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Illustration Friday rolls around again and here is my submission for this week's theme: Magic
There are so many great ideas for this theme, mine seems simple and yet we see "magic" in the simple things in life.
Magic Shawl from Twinkle’s Big City Knits
Yarn: Kauhavan Kangasaitta, Melli, 100 % wool
Needles: 15 mm for cables, 12 mm for ribbing
Adjustments: left away those crocheted loops for hands, unnecessary and unpractical.
A truly wise and magical book. Some of my favorite lines that made me smile:
Wonderful, and real. Wonderful because real.
We are all cousins. Your family tree includes not just obvious cousins like chimpanzees and monkeys but also mice, buffaloes, iguanas, wallabies, snails, dandelions, golden eagles, mushrooms, whales, wombats, and bacteria. All are our cousins. Every last one of them. Isn't that a far more wonderful thought than any other myth? And the most wonderful thing of all is that we know for certain it is literally true.
We have to know what we don't understand, and admit it to ourselves, before we can begin to work on it.
The fact that our eyes can see through only a tiny slit in the middle of the vast spectrum, that we can see only a slender band in the huge range of rays that scientific instruments can see, is a lovely illustration of the power of science to excite our imagination: a lovely example of the magic of the real.
We don't have to invent wildly implausible stories: we have the joy and excitement of real scientific investigation and discovery to keep our imaginations in line. And in the end that is more exciting than fantasy.
"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish"
-David Hume
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Lance Cpl. Jacob Milbauer, left, and Lance Cpl. Somart Pil use an anemometer to record current weather conditions Aug. 31 on Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Keeping pilots informed of the current weather condition contributes to the overall safety within Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, MCAS Futenma, Marine Corps Installations Pacific-Marine Corps Base Camp Butler, Japan, which reached 100,000 flight hours without incident Oct. 1. Pil and Milbauer are meteorology and oceanography specialists with Air Traffic Control, Marine Air Control Squadron 4, Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, III Marine Expeditionary Force.
Photo by Cpl. Jessica Collins.
This is a variation of a wonderful picture by ancawonca called, "Magic hour." Please take a look at it. She did a wonderful job, and compares it to an early image of the same location.
While hers is a magical depiction of a pretty and serrendipitous reality, I tried to give the same image a slightly surreal feel. Sort of to give a message that the spiritual, supranatural hides below the surface of our percieved reality.
This is posted with ancawonka's permission, and I thank her for it.
The 5th comment is hers, and has a link to the original. Please pay her a visit!
The Nickel finish was badly damaged on the Moskva-2. I had intended to just paint it with black lacquer. The foot had some brassing at the hinge end.
Just for grins, I tried some magic silver polish on the foot. This stuff is supposed to contain silver, which forms a molecular bond with the surface of metal. Hokum, right? I dunno. The brass turned from yellow metal to white metal.
I sanded , Cratexed, and polished the trim with jewelers-rouge. It was down to bare brass on this trim piece. Applying magic silver polish also turned the trim piece to a white metal.
I had pained the body with black lacquer. I used a Cratex Dremel tip to remove the lacquer from the body trim, and applied the magic polish. Any yellow that you see in the picture is just reflection of the brown wrapping paper.
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A very magic square by David M. Collison -- if you square the numbers, it still works. (Ignore the colored primes -- a red herring. 41 is the only number of interest.)
Strobe without modifier camera right behind subject. Second strobe above subject and slightly in front. See behind the scenes at:
Poppy had a magic meeting in the woods.
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Disneyland Park welcomes “Magic Happens”, the park’s first new daytime parade in nearly a decade—and an unforgettable spectacle that reminds us wings aren’t needed to fly, shooting stars were created for wishes and magic doesn’t end at midnight!
Here's the size difference between the trackpad on a unibody 15.4" MacBook Pro and the Magic Trackpad.
Magic Trackpad's active area (which is everything but the top bit) is 13 x 11 cm (5.1 x 4.3 ").
Entrance to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World - Florida
The Magic Kingdom-Walt Disney World, Florida USA
© 2012 Scott Keating
The Magic Carpet featured today, is one of the few I had never seen before. I frequently see this performer in the ensemble, but had never seen her as the Carpet.
So there you have it, even after having seeing this performance 127 times I can still find something, or someone new to photograph. :)
Taken in Aladdin a Musical Spectacular on 8/7/2011 during the 2:20 performance.