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Love Is A Parallax
By Sylvia Plath
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy:
train tracks always meet, not here, but only
in the impossible mind's eye;
horizons beat a retreat as we embark
on sophist seas to overtake that mark
where wave pretends to drench real sky.'
'Well then, if we agree, it is not odd
that one man's devil is another's god
or that the solar spectrum is
a multitude of shaded grays; suspense
on the quicksands of ambivalence
is our life's whole nemesis.
So we could rave on, darling, you and I,
until the stars tick out a lullaby
about each cosmic pro and con;
nothing changes, for all the blazing of
our drastic jargon, but clock hands that move
implacably from twelve to one.
We raise our arguments like sitting ducks
to knock them down with logic or with luck
and contradict ourselves for fun;
the waitress holds our coats and we put on
the raw wind like a scarf; love is a faun
who insists his playmates run.
Now you, my intellectual leprechaun,
would have me swallow the entire sun
like an enormous oyster, down
the ocean in one gulp: you say a mark
of comet hara-kiri through the dark
should inflame the sleeping town.
So kiss: the drunks upon the curb and dames
in dubious doorways forget their monday names,
caper with candles in their heads;
the leaves applaud, and santa claus flies in
scattering candy from a zeppelin,
playing his prodigal charades.
The moon leans down to took; the tilting fish
in the rare river wink and laugh; we lavish
blessings right and left and cry
hello, and then hello again in deaf
churchyard ears until the starlit stiff
graves all carol in reply.
Now kiss again: till our strict father leans
to call for curtain on our thousand scenes;
brazen actors mock at him,
multiply pink harlequins and sing
in gay ventriloquy from wing to wing
while footlights flare and houselights dim.
Tell now, we taunq where black or white begins
and separate the flutes from violins:
the algebra of absolutes
explodes in a kaleidoscope of shapes
that jar, while each polemic jackanapes
joins his enemies' recruits.
The paradox is that 'the play's the thing':
though prima donna pouts and critic stings,
there burns throughout the line of words,
the cultivated act, a fierce brief fusion
which dreamers call real, and realists, illusion:
an insight like the flight of birds:
Arrows that lacerate the sky, while knowing
the secret of their ecstasy's in going;
some day, moving, one will drop,
and, dropping, die, to trace a wound that heals
only to reopen as flesh congeals:
cycling phoenix never stops.
So we shall walk barefoot on walnut shells
of withered worlds, and stamp out puny hells
and heavens till the spirits squeak
surrender: to build our bed as high as jack's
bold beanstalk; lie and love till sharp scythe hacks
away our rationed days and weeks.
Then jet the blue tent topple, stars rain down,
and god or void appall us till we drown
in our own tears: today we start
to pay the piper with each breath, yet love
knows not of death nor calculus above
the simple sum of heart plus heart.
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Brahms: String Sextet No.1 in B flat, Op.18 - I. Allegro ma non troppo
Brahms: String Sextet No. 1 in B flat, Op.18 - II. Andante ma moderato
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(frame by SkeletalMess)
Stereographer Sean White and the Parallax crew film Battle Castle: Dover on their customized stereoscopic rig - the Beamer EX.
Paramender (Mamiya TLR accessory for parallax correction) that I've just picked up. Unlike the model 2, this one has a hand crank parallel to the arms to raise the column, and a lever on the other side to lock the position. It also has unequal-length 'arms' that hold the camera screw thread and accept the tripod screw, respectively.
According to Graham Patterson, the 'model 1' had a knob, not a hand crank, and his photo appears to be a design later than this one. His webpages note 'There appears to have been an early paramender design' for the Mamiyaflex C. He also describes 'a probable prototype for the paramender' with 'a smaller camera platform' [ see www.btinternet.com/~g.a.patterson/mfaq/m_faq-6.html#Headi... ].
A brochure for the Mamiyaflex C2 shows my paramender, so perhaps that's it? Presumably mine dates from about 1957-62.
What can I say? This kind of detail interests me!
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new custom hal jordan parallax. i love the comic series emerald twilight and had to make one of these!
Stereographer Sean White and the Parallax crew film Battle Castle: Dover on their customized stereoscopic rig - the Beamer EX.
Stereographer Sean White and the Parallax crew film Battle Castle: Dover on their customized stereoscopic rig - the Beamer EX.
Stereographer Sean White and the Parallax crew film Battle Castle: Dover on their customized stereoscopic rig - the Beamer EX.
*CINELLI* mash parallax complete bike
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *CINELLI* mash parallax
Wheels: *ROLF PRIMA* vigor fx wheelset
Tire:*CONTINENTAL* gatorskin
Brake lever:*CANE CREEK*
Crankset: *SRAM* omnium crankset
Brake:*CAMPAGNOLO* veloche
Handle:*CINELLI* mash bullhorn bar
Stem:*THOMSON* elite x2 stem
Seat post: *THOMSON* elite seatpost (black)
Saddle:*SELLE SAN MARCO×MASH* concor
Seatclamp:*PHILWOOD* seat post collar (black)
Stereographer Sean White and the Parallax crew film Battle Castle: Dover on their customized stereoscopic rig - the Beamer EX.
The purpose here is not to duplicate the original image, from Okinawa Soba's stream, but to generate an animated gif to assist viewing. Unfortunately, animation is not automatic - to animate you must view the image at original resolution (click all sizes) or simply scroll down.
Okinawa Soba posted several CC licensed stereoimages by T. Enami documenting life in early 20th century Japan (the Meiji period). The original hand tinted image, presented for parallel viewing and showing geisha in Hikone park, is one of many remarkable stereo compositions. This animated gif version exploits motion parallax to give a stereo illusion without eyestrain, to see what the photographer envisioned.
Animated gif generated with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *CINELLI* mash parallax
Handle:*3T* rotundo
Brake Levers:*SRAM* s900 brake lever
Stem:*3T*
Wheels: *VELOCITY* A23 rim × *PHILWOOD* high flange track hub (silver)
Brake: *SRAM* red22
Seatpost:*THOMSON* elite seat post (black)
Saddle:*FIZIK* antaress
Crankset:*SRAM* omnium crankset
Chainring:*AARN* track chainring (black) 51T
Bartape:*CINELLI* mash parallax bartape (black)
Bell:*SPURCYCLE* black bell (black)
I know everyone has done this before. RFID and arduino that is. But looking at the example code it looks like the antenna is always in receive mode. I am not sure how this affects the life of the chip / reader but I thought of adding a way to detect human presence before activating the receiver.
I found some little IR heat detector (here: www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/item/IRD-10/INFRARED-... and tossed together some analog read code and viola. Now when the IR detector detects over a certain variable heat temp it activates the RFID reader.
I will post the code and write up on my blog.
An eastbound merchandise train pulls into the yard at Niland.
Niland is a small unincorporated agricultural burb on State Hwy. 111 near the Salton Sea in Northern Imperial County.
Unfortunately, the days are numbered for old Southern Pacific signal bridge, since UP is in the process of double tracking the route from Colton to Yuma and the signals will all be replaced with tri-colored lights as well.
(UP #7389 GE ES44AC)
Union Pacific Yuma Subdivision at Niland - M.P. 668.
Niland - Imperial County California.
(March 22, 2014)
Playing with motion parallax for fun. No photoshopping. Just physics....
For more images like this you can go to my Parallax Set flic.kr/s/aHsjC5GgNN
Copyright Wes Taylor Photography
BLUE LUG custom
SPEC
Frame: *CINELLI* mash parallax
Handle:*3T* rotundo
Brake Levers:*SRAM* s900 brake lever
Stem:*3T*
Wheels: *VELOCITY* A23 rim × *PHILWOOD* high flange track hub (silver)
Brake: *SRAM* red22
Seatpost:*THOMSON* elite seat post (black)
Saddle:*FIZIK* antaress
Crankset:*SRAM* omnium crankset
Chainring:*AARN* track chainring (black) 51T
Bartape:*CINELLI* mash parallax bartape (black)
Bell:*SPURCYCLE* black bell (black)
Inside my hard disk laser projector.The two black boxes are sawed-off 3.5" hard disks,with mirrors mounted where the head arms should be.
Each disk has an optical position sensor mounted to it, for closed-loop feedback.
The laser is a 30 mW green laser pointer, from DealExtreme.
This is a garage door opener based on an ultra-simple multi-protocol low frequency RFID reader design of mine. It's mounted behind the front wall of the house. Hold your wallet (with ID card) up to the front of the house, and it opens the door.
The hardware for this project consists of a Parallax Propeller microcontroller and only passive analog components. Some fancy firmware handles all modulation, demodulation, and A/D conversion.
Firmware (with schematics in the comments) at svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/propeller/rfid/
Playing with motion parallax for fun. No photoshopping. Just physics....
For more images like this you can go to my Parallax Set flic.kr/s/aHsjC5GgNN
Copyright Wes Taylor Photography 2012
Playing with motion parallax for fun. No photoshopping. Just physics....
For more images like this you can go to my Parallax Set flic.kr/s/aHsjC5GgNN
Copyright Wes Taylor Photography