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The ornate monitor is a species of monitor lizards native to West Africa. They live in lowland rainforests. Ornate and Nile monitors are often confused. Although they have somewhat similar markings, they are very different animals, and they are now recognized as separate species. There are many simple ways to tell them apart, look at the tongue.
A Nile monitor has a dark blue or purple-blue tongue. An ornate monitor has a pink tongue.
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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.
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 Commodore Amiga monitor with the original Amiga logo at The Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0
Photography by Bill Winters
Sapporo maintains a solar/battery-powered real-time radiation monitor, after the Fukushima incident. 0.035µSv/hour when I was there, not a number I think we should be particularly concerned about, but if you live there for an entire year, it's the equivalent of 5 chest x-rays. I believe I was exposed to more radiation during the flight over than while I was in Japan.
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.
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.
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.
Lumphini Park, Bangkok, Thailand
Nikon D90, Nikkor DC 135mm f/2 AF-D, Defocus Control Off, Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
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
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.
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!