. I wanted a treasure chest, but couldn't find one that suits. So I bought a plastic box similar to the ones I use, but with a funny shape. I designed the labels, with pictures from the game an all. Made the little drawstring bag, that I find on the stuffs I have since many years a blue stone that looks very "WoW" to use on the strings. I was literally finishing it in the day I had to give it to my boyfriend XD But not enough, I decided to fake it was the coffee maker. So I've found a box that had a good size, made fake labels (made very funny drawings, with "memes" and such, by hand with a black pen over craft paper), covered the box, put some rice bags inside to make it weight like a coffee maker, put the doll inside, and wrapped everything with gift wrapping paper. All packaged, it was a coffee maker! So I give it for him. And when he started to open and seeing the fake labels, his face was just like "WTF??!!" and while he was opening, removing lots of bubble wrapping, paper, and... rice bags, he was getting more and more confused, and I couldn't stop laughing! Until he finally found the little box (that was also wrapped in gift paper), opened and discovered the little doll inside, with a letter on which I told all the story you are also reading, but more detailed, and some cute things (by the way I had to write that letter, that has 2 or three pages too in this amount of time!). He got very touched I pass through all that to make a doll for him, and totally surprised because he never guessed what I was up to. In the end, beautiful doll, happy boyfriend, mission accomplished! XD Of course it isn't allll perfect as my dolls usually are. There are very small flaws that maybe just I and few people (my boyfriend isn't one of them) can see. But he is very different, and very detailed, and I am very very proud of this little guy!
Well, I hope you like my "little" adventure! I am glad I survived all of this! I doubt many people would read it anyway, but I decided to share n.n
All of this happened on 2014, months ago, but just now I took the pictures of the doll to show you.
Ken admiring his latest work at a club night!!
Taken with a rarely used 50mm 1:1.4 lens, forgot how good it can be!!
I got this only interior shot, trying to use natural light, knowing that's what Kubrick would be employing in the interior shots. However, the light wasn't that bright coming in the windows, so I had to use a very slow shutter speed to accommodate my widest f/stop of 2.5 and the modest (by today's standards) ASA of the film stock. This is shot on film: Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture stock, ASA 100, using a No. 85 filter. I used a 28mm Vivitar lens on a Vivitar 400 S/L camera.
praise God in Spirit and in Truth | A Cappella "The Result Achieved by Knowing God" | Gospel Music
One day,
you will feel that the Creator
is no longer a riddle,
that the Creator has never been hidden from you,
that the Creator
has never concealed His face from you,
that the Creator is not at all far from you,
that the Creator is no longer the One that you constantly long for in your thoughts but that you cannot reach with your feelings,
that He is really and truly standing guard to your left and right,
supplying your life, and controlling your destiny, controlling your destiny.
He is not on the remote horizon, nor has He secreted Himself high up in the clouds.
He is right by your side, presiding over your all,
He is everything that you have, and He is the only thing you have.
Such a God
allows you to love Him from the heart,
cling to Him, hold Him close, admire Him,
fear to lose Him,
and be unwilling to renounce Him any longer, disobey Him any longer,
or any longer to evade Him or put Him at a distance.
All you want is to care for Him, obey Him,
requite all that He gives you, and surrender to His dominion.
You no longer refuse to be guided,
supplied, watched over, and kept by Him,
no longer refuse what He dictates and ordains for you,
what He dictates and ordains for you.
All you want is to follow Him, walk alongside Him to His left or right, to follow Him, walk alongside Him to His left or right,
all you want is to accept Him as your one and only Lord,
all you want is to accept Him as your one and only Lord, your one and only God.
You no longer
You no longer
You no longer
You no longer
refuse to be guided, supplied, watched over, and kept by Him,
no longer refuse
no longer refuse
no longer refuse
no longer refuse
what He dictates and ordains for you, what He dictates and ordains for you.
All you want is to follow Him, walk alongside Him to His left or right, to follow Him, walk alongside Him to His left or right,
all you want is to accept Him as your one and only Lord,
all you want is to accept Him as your one and only Lord, your one and only God.
All you want is to follow Him, walk alongside Him to His left or right, to follow Him, walk alongside Him to His left or right,
all you want is to accept Him as your one and only Lord, as your one and only Lord, your one and only God,
your one and only God.
from The Word Appears in the Flesh
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