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I Love Rock 'n' Roll, and Beethoven, too :)
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Literally a last minute idea which I had this morning upon waking up. Otherwise I'd have skipped, because I didn't simply want to use a random object that didn't match with four other random objects, and I also couldn't think of anything that would actually make sense as a true "misfit". But this morning, it hit me, sort of. I've watched the "The Runaways" movie just the other day, so the music is still going around in my head, and all of a sudden I thought "Why not use a guitar pick with my violin?" You don't strum a violin, and even if it's required that you play pizzicato, you won't do that with a pick, you use your fingers. And I've also always preferred Rock music of all sorts over classical music (not that I don't like the latter, but... Rock music is where the fun is, at least for me).
Now I don't play guitar, but, luckily, a guitar pick, among other things, came as a givaway with Juliana Hatfield's latest record "Blood", so I could use that (the pick is 3 cm / 1,18 inches long, and the width of the image is 4,5 cm / 1,77 inches).
The photo itself was done very quickly, kind of my version of a three chord / three minute Rock song ;) While my usual photographic approach, at least when it comes to MMs, is more like an album-long Prog "suite", doing this, trying that, I didn't bother with focus stacking or any other complicated technique or setups this time, a few shots (four in total) had to do of which this was the best. OK, so this is my version of a four minute Rock song. I hope you like it :)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!
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This juvenile was spending a few moments late in the day perched along the Ottawa River. I was able to get an image which, despite the austere setting, is very much one of its habitats. I found the bird after it flushed a flock of Starlings in what was either hunting or practice-hunting. I made my way down to the River after it flew off and I was able to locate it.
The bird is looking at me because I am ‘hidden’ in shrubs - visually hard to locate, but the bird heard me long before I arrived, I am sure. Hunters like the Peregrine use their senses (as we do) to build a complete sensory awareness of their environment. It wanted to see me to complete the image.
I emerged after a few minutes but decided to stay on my bum as I slid out. The bird registered me, and turned its back in order to focus its attention on the River and other things.
I played with almost a dozen crops, and no crop at all, trying to manage the way the branches impact the image.
These birds breed in the Ottawa area and patrol up and down the River fairly regularly. But it is still super exciting to see them and to spend a bit of time in their presence.
I am a labour mediator. I frequently find myself in very high pressure situations, on the eve of a major strike for example. In one such setting, with tempers flaring as we met on the top floor of a downtown hotel, I noticed a Peregrine had landed on the balcony area outside the meeting room. It was eating a small bird. I watched for a few minutes and then stopped the meeting. I told people they had an opportunity to do something that they might never be in a position to do again. They were stunned, thinking I was referring to the dispute. Instead, I walked them slowly as a group to the window with the best view. I to,d them a bit about the bird, its decline due to pesticides and its recovery. It seemed very large, as we were very close. The reflection on the glass meant the bird didn’t see us, and we were able to watch it without disturbing it. People were transfixed. I am willing to bet that many of the people in that room remember that moment. The two or three I have seen since, in airports or in conferences, bring it up immediately.
Peul (Fulani, Fulbe, Fula) herdsmen with traditional wide-brimmed fibre-and-leather conical hats meet at the weekly market in front of Djenné's Great Mosque. A colourful multiethnic gathering of herders and traders converges at the mosque from the surrounding regions and fertile flood plains of the Niger River inland delta in central Mali. Digital film scan, Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, shot directly under the noonday sun, circa 1976.
The Great Mosque of Djenné towers over the market in a seemingly apocalyptic backdrop on this day. The mosque is considered the world’s largest adobe building and one of the greatest achievements of Sudano-Sahelian architecture, unique to the semi-arid Sahel zone that stretches across northern Africa just south of an encroaching Sahara.
These Peul herdsmen are likely from the class of “free nobles” (mostly nomadic herders, religious and political leaders, some tradesmen and sedentary cultivators) at the top of a highly stratified caste-based Peul society.
Ethnographers distinguish this class from lower-tiered occupational groups or “castes” (griot story tellers and song-praisers, artisans, blacksmiths, potters, woodworkers, dress makers) and descendants of slaves (labourers, brick makers, house builders).
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Postrscript - The enchanting Arabian Nights imagery emanating out of this ancient marketplace at the time if this photo shoot (1976) is reminiscent of a seemingly bygone Sahelian era devoid of smartphones, credit cards and packaged safari tours.
Nowadays, nascent tourism is on hold and easy access to markets, pastures and farmlands is hampered as ethnic strife and inter-communal violence continue to erupt under a fragile or failed Malian state with a troubled history of military coups.
The current military junta relies on mercenaries from the private Russian-backed Wagner Group for its security needs, coinciding with the recent French withdrawal of troops from the region. By providing protection to the Malian military regime, the Moscow-centered paramilitary group has increased its power and access to Mali's scarce natural resources.
In 2018, Human Rights Watch reported that the Mopti region of central Mali has become an epicentre of inter-rethnic conflict, fuelled by a steady escalation of violence by armed Islamist groups largely allied with Al Qaeda’s advance from the north since 2015.
Recruitment to the militant Islamist movement from Peul pastoral herding communities has inflamed tensions within sedentary agrarian communities (Bambara, Dogon, Tellem, Bozo and others) who rely on access to agricultural lands for their livelihood.
Predominantly Muslim but opposing ethnic self-defence militias on both sides have been formed for the protection of their own respective communities. This has contributed to a continuous cycle of violent attacks and reprisals touching villages and hamlets, pastures and farmlands, and some marketplaces.
While communal tensions are profoundly connected to a larger ethnopolitical conflict unfolding in northern Mali, chronic insecurities around the ancient town of Djenné and in the broader central regions of Mali are exacerbated by longstanding indigenous concerns over a struggle for scarce natural resources - agricultural land for settled farmers versus water and grazing land for semi-nomadic Peul herdsmen.
Efforts at mediation in the area around Djenné and the grand mosque include a Humanitarian Agreement specifically among Bambara and Bozo farmers, Dogan "hunters" protecting farmers' interests and Peul herders, all committed to guaranteeing the freedom of movement of people, goods and livestock in the "Circle of Djenné" situated in the Mopti region of central Mali.
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Boyhood series is a narrative visual confession which maps both personal and mediated experiences. Boyhood is a time in our life when we begin to discover ourselves through inner dialogues and explore our self identity. We connect with everything around us, begin to discover and close in on ourselves. We create isolated places where we feel safe from all the hustle and bustle around us. Even so, a form of alienation can be poetically and visually beautiful. I offer the viewer a look at the emotionally unfinished stories. I create images that appear to be stills from a film as untold stories. What led to this situation and what will happen next is a question for all of us, which I am looking for an answer to.
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This is an AI generated photo based on a SL photo of mine. Looking Glass in Horizon Dream is a great opportunity to photography. If you are a fan of "The Looking Glass" better known as Alice in Wonderland. You will find this sim very nice.
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I love this old Flickr picture. In haste I dumped my first flickr that I had, but I guess we girls do that sometimes. Anyhow! I now have this feed, and I am loving it, and the new pals I have.
As time goes by, memory became vague no matter it's used to be sweet or pain before. Time, is always the best wiser to tell people how to deal with all these emotions in life we suffered. We laugh, cry , hesitate & mediate during the process of the life travel , and one day hope we will smile towards to the people we love and fly into the paradise where the God is waiting for us there.
In a time of constant stress, it is important to take time off, to unwind and relax, to restore calm and inner peace. This was the idea of this MOC, my way of relaxing and taking a break from everyday tasks and release the stress.
Donna's current works in progress focus on cultural aesthetics, in particular visual dissonance and its role in intercultural communication processes. Visual dissonance occurs when we are confronted with something that is unfamilar to us. The first human response is to reject it and in fact this unfamiliar image/idea may produce feelings of fear, anger and even nausea. As we become more accustomed to this unfamilar object/idea we begin to place aspects of it into our memory store and this enables us to approach it with more confidence and with less trepidation.
Donna has recently returned from a residency in Paris where she followed the life and works of French post-Impressionist artist, Paul Gauguin – his responses to cultural difference and his presentation to European society of the unfamiliar. Importantly, this ongoing research explores how the psychological processes of dissonance can be mediated by artists providing ideas-spaces that can create bridges between rejection of the unfamiliar and acceptance of new understandings. Small collaged compositions were produced during the Paris residency and these now form the starting point for the current series of paintings being produced at the studio in Brisbane. These compositions deliberately make use of famous European art to trace the journey and impacts of Paul Gauguin as a critic of French colonialism.
The series is an unashamed homage to Paul Gauguin who even as early as the late 1880’s, through his personal journals, writings, sculptures, prints and paintings, did not shirk the difficult questions about the negative consequences of colonisation on indigenous peoples caught up in French colonial expansion.
For a few weeks I held my breath as this image passed through the first round of Wildlife Photographer of Year and I imagined it posted at the Natural History Museum. Alas it was not to be but I post it to show how they look for the unusual. The legend is below.
Early in the winter of 2016 I found a European common newt that had for whatever reason, not survived its hibernation under bricks. Fungal decay had already started so I put the brick into a lidded tub above water to maintain humidity. 3 weeks later the newt was just a skeleton and a mucor strain of fungus had become the dominant beneficiary. A macabre subject but illustrative of the manner in which animal tissue is recycled.
“One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.”
~Henry David Thoreau
The Brickell World Plaza, also known as 600 Brickell, and formerly known as the Brickell Financial Center, is an office skyscraper in Miami, Florida, United States in the Downtown neighborhood and financial district of Brickell at 600 Brickell Avenue. The former Brickell Financial Centre Phase I, the Brickell World Plaza, is a 520-foot (160 m) skyscraper, one of the tallest buildings in Miami. 600 Brickell is located between the Fifth Street and Eighth Street Metromover stations.
The building contains 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) of leasable floor space, an eleven-story parking garage with 927 spaces, and a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) ground level public plaza, and was also supposed include an outdoor area with a stage.
The 40 story building was topped out in early 2009 but construction was suspended or greatly slowed, as the building was still not completed over two years later as of March, 2011. The building lost an anchor tenant, a law firm that had a $58 million, 10.5-year lease for 15 percent of the building (115,000 sq ft), in early 2009.
With the new name of Brickell World Plaza, the building has a scheduled opening date of August 2011. The building developers, the Foram Group, have claimed that this slowed construction was strategic for the purpose of detail and that after completion they will move their corporate offices into the building. However, the near halt in construction and the loss of a major tenant suggests that the delay was not strategic, but due to the 2008 economic crisis and the falling demand for office space due to the excessive construction in Miami at that time.
Early in 2011, 600 Brickell got a $130 million construction mortgage loan from Los Angeles-based Canyon Capital Reality Advisors that will fund the rest of the construction. This was one of the largest loans issued in the city of Miami since the real estate crisis.
When 600 Brickell came online in August–September 2011, it increased Miami's downtown office vacancy to nearly 25%, and Class A Brickell vacancy to over 30%.
That could change with the arrival of a new leasing team. Foram has hired Jones Lang LaSalle, led by veteran brokers Glenn Gregory and Noël Steinfeld, to handle leasing for the nearly 615,000-square-foot (57,100 m2) building. Gregory and Steinfeld said a full-court press to land tenants is finally under way. Shortly before Foram hired Jones Lang, the developer signed a pair of new-to-market tenants — New York-based lender Doral Money and Irvine, California-based mediation and arbitration services firm JAMS — to occupy a combined 30,090 square feet (2,795 m2) at the building. Gregory and Steinfeld said they are in discussions with prospective tenants for about 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2), although that includes some space being marketed to multiple companies.
Gunster (law firm) moved its Miami office to the building's 35th floor.
The building will be South Florida's first Cisco Connected Commercial Office Building in partnership with Cisco Systems Inc. Essentially it will have its own dedicated hub connecting it to the Internet with a secure and flawless connection. The project was designed by the global architecture firm RTKL and its developer was the Foram Group. The Foram Group's intended goal was to set a new gold-standard for technology and sustainability in international commercial property development by creating the most innovative and forward thinking office building in Miami.
"We designed the building from the inside out, not the outside in," said Loretta H. Cockrum, Foram's founder, chairman and CEO. "We wanted the most efficient office building ever designed, with no wasted space or wasted energy. This is a building of the future more than a building of the present. A lot of love has gone into that building, and a lot of pride."
The Brickell World Plaza is the state of Florida's first building to be pre-certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. In addition to this, it is one of very few buildings in the world of its size to receive the LEED Platinum rating, the highest available from the US Green Building Council. Another feature that contributed to this precertification is the water program: the building collects all rainfall and condensed water from the cooling towers in a 10,000 US gallons (38,000 L) tank to be reused for irrigation and makeup water for the fountains at Brickell World Plaza.
It will also be the first building in South Florida to be a part of Cisco Systems "Cisco Connected Commercial Office Building", which basically means it has a fast and secure, dedicated internet connection. The originally planned Brickell Financial Centre (two buildings) was to include office space, a hotel, luxury condominiums and a public plaza. The Brickell World Center will not feature the hotel or condominiums, but the ground level plaza will be a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) public space as well as 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2) of ground level restaurants and cafes, as well as an outdoor stage where events may be held, probably taking up the rest of the property where the Brickell Financial Centre II would have gone.
The first eleven floors of the building above the plaza are a parking garage, while the remaining 28 floors are all office space. The outside of Brickell World Plaza is lit up at night similar to the Miami Tower. This began before Christmas in December 2011 with a ceremony with governor Rick Scott where a 40-foot wreath was hung on the building.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickell_World_Plaza
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