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Reminiscing...
A stark reminder of what lock-downs and border closures do to businesses, such as airlines, associated businesses, as well as employees of these businesses. The flow-on impact is enormous.
There were just 22 of us on an Airbus Industrie A330, with a capacity of carrying up to 250 passengers! Flight times from Perth to Sydney are about four hours. With just the 22 of us, cargo, and wind we made it in three hours and 20 minutes.
Lunch was better than on any of my previous trips this year and, instead of a chickpea, Quinoa and radish salad with a boiled egg, I had vegetable lasagna which actually tasted very nice and also looked better than the salad. Shortly before touching down in Sydney we were offered Maggie Beer Ice-cream on a paddle as a treat and I managed to get some melted chocolate on my shirt :) I must be a bit of a grub when eating ice-cream on a paddle stick.
Disembarking was quick with ‘Entry to NSW Declarations’ checked just after leaving the aircraft. Though, coming from WA which has kept the pandemic well under control, all of us would have to be deemed 'safe' and not posing a risk to anybody in stricken NSW.
Sydney Airport was deserted. Fearing there may be only a few taxis, I had booked my usual, reliable, local Airport Shuttle. Waiting for my luggage, I couldn’t see any taxis at all and it was cold outside. The Shuttle Bus driver told me that he had very few fares since the beginning of the lock-down, business has slowed down to a trickle and, of course, I was the only passenger which suited me fine, but this pandemic is a terrible blow to businesses.
Oh, about Perth and WA:
Currently, life goes on in Perth and the rest of WA just as pre-Covid. The day before I left we went shopping and had a lovely lunch at a busy café.
Imho, the reason WA is successful in controlling the spread of this, and any new virus, is due to fast and hard lock-downs, and people doing as they are told.
Sydney:
Stay home, sit back, watch the Olympic Games ...
SOME STATS:
The following may happen if we don’t follow restrictions and we keep resisting lock-downs:
(as at 24 July, 2021)
NSW population: 8.1mio – Number of deaths due to Covid: 60
Switzerland population: 8.7mio – Number of deaths due to COVID: 10’903 (!!!)
Australia population: 25.8mio – Number of deaths due to COVID: 916
Australia is well on track to keep this pandemic more or less under control by restrictions, lock-downs and vaccination.
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/10/20/who-pays-c...
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www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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Mid 2021, Australia was in position 144 with about 1,000 death/26 mio. population.
Looks like we are slowing catching up to the 'winners' with a dramatic increase in numbers, especially in NSW, since our new Premier decided to 'open up' mid December, for the sake of the economy and Christmas cheers for labs and hospitals with overworked and underpaid nurses, most of them women.
December 21, 2021 Australia tally
Total cases: 254,633
New cases: 3,905
Deaths: 2,146
Position: 89
Booster debacle due date:
Fed. Government advice letter received 20.12.21: 6 months
NSW Health: 5 months wanting to bring it forward to 4 months.
NSW Premier Perrottet, as well as Health Minister Brad Hazard, “We’re all going to get Omicron”, appearing not too concerned about the rising numbers as long as the economy is going well.
December 26, 2021 Australia tally
Total cases: 292'532
New cases: 9'943 (NSW leading the way with about 6’300 cases).
Deaths: 2'188
Position: 84
Population: 25'937'765
IPad brushes June 2016
A daily record of a woodland that I've been familiar with for 34 years. It is good to record these places in a very personal way come rain or shine. I like to see the place without making anything picturesque, rather setting down what's before me at different times of day and not overworking each piece, keeping it spontaneous and fresh. Inspired by Charles Burchfield and Emily Carr among others. In some ways a pendant to my Simon's wood series and to be part of my Looking Out exhibition.
Deep down the new wizards new Tower at it deepest level and old frail man and some overworked sweaty coal shoveling strongmen are working a huge hearth to the red-hot limits of what is physically possible...
- Hey men, shovel faster, we need to get to the point where we meet a level of heat which will make the building blocks of physical matter will be so heated that it´s connections loosen up and we can reforge it in to a new matter like GOLD!
- Old silly Wizard, we are shoveling like we never had before, not even when I was a coal shoveler as a slave on the Emirs imperial fleet...
- Well it isn´t fast enough, we need a complete meltdown of the hearth, well not the hearth but the Silver we put there earlier!
- Puny Old mad with strange desires, when will we get payed?
- oh, Young punk, you will be payed plenty when the silver will trans-morph in to glimmering gold...
- Eh! and when will that be?
- When the hearth is so warm that it breaks down the the silver in to its basic ingredients that all matter is made out of, I have been reading this old manuscript from the ancient centaurs, some fellow known as Popolus Democraticus a great thinker said that all stuff is made out of smaller stuff and that might be made out of smaller stuff and that makes what makes any physical object what it is...
- I already knew that, if you have a loaf of bread and divide it in to two halves, you will get two halves of bread of almost the same size and if I divid one of those pieces it turns in to even smaller pieces!
- Oh Why am I wasting words on you ignorant fools, my mind is far to valuable to waste on talking to you and your fellow dimwit musclemen without head-mazes!
Just shovel that is what I pay you for...
- What is a head-maze?
- some very interesting soft organic tissue all gods creatures have behind the cranium-wall...
- Oh I hope my mind don´t get lost in there then... oh wait I had no head-maze, that must be a good thing!
- Yes don´t worry, you won´t get lost in your head-maze... you would be one of the least likely to do that, Now less speak and more shovel!
- Ok, How much gold am I gonna get?
- Plenty! now work or I will push you in to the heath!
This lesson is the heart of the beast for me. I struggle with shadows and how to handle them. I often play a game I call "what if" to try to figure out sketching situations such as this. Oftentimes, but not always, the result is an overworked mess.
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my own Family’s 2010 Nativity Scene (detail)
All the setting and the accessories (dishes, fruits, desks, etc...) are hand made by me and my wife Barbara. Other shots will follow.
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Presepio di famiglia anno 2010.
tutta l’ambientazione e gli accessori (piatti, frutta, banconi, ecc...) è fatta a mano da me e da mia moglie Barbara. Seguiranno altre immagini.
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much better large size and on black - molto meglio in grande e su sfondo nero
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Grazie a tutti gli amici di flickr per i gentili commenti e le visite.
Oberato di superlavoro... quasi defunto...
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thanks to all my flickr friends for your kind visits and comments.
busy busy busy with overwork... overwork kills...
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As an overworked, delicate farm boy, I was the odd exception in our farming community as I was never sad to see summer pass into fall and for the start of school. Once the oats or wheat got ripe, it was a signal that we were making real good progress with getting through summer...
Overworked and overdone, not really the kind of thing I've been doing lately, but then it has a sort of interesting look, and hey - it's crenellated!
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Yawning Black Mamba, taken with a DSLR and overworked to Black & White.
Patergassen/Carinthia, Austria in summer 2006.
Black Mambas have one of the most toxic venoms (among King Cobras, Taipans and some Seasnakes) and can inject huge amounts of venom with a single, fast bite. An adult mamba could kill about 20 people in a row - but never does. Mambas always try to avoid a encounter with people, if they are able to. Therefor fatal bites are very seldom.
If biten, it depends on the amount of the neurotoxic venom injected, how much time You have. Some people recovered when they got into the hospital about 30min later, others died. If they recover, they recover completely usually.
The venom teeth are rather short and in the front of the mouth and cannot be turned down as vipers (adders) can do.
Anyway: the Black Mamba is one of the deadliest snakes in the world. A single bite may inject enough venom to kill from 20-40 grown men, easily killing one unless the appropriate anti-venom is administered in time. When in the striking position, the mamba flattens its neck, hisses very loudly and displays its inky black mouth and deadly fangs. It can rear up around one-third of its body from the ground which allows it to reach heights of approximately 1.5 meters. When warding off a threat, the black mamba usually delivers multiple strikes, injecting its potent neuro- and cardiotoxin with each strike, often attacking the body or head, unlike most other snakes.
Canon 5D with Sigma 105/2,8 Makro f=3,2 1/250s ISO 1000
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This was probably my most indepth Allan repaint. I’m happy with the fierceness and feel like a proud papa!
The Breakdown:
-Vintage Allan head (modded to fit on new style neck)
-Ever After High Dexter Charming upper body
-DC Superhero Girls Poison Ivy legs
Allan’s head was painted to match the body and the repaint was done with a mix of acrylic paint, watercolour pencil and brush on matte sealant. I’ll be the first to admit that I overworked his eyes and they aren’t the smoothest (the design decision to use silver paint as a highlight didn’t help either haha). I always do that, but the painted base didn’t help either. I learned a lot working on this doll that’s for sure. For his hair I was going for a dyed look... hopefully I captured that
my own Family’s 2010 Nativity Scene (detail)
All the setting and the accessories (dishes, fruits, desks, etc...) are hand made by me and my wife Barbara. This is the last one (I think).
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Presepio di famiglia anno 2010.
tutta l’ambientazione e gli accessori (piatti, frutta, banconi, ecc...) è fatta a mano da me e da mia moglie Barbara. Questa è l’ultima della serie (per ora).
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much better large size and on black - molto meglio in grande e su sfondo nero
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Grazie a tutti gli amici di flickr per i gentili commenti e le visite.
Oberato di superlavoro... quasi defunto...
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thanks to all my flickr friends for your kind visits and comments.
busy busy busy with overwork... overwork kills...
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The rivers of Bangladesh mark both the physiography of the nation and the life of the people. About 700 in number, one of the largest networks in the world, which have a total length of about 24,140 kilometers, these rivers generally, flow south. The water mass consists of tiny hilly streams, winding seasonal creeks, muddy canals, some truly magnificent rivers and their tributaries and distributaries.
The larger rivers serve as the main source of water for cultivation and as the principal arteries of commercial transportation. Rivers also provide fish, an important source of protein. Flooding of the rivers during the monsoon season causes enormous hardship and hinders development, but fresh deposits of rich silt replenish the fertile but overworked soil. The rivers also drain excess monsoon rainfall into the Bay of Bengal. Thus, the great river system is at the same time the country's principal resource and its greatest hazard.
Introduction
Christian Testimonies | God’s Love Never Fails | Short Film "God Is My Reliance" | en.godfootsteps.org/videos/film-god-is-my-reliance-2.html
She was born into a Christian family. By God’s grace, her family loved each other and lived in harmony, and she felt very happy. However, in the year she turned 15, in order to escape being arrested and persecuted by the CCP government, her family was forced to scatter to different places and she stayed with their relatives. In 2002, through reading God’s word, she was certain that Almighty God is the return of the Lord Jesus and accepted God’s end-time work. In 2008, she was arrested by the CCP government and was sentenced to two years in prison. Under the long time During the long period of overwork and being tortured and humiliated with different means in the women’s labor camp, she, unable to bear all this, tasted the selflessness and greatness of God’s love. God’s word made her weak heart become strong.…
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Despite the limited space, the new police station is packed with all the necessary features for its daily operation. The Command Center for Operation and Response Team (CCORT) stands in the city under sand blue, black and grey major colors, getting rid of the usual bright blue palette.
Giving way to the vehicular entries, the reception is moved to the first floor led by a wide staircase which becomes a welcoming and prominent feature along the street. Above it are the detention section, interview rooms, and one record room.
Going further up will be the main office for the officers, accompanied with pantry and the female restroom. Half of the area is a double volume space to receive more daylight through the big window. There’s also a meeting room which can be used as a war room if needed.
Above them will be the laboratory and equipment room, where evidence can be analyzed and where weapons and tools are stored. There are also the male restroom and one meeting room. Speaking of the restrooms, both of them have shower in case the overworked officers need to take a break.
Finally you will reach the top floor where the director’s office and flight control room are located. One can also reach the rooftop which is an Orca pad. The parking receiver is usually closed, and extends out upon Orca landing. The charging equipment sits on the side. Seldom do we see an Orca here actually since it’s usually parked for charging and equipment check.
Now, VCPD (V City Police Department) has a solid base for daily operations, providing all the services and support to the citizens in the town!
Purely inspired by Karl Marx’s theories on alienation.
“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital.
The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-
the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx
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Despite the limited space, the new police station is packed with all the necessary features for its daily operation. The Command Center for Operation and Response Team (CCORT) stands in the city under sand blue, black and grey major colors, getting rid of the usual bright blue palette.
Giving way to the vehicular entries, the reception is moved to the first floor led by a wide staircase which becomes a welcoming and prominent feature along the street. Above it are the detention section, interview rooms, and one record room.
Going further up will be the main office for the officers, accompanied with pantry and the female restroom. Half of the area is a double volume space to receive more daylight through the big window. There’s also a meeting room which can be used as a war room if needed.
Above them will be the laboratory and equipment room, where evidence can be analyzed and where weapons and tools are stored. There are also the male restroom and one meeting room. Speaking of the restrooms, both of them have shower in case the overworked officers need to take a break.
Finally you will reach the top floor where the director’s office and flight control room are located. One can also reach the rooftop which is an Orca pad. The parking receiver is usually closed, and extends out upon Orca landing. The charging equipment sits on the side. Seldom do we see an Orca here actually since it’s usually parked for charging and equipment check.
Now, VCPD (V City Police Department) has a solid base for daily operations, providing all the services and support to the citizens in the town!
Edgar Degas (1834-1917) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker who was prominent in the Impressionist group and widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life.
In this mysterious painting, Degas shows a client trying on a silk taffeta cream hat in front of a large mirror. Her reflected face appears as an abstract white oval. Degas began this painting in the early 1880's but reworked it in the late 1890's. He emphasized the customer's silhouette and created flat areas of luminous color. To the right in the picture is the cropped stylized hand of the saleswoman, offering a russet hat. Degas was fascinated by hand gestures and once remarked how he liked to see the "red hands of the little girl who holds the pins" during hat fittings. His comment may have referred to the inflammation of a saleswoman's hands as a result of overwork.
This original Degas painting was seen and photographed on display at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco in an exhibit entitled "Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade".
Sorry for the noisy picture, i was just trying out some software and probably overworked it... still getting into the HDR world
Two more reworked (and overworked) shots from the archives.
Had a bit more fun with this one but liked the over processed feel of it.
I hope the young women who live in this house didn't mind. I overworked this...should have stopped about 10 minutes before I did...but I really enjoyed it. Did this while waiting for my son to finish making the pizza.
Not one of my best: it had been a difficult day and I was tired and shouldn't have drawn. But I was in the mood...and am determined to share whatever I do on here and treat it all as a developing, celebratory journey.Apologies for the poor quality image. Scanner still not sorted! Soft pencil, fine dip pen and ink, fine felt pens, coloured pencil, palette knife and brush. Lots of different media..which is probably why it ended up being overworked! J was discharged from the Hospice today and I brought him back home for a few weeks, prior to Radiotherapy. So much better :)
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E.T. Phone home:
Having my mobile phone service recently flake out on me specifically during a time in which I very direly needed to call home, set me off on a self-portrait photoshoot tangent (pausing work on the costume I've been creating).
This light-hearted miniseries of portraits is actually a hint at a costume/character I've brainstormed; touching on how alienating and hollow technology dependence can be: how we are all connected but we are all so not connected and missing the essence of life that makes us humans and not robots. On another level, it's also mocking the tinfoil hat trope, and even mocking aspects of myself. I also just realized afterwards that the two green lights on the heat pump could look like cameras to the eyes of a mad tinfoil hatter - Big Brother is always watching!
Inscribed in purple foiled eyeshadow above the eyes are the ubiquitous WiFi symbol/soundwaves/vibrations/ the sonar "technology" that bats use for movement.
As in the children’s story book with Stellaluna the lost baby bat raised by a bird family who expect her to live like them: sleep at night, don’t hang upside down; this alien is urged to erase traits intrinsic to her nature, in order to assimilate.
So this empathicalist* extraT, let’s call her Astrid, has forged some armour to block hostile vibrations* because sometimes people try to say that living true to your own nature is bad attitude/bad behaviour just because you don't make a fool of yourself trying to be like them simply to make them feel validated when you know that your sonar senses are the thing that you can truly trust. “…if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
The fidget spinner kept handy on her wrist is to symbolize the anxiety epidemic resultant from an ambitious overworked world where people are too busy on the grind and not truly connected – stressed out beyond belief, taking it out on each other and causing rifts. Consistent uber-stress threatens the very fibre of our being to the point that we become who we are not, distorted caricatures of success and glamour. She’s kinda like this bizarre alien ninja with her Inspector Gadget-esque sometimes-weaponized fidget spinner. A protector, a lover, a renegade fighter against societally-institutionalized bad vibes. Good vibes only zone. Live love laugh, motherfucker. (but in a creepy gothic and scary kinda way)
When life gives me lemons I say "wtf i ordered lychees!" and I don’t stop ‘til I have those lychees, cuz lychees rule. In other words, I stop my crying and make a costume and tableaux vivant (living picture/visual narrative).
*Quote from Funny Face movie
Recovered image file from the 1990's, probably shot with that swivel Coolpix4500, then overworked in P'Shop
Here is a quick loose version of the pomegranite challenge ,with the main purpose of creating depth through luminosity & strong shadows. I used a Hard sized paper for this one so as to create a strong textured painting without overworking ! ( best viewed Large)
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The Grant Memorial, begun in 1902 as the largest ever commissioned by Congress at the time, was created by sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady and architect William Pearce Casey. Sculptor Edmund Amateis assisted Shrady as the monument neared completion in 1921. Shrady spent 20 years of his life working on the memorial and died, stressed and overworked, two weeks before its dedication in 1922. The platform for the monument, made of Vermont marble, is 252 feet (77 m) long and 71 feet (22 m) wide and is divided into three sections. The tall, middle section features a 10,700 pound, 17-foot-2-inch (5.2 m) high equestrian statue depicting Grant aboard his war horse Cincinnati on a 22 1/2-foot high marble pedestal. Grant is flanked, on either side, by fighting Union Artillery and Cavalry groups. Surrounding the main pedestal are four shorter pedestals, each supporting a bronze lion in repose guarding both the United States flag and the flags of the Army. The memorial was the largest bronze sculpture cast in the United States at that time.
The Cavalry Group depicts a color squad consisting of seven cavalrymen charging into battle. The horse on the right has fallen and the rider, modeled after Shrady himself, is moments from being trampled by the onrushing horses.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, Berlin. Photo: Emelka Konzern. Himansu Rai in Prem Sanyas or Die Leuchte Asiens/The Light of Asia (Franz Osten, Himansu Rai, 1925). Bayern Films. Caption: Gotoma leaves his palace to become a beggar from the king's son. One of the many dramatic scenes from the new film of the Münchener Lichtspielkunst, The Light of Asia, which Franz Osten created as the first German large-scale film with the participation and support of the indigenous princes of the historical cities of India in several months of joint work by Indians and Europeans. An overwhelming picture of oriental splendour and exotic beauty.
Himansu Rai (1895-1940) was one of the stars of the early Indian cinema when India was still a part of the United Kingdom. He often worked with German director-producer Franz Osten. Later Rai became a producer.
he German-Indian production Prem Sanyas or Die Leuchte Asiens (Franz Osten, Himansu Rai, 1925) depicts the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the man who became the Buddha. Prem Sanyas is a fascinating hybrid between exoticism and authenticity. The film made stars of the two young leads, Seeta Devi and Himansu Rai. Actor/director Rai would become one of the pioneers of the Indian cinema. Prem Sanyas was the first Indian co-production and made with the cooperation of the Maharajah of Jaipur. The film contained a cast of thousands. The shooting took place in Lahore, in what is now Pakistan, where the set decoration was created by Devika Rani, the wife of actor/director Himanshu Rai and a noted actress herself.
Actor/director Himansu Rai was born in 1895 into a wealthy Bengali family. While training as a lawyer in London in the early 1920s, he began to act in plays. In London, he met his later wife Devika Rani who designed film sets and would continue to work with him. In 1933, he joined forces with IBP of England and wholly produced Karma/Fate (J.L. Freer-Hunt, 1933), a bilingual film in English and Hindi. But the Nazi seizure of power in Germany caused Rai to abandon international co-productions and so he decided to concentrate on the domestic film market in India. In 1934, he formed Bombay Talkies Ltd. and built a studio. Under his painstaking supervision, it purchased the most modern equipment from Germany. Franz Osten and a handful of technicians came down from England and Germany to work with him. By 1935, a stream of Hindi productions had begun to emerge from the studio. The advent of World War II meant that the studio's German technicians as well as director Osten were interned by the British, which crippled the studio. Overwork and mental strain eventually took its toll on Rai, who suffered a nervous breakdown which he never recovered from. Himansu Rai died in 1940.
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So you want to be a rockstar - well my boy this is how it could all end up!
A marionette taking a well earned break from a wild gig on the hard streets of Vienna.
Woefully overworked attempt ~ sorry you 2 :) I do love the source photo
During the marathon talks surrounding the third Greek bailout, whenever an official came into the press room, journalists would rush round to hear what they were saying. 15 hours after starting, the main thing I took away from these briefings was that tired, hot and overworked journalists tend not to smell very nice.
ODC Theme: Spotted
Taken 28 Aug '11
Mikayla gets 1000points for the impromptu modeling session and helping post an ODC in under 15mins. She asked what the theme was and I said "spotted" and she squinted at me, knowing I knew that she knew that I knew she had a spotted dress PERFECT for the challenge. So I looked at the clock and told her that when the big hand is on the 3, I'll finish up. She gave me "that look" again and reminded me she hadn't used big hand time for the last decade but I had a deal. As she got changed I further reminded her that changing time wasn't included (she shouted out something about 'do I want help with the spots or not?' ...at which point I shut up) LOL .
This is taken outside on our front decking facing directly into the sun. I would have moved to a few locations but the big hand stops for noone. I was aiming for (a)sunflare and (b)rimlight and still be able to make out the spots. Pretty funny really because I'd just recently removed some annoying flare from a previous shot (no names, thanks Shantel). Sometimes it works...other times it's overworked. I didn't actually have time to worry about fill in flash, but I think it kinda works ok without it.
The decking is pine and reflected enough light up, it works pretty much the same as a flash (that's my story anyway). I took spot readings off her face and dress, switched to manual and shot around 20 shots varying the position of the sun. I processed it to make it similar to lomo-cam (retro in my mind at least), 30% curves and added a vignette and watermark.
It's a Flickr cliché of sorts but I don't do many like this so it was a bit of fun :)
...and now for something retro.
yep been working on more drawing of hair think thees came out better my self they don't look so overworked
Robert 1563-1612 1st Earl of Salisbury of Theobalds & Hatfield - Tomb designed by Maximilian Colt.
He was the son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley 1520–1598 flic.kr/p/Avr7FC Secretary of State. and 2nd wife Mildred flic.kr/p/hFPSjs daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea Hall Romford by Anne flic.kr/p/dtCW61 daughter of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Gains Park, Essex and Milton Northants (sister of Anne wife of Sir NIcholas Bacon)
Educated at Cambridge, he was groomed by his father at court to assist and eventually take over his role as trusted advisor of Elizabeth l, becoming Secretary of State in 1590, and leading minister on his death in 1598. Stunted in growth, Elizabeth called him her pygmy. For many years he was in contact with King James of Scotland facilitating the smooth transfer of the Stuarts to the english throne.
He m 1589 Elizabeth 1597 daughter of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham and 2nd wife Frances Newton www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/yn9346
Children
1. William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury 1591 –1668 a man of little mental aptitude "who never spoke of anything but hunting and hawking" m 1608 Catherine 1633 daughter of Admiral Thomas Howard 1st Earl of Suffolk 1626 by 2nd wife Katherine coheiress of Sir Henry Knyvet of Charlton flic.kr/p/pLCUus and Widow of Richard son of Robert 2nd Baron Rich www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/5mya6K younger brother of the Robert 1st Earl of Warwick flic.kr/p/dzqxKT
In poor health, and worn out by years of overwork Robert took the waters at Bath in 1612, starting on the journey home, he died at Malborough "in great pain and even greater wretchedness of mind"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cecil,_1st_Earl_of_Salisbury
Photo with thanks - copyright John Myers CCL
The colours of the timber framed and brick guildhall are a must for watercolour, though I think my choice of yellow is slightly different to the relatively bright hue of the building. The sketch is on the very last page of my 7th pocket-size Moleskine sketchbook, the back cover of which can be glimpsed under the watercolour set here. The waterbrush is not the easiest of tools to use for detail work, perhaps a good thing as I might well be tempted to overwork the drawing otherwise.
Well here's an old photo that could use some more sharpness and clarity but it was such an interesting discussion that perhaps I can use words to bring it into focus.
The setting was the San Francisco Civic Center on Labor Day weekend of 2008. The 60,000 people gathering that was billed as the “Woodstock of Food” where a Victory Garden was celebrated at City Hall and Fort Mason was transformed into a tasting pavilion. “Come to the Table” was the motto of Slow Food Nation and in this case it was come to the theater to understand food politics.
Standing left to right during the standing ovation at the end of the discussion are Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, Eric Schlosser, Wendell Berry, Corby Kummer, Alice Waters, Carlo Petrini and a lady whose name I can’t recall.
As with any discussion of politics where someone other than corporations, the elected, or the stenographers of both in the media are doing the talking, the theme was mostly about the people who can afford huge campaign donations soaking up all of the gravy and the masses getting the shaft. I was not totally unaware of the food issues facing this nation but some of the things I heard just blew me away.
It was quite some time ago and I can’t remember what everyone said exactly but I’ll try to do the discussion some justice. All of the speakers discussed how much unnecessary pollution and global warming is being caused by industrial agriculture, the heavy reliance on chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fossil fuels, the pollution and depletion of our water supply, placing an unacceptable burden on the Earth’s resources. The fact that the oil industry profits greatly from out food supply.
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma and several other books, probably the calmest revolutionary of all time was the only person I’ve heard speak more than once on this panel. He most likely articulated how the government provides subsidies to the manufacture of unhealthy, processed foods while maintaining high prices for healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables. Cheap corn and further subsided beef for McDonalds vs. expensive vegetables for us causing obesity, diabetes and many other health issues. The fact that industrial agriculture and their partners in government has brought us to the point where it take ten calories of extremely underpaid labor to bring one calorie to the table.
Vandana Shiva, who Bill Moyers recently called a “rock star in the worldwide battle against genetically modified seeds” was a very strong speaker against Monsanto and abusive political authority. Not so much Monsanto at the level of Frankenvegetable but how the corporation was using genetically modified crops to enslave the farmers of India. She explained how subsidies from the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the United States government, and even Bill and Melinda Gates was forcing a sort of “food totalitarianism” on the world. Called free trade “forced trade,” as western farm values, oil industry monoculture was forcing the removal of the conventional practices of crop rotation and diversity. It was presented as a threat to cultural diversity, America transforming the rest of the world’s food supply in the interest of corporate profits. She also discussed how the slightly higher profit for poor third world farmers, while indenturing them to patented seeds and chemicals, was also causing great pollution as the Monsanto chemicals washed into the world’s waterways.
Eric Schlosser, who at the time was in the limelight for recently forcing himself to live exclusively on McDonalds and almost dying from it talked about “the people who don’t have a seat at the table.” From how migrant workers can’t even afford the fruit they pick to small family farms being forced into bankruptcy so the big cats can take over. There were horror stories of undocumented workers employed as factory butchers, making minimum wage and being turned into Immigration when they injure themselves, which apparently is quite often when you are cutting meat, chicken and pork twelve hours a day. But the central point is that neither the workers nor the consumers have any say in the way food get to our table and that they are far to overworked to participate in the slow food movement.
Wendell Berry seemed like the real star of the show. He opened the show with some poetry and stories about his walking the walk of organic and sustainable farming since the 1960’s. Wendell Berry’s book The Unsettling of America, more than any other, inspired the current assault on the fast food mentality, telling us that “eating is an agricultural act.” His prose and poetry were addressing the same issues being discussed that day but long before most of the speakers were born. The person I was with was a big fan of his and I got to meet him afterward. I was very impressed and promised myself to read some of his work but I never got around to it.
Corby Kummer is a food writer. I didn’t know much about him then and I don’t know much about him now.
Alice Waters deserves most of the credit for the formation of Slow Food Nation. Along with them mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsome they organized the event. Along with Van Jones she vastly improved the local school lunch programs and I recall her describing America's school lunch programs as "training children to become model citizens in a Fast Food Nation." She explained food as an environmental issue; that food is, for the most of us, our only relationship with the environment, food is when we are eating the environment. Alice Waters also owns one of the most famous restaurants in the nation, Chez Panisse and after her success with the Victory Garden at San Francisco’s City Hall she was instrumental in getting Michelle Obama to start an organic garden on the White House lawn.
Carlo Petrini was another historic figure. Eric Schlosser explained his participation here “Carlo Petrini, a brilliant and charismatic journalist, became the leading spokesman for the notion that there is nothing contradictory about championing pleasure and working for change. After staging a protest at a new McDonald’s near Rome’s Spanish Steps, Petrini and his allies issued a Slow Food Manifesto in 1987. “We are enslaved by speed,” it declared, “and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life.” Two years later, the manifesto was endorsed by delegates from fifteen countries, as the destructiveness of a mechanized, industrialized food system became increasingly clear. Today, Slow Food International has about 85,000 members in more than 100 countries.”
In conclusion, I was in way over my head when I attended this discussion. They each claimed that food can be provided for the planet’s population without the participation of the oil industry, that we can learn to live on food that is grown closer to home instead of New Yorkers eating strawberries flown in from New Zeeland. That with increased human resources, more farm jobs and less chemicals the carbon footprint of our food could be a positive, sequestering carbon. Instead of the negative we have, burning as much fossil fuel as humanly possible.
Others say differently, that we can’t feed the planet without the current system in place. I'm not sure who is right and who is wrong but I later learned that on the island of Cuba where American corporations have been forbidden from doing business, old world practices go on to this day and without polluting the world they do manage to eat. I hear they eat well there and in spite of all the poverty, Cuba has a slightly longer life expectancy than the US.
Wishing all my friends the very best for 2020.
I haven't abandoned you,, I'm just overworked and worn down a bit.
Despite the limited space, the new police station is packed with all the necessary features for its daily operation. The Command Center for Operation and Response Team (CCORT) stands in the city under sand blue, black and grey major colors, getting rid of the usual bright blue palette.
Giving way to the vehicular entries, the reception is moved to the first floor led by a wide staircase which becomes a welcoming and prominent feature along the street. Above it are the detention section, interview rooms, and one record room.
Going further up will be the main office for the officers, accompanied with pantry and the female restroom. Half of the area is a double volume space to receive more daylight through the big window. There’s also a meeting room which can be used as a war room if needed.
Above them will be the laboratory and equipment room, where evidence can be analyzed and where weapons and tools are stored. There are also the male restroom and one meeting room. Speaking of the restrooms, both of them have shower in case the overworked officers need to take a break.
Finally you will reach the top floor where the director’s office and flight control room are located. One can also reach the rooftop which is an Orca pad. The parking receiver is usually closed, and extends out upon Orca landing. The charging equipment sits on the side. Seldom do we see an Orca here actually since it’s usually parked for charging and equipment check.
Now, VCPD (V City Police Department) has a solid base for daily operations, providing all the services and support to the citizens in the town!
This is the view from my loft. In the last three days, I've literally watched three people take their last breaths outside my window. I was writing an artist statement at my window on Sunday and heard the beginning of a crash on Dead Man's Curve and looked out the window just in time to see a man fly off his motorcycle and get cut in half by that light post. As you can see (#1), they didn't bother to even pick up the sheet where he died. Kiley and I woke up last night to about 15 gun shots that killed two men (#2 and #3). We watched the two murderers run down the street towards our window. They ditched the gun in the back of a pickup truck literally parked just below our window. At the moment of the shooting, there were two cop cars parked on the highway down there investigating that motorcycle accident scene. So two people were shot about 200 feet away from two cops. The cops had no idea. I was told there were 8 murders in Baltimore yesterday -- not including these two because these officially happened after midnight. They didn't even bother to clean up after their deaths. I guess there's no time for that. They're sadly too overworked.
The weird thing about all of this is that Kiley, Noah, and I were out to dinner on Saturday night and a conversation came up about how none of us has ever seen someone die out on the street. I've watched probably a hundred people die in my life, but never one out on the street. It's much different. So sad.
It's a picture of one of Arriva's finest. So that must mean it's Welsh franchise talk time...
Well, we're half way through May, and still no word from Cardiff Bay on the winner, due to take over in a mere 5 months. The announcement is due in May and, with the poor overworked luvvies in the Senedd having the bank holiday week off (having last had a week off oooh, 5 weeks ago), it's either this week or next.
Don't expect any more than the winning bidder's name, the devil may well be in the detail, but Comrades Carwyn and Ken (Carwyn Jones, Labour First Minister and Ken Skates, Labour Environment, Transport and some other irrelevant stuff Minister) don't want you to know the detail. Hush. Big secret.
But I think that yesterday might just have been the day that Carwyn and Ken show realised just how much shit the Welsh franchise is in.
Up pops Carwyn...
'The performance of Arriva Trains Wales has not been good enough.'
Well duh! It's took you nearly a decade and half to reach that conclusion? You were being told that years ago Carwyn. Years and years.
But you did stuff all about it.
Interviewed yesterday on what I'm guessing is an IEP running on diesel, he finally admitted what everyone else with even the slightest railway knowledge has know for a long time.
'It's going to take time to procure new trains...', yes Carwyn, go on... 'to put infrastructure in place for electrification, we're looking at the Valley lines...'.
Liar. You're WANTING to turn the Valley lines into your vanity tram project, wasting a shit ton of money on something no-one except yourselves want, and wasting the other shit ton of money that Network Rail have bunged at the Cardiff area resignalling scheme to enhance Valley line capacity.
'If you were to ask me...', no-one did, but go on, '... you'd be looking at the beginning of the 2020's, three to four years before you see any real improvement...'
Well for starters, the beginning of the 2020's is in 19 months Carwyn, not three to four years. So, which is it? It can't be both.
And what will those improvements be, exactly?
'........'
If you mean the improvement of years of disruption caused by turning a rail network that would perform perfectly well if it had enough rolling stock into an untried tram network that might be 'transformative' and 'world class'. Or might be a crock of shit...
If you mean the improvement of hourly Holyhead to Cardiff trains that literally no-one wants whilst forcing North Wales to Birmingham traffic on a 45 extra minutes detour via Shrewsbury...
If you mean the improvement of taking the step of locking train toilets out of use because they no longer comply with regulations...
Wales probably neither wants, nor needs, your improvements.
Oh, and one other thing Carwyn. Your memory is a little short. The under-performing Arriva franchise? The one you've done stuff all about? It was awarded on a 'no growth' basis by Alastair Darling in 2003, Transport Secretary of the then Labour government, headed by another serial liar, Tony Blair.
I'd 100% agree that the Tories are no friends of the railway, that moronic Dr. Beeching look alike Chris Failing Grayling tells you all you need to know. But to suggest that the other lot are any better is disingenuous at best. And, as the Carwyn and Ken show continues to prove, is simply not true.
Colwyn Bay, 9 December 2017.
Brick version of the iconic late seventies German ARFF made by Faun (chassis) and Metz (coachwork, water pump). Many German boys owned the famous die-cast model made by Siku. Main features are the tilted windscreen, the working suspension and the use of some technic parts. The MOC has been slightly overworked in December 2011 (no stickers as mudguards any more).
‘BLACK HOLES’--British scientists Saturday reported the first evidence backing up the theory there are collapsed, invisible stars, called “black holes” in space. University of California astronomers, using telescoped at the Lick Observatory, arrived at the same conclusions separately. The “black holes” would be so dense and have such a strong gravitational pull that even light can’t escape from them. The “black hole” star, right, about 6 quadrillion miles from earth, is thought to be gobbling up extremely hot clouds of gas given off by a larger star, left. Picture is reconstructed from X-rays taken from Copernicus satellite.”
A huge win, albeit indirectly (appropriately enough). The artwork depicted is “adopted” from that created by Lois Green Cohen, I believe as “PLATE 2” of “SECRETS OF THE HOARY DEEP: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF MODERN ASTRONOMY”, by Riccardo Giacconi.
I assume “adopted” translates to copied, with minor alterations. Right? If so, the “adopter” in this instance does still remain unknown, other than possibly being an underpaid, unappreciated, overworked NASA cog…working at the GSFC?
Fortunately, there are multiple references to Ms. Cohen’s contributions. Most, if not all, are likely based on the following citation/source, which I would think to be authoritative:
“Lois Green Cohen Biography
Lois Green Cohen (Born 1919) Born: Chicago, Ill; Studied: Carnegie technical (Pittsburg), Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles), University of California (Los Angeles). Primarily a watercolorist, Lois Green is especially known for her paintings for projection at Griffith Observatory. She was born in Chicago and studied at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh and with Samuel Rosenberg. She worked in Pittsburgh as a fashion illustrator before moving to Los Angeles in 1938 and then studied at the Chouinard School and at UCLA. She worked as a motion picture illustrator and painted in her spare time. In 1945, she married Eugene Cohen and in 1973, began the Griffith Observatory project.
Her subject matter includes figures, landscapes, animals, and urban scenes. She was a member of the California Watercolor Society.
In '99 she was included in an exhibition called "This Side of Eden: Images of Steinbeck's California" by the Steinbeck Center.
Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
California Watercolors 1850-1970,
©2002 Hillcrest Press, Inc.
California Watercolor”
Above per/at:
www.californiawatercolor.com/pages/lois-green-cohen-biogr...
Credit: ‘California Watercolor’ website
This piece was the result of my attendance at a workshop with Brooke Shaden and Miss Aniela in Los Angeles, CA. It was a mystical, magical and eye opening experience to see a glimpse into their world and the way they think. I feel truly lucky to have been able to attend and also to have met the other artists working with me! What a great group in total!
Well, no time for excuses... here is my play featuring the very talented Katie Johnson and fabulous warehouse location.
Cheers!
© 2011 Katherine Kelly Fotografie. Please do not use any of these photos without asking or giving credit. Thanks!