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The Rua Augusta Arch (Portuguese: Arco da Rua Augusta) is a stone, triumphal arch-like, historical building and visitor attraction in Lisbon, Portugal, on the Praça do Comércio. It was built to commemorate the city's reconstruction after the 1755 earthquake. It has six columns (some 11 m high) and is adorned with statues of various historical figures. Significant height from the arch crown to the cornice imparts an appearance of heaviness to the structure. The associated space is filled with the coat of arms of Portugal. The allegorical group at the top, made by French sculptor Célestin Anatole Calmels, represents Glory rewarding Valor and Genius.
Originally designed as a bell tower, the building was ultimately transformed into an elaborate arch after more than a century.
Because of the top cornice's great height (over 100 feet/30 m), the figures above it had to be made colossal. The female allegory of Glory, which is dressed in peplos and measures 23 feet (7.0 m), stands on a three-step throne and holds two crowns. Valor is personified by an amazon, partially covered with chlamys and wearing a high-crested helmet with dragon patterns, which were the symbols of the House of Braganza. her left hand holds the parazonium, with a trophy of flags behind. The Genius encompasses a statue of Jupiter behind his left arm. At his left side are the attributes of writing and arts.
The four statues over the columns, made by Victor Bastos, represent Nuno Alvares Pereira and Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal on the right, and Vasco da Gama and Viriatus on the left. The two recumbent figures represent the rivers Tagus and Douro.
It appeared as the arch through which the Lilliputians wheeled Lemuel Gulliver in the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels.
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Assignment 2. Giants and lilliputians. Two weeks ago we learned how to do clones, this week lets mix it up by using those techniques to place your subject in a different setting taking advantage of scale. tag with cwd562.
Sunset over the Bluff in Encounter Bay, South Australia.
On 8 Apr 1802 this bay was the meeting place of two great mariners. Matthew Flinders, in the 'Investigator' and Nicholas Baudin on the 'Le Geographe'.
Flinders named this area Encounter Bay after that chance meeting.
The Bluff (Rosetta Head) was the site of a whaling station, with its peak used as a look-out point to locate whales. The station was established in 1837 and operated until the early 1860s. The wharf, an adjacent sea wall and the connecting road were completed in 1856 by the SA Government to assist whaling industry activity. The wharf was known as the "Lilliputian Jetty" due to its relatively small size, i.e. 12.7 metres (42 feet) wide by 4.6 metres (15 feet) deep. A mine was established on Rosetta Head in 1863 to search for copper and other minerals until the abandonment of the venture in 1866. A tablet set into a granite boulder located near Rosetta Head's summit was unveiled on 8 April 1902 by the Governor of South Australia, The Right Honourable Hallam, Baron Tennyson, KCMG to commemorate the centenary of the meeting of the European explorers, Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin, in nearby waters.
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Lilliputian world is by the Butterfly garden, I often see different types of fungi popup like magic!
Here's another one bellow from 3 years ago,
www.flickr.com/photos/komotini49/19039044349/in/photolist...
I came upon a collection of the tiniest snails I have ever seen. I estimate at least 50 in the one location.
With shell diameters of no more than 5 mm, they were truly Lilliputian. The shells being flattened-heliciform.
I learned that they are Zonitoides arboreus, commonly known as quick gloss snails - and not native to Australia but North America.
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Out of the blue, a friend gifted me a tiny toy camera. The Chuzhao TLR looks like a Rolleiflex 4x4 left in the dryer too long, but it's really a spiritual descendant of the Holga and Dianna toy cameras. Under the pop-up lens hood is a 1-1/2 inch preview, which isn't backwards and upside-down like film TLRs. It's not a serious camera, but that's what made it unexpectedly fun. The look-down viewfinder and the camera's lilliputian* dimensions demand a non-standard approach to subjects. That change is its biggest charm.
* Ever since it arrived, I've been thinking how to work that word into a review.
Careful to walk in my forest
Suddenly the world of Lilliput appears
I don't want to be caught like Gulliver, suddenly tied all up to the ground
So I'm always on the look out for cosmos and tiny treasures and Lilliput
These two pictures are of Ceres. But this one's a little less obviously so. Shot with my smartphone through the windscreen of my ancient jalopy, (I was too lazy to get out, showing a complete lack of dedication to my art... :)
The other one is with a DSLR and its walkabout zoom lens, but zoomed in to 70mm in film focal length terms. This shot is about 24mm, I think, in 35mm terms.
And it seems clear to me that I'd rather look at this lower quality shot with its very wide angle.
I'd started with the notion of showing Ceres nestling in the base of its landscape-saucer (which is true enough) but in the WA version the village seemed so Lilliputian that it looked almost lost in the surrounding landscape's textures.
This place is magical, feels like watching sunset @ Lilliputian
#dennischaufotography #pamukkale #Turkey #hotsprings #sunset #landscape
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In my quest for understanding this other world I have often tried to imagine myself half an inch high walking through jungles of grass, as though I had drunk from the bottle labelled "Drink Me" which caused Alice to dwindle. The first result is a series of nightmare encounters with monsters centipedes, hunting wasps and ants, far more terrible than our crocodiles, snakes or packs of wolves. Later on, however, one can scarcely avoid being fascinated by this cruel but amazingly interesting Lilliputian world at our feet. - W.S. Bristowe 1958
This was taken on our little trip...when I saw it on screen, I thought those three were Lilliputians...lolol. I love the coast. Enjoy.
Bohemian Rhapsody ~~~ Queen
In a clandestine realm concealed behind the walls of human abodes, resided diminutive beings who referred to themselves as "Borrowlings." Their world was minuscule, their attire fashioned from fabric remnants, and their headwear comprised delicate mushroom caps. These Borrowlings harbored a peculiar vocation in life, one they deemed their life's calling: they borrowed tiny items from humans.
Within this world, there were three remarkable Borrowlings: Lumius, Flora, and Pippin. Lumius was aged and sagacious, Flora his affectionate spouse, and Pippin their inquisitive offspring. The passage of years did not mark the Borrowlings, for they attained the venerable age of 111, unless they happened to be mistaken for a mouse by an unwary cat. Their objective was to borrow diminutive treasures from the human realm, such as needles, threads, scissors, and screwdrivers. Yet, they were not without flaws.
The Borrowlings possessed an unfortunate proclivity: they tended to place the borrowed items in unusual locations. When humans sought these possessions, it spawned chaos and bewilderment.
One day, as Lumius, Flora, and Pippin had once more borrowed a minuscule ruler, they overheard the desperate dialogue of a solitary human gentleman whom they designated the "Seeker."
"Damnation, where is my ruler?" muttered the Seeker to himself. "I employed it last evening, and now it has vanished without a trace."
The Borrowlings realized that the time had come to make amends for their imperfections. They resolved to locate the ruler and return it, sparing the Seeker further vexation.
Upon finding the ruler at last, Lumius raised it aloft and declared, "Here is your ruler. We borrowed it and inadvertently misplaced it elsewhere."
The Seeker, taken aback by the sight of the diminutive Lumius, inquired, "Who are you?"
Flora responded, "We are the Borrowlings, and it is our duty to borrow items and subsequently return them. Regrettably, we sometimes deposit them in unconventional places."
The Seeker smiled and said, "You are indeed unique. I thank you for returning the ruler."
The Borrowlings handed over the ruler to the Seeker, who rejoiced at recovering the lost item. As the Borrowlings embarked on their journey back, one could overhear the Seeker engaging in introspective soliloquies, contemplating the significance of tolerance and forgiveness.
The tale of the Borrowlings and the Seeker transformed into a parable and allegory for the fallibility and distinctiveness of humanity. It imparted lessons on cherishing tolerance and forgiveness and recognizing that everyone possesses their own flaws. And so, the Borrowlings and humans continued to coexist harmoniously, with the Borrowlings inadvertently sowing chaos in the lives of humans, all while bearing smiles on their diminutive countenances.
Inspired by Mary Norton
The Main-Prompt:
Lilliputian, Piezoelectric hums, Halloween's near, sony a72, 24mm wide angle lens, aperture f/2.8, unreal engine 5, extrem photorealstic::, Whimsical:: --ar 3:2 --s 800 --style raw
Lilliputian,
Piezoelectric hums,
Halloween's near
➡️ is a Haiku
Today we had a meeting downtown, so I took my camera this time. I Ed and Mike went at a fast pace, so I had to take these shots on the run.
What you see is underneath an elevated highway, which had small sections of the lower roads blocked off. I felt like I was in “Gulliver‘s Travels.” It seems like I was a giant amongst the Lilliputians. My only regret was not doing a scale photo so you could see what the this interesting world looked like compared to me.
After taking photos for about a half hour the artist himself showed up and even though I barely speak Chinese and he barely spoke English we were still able to communicate a bit. He gave me the two figures made of twisted wires that you see in his hands. One is a scale of sorts, and the other a scooter. I guess he noticed I had my Vespa with me and he gave me that.
After taking a few more photos I decided to give him some money for the twisted wire art that he gave me, thanked him for his amazing artwork and went on my way.
大里溪橋下小人國, Taiwan
~ I visited Lilliput ~
Dedicated to all visitors of my show at Realidad Ficticia-Fictitious Reality-17th Exhibition who supported me with comments and mail me.
Thank you very much!
Special thanks to Emillio Camarin
who organized my show, who believed in me and my work.
Thank you Emillio
Why "Lilliput"
We all have our little World which is our leader idea.
I find this micro-world wandering trough the marshes. Sun and few inches tall grasses were as from dream. I expect Lilliputians, but till now they didn't appear.
Please be satisfied imagining them. Yours mia
Info about Lilliput:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver's_Travels#Part_I:_A_Voyage...
(bud of some kind of weed)
"Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun,
ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which
when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian
frieze of psychedelic silhouettes." (Duane Michals, The Vanishing Act)