This awesome metal art piece sits in front of the Town and Country Shopping Center,

an upscale shopping area in East Phoenix. This shot took a bit of work because his

left wing was shorter and all cluttered up. I rotated the image, copied the right wing

and pasted it on the left side after I extended the canvas--it was a challenge and I was up for one!

Phoenix Bird

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Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

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"...I never learned why meteors were formed

I read books and draw life from the eye

All my life is drawings from the eye

...

I was re-born before all life could die

The Phoenix bird will leave this world to fly

If the Phoenix bird can fly then so can I..."

GREY SEAL - Music & lyrics Elton john & Bernie Taupin, 1969.

The Greater Flamingoes (Phoenicopterus roseus) that were congregated at Pulicat Lake near SHAR Road took off yesterday (29-Dec-2019) evening to render this video.

These pinkish flamingo flock grazes in the waters near the horizon, submerging their inverted heads, keeping their distance from humans. Their white bodies tipped with black feathers (primaries and secondaries) appear to be grayish from a distance, as though it is ash in the horizon. Moreover, to prove that they are ashes, their pink bodies appear as a flaming fire in the distance. Moreover, juveniles grazing here and there are totally grey or part -white-part-grey in shade.

Suddenly, when they don't get enough food in the waters that they are grazing in, they take off into the air almost together, but in layers of smaller groups. When thousands of such pink and grey (white bodies + black wing tips) tend to fill the sky with white, pink and black suddenly in the horizon. This appears as though the birds are rising from the fire after being burned down to ashes.

This is the closest logical reason for the legend of Phoenix that had evolved in earlier days, where the phoenix is burnt down in flamingo flames to ashes (chicks) and they rise from the ashes into flames.

Another aspect is that the Flamingo chicks are dark grey throughout while they are in the nests, while they change to part-grey-part-white as they enter their juvenile phase. As they graze and eat more adult food in the form of microscopic organisms and algae, they earn their pinkish feathers from the food that they eat. Thus, the legend of Phoenix could also be the representation of the life cycle of the Flamingos themselves.

Phoenix Bird - classic sculpture at Town & Country Shopping Center at 20th St & Camelback Road.

Designed by Paul Coze. I think around 1963.

"In 1951 he opened his studio in Phoenix, Arizona, at 4040 East Elm Street. While in Phoenix he has painted the mural for the Mayer-Heard Building, the mural for the Sky Harbor Airport, the Stations of the Cross for St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, the mural in the new Phoenix City Council Chamber, worked in his studio doing the murals for the new Prescott City Building, and the mural in the new Arizona Title Building. "

Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

Chinese embroidery, supposedly Ching Dynasty, an official's emblem. The red moon or sun is part of the original embroidery, the Phoenix Bird, the Heng Fueng/Ho Ho Bird is a later applique that was added on probably when the official received a promotion.

Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

"le phenix des hôtes de ces bois..."

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After the Summer heat has waned, this yellow rose springs back to life just like the legendery Phoenix Bird...

Phoenix Rose "le phenix des hôtes de ces bois..."

...even I think this slogan is exaggerated

Best viewed on "Original" for detail ...

Perched on the edge of the continent, high above the Pacific, watched over by the majestic Santa Lucia Mountains sits Nepenthe Restaurant. This Mecca of poets, artists, travelers and vagabonds has served guests for fifty years, opening for business on April 24, 1949.

Sitting on the terrace, enjoying a glass of wine, an Ambrosia Burger, or one of the exceptional homemade desserts is a quintessential California experience. The first time visitor to the Central Coast will not want to miss it. Once you have visited, you are destined to return.

Lolly and Bill Fassett knew they had something special when they bought a piece of Big Sur in 1947. They felt that it was so wonderful that it had to be shared: "no individual can own it, it belongs to everyone," they said.

Architect Rowan Maiden, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed a building that seems to grow out of the hillside site, and they named the place Nepenthe, "isle of no care," making the phoenix bird its emblem. Three generations later, the family still owns and run Nepenthe.

SOLD 08/08/10

Phoenix Bird

After the Summer heat has waned, this yellow rose springs back to life just like the legendery Phoenix Bird...

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Phoenix Rose "le phenix des hôtes de ces bois..."

Tattoo of arizona flag with phoenix bird on arm.

Model: Audrey Starks

Photography/Costume/Props/Styling/Makeup/Editing: Nico Nordström

Set Designer/Help: Michael McBride

Assistants: Chlz Pederson & Mariana Ramos

Behind the scenes: niconordstrom.tumblr.com/post/37459749401/renovatio-photo...

Huma bird. Homa bird. Column capital in the form of griffins, Persepolis, Tacht-e Dschamschid, Tronul lui Dschamschid, Persia, Iran. The earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BCE - foto Cristina Nichitus Roncea (nichitus.ro)

All gone.

All bran new and in mint condition postcards.

One for my collection of favorites.

An amazing and huge mural of the Phoenix Bird.

Artist Paul Coze is world famous and is no longer alive .

The Phx. bird is aflame sitting on a date tree, burning himself to be reborn from the ashes.

Smoke turns into rain clouds and water collected by Roosevelt Dam.

Native materials were used in building the bird.

Huma bird. Homa bird. Column capital in the form of griffins, Persepolis, Tacht-e Dschamschid, Tronul lui Dschamschid, Persia, Iran. The earliest remains of Persepolis date from around 515 BCE. - foto Cristina Nichitus Roncea (nichitus.ro)

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Remember when you were a kid and you would spend silly amounts of time imagining shapes in the clouds? This was one of those times for me. I was up on Diamond Head peak in Oahu, just as the sun was coming out and I saw this cool cloud formation that looked like a rising phoenix. Sure, this particular phoenix is made of high concentrations of air and precipitation, is cold and white, but the world likes variety ... don't pick on him.

This engraving of the mythical phoenix bridges old and new campus. A gift from the Class of 1932, it was given to celebrate William & Mary's 275th anniversary.

Photo by Joel Pattison

William & Mary

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In-flickr referrals account for 78,172 or 57% of my hits since we started getting stats. 25,722 of those are accounted for by the top 100 in the list.

Breaking down my top 100 referrers from within flickr:

The top flickr searches to find my images are:

london

map

dog

fucking

maps

christmas

text

devil

catford

dogs

balcony

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christmas cake

zebra

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edinburgh

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The flickrgroups directing most traffic my way are:

Guess Where London?

London at war

Dalek Cakes and other (Doctor Who) monsters

From Memory (was: Maps From Memory)

WIT

London by Londoners

SOUTH LONDON PRESS

Amusing News Headlines

Dundee and roondaboot, Scotland.

"le phenix des hôtes de ces bois..."

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Definition of PHOENIX

: a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period; also : a person or thing likened to the phoenix

— phoe·nix·like adjective

Origin of PHOENIX

Middle English fenix, from Old English, from Latin phoenix, from Greek phoinix

Britannica.com

Learn more about "phoenix" and related topics at Britannica.com

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Painted by: Zarco and Zito Students...what a great Phoenix!

SOLD 11/27/'12

One day, Aupoman found a trace of calligraphy ink over the water, very anomaly and funny , looks like "Phoenix Bird"

Phoenix bird pic on dumpster...

SOLD 08/08/10

...took a pic of the Phoenix on the cop car while visiting the library....