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OK, we made it back from Savannah and the parade was great. But I am a little green around the gills and need a shave. Time to get to your photographs after a shower and shave.
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DMX Motocross Championship (Round-6), Dubai
canon 650D, F/5.6, 1/800sec, 55mm focal length, 18-55mm lens, ISO:100, Aperture Priority Mode, Metering: Evaluate, White Balance: Daylight
Need an extra hand? Maybe it’s after hours and you realize you left the industrial sized oven on, or maybe something worse. Whatever the case, the Brickton Dynamics Fido dogbot with manipulator arm is your friend indeed when you’re in need.
If you're interested in this build, a file can be found here:
Went to the store today and the had Selfie Snaps Jade and Snow Kissed Cloe! I just had to have them! I think This Jade is one of my fav Bratz from this year :-3
Soon outgrown - but ask for a bike instead.
One of the old B&W photos now re-colourised automatically.
Our walk home, 05.06.2023, Monday night. I will probably add some voice to this when I do something for youtube. Of course the lesson of always use a tripod when doing video is evident, I just need to heed the lesson and not think I can hold the thing still! Look out for my feeble attempts at creativity, pinching a bit out of my second recording of the drone show and cutting in to the front end of this mash up.
Monday night was a very low crowd night, my kind of night, but maybe no good for the folks selling things. After the Campbells Cove projection, we headed home, on foot, around Barangaroo. First though it was down through The Rocks, and the very colourful tree with bird sounds, then past the Hyatt, $1700 plus per night, with personal butler. First stop was ‘The Dandelion’, it was pretty cool, but highlighted my lack of creativity. If you look on Instagram at drruthcollins feed and see how she has just walked around the other side and made a great image with the Sydney Harbour Bridge. All of her images are great to be honest. Next along to the South Pylon of the Harbour Bridge, Eastern side. There used to only be projections on this pylon, but now on both pylons, and both sides of each pylon. There was once a time when the bridge was only lit on the Western side too, not sure who thought that up with all of the action on the Eastern side, basically. Around the corner to old mate bullfrog keeping an eye on what is going on in and across the harbour. Still in The Rocks I believe, and down through some of the Finger Wharves, a couple of installations there. Some expensive Sydney Real Estate in these little areas. I am not sure where The Rocks become Barangaroo but it is somewhere here. Through Barangaroo, it is a gorgeous walk, past some more frogs, and the Bogan Moths in a Light Bulb installation. Again, highlights my personal lack of creativity, go up the hill a bit and get the Sydney Harbour Bridge over the lightbulb, again @drruthcollins gets this well. We missed a couple of installations on the way back to Pyrmont. A quick look at the Barangaroo development and yet another filthy casino, sorry gamblers, not a fan in any way shape or form. I would think the Casino Tower would have 360 degree views of the entire city and harbour. There was a pretty cool projection onto the banks of the boardwalk as we wound our way back along the front towards the casino and other developments. Another installation there that was pretty cool but didn’t stop to check what it was, with the colourful lily pads or flowers and jumping lights. In the distance is another building, changing colours. This is the Sofitel, next door to the International Convention Centre. The Sofitel will rip around the $700 per night starting money from you, an amount I personally just see no value in, value being the key word. I meant to go back and photograph/video the Sofitel and ICC buildings but never made it. Then to finish off the projection on the Museaum (yes spelling is correct), it was also really cool, and glad we stopped for a look. It turned 11pm while I was recording that so not sure if I got it all or not. So another km or so and off to bed.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. "Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning" [= Laboratori Enea i batteri 'restauratori' per riparare dipinti, affreschi e statue], NYT (31 May, 2021): C1. S.v., "Roma, Casina Farnese sul Palatino," in: ADNKRONOS / ARTE (10/04/2015). wp.me/pbMWvy-1vZ
1). ITALIA - Send in the Bugs. The Michelangelos Need Cleaning. NYT (31 May 31, 2021): C1.
Last fall, with the Medici Chapel in Florence operating on reduced hours because of Covid-19, scientists and restorers completed a secret experiment: They unleashed grime-eating bacteria on the artist’s masterpiece marbles.
FLORENCE — As early as 1595, descriptions of stains and discoloration began to appear in accounts of a sarcophagus in the graceful chapel Michelangelo created as the final resting place of the Medicis. In the ensuing centuries, plasters used to incessantly copy the masterpieces he sculpted atop the tombs left discoloring residues. His ornate white walls dimmed.
Nearly a decade of restorations removed most of the blemishes, but the grime on the tomb and other stubborn stains required special, and clandestine, attention. In the months leading up to Italy’s Covid-19 epidemic and then in some of the darkest days of its second wave as the virus raged outside, restorers and scientists quietly unleashed microbes with good taste and an enormous appetite on the marbles, intentionally turning the chapel into a bacterial smorgasbord.
“It was top secret,” said Daniela Manna, one of the art restorers.
On a recent morning, she reclined — like Michelangelo’s allegorical sculptures of Dusk and Dawn above her — and reached into the shadowy nook between the chapel wall and the sarcophagus to point at a dirty black square, a remnant showing just how filthy the marble had become.
She attributed the mess to one Medici in particular, Alessandro Medici, a ruler of Florence, whose assassinated corpse had apparently been buried in the tomb without being properly eviscerated. Over the centuries, he seeped into Michelangelo’s marble, the chapel’s experts said, creating deep stains, button-shaped deformations, and, more recently, providing a feast for the chapel’s preferred cleaning product, a bacteria called Serratia ficaria SH7.
“SH7 ate Alessandro,” Monica Bietti, former director of the Medici Chapels Museum, said as she stood in front of the now gleaming tomb, surrounded by Michelangelos, dead Medicis, tourists and an all-woman team of scientists, restorers and historians. Her team used bacteria that fed on glue, oil and apparently Alessandro’s phosphates as a bioweapon against centuries of stains.
In November 2019, the museum brought in Italy’s National Research Council, which used infrared spectroscopy that revealed calcite, silicate and other, more organic, remnants on the sculptures and two tombs that face one another across the New Sacristy.
That provided a key blueprint for Anna Rosa Sprocati, a biologist at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, to choose the most appropriate bacteria from a collection of nearly 1,000 strains, usually used to break down petroleum in oil spills or to reduce the toxicity of heavy metals. Some of the bugs in her lab ate phosphates and proteins, but also the Carrara marble preferred by Michelangelo.
“We didn’t pick those,” said Bietti.
Then the restoration team tested the most promising eight strains behind the altar, on a small rectangle palette spotted with rows of squares like a tiny marble bingo board. All of the ones selected, she said, were nonhazardous and without spores.
“It’s better for our health,” said Manna, after crawling out from under the sarcophagus. “For the environment, and the works of art.”
Sprocati said they first introduced the bacteria to Michelangelo’s tomb for Giuliano di Lorenzo, Duke of Nemours. That sarcophagus is graced with allegorical sculptures for Day, a hulking, twisted male figure, and Night, a female body Michelangelo made so smooth and polished as to seem as if she shone in moonlight. The team washed her hair with Pseudomonas stutzeri CONC11, a bacteria isolated from the waste of a tannery near Naples, and cleaned residue of casting molds, glue and oil off her ears with Rhodococcus sp. ZCONT, another strain which came from soil contaminated with diesel in Caserta.
It was a success. But Paola D’Agostino, who runs the Bargello Museums, which oversees the chapels and which will officially reveal the results of the project in June, preferred to play it safe on Night’s face. So did Bietti and Pietro Zander, a Vatican expert who joined them. They allowed the restorers to give her a facial of micro-gel packs of xanthan gum, a stabilizer often found in toothpaste and cosmetics that is derived from the Xanthomonas campestris bacteria. The head of the Duke Giuliano, hovering above his tomb, received similar treatment.
Sprocati took her bugs elsewhere. In August, her group of biologists used bacteria isolated from a Naples industrial site to clean the wax left by centuries of votive candles from Alessandro Algardi’s baroque masterpiece, a colossal marble relief in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome of the Meeting of Attila and Pope Leo.
The bacteria strains got back to the Medici Chapel, which had reopened with reduced hours, in mid-October. Wearing white lab coats, blue gloves and anti-Covid surgical masks, Sprocati and the restorers spread gels with the SH7 bacteria — from soil contaminated by heavy metals at a mineral site in Sardinia — on the sullied sarcophagus of Lorenzo di Piero, Duke of Urbino, buried with his assassinated son Alessandro.
“It ate the whole night,” said Marina Vincenti, another of the restorers.
The Medicis were more accustomed to sitting atop Florence’s food chain.
In 1513, Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici became Leo X — the first Medici pope. He had big plans for a new sacristy for the interment of his family, including his father, Lorenzo the Magnificent, the powerful ruler of Florence who largely bankrolled the Renaissance. Il Magnifico is now buried here too, under a modest altar adorned with Michelangelo’s Madonna and Child, flanked by saints that also had their toes nibbled by cleansing bacteria. But back then his coffin waited, probably on the Old Sacristy floor. He was soon joined by Leo X’s brother, Giuliano, and his nephew, Lorenzo, the Prince to whom Machiavelli dedicated his treatise on wielding power.
“You had coffins waiting to be buried,” said D’Agostino. “It’s kind of gloomy.”
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Pope Leo X hired Michelangelo to design and build the mausoleum. The pope then promptly died of pneumonia. In the ensuing years, Michelangelo carved the masterpieces and then ran afoul of his patrons.
In 1527, with the Sack of Rome, Florentines, including Michelangelo, supported a Republic and overthrew the Medicis. Among the ousted princes was Lorenzo di Piero’s sometimes volatile son, Alessandro, whom many historians consider a real piece of work. Michelangelo couldn’t stand him, and when the Medicis stormed back, it was Michelangelo’s turn to flee.
In 1531, the Medici Pope Clement VII pardoned Michelangelo, who went back to work on the family chapel. But by that time, Alessandro had become Duke of Florence. Michelangelo soon left town, and the unfinished chapel, for good.
“Alessandro was terrible,” said D’Agostino.
Alessandro’s relative, known as the “bad Lorenzo,” agreed and stabbed him to death in 1537. The duke’s body was rolled up in a carpet and plopped in the sarcophagus. It’s unclear if his father, Lorenzo, was already in there or moved in later.
“A roommate,” D’Agostino said.
In 2013, Bietti, then the museum’s director, realized how badly things had deteriorated since a 1988 restoration. The museum cleaned the walls, marred by centuries of humidity and handprints, revealed damages from the casts and iron brushes used to remove oil and wax, and reanimated the statues.
“Come and see,” Bietti said, pointing, Creation-of-Adam-style, at the toe of Night.
But the cleaner the chapel became, the more the stubbornly marred the sarcophagus of Lorenzo di Piero stood out as an eyesore.
In 2016, Vincenti, one of the restorers, attended a conference held by Sprocati and her biologists. (“An introduction to the world of microorganisms,” Sprocati called it.) They showed how bacteria had cleaned up some resin residues on Baroque masterpiece frescoes in the Carracci Gallery at Palazzo Farnese in Rome. Strains isolated from mine drainage waters in Sardinia eliminated corrosive iron stains in the gallery’s Carrara marble.
When it came time to clean the Michelangelos, Vincenti pushed for a bacterial assist.
“I said, ‘OK,” said D’Agostino. “‘But let’s do a test first.’”
The bacteria passed the exam and did the job. On Monday, tourists admired the downward pensive glance of Michelangelo’s bearded Dusk, the rising of his groggy Dawn and Lorenzo’s tomb, now rid of the remnants of Alessandro.
“It’s very strange, especially in this time of Covid,” Marika Tapuska, a Slovakian visiting Florence with her family said when she learned that bacteria had cleaned up the sarcophagus. “But if it works, why not?”
Fonte / source, foto:
--- NYT (31 May 31, 2021): C1.
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/arts/bacteria-cleaning-michela...
2). ROMA - S.v., 'Roma, Casina Farnese sul Palatino', in: "Arte: dai laboratori Enea i batteri 'restauratori' per riparare dipinti, affreschi e statue." ADNKRONOS / ARTE (10/04/2015).
Presto su opere custodite in Vaticano l'applicazione dell'innovativa tecnica made in Italy messa a punto dal team coordinato da Anna Rosa Sprocati che all'Adnkronos spiega: "Tecnica a basso costo e con molti vantaggi."
Batteri per restaurare statue, dipinti, affreschi, antichi manoscritti. Piccolissimi organismi che si nutrono in maniera selettiva delle scorie da rimuovere dalle opere e che agiscono come e meglio di un solvente senza però essere aggressivi né per l'oggetto da trattare, né per la salute degli addetti ai lavori.
E' il biorestauro, la tecnica tutta italiana messa a punto dai ricercatori dell'Enea che verrà a breve applicata in Vaticano per il restauro della 'Madonna della Cintola', dipinto su legno, e per riparare i danni su statue e fontane che si trovano nei giardini della Santa Sede. Si tratta di una tecnica molto promettente. Finora infatti il laboratorio Enea ha selezionato ben 500 ceppi di batteri capaci di intervenire in diverse situazioni e su molteplici materiali.
Sprocati,
"Abbiamo isolato questi microrganismi e li abbiamo classificati in base a ciò che sono in grado di fare - spiega all'Adnkronos Anna Rosa Sprocati, coordinatrice del laboratorio Enea di Microbiologia ambientale e biotecnologie microbiche - creando poi una nostra banca dati. In base agli interventi che ci vengono richiesti dagli esperti, selezioniamo quindi in laboratorio i batteri più adatti, li sperimentiamo e li applichiamo per 'aggredire' determinate sostanze senza danneggiare le opere trattate".
E la tecnica presenta diversi vantaggi: è a basso costo "perché - assicura la ricercatrice - crescere dei batteri su larga scala non implica davvero grandi spese", non pone problemi etici perché si basa su organismi naturali non modificati geneticamente, è di facile applicazione e non è dannoso per la salute dei tecnici.
"Questo tipo di approccio - sottolinea Sprocati - interviene quando le tecniche tradizionali non sono soddisfacenti o quando per esserlo necessitano di prodotti aggressivi per le opere o tossici per i restauratori". Sono proprio i restauratori infatti a beneficiare maggiormente della biotecnologia e a vedere nella sua applicazione un'alternativa promettente all'impiego dei tradizionali prodotti chimici. "L'uso dei batteri non è sostitutivo del lavoro degli esperti - tiene infatti a sottolineare la scienziata - ma ne costituisce uno strumento di lavoro. Noi - spiega - ci basiamo molto proprio sulle indicazioni che arrivano dai restauratori che ci chiedono aiuto. Senza il loro occhio del resto, spesso non ci sarebbe facile verificare l'efficacia di un trattamento".
Il tempo di un restauro fatto dai batteri varia a seconda del tipo di intervento. "Può bastare una notte - dice Sprocati - come nel caso di una crosta nera da rimuovere da una statua, o possono essere necessarie diverse applicazioni come è capitato per rimuovere i residui di smog dalla 'Lupa' di Giuseppe Graziosi custodita alla Galleria nazionale di arte moderna e rimasta all'aperto per 40 anni".
Diversi gli interventi di biorestauro richiesti agli scienziati Enea. Dalla Casina Farnese sul Palatino "dove abbiamo applicato diversi tipi di batteri in successione - spiega la ricercatrice - per rimuovere i residui dagli affreschi delle logge", alla soluzione trovata ma non ancora applicata agli affreschi del Palazzo dei Papi di Avignone, in Francia. "In questo caso il problema era rimuovere della colla vinilica che tra gli anni Venti e Settanta è stata spalmata sugli affreschi per consolidarli - spiega Sprocati - ma col passare del tempo questa colla ha creato un film opaco. Con il restauro tradizionale bisognerebbe ricorrere a solventi che rischierebbero di danneggiare i dipinti. Noi invece abbiamo individuato due ceppi di batteri in grado di mangiare il vinavil senza intaccare l'opera".
Fonte / source, foto:
--- ADNKRONOS / ARTE (10/04/2015).
www.adnkronos.com/batteri-al-posto-dei-solventi-dallenea-...
Coronavirus has significantly increased my need to wash clothes. Work trousers, skirts and dresses worn over undershirts are now being worn only once before going in the wash to eliminate any chance of cross contamination from one school to another. Increased walking and running to manage my mental health mean I am going through exercise gear like there's no tomorrow. I've done five loads of washing in the last three days. There's only two of us in this house and one of us has only has to climb the stairs to go to work and lives in lounge pants. I am tired of folding laundry and I am damn tired of no longer being able to avoid the ironing pile.
We’re Here: Damn, I'm Tired!
I want to update my Samantha doll. I could just buy another doll like her or I was thinking about getting this sports illustrated doll to become her. Do they favor? Or should I just get another Surf city barbie?
Eu amo cores pastéis, acho fofinhas,bonitinhas, elegantes....mas sempre são aquela dor de cabeça pra esmaltar mas é só chamar a Neosa mas eu sempre acabo enfrentando porque semrpe vale a pena.
Eu tinha lido aqui no flickr (sorry,não lembro aonde =/) que esse esmalte era chato de esmaltar. Ai já resolvi usar ele com muita paciência. Mas óh,não achei tão ruim, aqueles neon pastéis da Hits são beeem piores. Eu achei o pincel gostoso, e não manchou tanto.Acho que até dava pra usar 2 camadas,mas né pra ficar mais bonitinho e consertar uns erros eu usei 3.
Mas nada pode ser perfeito e eu resolvi usar o TC da Big (porque eu nãão vou desistir dele até acabar - ou até minha paciencia acabar) e ai deu uma amassada ¬¬
1x Vitalizante Casco de Cavalo (Maru)
1x Fortificante para Unhas (Vefic)
1x Base Fosca (Impala) (ou seria Cobertura Fosca ? não sei,estou com preguiça de ver o nome HAHA)
3x I Need a Refresh-Mint (Wet'n Wild)
1x TC (Big)
Amanhã estou indo viajar,então vou sumir por uma semaninha !
Beijos !
As if on cue, we received our first "real" snowfall Saturday afternoon and evening. I don't think I'd feel complete if I didn't have this transformation - it really makes it feel like winter and the holiday season are actually here now. Even shoveling it this morning I was humming the Beach Boys tune - "All You Need is Love." I truly love the snow. Just the sparkle I need :)
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