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HiRISE image ESP_087311_2305
A dedicated and continuing monitoring of the dune fields within Lyot Crater, a massive 236-klm impact basin in the northern lowlands of Mars.
While this specific image was captured on October 9, 2024, it is part of a multi-year "time-lapse" study designed to track how Martian dunes migrate and how seasonal frost affects the landscape.
The "monitoring" aspect of this image series focuses on two primary goals:
Sand Flux: Scientists compare this image to older ones (some dating back to 2008, like PSP_009179_2305) to measure the exact distance the dunes have moved. In Lyot, dunes have been observed advancing at rates up to 1 meter per Martian year.
Seasonal Frost Cycle: Taken during the Northern Summer, this image shows the dunes in their "defrosted" state. By comparing this to winter images, researchers can see how C02 frost carves new grooves (alcoves) or causes "sand avalanches" on the steep slip faces.
Original Image data: NASA JPL-Caltech UoA
Source: www.uahirise.org/ESP_087311_2305
I couldn't believe the beautiful pattern on this Crocodile Monitor Lizard at the Calgary Zoo. It looks as if it is made from exquisite, fine, beadwork! Truly amazing!
"Varanus salvadorii, first described in 1878, is the largest species of monitor lizard found in New Guinea, and is believed to be one of the longest lizards in the world, reaching up to 244 cm (8.0 ft). It is an arboreal lizard with a dark green body and yellowish bands, a blunt snout and a very long tail. It lives in mangrove swamps and coastal rain forests in the southeastern part of the island, where it feeds on birds, small mammals, eggs, and carrion in the wild, using teeth that are better adapted than those of most monitors for seizing fast-moving prey. Like all monitors it has anatomical features that enable it to breathe more easily when running than other lizards can, and V. salvadorii is thought to have greater stamina than most monitors. Little is known about its reproduction and development, as the species is very difficult to breed in captivity.
V. salvadorii is threatened by deforestation and poaching, and is protected by the CITES (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species) agreement. The lizard is hunted and skinned alive by tribesmen to make drums, who describe the monitor as an evil spirit that "climbs trees, walks upright, breathes fire, and kills men". However they also say that it gives them warnings if there are crocodiles nearby." From Wikipedia.
Playing with 5D Mark II, some stobist stuff. Shot this one straight into JPEG, not much Photoshop.
Strobist description:
* Canon 5D Mark II 100/2.8f @ 2.8 1/125s
* Sunpak 5000 behind the speaker with blue gel into the wall
* Sunpak 5000 left ot he speaker with snoot shooting into a white sheet of paper right of the speaker
This is an old monitor which serves as the base for the new bed. Muahahahaha. The story takes an evil turn to scrapping an old monitor.
An extension agent from the Ministry of Agriculture monitoring cowpeas planted by IDPs, Maiduguri, Borno State.
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A small take this week, with much less value than usual. The drum got ruined at Wickerman 2015. The monitor eventually became Carolyn's primary monitor--so that was probably the only thing that made the week totally worth it.
Dr. Seuss board game, I Can Do That board game, Kosherland board game, The Cat In The Hat board game, Viewsonic VS10866 monitor, Wii controller, Wiimote, bin, bongo, bongo drum, chemistry set, drum, hat, jester hat.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
May 23, 2015.
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BACKSTORY: Got up around 8:20AM, made it out driving by 8:53 and went out until 12:12 PM for a total of 3 hours, 19 minutes. Spent $38.75 plus ~$5.53 gas for 37.7 miles of driving (18.7 mpg @ $2.74/G), for a total cost of $44.28.
We drove to only 13 yard sales, stopping at only 4 (31%) of them. We made 9 purchases (9 items) for a total estimated value of $147.38, leading to a profit/savings of $103.10. So in essence, we multiplied our $47.38 investment by 3.33X.
(Also, if you think about it, the profit counts for even more when you consider that we have to earn $~117 on the job, pre-tax, in order to take home the $103.10 in cash that we saved. How long does $117 of disposable income take to earn, vs the 3.3 hrs we spent here?)
Anyway, this works out to a *post-tax* "wage" of $31.08/hr as a couple or $15.54/hr per person. This is kind of low for a yardsale± outing.
±THE TAKE:±
$10.00: wiimote, nunchuk, including motion plus detector, teal color (EV:$±10.99±). ($8.50 + $2.49 shipping).
$10.00: wiimote, nunchuk, including motion plus detector, white color (EV:$±10.99±). (8.50 + $2.49 shipping)
$7.00: monitor, flat screen, Viewsonic, VA1912WB, model # VS10866 (EV:$±29.56±). $9.99 + 19.57 shipping
$5.00: drum, bongo, 14" diameter, 2" high (EV:$±18.91±)
$3.00: office inbox storage bin, 3 bins, metal, 10.25x12.5x13.5" (EV:$12.95). ($12.95 + $10.15 shipping, not counting shipping value because this can probably be picked up at a local store)
$2.00: game, Dr. Seuss, The Cat In The Hat, I Can Do That (EV:$13.99)
$1.00: game, Kosherland, Jet, Item# 601 (EV:$9.99 Marshalls price tag)
$0.50: game, Mad Professor Kitchen Chemistry, Be Amazing Toys (EV:$10.95)
$0.25: hat, jester, red, fluffy, 9 points (5 balls, 4 bells) (EV:$5.95)
MetroCards displaying a front-facing advertisement went on sale for the first time in early October 2012.
"Opening up the front of MetroCards to advertising gives the MTA a new source of revenue," said MTA Chairman and CEO Joseph J. Lhota. "We will monitor public acceptance of ads going forward to ensure that it doesn't interfere with use of the transit system. There is no reason why the MTA shouldn't put every resource it can toward helping its fragile finances."
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
I'm experimenting a bit with monitor arrangement. It is interesting to have the big monitor "looming" over the top of the laptop's panel.
Less side to side movement. A bit more vertical though.
The Yellow Monitor, Varanus flavescens, is a species of Monitor lizard found in Asia.Varanus flavescens has subcorneal teeth, scarcely compressed. Its snout is short and convex, measuring a little less than the distance from the anterior border of the orbit to the anterior border of the ear; canthus rostralis distinct. Its nostril an oblique slit, a little nearer to the end of the snout than to the orbit. Digits short, the length of the fourth toe, measured from its articulation with the tarsus to the base of the claw, not exceeding the length of the femur. The tail of the Yellow Monitor feebly compressed, keeled above. Scales of head small, subequal; the median series of supraocular scales slightly dilated transversely. Scales on upper surfaces moderate, oval, keeled. Abdominal scales smooth, in 65 to 75 transverse rows. Caudal scales keeled; the caudal keel with a very low, doubly toothed crest. Olive or yellowish brown above, with irregular darker markings which are generally confluent into broad cross bars; a blackish temporal streak; lower surfaces yellowish, with rather indistinct brown cross bars, which are most distinct on the throat. Young dark brown above, with yellow spots confluent into crossbars; lower surface yellow, with dark brown cross bars.[1] From snout to vent 1 foot 3 inches; tail 1 foot 8 inches.
Combined native range of all the monitor lizards
Skulls of various varanoids
Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Varanus, the only extant genus in the family Varanidae. They are native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, and one species is also found in the Americas as an invasive species. About 80 species are recognized.
Monitor lizards have long necks, powerful tails and claws, and well-developed limbs. The adult length of extant species ranges from 20 cm (7.9 in) in some species, to over 3 m (10 ft) in the case of the Komodo dragon, though the extinct varanid known as megalania (Varanus priscus) may have been capable of reaching lengths more than 7 m (23 ft). Most monitor species are terrestrial, but arboreal and semiaquatic monitors are also known. While most monitor lizards are carnivorous, eating eggs, smaller reptiles, fish, birds, insects, and small mammals, some also eat fruit and vegetation, depending on where they live.
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For this stark, spellbinding episode of Room 205, director Luis Farfan worked closely with director of photography Conor Simpson, set designer Tamarra Younis, editor Forrest Borie and sound engineer Jon Gilbert to capture the band's mesmerizing live performance while crafting a world of abstract symbols, ambient sounds and cinematic contrasts, entirely elegant and arresting in their own right.
BIO
Los Angeles based artist Camella Lobo has been quietly releasing music under the moniker Tropic Of Cancer since 2009. Drenched in romanticism and soaked in themes of solitude, mortality and love, her music forms a strangely hypnotic connection with its listener. Lobo’s majestic vocals, warmly cradled by waves of ascending synths, plangent guitar, and foreboding beats, summon the listener into a world of dark decadence and delicate beauty. Formerly a duo with minimal electronic artist, Silent Servant, Lobo has enlisted the assistance of Taylor Burch to help execute her music in a live setting.
COMPONENTS
Video
• YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC4EEUwd7e4ljPXq6_9pILRONJzR-PS6z
• Vimeo: vimeo.com/album/2243798
Photos
• Flickr: flic.kr/s/aHsjA3Cd1q
Music
• SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/goincase/sets/tropic-of-cancer-at-room-205
CREDITS
Executive Producer
• Incase: goincase.com
Producer
• Arlie Carstens: disastercasual.typepad.com
Director
• Luis Farfan: denada.org
Set Designer
• Tamarra Younis: union-of-art.net
Audio Engineer
• Jon Gilbert: facebook.com/jonathan.gilbert.7796
Camera
• Luis Farfan: denada.org
• Conor Simpson: vimeo.com/likeamaniac
Editor
• Forrest Borie: vimeo.com/forrestborie
Photos
• Arlie Carstens: disastercasual.typepad.com
Performing Artist
• Tropic Of Cancer: facebook.com/tropicofcancerband
Label
• Blackest Ever Black: blackesteverblack.blogspot.com
Publicity
• Camella Lobo: twitter.com/camellalobo
Room 205 Theme Song
• Cora Foxx: theheapsf.com
Years after I watched this as a kid, I'm struck by how much Jetson's desk here resembles my own, and how he complains about his button pushing finger and everyone I know complains about their keyboard mashing wrists and how everyone I know has multiple giant monitors like this.
Here are some close-ups of the ironclad USS Monitor, as depicted by floodllama for the Battle of Bricksburg at BrickCon 2015.
The gun barrels are a BrickArms exclusive for this collaboration. Thanks, Will!
During the 80's, DC had to reboot, and so created The Anti-Monitor to basically remove all alternate realities.
This was really fun to make, some liberties were taken, and I kinda fused the Crisis and Sinestro versions together a bit, but oh well.
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click to activate the small icon of slideshow: the small triangle inscribed in the small rectangle, at the top right, in the photostream (it means the monitor);
or…. Press the “L” button to zoom in the image;
clicca sulla piccola icona per attivare lo slideshow: sulla facciata principale del photostream, in alto a destra c'è un piccolo rettangolo (rappresenta il monitor) con dentro un piccolo triangolo nero;
oppure…. premi il tasto “L” per ingrandire l'immagine;
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This is a photographic story of mine, a little late, it's not something new that I'm posting late, they are photographs taken at the beginning of August this year, during the week of summer holidays spent with my family, in a pleasant holiday village in Ionian Calabria, near Le Castella, a hamlet of Isola di Capo Rizzuto, in the province of Crotone: sun and kilometre-long beaches where you can take long, extremely relaxing walks, beaches that seem to have remained intact since the dawn of time with a coastline that has a few anthropized, incorporated in the village there is a kitesurfing sports club attended by very good and very nice boys and girls, expert male and female athletes, who I thank for allowing me to take photographs of both their performances and their portraits. The area was characterized by a completely sandy seabed, free of dangerous rocks, and by the almost constant presence of wind which, as if by magic, appeared punctually in the afternoon, ideal for practicing this beautiful and fascinating sport. The village offers canoes and pedal boats for anyone who wants to experience the sea beyond the shore. All idyllic then... and yet, and yet... during my very long morning walk in search of some "photographic situation", I meet a very kind gentleman with a fishing rod, with whom I chat for a while, it was atrocious to hear from him... of the massacre of the migrants who died on the beach of Steccato di Cutro, I didn't know we were near that beach, the fisherman told me that three of the bodies recovered in that very sad shipwreck were found right on the same beach where we were talking: the shipwreck had occurred on the night between 25 and 26 February 2023, it was a gulet that left Turkey. News from 18 April of this year 2023 is that the deaths of the massacre of migrants in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, were confirmed to be 94, including 35 minors, around eighty were the survivors, the precise number of the dead it is not known, since it is unknown how many passengers were on board the shipwrecked boat, even if, according to testimonies, there were at least 180 migrants on the boat. Learning that those places so full of beauty, serenity, joy... had been the scene of that terrible tragedy, was a reason for personal reflection and meditation... people who died not only at the bottom of the sea, but also who died burned under the sun violent desert in an attempt to reach the starting points located on the African coast, and then reach Sicily or Calabria. For some photographs I used a particular photographic technique at the moment of shooting, which in addition to capturing the surrounding space, also "inserted" a temporal dimension, with photos characterized by being blurry because the exposure times were deliberately lengthened, they are confused -blurred-imprecise-undecided...the Anglo-Saxon term that encompasses this photographic genre with a single word is "blur", these images were thus created during the shooting phase, and not as an effect created subsequently, a posteriori, during the post-production.
Un mio racconto fotografico questo, un po’ in ritardo, non è una novità che io posti in ritardo, sono fotografie realizzate l’inizio di agosto di quest’anno, durante la settimana di ferie estive trascorsa insieme alla mia famiglia, in un ameno villaggio vacanze della Calabria Ionica, vicino Le Castella, frazione di Isola di Capo Rizzuto, in provincia di Crotone: sole e spiagge chilometriche dove fare lunghissime passeggiate estremamente rilassanti, spiagge che sembrano essere rimaste intatte dalla notte dei tempi con una costa poco antropizzata, inglobato nel villaggio un club sportivo di kitesurf frequentato da bravissimi e simpaticissimi ragazzi e ragazze, esperti atleti ed atlete, che ringrazio per avermi concesso di realizzare fotografie sia delle loro esibizioni, sia dei loro ritratti. La zona era caratterizzata dal fondale completamente sabbioso, privo di pericolose rocce, e dalla quasi costante presenza di vento che, come per magia, si presentava puntuale nel pomeriggio, ideale per praticare questo bellissimo ed affascinante sport. Il villaggio mette a disposizione canoe e pedalò per chiunque voglia vivere il mare oltre il bagnasciuga. Tutto idilliaco quindi…eppure, eppure…durante una mia lunghissima passeggiata mattutina alla ricerca di qualche “situazione fotografica”, conosco un gentilissimo signore con una canna da pesca, col quale mi intrattengo a conversare un po’, atroce è stato sapere da lui…della strage dei migranti morti sulla spiaggia di Steccato di Cutro, non sapevo ci trovassimo nelle vicinanze di quella spiaggia, il pescatore mi disse che tre dei corpi recuperati in quel tristissimo naufragio, furono trovati proprio sulla stessa spiaggia dove stavamo parlando: il naufragio era avvenuto nella notte tra il 25 ed il 26 febbraio 2023, era un caicco partito dalla Turchia. Notizia del 18 aprile di quest’anno 2023 è che i morti della strage di migranti a Steccato di Cutro, in provincia di Crotone, sono risultati essere accertati 94, tra cui 35 minori, una ottantina sono risultati i sopravvissuti, il numero preciso dei morti non si conosce, poiché è ignoto quanti passeggeri fossero a bordo del barcone naufragato, anche se, secondo le testimonianze, c’erano sul barcone almeno 180 migranti. Venire a conoscenza che quei luoghi così carichi di bellezza, di serenità, di allegria… erano stati teatro di quella terribile tragedia, è stato motivo di personale raccoglimento e meditazione … persone morte non solo in fondo al mare, ma anche morte arse sotto il sole violento del deserto nel tentativo di raggiungere i luoghi di partenza siti sulla costa africana, per poi raggiungere la Sicilia o la Calabria. Ho utilizzato per alcune fotografie una tecnica fotografica particolare al momento dello scatto, che oltre a catturare lo spazio circostante, ha "inserito" anche una dimensione temporale, con foto caratterizzate dall’essere mosse poiché volutamente sono stati allungati i tempi di esposizione, sono confuse-sfocate-imprecise-indecise...il termine anglosassone che racchiude con una sola parola questo genere fotografico è "blur", queste immagini sono state così realizzate in fase di scatto, e non come un effetto creato successivamente, a posteriori, in fase di post-produzione.