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The outrageous looking Matchbox Polaris Slingshot returns for 2022 Case D with possibly its best release so far. Thats faint praise as i'm not a fan of either the real vehicle or this diecast!
Mint and boxed.
Polaris, the constellation of Ursa Minor and partial view of Ursa Major in the right top corner of this picture taken at about 25 deg north latitudes in Pakistan. The picture was with Olympus OM2. Exposure time is about 8 minutes.
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Starfire Polaris, the second sculpture of M.L. Snowden’s Celestial Array collection, joins Meteorite as an important milestone for the art of lost wax bronze. The figurative focal point of Starfire Polaris blazes outward from concentric bands of bronze. Within this trellis of conceptual fire and light, the sculptor richly imagines the central spirit of the brilliant North Star that for millennia has been revered by humankind for the constancy of its illumination and cardinal polar direction. As a sculptural meditation on the power of light to dispel darkness, Starfire Polaris is a symbol of hope.
As M.L. Snowden reflects, “I can remember the times I’ve looked up at the stars, thinking of my departed loved ones, wondering of their place in the heavens. Stars appear to cut diamond holes in the velvet fabric of evening and I shake myself from this reverie. I remind myself of the reality that I am seeing the light of stars from eons ago. When we look up at the stars we are seeing light that has traveled over vast parsecs of space. But the light still lives on and that light registers within our eyes as an enduring reality that nothing of appointed energy is truly lost in this universe.”
Starfire Polaris, as a sculptural meditation, expresses M.L. Snowden’s central idea that the very substance of humankind, stars, planetary masses and bronze are created of the same interrelated yet differently arranged elements. Within this meditation, the smelted ores of iron, copper, lead, tin, aluminum, gold, silver, titanium, platinum, silicon, and other substances that make up Snowden’s lost wax bronze, come together in Starfire Polaris, just as the interstellar cores that are made up these elements and more, come together and condense to the point where they begin to radiate light.
In Snowden’s world, the progress from creating the clay to pouring the bronze condenses materials; sculpture is an art of compression. Clay condenses around the gravity of an armature that reminds the artist of interstellar mass that forms and condenses to the point where it forms a planet. If the mass of a planet continues to compress and condense, that mass will begin to emit light and a star is born. As Snowden’s annealing and condensing hand work on her sculpture progresses, the artist believes a bronze is complete when it begins to possess warm levels of a reflective glow.
The central figure of Starfire Polaris is strong and lithe with an emotive visage that defies description. In this, Snowden connects humankind to stars, seeing stellar structures as related to our own completed human nucleus of form. If the universe is an expression of fractal mathematics as described by Mandelbrot, and Wolfram, then Snowden, in Starfire Polaris, has formed a cutting edge contemporary portrait of the ethos of fractal scale that reverberates, repeats and reveals the pantheon of created forms across the web of creation.
Starfire Polaris has been sculpted by Snowden into new levels of metallurgical virtuosity. Starfire Polaris’s elongated figural centerpiece is welded into its floating position on an intricate corona of bronze . M.L. Snowden invented the protocols and specific foundry wax that makes the casting of Starfire Polaris possible. From important roots in the Paris studios of Auguste Rodin and Antonin Mercié, Snowden brings to Starfire Polaris the glowing luminous platinum Fournier Patina and the touch of the historic Rodin tools that were used to create this dynamic evocation of a star.
ABOUT THE ARTIST...
M.L. Snowden is a third generation protegé of the great French sculptor, Auguste Rodin and the inheritor of Rodin’s sculptural techniques and original sculpting tools, which she uses in her own work. Her sculpture has been shown in museums around the world and is in the permanent collection of The White House. Snowden has received numerous awards including being named the world winner of the 1992 International Rodin Competition in Tokyo, Japan. In 1989, at the age of 36, Snowden was awarded the National Sculpture Society’s inaugural Alex Ettl Grant for “Lifetime Achievement in American Sculpture.” Snowden’s commissions include the Main Altar of the $200 million Los Angeles Cathedral.
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“Polaris Origamica” is one of the modular mandala/stars included in my upcoming book. I folded this example in particular bit by bit over the past week or so, in order for me to take some photos of my work in process. #origami #modularorigami #modularmandala #origamimandala #origamistar #morigami
Avomeri Line stoppede lige så pludseligt som den var startet - jeg har ikke nogen optegnelse om hvornår. Men efter kort tid startede i 1976 en ny rute - Finncarriers, en samsejling mellem Finska Ångfartygs AB og OY Finnlines. I første omgang blev ro/ro skibet "Polaris" indsat på ruten. Fincarriers' skibe var noget større end Avomeris.
Star trail lesson 2 for me was to learn how to find the north star (polaris) to use it as a focal point in the image. I was never much of a boy scout so I resorted to Google to find out what to look for in locating Polaris in the night sky.....
The forecast promised a clear night on saturday so I was all set to drive out to a location I want to try. Unfortunately I got half way there and the sky clouded over :(
Anyways, it was clear last night so I went out in the back garden again and set the camera up pointing at what I thought was the north star. Pleasing results when I generated the final image - the north star is actually where I thought it was.....hooray for Google. A few clear nights are forecast this week so hopefully I'll make it out to the countryside to avoid the light pollution for some more attempts. The image has also reminded me I need to get up on the roof and point my TV aerial in the right direction!
Image comprised of 85 30sec exposures overlaid over each other. I must have included my initial test shot in the overlay too as there is a gap at the beginning of each star trail.......