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Canon 5D Mark III | 50mm | F2.8 | 1/400 | ISO100
I LOVE to shoot pictures that I know will make people say "How did he do that?". This is usually something said by non-photographers that have a very limited knowledge of the capabilities of using a modern digital camera. However.. an image like this is likely to even make a photographer question the steps taken to achieve this look.
Lens Whacking!
It's quite a new concept, and is difficult to explain so I'll keep it short and sweet.
I am able to create these wild, flarey', butter bokeh dreamy images using this technique, which (I believe) originated from the video side of things. More specifically DSLR shooters.
It involves disconnecting the lens from your camera, holding it in-front of the sensor at various different angles to allow the focus to shift and the light to leak in at the top, bottom and sides of the lens. I first discovered this technique in early 2012 from an insanely talented photographer and film maker James Miller (Visit his site - www.millerandmiller.co.uk/film/)
James has some AMAZING examples of this technique at it's very best. He is considered the professional Whacker to many film makers in the industry, alike! ;-)
Shot with the Nikon (Nikkor-S) 50mm 1.4 Pre-AI (Fully manual lens) - This lens is painfully sharp *Cuts finger*. I know the key to producing good things in the media industry is not the tools you use, but the skills behind the tools. BUT that said, this lens is astounding. By far the sharpest tool on my belt. When you combine that sharpness with such a lens, which a certain amount of skill, It just make it all worth while.
I have found F2/2.8 and upwards is the sweet spot for this lens, hence why I choose an aperture between there. Though for optimum flaring and flare from the sun, it is recommended by James to shoot at F2 if your lens is sharp enough.
There isn't much to say about this picture, Other than the focus was on the fine detail of the stray cotton strands. I specifically used the lens whacking technique instead of a Canon 50mm because the sun was at it's brightest. Casting a very harsh, and hard light on the doorway to my house. And when shooting using this technique, I have found it between to be facing direct sunlight, or have it directly above and not behind.
Inspirational social enterprise projects have secured a total of £23,000 in a Dragons’ Den pitch event as part of the Oxford Brookes University Social Entrepreneur Awards (OBSEA).
The initiative’s theme is From Passion to Action, and the aim is to support individuals in making a real social impact using a business model.
More information is available on the Oxford Brookes website at goo.gl/3SyrNd
Pacific Autism Family Network, along with lead sponsor, GoodLife Fitness, opened the GoodLife Fitness Family Autism Hub. The state-of-the-art facility is the first-of-its-kind in North America. The Knowledge Centre provides support for individuals and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder and all related disorders.
Learn more: pacificautismfamily.com/newsblog/
December 8th,2009(sooc)
yesterday was really good and intense. work, talking to jonel, ruhi book 7. I could say details but they just aren't enough for yesterday. hope everyone had a good tuesday
"if you live your life based on the "i don't even know what i know know" part of your brain then you will never stop learning and gaining knowledge"
"I've told some ppl that LISTENING is one of the most important aspects of being a spiritual being. When we are truly 100% listening, were not judging, categorizing, or labeling, we are being 100% present to whoever is speaking, and were not in a place of wanting to see if what they are saying fits in with our opinions/beliefs. That I think is the difference between listening to what one is saying and hearing what one is saying. Hearing is just keeping an ear out for things the person is saying that can fit into our view of the world. "-my friend arman
Looks like it should be the HQ of the secret service or perhaps some bureaucratic ministry in 1984.... but it is in fact a University, seat of knowledge and learning.
Taken on a trip to London, a while ago now so I can't remember what film i used (didn't record it) but shot on Yashica 24.
Oh, and I cheated by heavily treating it in Silver Efex Pro - digital and film combined, yay!
The RAAF Museum holds weekly interactive flying displays. I recently enjoyed the Winjeel display. Watching the way the questions were answered after a superb display made it clear. The museum excels at sharing and explaining its history.
Open Knowledge Festival 2014. 15th to 17th of July at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin.
Attribution: Gregor Fischer, www.gfischer-photography.com/ 16.07.2014
“Do you wish to have faith? You can have faith only in relation to your knowledge of God.”
―Lester Sumrall
Ghost signage on the side of a building in San Francisco, California. There's old ghost signage underneath the "Knowledge is Golden" sign. I'm not sure if the latter is an advertisement or artwork.
The Bedourie Pisé House was built in 1897 as the residence of Mary Brodie, local landowner and proprietor of Bedourie’s Royal Hotel. The use of pisé (rammed earth construction) was an uncommon form of building in Queensland. The building was used as a dwelling, a council meeting place, and possibly a temporary hotel, but fell into disrepair before being purchased by the Diamantina Shire Council and restored in the early 21st century. Moved to stand behind the Pisé House in 2011, the Aboriginal Tracker’s Hut was built at the Bedourie Police Station in 1947 as lodgings for police tracker Doctor Jack and his wife Norah. The shelter is typical of the accommodation standard built for Aboriginal trackers employed by the Queensland police in the 20th century.
The small, isolated town of Bedourie is located near Eyre Creek in the Channel Country flood plains of central western Queensland, approximately 1,130km west of Rockhampton and 1,182km north of Adelaide. The town is on the edge of the traditional lands of the Wangkamadla, Pitta Pitta, Mithaka, and Wangkangurru people. These people retained important knowledge of soaks, vital in the often dry country, and used the major rivers, particularly the Georgina River, as water supply, travel route, and source of Dreaming stories.
The area now encompassing Bedourie was a meeting place, exchange centre and distribution area for pituri, a hallucinogenic plant containing high levels of nicotine. The country between the Georgina and Mulligan rivers was the primary source of pituri, which was used in hunting, ceremonies, and recreationally. This placed it at the centre of an important trade route, with people travelling hundreds of kilometres to the area to exchange high quality stone axes from Cloncurry and Mount Isa, medicines, and sea shells for pituri. The route was also significant for social and ritual trade, where songs, ceremonies, and knowledge were exchanged. Burke and Wills, on their ill-fated 1861 journey through inland Australia, were given food by local Aboriginal people and also "stuff they call bedgery or pedgery" to chew, which Wills found highly intoxicating even in small amounts.
Following European expeditions, pastoralists occupied the Channel Country in the 1860s, stocking runs with cattle and sheep from South Australia. From 1884 Afghan cameleers, following the Aboriginal trade routes, transported goods from the newly-opened Maree railway station in central South Australia, along the Channel Country rivers to Birdsville and Cloncurry. Afghan trading towns sprang up near the present sites of Birdsville and Bedourie, supporting camels transporting stores north and drovers moving stock south to the Adelaide sale yards.
In 1886, a township reserve named Bedouri – reputedly meaning ‘dust storm’ – was proclaimed on Eyre Creek. After locals advised of the flooding risk, a new site was chosen further north, on the road from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Adelaide. Situated about two days’ journey from Boulia in the north and Birdsville to the south, the township was one of six small settlements which became important refreshment and supply sites for surrounding pastoral stations and drovers bound for Adelaide. Blackall merchants AJ Haylock and Co established a general store and hotel in the yet-to-be proclaimed and surveyed township, importing building materials to the sparsely vegetated area. The survey of the township, completed in 1888, shows the location of the hotel, its kitchen, stable and horse yards (Allotment 1 of Section 1), and the store (Allotment 2 of Section 1), but no other structures.
Bedourie developed slowly, with the hotel at its centre. A publican’s licence was issued for the Bedourie hotel, named the Royal, in May 1888, but AJ Haylock and Co advertised the hotel and store for sale or let two months later. The businesses were still unsold in May 1889, when the Bedourie town sites were offered for sale in Birdsville. Eleven allotments, including the hotel, store, and future site of the pisé house, were purchased by Mary Dolan. Born Mary Ballard circa 1858, she had been raised in hotels in Victoria by her twice-widowed mother. In 1883 she married Andrew Carey Dolan, the manager of Breadalbane Station, on the Georgina River, and the couple moved to Birdsville. Andrew Dolan died in 1887, leaving Mary with one child and an £800 estate. The purchase of the Bedourie town land, particularly the hotel and store, enabled Mary to provide an income for herself and her daughter. Mary’s acquisition of the hotel also mirrored a tradition of female publicans in Australia, particularly of widows or deserted wives. Hotel keeping was one of the few occupations women could pursue in the 19th century, allowing childcare from a home base, and granting them legal and economic independence.
By 1891, Mary had become the principal business operator and service provider in Bedourie. Although very few people lived in the town, her hotel served passing drovers, pastoral station occupants, and visiting racegoers who attended Bedourie’s annual horse races, which began in 1887. In addition to being the hotel proprietor, Mary was the town’s postmistress, storekeeper, butcher, and wine and spirit merchant. She also grazed two flocks of sheep around Bedourie, and owned the town’s boat. In 1890, she married John Gray Brodie, of Cluny Station, and the hotel, butcher, store, and wine and spirit businesses were transferred to Brodie from 1892. John Brodie, however, died in January 1895, leaving Mary with a further two children and a third expected. She continued to run the Bedourie businesses, inheriting them along with Brodie’s £500 estate.
In 1897, the value of two of Mary’s previously undeveloped sites (allotments 1 and 2 of section 5), leapt from £60 to £200. The allotments stood opposite the hotel and store on Bedourie’s main street. The hotel and store were destroyed in a storm in October 1897, and the building erected on allotment 1 of section 5 – a small pisé house – may have served as a temporary hotel as well as residence, until a new hotel and store were built in 1898. It featured multiple external doors, and a large room with a fireplace at one end, similar to hotels in remote areas in South Australia.
The house employed an unusual construction method for Queensland, pisé de terre. Often known as pisé or mud construction, pisé de terre is an ancient building method in which loam (earth of low clay content) is rammed into temporary formwork to create rock-like walls. The compaction forces the soil particles together, requiring no additional strengthening. The method was traditionally used in Mediterranean, Central Asian countries, and parts of China, but fell out of use. It was ‘rediscovered’ in France in the mid-18th century, reaching England about 1787, the United States of America around 1810 - 1815 and Australia from the 1820s. It was one of several earthen building construction methods used in Australia, including structures made from mud brick, stones within a mud matrix, cob, adobe, and pisé.
While not widely used across Queensland, the method of pisé construction proved valuable in western Queensland, where building materials were difficult to come by. The limited vegetation provided insufficient material for construction, and while a sandstone quarry existed near Birdsville, allowing residents there to construct stone buildings, Bedourie, surrounded by desert sandhills and stony desert tableland soils, lacked a local stone cache. Pisé construction had several advantages, being ‘less than one-half the cost of Brick or Wood’, ‘equal in appearance and strength to any stone building’, and its material was ‘always procurable’. Pisé had particular benefits in the arid climate of western Queensland: the buildings were not prone to deterioration, and were ‘cool in summer, warm in winter’. A wide array of pisé buildings were constructed in the Channel Country, including Birdsville’s first hotel; Windorah’s original police station (1884); hotels in Jundah, Windorah, and Canterbury; and homestead buildings at Diamantina Lakes, Cullwilla, Daroo, Palpara, Mornay, Saint Albans, Toorajumpa, and Monika.
The ease of construction was another advantage, with minimal equipment and expert knowledge needed. Information on erecting pisé buildings was easily procurable in the 1890s, with contemporary publications and newspapers providing detailed, illustrated instructions on the construction process. A pisé building could be constructed by a single person, though ‘a tradesman who understands the principle of the system and the materials’ was recommended. Publications emphasised the strength and durability of the buildings, so long as a large projecting roof was provided to protect the walls from the weather, with verandahs on all sides also recommended.
In 1899, Mary Brodie married her third husband, James Craigie, owner of Alderley station and ‘uncrowned cattle king’ of Boulia. Craigie relocated his business headquarters to Bedourie in April 1900, and Mary’s property was transferred to James in 1901. Mary briefly moved to Winton in 1902, where she owned and operated the Tattersalls Hotel, but returned to Bedourie in 1904. In her absence, the Bedourie Pisé House was leased to the newly-formed Diamantina Shire Council. Council meetings were held in Bedourie until March 1919, likely all in the pisé house.
The house was – and remained – one of the few buildings in Bedourie, which in December 1904 consisted of a public house, store, blacksmith’s shop, a few dwellings, and a police station. A bore was added in 1905. Despite its small size, however, Bedourie’s attractions drew regular visitors. A traveller in October 1910 described Bedourie as a ‘caravansary… an oasis in the desert’ with hospitality courtesy of the Craigie family, and the town was ‘a favourite resort of cattlemen’. The hotel issued its own currency and the large race-going crowds were managed under the watchful eye of publican ‘Mother Bedourie’. ‘Mother Bedourie’ was compared with the ‘Eulo Queen’ Isabel Gray, also a thrice married publican who operated from a pisé building.
James Craigie died in 1912, and his property was transferred to Mary. Mary transferred her southwest Queensland property to pastoralist Sidney Kidman and retired in 1914 to Brisbane, dying there in 1941. Kidman had acquired a wealth of grazing properties along two major droving paths linking Adelaide and northern Australia, giving rise to his reputation as the ‘Cattle King’. By the time he acquired the Bedourie Hotel and pisé house, he was considering retirement. Kidman installed his cattle property manager, George Gaffney, as manager of the Bedourie Hotel, and Gaffney purchased the Pisé House in 1918, with a substantial mortgage of £1375.
The hotel and Pisé House remained in the ownership and occupation of the Gaffney family and descendants (including the Clanchys and Smiths) for the next several decades. The house, known variously as the ‘Mud House’, ‘Mud Hut’, or ‘The Cottage’, was the family’s residence through the school year. The generator shed and timber power poles behind the house were likely added during this time; Bedourie did not receive electricity until 1970, requiring residents to install their own generators to provide power. A bathhouse was also added.
In 1940, the Bedourie Pisé House was recognised as one of the ‘coolest houses in Queensland’, thanks largely to its pisé construction. Postwar building material shortages sparked a revival in the construction form, which had dwindled in the 20th century, as the cost of importing building materials to western Queensland decreased. By 1911, only 61 pisé houses were identified of Queensland’s 125,800 dwellings. Despite the postwar revival, however, the number of Queensland pisé houses did not significantly grow, and weather, neglect or replacement took their toll on the older pisé buildings.
Bedourie grew from the 1950s, with an airstrip, new residences, and a school constructed. The Diamantina Shire Council re-established itself in Bedourie in 1954, building a new shire hall. The Pisé House occupants departed in 1971, and the house was transferred to the Diamantina Shire Council in 1974. The land was resurveyed and in 1996, new land parcels were created to the south of the existing township, contiguous with the site of the Pisé House and the hotel. By 2002, the chimney and fireplace had been removed, the verandahs enclosed with corrugated iron sheets, and the house had fallen into disrepair. The council began repairs and stabilisation works on the Pisé House in 2003. In 2019, the Pisé House site also includes the generator shed and a bathhouse.
In 2019, both the Pisé House and the tracker’s hut serve as part of the tourist interpretation of Bedourie.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register & "Wills W. Successful exploration through the interior of Australia, from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria." Adelaide: State Library of South Australia; 1996.
Knowledge Café: WSIS+10: From - Vision to Implementation
WSIS Action Lines Driving Development beyond 2015
© ITU/C. Montesano Casillas
Harrow Miller, a heavy mobile equipment mechanic in the Turbine Drive Train Division at Anniston Army Depot, AL, assembles an AGT 1500 engine. Maintaining specialized skills in the IB, both organic and commercial, is a central concern for DOD. (Photo by Jennifer Bacchus, U.S. Army Materiel Command)
I have finally got around to visiting the inside of the new Library of Birmingham. Around 18 days after it first opened!
Got in just before 4pm, and left before 5pm.
Level 2: Knowledge Floor.
Views from the windows on the 2nd floor.
Orion Building.
Suffolk Street Queensway.
Garrett Brown with a Sony camcorder on the Steadicam Merlin.
For more on Garrett Brown, see:
» Garrett Brown: Inventing the Future -- And a Few Handy Gadgets
Part of a cluster of odd sculptures in the woods outside Hazleton, PA in Beaver Meadows. Around this was an installation inlcuding a pickup truck with 'aliens' at the wheel painted with the words HOMELAND SECURITY, this is inside the shack with a sign reading "Job's Yummy House", headless Santas nearby, and an adjacent building with signs painted in the windows advertising Joseph A. Woitko Attorney at law, with Patriotic and Christmas themes.
Truth Justice Woitko.
Finding this just outside Hazleton, possibly the country's most racist city, the message and delivery were confusing, diluted with unrelated mountains of garbage, and these random critters which were decked out with lots of skulls and bones.
© laura kicey
Knowledge is one powerful aspect of the three great beliefs, to pursue the unknown to study and bring light to a lost civilization with new found facts and truth is knowledge. To know is to guard against prejudice and all forms of ignorance! This way we aren't too quick to judge or make random assumptions. A greater understanding creates a clearer picture of what we are dealing with, it helps us to advance with better technology, to be more conservative with our world and other people! Without knowledge we would be a barbaric empire today!
9. Februar 2017 – 7. Mai 2017
The event series “Ars Electronica in the Knowledge Capital” in Osaka, Japan, invites business and creative people to be inspired by artistic perspectives with a mix of exhibition, lectures and workshops. Vol. 7 of this series portraits the efforts of the industry how they create prototypes for future products by artistic approaches. Since the emergence of IoT and digital fabrication, manufacturing is no longer a unilateral process exclusive to industries, but more an interactive process in which each of us can participate and collaborate to develop ideas in society.
InduSTORY reveals the stories of two groups of creators who challenge the conventional concept of design and manufacturing: ‘Prototyping & Design Laboratory’ run by Prof. Shunji Yamanaka at The University of Tokyo explores the potentiality of novel artifacts through prototype integrating design and engineering, ‘neurowear’ deftly transforms new ways of human-machine relationships into IoT devices that fit naturally into our lifestyles.
Through their STORYs, you can witness how Industry changes, and will be able to get a glimpse of our future.
Credit: Knowledge Capital
This is a sample of my library. We have the house so full of books that now we’re using the space above the doors with shelfs. If I read 2 books a week for my entire life starting now, it will not be enough to read all the books here, so… Unfortunately, I don’t read that much but i love to have them!
The story of this photo: I got very mad after taking this photo! It was taken to a dpreview challenge called “knowledge”, but i’ve take it two minutes (!!) after the challenge has ended! grrrr…. but i like the photo, so there it is.
The Thirty-Fourth Session Session of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) took place in Geneva, Switzerland from June 12 to June 16, 2017.
Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Emmanuel Berrod. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License.