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E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea.
Painted in 1931 by Salvador Dalí “The Persictence of Sheepery” was planed as an angry accusation of the horrible, but in those times often practised, practise of sheep bathing and then leaving them hanging out to dry for days.
Unfortunately, just before he could put it on display and show the world what the poor sheep had to go through in his native country, Salvador Dalí went mad.
Forgetting all about being an ambassador of all things sheep he threw the painting away and made a new version with silly melting clocks and thus losing the heartbreaking message of the painting that could have saved so many sheep from their horrible ordeal.
Dalí, still quite mad, felt a deep resentment towards him whenever he encountered a sheep on his walks and soon after fled the country and settled in the United States where his madness went unnoticed.
“The Persistence of Sheepery” meanwhile disappeared, never to be seen again until it´s recent discovery in an attic by a certain sheep on a cookie search.
These little fellas are starting to take over!!
Thanks again to ghostbones for an awesome texture! www.flickr.com/photos/ghostbones/
Persistence pays off as I finally get a clear shot at Low Wood Bay.
Shame it was an Enviro on a 555 and not the intended Volvo B5 but with only one 599 an hour that chance had gone as by the time of the next one the sun would've been too low.
Still, quite happy with this one and took a second shot of just the lake, enabling this two-shot panorama to be made.
Should we get one I'll go back on a sunny weekday for a better chance of an uncluttered shot of a 599 here.
White-fronted Geese use Iceland as a refueling station on their journey from their winter sites in Ireland and Scotland to their breeding grounds in W-Greenland. I made a number of trips to one of their feeding spots in W-Iceland. They are not the easiest subjects but finally I find that my persistence paid off. Hvítá river in the background.
Subject Description: This has developed from a view of the Thames Trader truck into a broader KMB depot scene, dominated by the extended, dual-entrance AEC Routemasters that are the subject of other images. The Thames Trader itself is a KMB service vehicle. Kowloon Motor Bus used Thames Traders as the basis for a small bus, so it is possible that examples could have entered the service vehicle fleet. Like the BMC FG, the Thames Trader was a popular light commercial in Hong Kong and other British Overseas Territories.
AI Notes: The AEC Routemaster and Thames Trader were produced in Photoshop many years ago. Gemini AI has been used to place them in a KMB depot scene. I had a lot of problems with AI filling up the background with inappropriate bus types - anything in similar colours, such as Southport Corporation Leyland PD2s. After much persistence, I was able to get it to replace most of these with copies of the Routemaster, although one dubious type remains. The depot building seems to have been lifted out of UK scene but I've let that pass (15-Feb-26).
I use AI in two ways: to place existing subjects in appropriate scenes, and to add special effects such as weather and lighting. I do not use it to produce dodgy subject matter. All fictional subjects have been produced by me (not AI) and are explained in the suupportng text.
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This is a cropped version of a picture I took at the Fashion District mall in Philadelphia on July 22, 2022, 2:07 p.m.
Persistence finally paid off after months of watching and waiting for the right conditions.
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Found along a forest walking trail along a pond in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Spotted and named by Sue.
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
[...] Il y a deux espèces de multiplicité : celle des objets matériels, qui forme un nombre immédiatement, et celle des faits de conscience, qui ne saurait prendre l'aspect d'un nombre sans l'intermédiaire de quelque représentation symbolique [...] Il faut admettre deux conceptions, l'une qualitative, l'autre quantitative, de la différence entre le même et l'autre. [...]
[...] There are two types of multiplicity : the one of material objects, which form a number immediately, and the one of consciousness facts, which does not take the appearance of a number without the intermediary of some symbolic representation [...] We must admit two approaches, one qualitative, an other one quantitative, of the difference between the same and the other.[...]
( Henri Bergson - Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience - 1889 )
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