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Stercorarius parasiticus
Parasitic Jaeger (Arctic Skua) ... light morph
Schmarotzerraubmöwe .............. helle Morphe
Almindelig Kjove ........................... lys fase
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Warning: downer post. Toward the end of my trip I picked up a cold and it has since morphed into bronchitis. Since I was sick on my flight home, my ears were a wreck of pressure and my left one has still not unblocked. I'm on day 11 and cycling through all the things pictured is kind of my life right now. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Traveling always puts me behind on everything, and coming home sick has just extended that further. It's been 2.5 weeks since I've been able to work out. I only practiced singing like twice on my trip so I'm behind on that too. My focus is practically nonexistent so I've gotten almost no work done since I got back, and I was already behind. And to make things worse, since I've been trying not to get Jason sick, it's been 2.5 weeks since we've properly hugged or had any kind of real physical contact. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I was supposed to go to Jacksonville today to see the musical Bandstand with my parents and my aunt, who is visiting, as well as celebrate my mom's 70th birthday. But now I have to miss that. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I know I won't be sick forever, but I'm feeling pretty discouraged about everything right now. I feel like all the things I want to do depend on a body (brain included) I can't trust. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I'm really feeling pretty close to giving up on absolutely everything again. I'm so tired of this happening over and over. I keep trying to fix things but every time I feel like I'm making progress or finding balance, as soon as work comes into the picture I start spiraling and it all falls apart. If I can't maintain a certain level of productivity (a higher one than I've been doing, which I already can't handle) then I'm never going to be able to support myself. So it kind of feels like everything is pointless. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And bonus, normally it helps my anxiety to do deep breathing but right now that just hurts and makes me cough uncontrollably. 😢😵 via Instagram ift.tt/2SIDpKN
Well, we can probably all agree that a cow or a bull, almost have the same shape or form as a zebra. Here is a sample of a simple technique to morphe animals skin, but it must have around the same shape/form as a zebra though.
The police cruiser had been left downtown overnight, by morning it had morphed into a message board of thanks. The whole car was covered in post-it notes.
Morphed the faces of some of my dolls to the faces of the people i imagined they would look like in real life. Courtesy of www.morphthing.com
Kristin Kreuk and Kiki Darling
Now entering
Region Snow Crash
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Posted by Second Life Resident Torley Linden. Visit Morphe Inc.
Largest hawk in North America, sometimes mistaken for an eagle. This is a light morphed FH. Image was shot from about 70 yards away on a light foggy day which contributes to the softness of the image.
This is a prototype for the second generation Miata (NB). It's based on, and uses many components from, the NA.
Satyr morphed on iPad with eLastyc Pix elastyc.com
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Original photo:
Head of a satyr. Marble, Roman artwork of the 1st-2nd century CE. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
The first chronicle references to the word "Voronezh" are dated 1177, when the Ryazan prince Yaropolk, having lost the battle, fled "to Voronozh" and there was moving "from town to town". Modern data of archeology and history interpret Voronezh as a geographical region, which included the Voronezh river (tributary of the Don) and a number of settlements. In the lower reaches of the river, a unique Slavic town-planning complex of the 8th – early 11th century was discovered, which covered the territory of the present city of Voronezh and its environs (about 42 km long, about 13 forts and many unfortified villages). By the 12th – 13th centuries, most of the old towns were desolate, but new settlements appeared upstream, closer to Ryazan.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
The linguistic comparative analysis of the name "Voronezh" was carried out by the Khovansky Foundation in 2009. There is an indication of the place names of many countries in Eurasia, which may partly be not only similar in sound, but also united by common Indo-European languages: Varanasi, Varna, Verona, Brno, etc.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
20th century
During World War II, Voronezh was the scene of fierce fighting between Soviet and combined Axis troops. The Germans used it as a staging area for their attack on Stalingrad, and made it a key crossing point on the Don River. In June 1941, two BM-13 (Fighting machine #13 Katyusha) artillery installations were built at the Voronezh excavator factory. In July, the construction of Katyushas was rationalized so that their manufacture became easier and the time of volley repetition was shortened from five minutes to fifteen seconds. More than 300 BM-13 units manufactured in Voronezh were used in a counterattack near Moscow in December 1941. In October 22, 1941, the advance of the German troops prompted the establishment of a defense committee in the city. On November 7, 1941, there was a troop parade, devoted to the anniversary of the October Revolution. Only three such parades were organized that year: in Moscow, Kuybyshev, and Voronezh. In late June 1942, the city was attacked by German and Hungarian forces. In response, Soviet forces formed the Voronezh Front. By July 6, the German army occupied the western river-bank suburbs before being subjected to a fierce Soviet counter-attack. By July 24 the frontline had stabilised along the Voronezh River as the German forces continued southeast into the Great Bend of the Don. The attack on Voronezh represented the first phase of the German Army's 1942 campaign in the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
Until January 25, 1943, parts of the Second German Army and the Second Hungarian Army occupied the western part of Voronezh. During Operation Little Saturn, the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive, and the Voronezhsko-Kastornenskoy Offensive, the Voronezh Front exacted heavy casualties on Axis forces. On January 25, 1943, Voronezh was liberated after ten days of combat. During the war the city was almost completely ruined, with 92% of all buildings destroyed.
Post-war
By 1950, Voronezh had been rebuilt. Most buildings and historical monuments were repaired. It was also the location of a prestigious Suvorov Military School, a boarding school for young boys who were considered to be prospective military officers, many of whom had been orphaned by war.
In 1950–1960, new factories were established: a tire factory, a machine-tool factory, a factory of heavy mechanical pressing, and others. In 1968, Serial production of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic plane was established at the Voronezh Aviation factory. In October 1977, the first Soviet domestic wide-body plane, Ilyushin Il-86, was built there.
In 1989, TASS published details of an alleged UFO landing in the city's park and purported encounters with extraterrestrial beings reported by a number of children. A Russian scientist that was cited in initial TASS reports later told the Associated Press that he was misquoted, cautioning, "Don't believe all you hear from TASS," and "We never gave them part of what they published", and a TASS correspondent admitted the possibility that some "make-believe" had been added to the TASS story, saying, "I think there is a certain portion of truth, but it is not excluded that there is also fantasizing".
21st century
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.
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XXII Festival Alicante a Escena 2009, Teatro Principal de Alicante
Phil Plait and Tom Baker (Dr. Who) Morphed <----- click to see morphing video!!
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I built my first sky waterfall on Bisque in 2007. The build has morphed many times and I placed the current version on RiverLand.
My inspiration was the sky waterfall at SL Botanical Gardens. The builder there has been my most favorite builder here in Second Life. Her region is one of the best on the grid.
My version is a bit psy and a nod to the incredible waterfalls that I have seen in real life. Only Mother Nature can create what I have seen and my pitiful attempts are just to pay homage to her.
I own WET Builders, WETLands Group, and both regions WETLands and RiverLand. As a builder, my focus is nature and water elements. Of course, this is Second Life, so I usually add a bit of psy to the build, too.
All my lands on the mainland and the regions are open to the public. The only place that has barriers is my personal home. You are all welcome to everything else. Please enjoy!
This morphed out of an unfinished project for the Self issue of Urban Collective. You can find some other abstract pieces I did there in various archived issues.