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Inspiration: Quantum Leap Main Title - Mike Post
Ziggy says there's a 94.62% chance I'll Leap if... oh hell, the handlink is on the fritz again. Where's Al when you need him? AL?!
Al Calavicci: "Don't do anything I wouldn't do. Oh, and if you do, take pictures."
Based on one of my favorite television series', "Quantum Leap."
Shirt: Custom "Project Quantum Leap" shirt, created by yours truly
Pants: Legal Insanity - Devin Dark Blue Denims
Accessory: Vortech's Quantum Leap Ziggy HUD
Or part of it anyway.
Vancouver's 3rd Annual Mural Fest revealed some amazing art this weekend. This is a portion of the retro, space-age mural 'Quantum Leap' by Cristian Fowlie. Unfortunately most of it was behind a metal fence (not sure why) and this was the only piece I could capture sans fence.
www.vanmuralfest.ca (Although the website is surprisingly crappy.)
Please read my poem!
Listening to my painting
I can hear my painting
I’ve just realised…
A surprise, this personal ekphrasis,
though perhaps it should not be, since ultimately
I guess, that is what I hoped to achieve.
Sitting here, I can hear the thunder of the furthest falls,
as I heard it sitting there on warmed whinstone
on that shimmering afternoon, with foxgloves towering in the wood,
and orchids spiking the river bank.
I can listen again to the swirl of the river in spate, recall the robin
piping thinly in the blowing birches, remember the people at the gate,
negotiating the squeezer stile in the stone wall and the puddled path,
see again the shadowed walk under the scented pines, cones crunching
underfoot; the incessant crash of water shaking the very ground
on its inexorable way from mountain to estuary.
The sounds of the lesser cascades return, rivulets running
with chattering turbulence, their gobbets of foam
flung high against dripping forbidding rocks, or whirled into a regularity
of repeated patterns, astonishingly echoing a Japanese woodcut,
against a shade-blackened flow beneath the metalled footbridge.
I look at my other paintings, wall-hung for decoration, for storage,
for remembrance and appreciate, in retrospect, the play of light
and dark over the land, the underlying bones of the earth’s skeleton,
the wind-swept grass and flowering of earth’s clothing, the rise and fall
of earth’s formation,
but this one
I can hear.
Low Force in Teesdale, painted 2016.
Commended in Quantum Leap Subscriber Competition Jan 2017-02-23
and published in QL 77 Feb 2017
The Quantum Leap sculpture is located situated next to the River Severn in Shrewsbury close to Welsh Bridge.
It was created to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of evolutionist Charles Darwin, who was born in the town in 1809. The sculpture was unveiled on 8 October 2009 by Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin.
The Quantum Leap is the main point of a 'Geo-Garden', converted from Mardol Quay Gardens on the town centre bank of the Severn. In addition to Darwin himself, it celebrates Shropshire's geological diversity due to the county containing 10 of the 12 geological periods. Darwin interested himself in geology during his Shropshire childhood.
The sculpture consists of 59 segments measuring 12 metres (40 feet) in height, 17.5 metres (57 feet) in length, and weighs more than 113 tonnes, excluding foundations and piles. The work is abstract, and due to its Darwinian theme is commonly interpreted as representing dinosaur bones, DNA, or a backbone.
In local media, often in a negative sense, it has been nicknamed 'The Slinky' due to its perceived similarity to the coiled-wire toy.
It was designed by Sutton Coldfield-based architectural firm Pearce & Lal, who revealed their design in July 2008. Architect Ranbir Lal, of Pearce & Lal, stated "It is a privilege to work on a memorial to Charles Darwin. We hope that the sculpture we have designed in his memory expresses the vitality and range of his ideas, and brings them alive to the people of modern-day Shrewsbury."
Each of the blades of the sculpture were made by Histon Concrete Products, based in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
More photographs of Shrewsbury can be found here: www.jhluxton.com/England/Shropshire/Shrewsbury/
Is time travel more interesting as mere transportation, or as a reality changing tool? If you really had a properly functioning time machine that could move backwards and forwards through time, what problem could you not solve? Just go back in time and fix it. Screw it up? Go back in time and fix it again.
Which may be why the scope of time travel is often limited. The time machine is broken, or stolen, or out of power. Or there’s no machine at all and a person is just randomly propelled through time and space. Sometimes, the problem is simply ignored, with mixed results.
Doctor Who, for example, uses a functional time and space machine that can go anywhere and anywhen in the universe. Yet nearly every episode features a “beat the clock” sprint through streets and hallways. Why? Why not step into the Tardis, roll the clock back fifteen minutes, then casually stroll to the doomsday machine and save the day? Because that’s boring. So they just pretend they don’t have a time machine, until they want a time machine.
Or Terminator. From our perspective it’s been 30 years of humans foiling killing machines sent from the future. But what’s Skynet doing exactly in the future? Was it sending a Terminator in, then looking around for a few seconds to see if it worked and the future changed? Would it even be aware the future changed? Or was Skynet just a cold, calculating dick, sending dozens of Terminators back at the same time, each to a different year in the past?
The only film so far to really attempt to deal with time travel causality with truly brutal logic, was Primer. It showed how complicated the consequences could be from even a very limited time travel ability (backwards one week only). The events and story were so complex fans of the film created a massive flowchart to track all of the different realities and characters generated. It’s almost required to watch the film again immediately, multiple times, just to keep up. For many people that sort of time and brain investment isn’t entertaining either.
So is time travel more interesting as mere transportation, or as a reality changing tool? We may never know. But what we do know, having read all of this, you have now traveled ten minutes into the future. Ta daa!
One of Shrewsbury's famous landmarks is usually housed in gardens adjacent to the River Severn. Over the past couple of days the waters have advanced to take a closer look.....
Quantum Leap
Quantum Leap was unveiled in Mardol Quay Gardens, Shrewsbury to mark Darwin’s bicentenary in 2009. The sculpture represents Darwin’s ground breaking scientific ideas and his impact on the scientific world.
Designed by Pearce & Lal, the sculpture is an impressive 12 metres high and 17.5 metres long, weighing in at more than 100 tonnes. The design itself is open to interpretation and has already been likened to a shell, human vertebrae, DNA, a dinosaurs skeleton and more. Jon King, Darwin coordinator explains: “What we wanted was an iconic structure – something that was big, was bold, but something that could be interpreted in different ways.”
Mardol Quay Gardens on the opposite bank of the River Severn to Shrewsbury’s new Theatre Severn has become a new “geo-garden”, celebrating Shropshire’s geological history – 10 of the 12 geological periods are represented in the county. Geology also played a large part in Darwin’s young life, being a key interest and inspiration to him during his years in Shrewsbury. The Quantum Leap scultpure, which is made from cast stone, is the centrepoint of this garden.
Manufacturing Quantum Leap
This slideshow takes you through the process of making the main element of the sculpture, the five metre long ‘ribs’ or ‘blades’. These were cast by Histon Concrete Products, one of Aggregate Industries factories near Ely, Cambridgeshire. First, a timber mould was painstakingly made from CAD drawings; secondly into this went a metal frame designed to give the unit sufficient structural integrity for use in construction; thirdly, the cast stone mix of cement and crushed stone was poured in. When this had set, the mould was unscrewed, and the unit could be de-mounted, water-blasted, acid etched and finished prior to being transported to Shrewsbury.
Quantum Leap
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The Quantum Leap is a sculpture situated next to the River Severn in Shrewsbury, it was unveiled in 2009 to celebrate the bi-cententary of the birth of evolutionist Charles Darwin, who was born in the town and unveiled by his great great grandson.
Designed by Ranbir Lal, of Pearce & Lal architects of Sutton Coldfield. The work is abstract, and due to its Darwinian theme is commonly interpreted as representing dinosaur bones, DNA, or a backbone.[and In local media, often in a negative sense, it has been nicknamed 'The Slinky' due to its perceived similarity to the coiled-wire toy. The sculpture consists of 59 segments measuring 12 metres (40 feet) in height, 17.5 metres (57 feet) in length, and weighs more than 113 tonnes, excluding foundations and piles, Each of the blades of the sculpture were made by Histon Concrete Products, based in Ely, Cambridgeshire
Diolch yn fawr am 70,427,131 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mwynhewch ac arhoswch yn ddiogel
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Shot 19.04.2019 in Shrewesbury, Salop Ref 138-531
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Wave
After the last wave, the sea stills, becomes
deceptively
calm…
wait…
water darkens in a horizontal line
as the ocean rises
slowly, majestically,
up and up into the last rays of evening’s sunlight,
it surges shore-wards, streaked with kelp, flecked with foam,
then the top curls at the crest, friction and gravity pull,
the sea tunnels,
funnels,
and the wave tumbles
in a mass of white, flinging speckles of spray high
over the black rocks.
Water, turquoise and indigo, crashes into crevices,
swirls in eddies, hurls itself against every surface,
into every crack it can find.
Then the back-wash gushes out,
rattling stray pebbles against stone, dragging sand
and wrack seawards, rushing back
to the heaving ocean…
The sea subsides, becomes calm again.
Through it all, the eider duck sits quietly, unperturbed
by the violent fury around: this is her element,
her fearlessness communicated to the newly hatched duckling
sitting beside her in evening’s shade, at the edge of the shore.
Dusk falls, the sun no longer lights the waves, the sea
becomes grey, the rocks inky, the waves continue in their rhythm,
into the night, as the tide reaches
its full height.
Awarded 2nd place Quantum Leap subscriber Competition
snd published in QL 67 Aug 2014.
Firestacks on Jura
Emerging from the relative warmth,
from the darkness of the cave, into sparkling light,
on to a wave-washed beach, again and again and again,
her sense of purpose undimmed after months of this Spartan life,
she assesses once more the state of the tide:
Good, still low, hours before the flood.
She gathers stones and rocks into a basket,
wades into the wavelets, adds them to the platform,
already half-built, the pillar, square-sectioned,
more or less, rising from the Atlantic, towering above brine
and wrack and limpets, with a view of nothing
but the apparently endless ocean.
She returns for more building blocks, again and again and again,
raising the stack higher and higher, retreating as the tide turns,
back to the cave for rest and food and sleep.
Tomorrow should see the completion: she is tired, but buoyant,
lifted on the crest of a wave of creativity, of purpose.
The final stones wait, strewn along the shore…
In the morning, she gathers flatter rocks, for the platform,
waiting for the tide to fall, splashes out to the stack,
adds the final touches to her voluntary labours.
Now she collects driftwood, kindling, dried weed, anything
that will burn brightly, takes it to the pyre, carefully
keeping it dry, in readiness for the evening.
As the tide rises, the sun sinks below the far horizon,
darkness gathers: time to light the fire.
She wades back to the beach, watches the flickering flames
reflected on the water, knows
the fleeting fusion of the elements,
satisfied…
Eventually, the pillar is swamped by waves, the flames
snuffed out in a crackling puff of pungent smoke.
Tomorrow, she will begin a new firestack.
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Julie Brook, builder of firestacks on the islands of Jura and Harris
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Awarded 5th prize in Quantum Leap Open Competition April 2017 ,and published in QL 78 May 2017.
Quantum Leap
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The Quantum Leap is a sculpture situated next to the River Severn in Shrewsbury, it was unveiled in 2009 to celebrate the bi-cententary of the birth of evolutionist Charles Darwin, who was born in the town and unveiled by his great great grandson.
Designed by Ranbir Lal, of Pearce & Lal architects of Sutton Coldfield. The work is abstract, and due to its Darwinian theme is commonly interpreted as representing dinosaur bones, DNA, or a backbone.[and In local media, often in a negative sense, it has been nicknamed 'The Slinky' due to its perceived similarity to the coiled-wire toy. The sculpture consists of 59 segments measuring 12 metres (40 feet) in height, 17.5 metres (57 feet) in length, and weighs more than 113 tonnes, excluding foundations and piles, Each of the blades of the sculpture were made by Histon Concrete Products, based in Ely, Cambridgeshire
Diolch yn fawr am 70,427,131 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mwynhewch ac arhoswch yn ddiogel
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Shot 19.04.2019 in Shrewesbury, Salop Ref 138-532
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The first step will be knee deep if I stay,
Quantum Leap of Faith.
Kiss you in the garden, in the moonlight, let it be.
Tiptoe from your pillow, to the shadow of a willow tree.
Tiptoe through the evening tulip path.. with me.
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This boat has been adrift for weeks and it finally ended up on the reef here on Maui's North Shore.
More info:http://beachgirlmaui.blogspot.com/
Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond), Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives, Cindy McLane www.TranscribeYourBook.com
Took me about 4 hours. Final .PSD is 67.3MB large, the .jpg is 1.1MB (probably too large for a background, really).
I started in the top left corner and worked my way down and across. I keep thinking about if my computer had crashed or photoshop had quit itself halfway through and I had to start again...
I'd probably try kill myself with the power cord.
Magnum PI TV Series poster
Original illustration - posters, prints and many other products available at:
Harbor Freeway I-110 and Glenn M. Anderson Freeway - Century Freeway I-105 Metro Green Line Light Rail Transit Center Bus Station in South Central Harbor Gateway Los Angeles California 90061 as a Full Line Route via Southbound Spring Street and Broadway where this bus is parked and originates at a layover zone of Abraham Lincoln High School located at 3501 North Broadway between Lincoln Park Avenue, Alta Street and Thomas Street in Lincoln Heights area of Los Angeles, California 90031.
1931 Operated by Metro Gateway Cities and Grand Central City East Depot Division GC-1 in Central City East Area located at 1130 East 6th Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California 90021.
This Metro Local Route 45 is interlined, shared and combined division bus yard depots between Metro Grand Central City - Gateway Cities Division GC-1 in Central City East Downtown Los Angeles between Little Tokyo and Produce District 90021 and Metro Northeast Los Angeles - West San Gabriel Valley - Arthur Thomas Leahy Depot Division SGV-3 in Cypress Park area of Northeast Los Angeles, California 90065.
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Quantum Leap
Quantum Leap was unveiled in Mardol Quay Gardens, Shrewsbury to mark Darwin’s bicentenary in 2009. The sculpture represents Darwin’s ground breaking scientific ideas and his impact on the scientific world.
Designed by Pearce & Lal, the sculpture is an impressive 12 metres high and 17.5 metres long, weighing in at more than 100 tonnes. The design itself is open to interpretation and has already been likened to a shell, human vertebrae, DNA, a dinosaurs skeleton and more. Jon King, Darwin coordinator explains: “What we wanted was an iconic structure – something that was big, was bold, but something that could be interpreted in different ways.”
Mardol Quay Gardens on the opposite bank of the River Severn to Shrewsbury’s new Theatre Severn has become a new “geo-garden”, celebrating Shropshire’s geological history – 10 of the 12 geological periods are represented in the county. Geology also played a large part in Darwin’s young life, being a key interest and inspiration to him during his years in Shrewsbury. The Quantum Leap scultpure, which is made from cast stone, is the centrepoint of this garden.
Manufacturing Quantum Leap
This slideshow takes you through the process of making the main element of the sculpture, the five metre long ‘ribs’ or ‘blades’. These were cast by Histon Concrete Products, one of Aggregate Industries factories near Ely, Cambridgeshire. First, a timber mould was painstakingly made from CAD drawings; secondly into this went a metal frame designed to give the unit sufficient structural integrity for use in construction; thirdly, the cast stone mix of cement and crushed stone was poured in. When this had set, the mould was unscrewed, and the unit could be de-mounted, water-blasted, acid etched and finished prior to being transported to Shrewsbury.
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Salt quàntic - Coloms al parc Güell / Salto cuántico - Palomas en el parque Güell / Quantum leap - Pigeons at Güell park - (Barcelona - Spain) 17/05/2008 - OL_1776
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Known locally as "The Slinky" and made in 2009 to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin. It cost Shrewsbury Council just over £1m and you have to ask if it was worth even a small fraction of that amount.