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created these geometrically modified Tomatoes from normal ones just to see what they might look like - best on black - thanks for looking - have a great day
The bull king with my own modifications :D Gave it a neck so that it can do more poses. The standard knee mods as well. Also beefed up several parts of the bull king to give it a more stronger look!
Overall a great set by itself even if you are not modifying!
I modified this by making an HDR version of it then layering that with the original. I like how it's off-kilter, a little of this, a little of that.... Hope your week-end went well. Sending love...
The rest of my modified space sets. Sorry for the many uploads today, but I didn't feel like waiting days to post these pictures. I have a lot of more interesting MOCs waiting for their turn ^^
Modified version of a photograph taken from a window of the ETN coach running between the city of Querétaro and Mexico City.
Modified version of a photograph taken from a window of the ETN coach running between the city of Querétaro and Mexico City.
Visibly modified vehicle exhibited at the Retro Americana Festival, Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham.
modified Olympus Trip 35 add Helicoid
taken Aperture wide open f2.8
# I forgot to mention this. I shot this photo cropped to APS-C size.
These are quite light , stylish and nice to work with.
This one will be tweaked a little more before the blades are brazed in.
Convair modified C-131 Samaritan 53-37793 at the 1993 Edwards AFB open day, later modified further and designated NC-131H with a glazed nose, this aircraft now displayed at the National Museum of the USAF at Dayton Ohio.
Finished the top of my modified bento box at the retreat! I've been working on this off and on for a year and a half.
I used the tutorial at FITF: filminthefridge.com/2009/06/24/quartered-squares-a-modifi...
My friend Yvon Couture created a modified version. Let's see what people think about the two versions.
The bull king with my own modifications :D Gave it a neck so that it can do more poses. The standard knee mods as well. Also beefed up several parts of the bull king to give it a more stronger look!
Overall a great set by itself even if you are not modifying!
CC Rainbow Game - Blue
At first glance I assumed the truck on the right was left in the parking lot a little too long and developed a flat tire. Why else would it be leaning so much? Well... closer inspection revealed that both of these trucks had their suspensions altered, in opposite directions. The white truck was lifted, and the blue truck was lowered. Apparently, each corner of the blue vehicle can be lowered independently from the other corners if so desired. The bed of the truck contains equipment needed for all this lowering and lifting activity. No doubt plenty of entertainment is provided by both of these trucks.
Modified version of a photograph taken from a window of the ETN coach running between the city of Querétaro and Mexico City.
This wooden seal is based on a satirical CIA Seal that was published in the Evening Star Newspaper after Project AZORIAN was exposed.
Spacey eyes!
✦ Modular, with separate irses and sclera to mix and match.
✦ 20 Colors total.
✦ Fully modify - use the edit menu to tint if you'd like!
✦ Taxi!
Client: American Classics Magazine
Categorie: Photography, Modelshoting
Photographer: Dirk Behlau
Assistant: Jessica Behlau
Additional Info: Model: Zoe Scarlett - Dirk Behlau photographed the 1965 Chevrolet Mako Shark 2 in Switzerland where it got rebuilded by Hans Peter Böhi.
Chevrolet created two of these concept cars- 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. After the show car made the rounds on the show circuit, it was returned to GM where it was dismantled. The running car would be given a reprieve and return to the show car circuit in modified form.
I have been talking with a fascinating scientist who’s working on genetically-modified neurons to innervate the brain from a silicon substrate. The goal — connect prosthetics to the cranial nerves and eventually, replace all sensory input to the brain with a computer interface. Well… how complicated would this be? While the human brain has 86 billion neurons, he estimates that there are only 4 million cranial nerves to connect, and 3 million of them come from the retina (the color-coded photoreceptors).
Who might volunteer to have their head and spinal cord cut out of their body and their skull removed, to be reborn as a cyborg, fed by an ECMO machine? Many terminally ill cancer patients have not suffered a neurodegenerative disease. Their body will die while the mind is still ripe.
I do not believe we will be able to upload our consciousness to a silicon substate, as Ray Kurzweil has long predicted, at least not any time earlier than we will grow an AI that exceeds human intelligence. The brain in a vat is very different. A prosthetic hijacking of the interface to the sensory cortex is a much simpler task. The inscrutable complexity of the cortex remains just that. We just need to couple to the extant external interface to the body.
He makes it sound… imminent. While the sensory cortex is notable for its neuroplasticity, (the ability to remodel sensory input), can it be this dramatic — from body to borg?
I thought of the adage from Hunter S. Thompson that arose while watching a boxing match on an ether binger: “Kill the body and the head will die.”
Thanks to Genevieve being an MIT alumnus, I can get behind the paywall of the MIT Technology Review October issue on the Mind. Professor Lisa Feldman of Northeastern postulates a problem: “Your brain did not evolve to think, feel, and see. It evolved to regulate your body. Your thoughts, feelings, senses, and other mental capacities are consequences of that regulation. Since allostasis [regulation of body systems] is fundamental to everything you do and sense, consider what would happen if you didn’t have a body. A brain born in a vat would have no bodily systems to regulate. It would have no bodily sensations to make sense of. It could not construct value or affect. A disembodied brain would therefore not have a mind. I’m not saying that a mind requires an actual flesh-and-blood body, but I am suggesting that it requires something like a body, full of systems to coordinate efficiently in an ever-changing world. Your body is part of your mind—not in some gauzy, metaphorical way, but in a very real brain-wiring way.
Your thoughts and dreams, your emotions, even your experience right now as you read these words, are consequences of a central mission to keep you alive, regulating your body by constructing ad hoc categories. Most likely, you don’t experience your mind in this way, but under the hood (inside the skull), that’s what is happening.”
She elaborates, as you might assume: “When your brain remembers, it re-creates bits and pieces of the past and seamlessly combines them. We call this process ‘remembering,’ but it’s really assembling. In fact, your brain may construct the same memory (or, more accurately, what you experience as the same memory) in different ways each time. I’m not speaking here of the conscious experience of remembering something, like recalling your best friend’s face or yesterday’s dinner. I’m speaking of the automatic, unconscious process of looking at an object or a word and instantly knowing what it is. Every act of recognition is a construction. You don’t see with your eyes; you see with your brain. Likewise for all your other senses. Just as your memory is a construction, so are your senses. Everything you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel is the result of some combination of stuff outside and inside your head. Affect is just a quick summary of your brain’s beliefs about the metabolic state of your body, like a barometer reading of sorts.
Brains evolved to control bodies. Over evolutionary time, many animals evolved larger bodies with complex internal systems that needed coordination and control. A brain is sort of like a command center to integrate and coordinate those systems. It shuttles necessary resources like water, salt, glucose, and oxygen where and when they are needed. This regulation is called allostasis; it involves anticipating the body’s needs and attempting to meet them before they arise. If your brain does its job well, then through allostasis, the systems of your body get what they need most of the time.
To accomplish this critical metabolic balancing act, your brain maintains a model of your body in the world. The model includes conscious stuff, like what you see, think, and feel; actions you perform without thought, like walking; and unconscious stuff outside your awareness. For example, your brain models your body temperature. This model governs your awareness of being warm or cold, automatic acts like wandering into the shade, and unconscious processes like changing your blood flow and opening your pores. In every moment, your brain guesses (on the basis of past experience and sense data) what might happen next inside and outside your body, moves resources around, launches your actions, creates your sensations, and updates its model. This model is your mind, and allostasis is at its core.”
Anil Seth from the University of Sussex phrases it more strongly in Our brains exist in a state of controlled hallucination: “The brain is always constructing models of the world to explain and predict incoming information; it updates these models when prediction and the experience we get from our sensory inputs diverge.
The entirety of perceptual experience is a neuronal fantasy that remains yoked to the world through a continuous making and remaking of perceptual best guesses, of controlled hallucinations. You could even say that we’re all hallucinating all the time. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality.”
P.S. photo above is a movie prop from Robocop 2
Modified version of a photograph taken from the roof of our house on Calle 20 de Noviembre, Querétaro, Mexico.
I've had these guys in storage for a while, I just remembered to share the modifications I made to these guys. Some have minor changes, some a bit more, and has no modifications at all (it's just included for Protector completeness, guess the unmodified one :-) )
A quick complete re-design / rebuild of my Ideas set done in one afternoon and night.
Now incorportates working steering again.
Reduced total height of front by 1 plate, having to remove all the forward technic chassis to allow for this. Initially reduced all height by 2 plates, but looking at reference and plans again, as this is now 1 stud longer than my original, 1 plate lower seemed to be proportionate.
Adjusted ride height of front axle / steering.
Closed rear arches together as per original design.
Shaped and strengthend nose cone.
Corrected bonnet vents and side vents.
Closed gap between bonnet and nose cone.
Re-worked headlight assemblies
Re-worked seats to stop being all black cockpit, added harnesses.
Repositioned / strengthend dash - windshield, altered handbrake to not be so chunky, reduced size of mirrors to be more proportionate.
Strengthend internal floor, removed all floor studs, filed gaps.
Re-worked rear tonneau cover slightly, removing the offset steps under it, smoothed out the rollbar supports. (Will re-work this so they attach to the body, allowing them to stay in place when tonneau removed...when I get more time!)
Added decals!!!..ya know I love em! ;)
See if you can spot anything else that I've forgotten!
I must add, that I absolutely love the standard set considering the limitations that TLG have to work to and this in no way is trying to address what the model should have been....its just not possible within their constraints.
I, however, am able to take it back and put my mark on it, to get it closer to my original designs.
I've tried to keep it more in line with the standard set, rather than just completely re-building it to one of my original concept designs with a yellow colour change....if that makes any sense?
I had to do it first!....not that I've had much time recently ;)
See this, along with the standard set and real Caterham Seven 620R at the Brickish STEAM museum show www.greatwesternbrickshow.com/ THIS coming weekend (1st -2nd Oct)
The set goes live for sale this weekend and I'll be doing box signings throughout, if you should so happen to want one....or not! ;)