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I took this shot after the Mako Seafood float had closed. But I can vouch for their fine seafood chowder. The closest I've come to New England Chowder since Boston days. There are two levels on this float. The bottom one serves fresh fish to cook at home, and the top floor serves cooked seafood.
There was no one around on this chilly summer evening. But the highlight for me here is the way the mountain is gently backlit by the sun which had set quite some time before.
[Best to enlarge this one and look around. In the background you'll see Lark's Distillery and a replica of Douglas Mawson's Antarctic Hut.]
1961 Mako Shark, Corvette concept car leading the way to future designs.
The XP-755 concept car, also known as the Mako Shark, was designed by Larry Shinoda under the direction of General Motors Styling and Design head Bill Mitchell. With the 1963 Corvette C2 design locked down, in 1961 as a concept for future Chevrolet Corvette the groundwork for the XP-755 was laid down. Building on the design of the 1958 XP-700 "double bubble", the XP-755 added design elements of the soon to be released C2 Corvette. In keeping with the name, the streamlining, pointed snout, and other detailing was partly inspired by the sleek, fast-moving shortfin mako shark. The '61 Corvette tail was given two additional tail lights (six total) for the concept car. The concept was also inspired by Bill Mitchell's 1959 Stingray racer XP-87 which also influenced the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray.
The Mako Shark debuted at the New York Coliseum at the 1962 6th International Automobile Show,[1] and the car was a success on the auto show circuit. With many of the Mako's design elements making into production on future Corvettes, it was successful in building hype for the forthcoming next generation of Corvette.[2]
Like many show cars, the Mako Shark underwent styling and detail changes over time. The hood and front facia were modified and the interior was updated. The car also lost the distinctive "double-bubble" canopy. The car was retroactively dubbed the Mako Shark I when the Mako Shark II debuted. The car now resides in the GM Heritage Collection.
An apocryphal story has it that Mitchell had an actual mako shark mounted on the wall in his office, and ordered his team to paint the car to match the distinctive blue-gray upper surface blending into the white underside of the fish. After numerous attempts to match the shark's color scheme failed, the team hit upon the idea of kidnapping the fish one night, painting it to match their best efforts on the car, and returning it to the office. Mitchell never realized the difference and pronounced himself pleased with the team's duplication of nature's handiwork on the car.
Bill Mitchell's design brief for the XP-830 was as follows:
"a narrow, slim, center section and coupe body, a tapered tail, an all-of-a-piece blending of the upper and lower portions of the body through the center (avoiding the look of a roof added to a body), and prominent wheels with their protective fenders distinctly separate from the main body, yet grafted organically to it."
This concept influenced the redesigned C3 Corvette of 1968. Chevrolet created two of them - only one of which was fully functional. The non-running show car sported futuristic details, such as square section side pipes and a squared-off steering wheel. This car debuted at the 1965 New York Auto Show. The second running show-car made its debut at the 1965 Paris Motor Show with more conventional steering wheel and exhaust. The car did have a retractable rear spoiler, and a square section bumper that could be extended for added protection. The Mako Shark II was powered by a 427 Mark IV engine, which became available on production Corvette models. The paint scheme was similar to the original Mako Shark, with blue/gray on top fading into silver/white at the rockers.
In 1965, the Mako Shark II was also on display 1964/5 New York World's Fair in the General Motors Futurama Pavilion.
After the show car made the rounds on the show circuit, it was returned to GM where it was dismantled.[8] The running car would be given a reprieve and return to the show car circuit in modified form.
“The look of experience suited him, especially because somewhere deep in those eyes, there still lurked a dangerous invitation to play. He had a quality of masculine confidence that was a thousand times more potent than mere handsomeness. Perfect goodlooks could leave you cold, but this kind of sexy charisma went straight to your knees. -Haven Travis”
― Lisa Kleypas
We found a Mako well inside Monterey Bay yesterday afternoon. Maybe a coincidence, but I saw one two years ago just a few days later in the calendar year.
This shark is about nine feet long. It was swimming towards birds sitting on the water - the birds moved away with alacrity. Though primarily a fish-eater, it will take a bird, or squid, or even porpoises and sea turtles. Makos are the fastest shark, capable of bursts of nearly 50 mph. Not a man-eater, there is only one recorded human fatality from a Mako attack (though they do go after boats).
I just got this in the Monterey Bay Aquarium newsletter regarding likelihood of being bitten by a shark:
You're more likely to be:
struck by lightning,
hit and killed by a falling coconut,
killed by hippos,
killed by cows,
or bitten in New York City by a fellow human,
An article from the U.S. National Park Service:
The name Badlands National Park poses an interesting question: why would you try to entice people to visit a park by calling it bad? In truth, the name is an homage to people that lived in the Badlands before it was a national park. For hundreds of years, the Lakota people have called this area mako sica, which literally translates to “bad lands.” But why? What made this area deserve a “bad” name?
The Badlands presents many challenges to easy travel. When it rains in the Badlands, the wet clay becomes slick and sticky, making it very difficult to cross. The jagged canyons and buttes that cover the landscape also make it hard to navigate. The winters are cold and windy, the summers are hot and dry, and the few water sources that exist are normally muddy and unsafe to drink. These factors make the land difficult to survive in, and evidence of early human activity in the Badlands points to seasonal hunting rather than permanent habitation.
One final fun fact about the name of Badlands National Park: In 1922, when Badlands was first proposed as a national park, the suggested name was Wonderland National Park!
If you're a sports fisherman this is quite a prize. Last year's Shark Tournament boasted a prize pool of over $1 million. The largest fish caught in 2008 was a 465 lb. thresher off the Fugged About.
I must admit that love shark steaks, but I am very willing to forego this tasty dish so these magnificent, soon to be endangered animals can live. Shark tournaments are not a pretty sight.
Model and photo: Asherah Virus
Outfit: R2
Hair: Tram
Tattoo: Corazon
Sword: Mako Breaker
Backdrop by Lala
mako (bad) - probably easy to agree that it can be relative, subjective, depending on one's point of view. The irony is that Indians were considering it part of their home, living in harmony with what was given by the environment for eleven thousand years... unaffected by harsh conditions, but decimated by others.. the new homesteaders abandoned most of the area in the 1930s due to hardship.
With 1 inch of yearly erosion, these formations, as we know them, will be gone in another blink of an eye, that is 500,000 years. Anyone hanging around to see it happening?
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Built for the preliminairy round of Bio-Cup 2024.
Theme: Space
I find shooting larger scale figures quite difficult, but the portrait capabilities are really impressive with this Cloud figure
It was very hard to choose which way to face the Insectoid wings. This became the alternate version of the model because it felt less 'bike' and more spaceship.
Original model: www.flickr.com/photos/ajfojtik/51094627826/in/dateposted-...
Artist: Daniel Brown
There's already an origami shark tooth on the internet, but I wanted one that had a little more "substance" or weight, so this one's a lot thicker. There is no design that I can't make unnecessarily more complicated!
Mako passed away one year ago.
Now we just have his memory and photos from magazines...
This is a part of an interview for the magazine ZºZ, 8 months before his death. Mako talked about his current life, music and projects with his band, Pyromania.
F-16's from Homestead AFB, Florida, On Exercise with F-15E's from Raf Lakenheath Home of the 48th Fighter wing.
On Sunday morning I developed an inexplicable urge to photograph the corners of things. At that same moment, Mako developed a deep interest in the art of photography. Odd.
The Mako Speeder takes its cues from the fastest shark on Earth, and is the latest model in the island racing circuit.