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By Bambam-Collective: Marc Hennes, Berta Mattern, Joe Villion,
Marek Kochanowicz, Mariya Sulymenko, Benedikt Rugar,
Pia Zölzer, Lena Schrieb, Ellen Wagner.
17,5 x 24,5 cm / Edition of 100 /
cover: laserprint / 44 Pages: riso print / 12 €.
~ African Proverb
Happy weekend everyone... One of my best friends is in town (She lives in LA right now) and we are getting together with another one of our best friends and seeing "Alice in Wonderland".... in 3D of course... :D
Any of you doing anything fun this weekend?
If you have the time, feel free to ask me anything
Explore #360 December 12, 2009... Thank you everyone :)
He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires:
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.
But a smooth and steadfast mind,
Gentle thoughts, and calm desires,
Hearts with equal love combined,
Kindle never-dying fires:
Where these are not, I despise
Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes.
- Thomas Carew
Old School Cut & Paste (Scissors & Glue) collage created for the weekly themed blog:
The Kollage Kit
This week the theme is MULTIPLE IMAGES.
Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, sat for a portrait when she lived in the White House.
Did you know the Teddy Bear was invented in honor of President "Teddy" Roosevelt?
www.nps.gov/thrb/historyculture/storyofteddybear.htm
Of her quotable quotations, her most famous found its way to a pillow on her settee. It is the title of this collage.
Freightliner's 66534 'OOCL Express' about to pass under the Bishopstoke Road bridge at Eastleigh with a mixed rake of empty intermodal flats.
I'm sure this is by no means the first or last time that this loco has hauled a container working of fresh air but the irony of a locomotive named after one of the world's largest container shipping companys hauling not one single TEU container was worth noting.
Founded in the far east in 1947 OOCL was already a formidable shipping and logistics player when in 2018 the parent company was taken over in a $6.3 billion dollar deal by Shanghai-based competitor COSCO Shipping. COSCO as currently the world's fourth largest maritime transport business with approximately 11% of the market.
66523, with it's distinctive red nameplates was named OOCL Express in November 2001 to commemorate a long term trade relationship between the company and Freightliner.
The quote used in the title caption is of course from the brilliantly funny BBC television series Blackadder, specifically Blackadder the Third, episode five "Amy and Amiability" and involves an exchange between Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) and his dimwitted 'dogsbody' Baldrick (Tony Robinson);
Blackadder: "Baldrick, do you have any idea what irony is"?
Baldrick: "Yeah. It's like gold-y and bronze-y, only it's made of iron".
Our eternal thanks to writers Richard Curtis and Ben Elton for these and so many other killer quotable lines in this much loved comedy series.
A magical evening of foment and ferment last night at Craig Venter’s house in La Jolla (with a helical staircase in the nucleus).
Bill asked the most astute and detailed questions about microbiology. Got the body rock going.
BillG Quotable: “DNA is the most interesting software there is.”
A nice guy who finished first-many times. A tough competitor. An overcomer. Purveyor of quotable quotes. There will NEVER be another Yogi. Feel free to add any yogiisms you know.
One of my favourites is, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Rest in peace, Yogi.
A new tollway and express busway has been under construction for the last couple of years in Brisbane. It is now very close to officially opening, and is located close to the northern end of the city centre.
In this section, there are junctions and fly overs going all over the place, and coloured pillars have been installed.
Here, it is part of a big circular road, and I think that building at the back is a chimney to exhaust the fumes from the tunnel.
Architecture challenge
There is a broader shot below, which includes some ugly bits you would expect in a place like th\is.
Actually for this main shot, I had to cross many traffic lanes, when the cars were stopped and squeeze through the barriers onto the landscaped area not yet opened to the public, so that I could get a "clean" shot.
Quotable Quotes Theme
The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
Blues Point Reserve, Sydney, Australia (Friday 31 December 2010 @ 3:52pm).
I pass Harry Lawson trucks on a regular basis on my travels, this beauty was parked at Seaton flats as I made my way down to Aberdeen Harbour,the driver agreed to me taking some photos, and had a chat about the company and what they do, a fine fellow indeed.
Harry Lawson Ltd. commenced operation in 1945 when the founders, Harry Lawson and his wife Dora, purchased a one vehicle business operating a daily carrier service between Dundee and Carnoustie. Their son Harry joined the company in 1961, at which time the fleet had increased to 12 vehicles. Harry continued to develop the business, taking over as Chief Executive in 1976 with Harry senior retiring by the end of the 70s. With marked determination to offer an efficient, high quality service and reliable road transport solutions, Harry soon built up an extensive portfolio of customers, including a number of blue chip accounts.
Despite now operating throughout the UK it was, however, the Company’s strong links with local enterprises which proved to be the catalyst in the Company’s move into tanker haulage. This niche was developed as Harry foresaw that the business would benefit from having a clear focus or speciality in the transport sector and whilst the business continues to operate both tanker haulage and general haulage, it is perhaps the tanker haulage sector for which it is best now known.
Harry Lawson Ltd., remains a family owned business operating from its base in Broughty Ferry and is now entering the third generation with Michael, Harry’s son, having joined in 2004. Today’s fleet comprises around 70 trucks and 150 trailers and the Company continues to take great pride in the presentation and cleanliness of its vehicles and the instantly recognisable two tone green livery is sure to be a familiar sight to many collectors and truck enthusiasts alike.
Harry Lawson Ltd. is a well established family transport business based in Broughty Ferry in the North East of Scotland,they have been in the general transport business for more than 70 years.
Specialising in providing bulk liquid, powder and general haulage transport services throughout the UK to a wide customer base in a range of markets.
Volvo FH series
Overview
ManufacturerVolvo Trucks
Production1993–present
AssemblyGothenburg, Sweden
Ghent, Belgium
Body and chassis
ClassHeavy truck
Body style COE
Day cab
Sleeper cab
Globetrotter High cab
Powertrain
Engine
Inline 6 turbodiesel intercooled
Volvo
D12A(12.1 L) 420 309kw 1993–1998
D12C (12.1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 1998–2001
D12D (12.1 L) 420 309kw. 460 340kw 2001–2005
D12F (12,1 L) 420 309kw, 460 340kw 2004–2006 EGR
D13A,B,C(12.7 L)2005–present
D13K (12.9 L) 2012-present (Euro VI)
D16A,B(16.1 L)1993–2001
D16C,E,G(16.1 L)2006–present
Cummins
ISX600(14.91 L)1998–2006 (Australia)
Transmission
14 speed synchro manual
SR1900 (1993–1998)
SR(O)2400 (1993–1998)
VT2514(OD) (1998–present)
VT2814(OD) (2006–present)
VT(O)2214B (2012-present)
VT(O)2514B (2012-present)
VT(O)2814B (2012-present)
16 speed synchro manual (ZF)
ZT1816
12 speed semi-automatic (I-Shift)
V2512AT (2007–present)
V(O)2812AT (2007–present)
VO3112AT (2008–present)
AT2412D (2012-present)
AT(O)2612D (2012-present)
AT2812D (2012-present)
ATO3112D (2012-present)
ATO3512D (2012-present)
6 speed automatic (Powertronic)
VT1706PT
VT1906PT
Chronology
PredecessorF series
The Volvo FH is a heavy truck range produced by Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks. Introduced in late 1993 as FH12 and FH16, production still continues with the now the second generation of FH range model lineup.
FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide.[1]
In September, 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with significant technology upgrades
The new Volvo FH (2012–present)
The 2012 model of Volvo FH.
In September 2012, Volvo Trucks re-launched the Volvo FH with major technology upgrades, a new design and more.
The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which is available as an option on the new Volvo FH and compulsory for new trucks in Europe from January 2014. Other quotable new features is the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel saving technology. With the new thirteen-litre engine, the name has changed to FH13.
AEB
Volvo Trucks have demonstrated the new AEB system for their FH series on YouTube. The truck did well and stopped only centimeters from the car ahead. The tractor trailer was fully loaded to 40 tons GCW when Volvo demonstrated the system.
The AEB system combines a radar and a camera that work together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h.
When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road.
“fairy Solaris” …. created to represent the “totality” that occurs during a total eclipse of the sun.
(best viewed on black ...... well there's a suprise LOL)
On the 11th of August 1999 …..I stood on hill ,on the southern edge of Dartmoor ,south west England and looked up at a sun that was pitch as black!!…............................. on that day I experienced a single moment in time and space where (and when)
….....................NOTHING I HAD EVER HEARD
…..................... NOTHING I HAD EVER SEEN,
…......................NO EXPERIENCE I’D HAD.
….................... NONE OF MY KNOWLEDGE
…......................NOT EVEN LIFE ITSELF
…......................MEANT ANYTHING !
…......................MY EXISTENCE - THAT OF STARDUST
…......................MY AWARENESS - ELEMENTAL
….....................THE SUBCONSCIOUS - COLLECTIVE & at a SUB- ATOMIC LEVEL
why am i bothering......I cant explain , words are useless
….and no ability you have to empathise , sympathize or imagine will help you to FEEL IT …... and no level of intellect or understanding can help you to SEE IT .
Still I searched for a quote to quote the un-quotable .... this one doesn't even come close, but it came closest .:-)
solar eclipse of 30 April 463 BC, Thebes.
"Beam of the Sun! O thou that seest from afar, what wilt thou be devising? O mother of mine eyes! O star supreme, reft from us in the daytime! Why has thou perplexed the power of man and the way of wisdom by rushing forth on a darksome track? Art thou bringing a sign of some war, or wasting of produce, or an unspeakably violent snow-storm, or fatal faction, or again, some overflowing of the sea on the plain, or frost to bind the earth, or heat of the south wind streaming with raging rain? Or wilt thou, by deluging the land, cause the race of men to begin anew? I in no wise lament whate'er I shall suffer with the rest!"
Pinder (Greek poet) Ninth Paean, addressed to the Thebans.
here’s a link to a site that shows you where and when
for anyone wishing to “know”
www.earthview.com/timetable/futureTSE.htm
love maxxxi
* WHAT CAN'T BE EXPRESSED … MUST BE EXPERIENCED *
Wishing all of my Flickr friends and their loved ones a very happy new year!
Here is the full quote:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. May your coming year be a wonderful thing in which you dream both dangerously and outrageously.
I hope that you will make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and you will be liked and you will have people to love and to like in return. And most importantly, because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now — I hope that you will, when you need to, be wise and that you will always be kind. And I hope that somewhere in the next year you surprise yourself. ~ Neil Gaiman
“An Essay on Criticism,” by Alexander Pope.
Introduction
Alexander Pope, a translator, poet, wit, amateur landscape gardener, and satirist, was born in London in 1688. He contracted tuberculosis of the bone when he was young, which disfigured his spine and purportedly only allowed him to grow to 4 feet, 6 inches. Pope grew up on his father’s property at Binfield in Windsor Forest, where he read avidly and gained an appreciation for the natural world. Though he remained in ill health throughout his life, he was able to support himself as a translator and writer. As a Catholic at that time in Britain, he was ineligible for patronage, public office, or a position at a university.
A sharp-penned satirist of public figures and their behavior, Pope had his supporters and detractors. He was friends with Jonathan Swift, Dr. John Arbuthnot, and John Gay. Pope’s poems include the “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” and the mock epic “The Rape of the Lock.” To read his work is to be exposed to the order and wit of the 18th century poetry that preceded the Romantic poets. Pope primarily used the heroic couplet, and his lines are immensely quotable; from “An Essay on Criticism” come famous phrases such as “To err is human; to forgive, divine,” “A little learning is a dang’rous thing,” and “For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
After 1718 Pope lived on his five-acre property at Twickenham by the Thames. He cultivated a much-visited garden that contained a grotto, and featured the formal characteristics of a French garden and the newer more natural “English” landscape style.
Pope wrote “An Essay on Criticism” when he was 23; he was influenced by Quintillian, Aristotle, Horace’s Ars Poetica, and Nicolas Boileau’s L’Art Poëtique. Written in heroic couplets, the tone is straight-forward and conversational. It is a discussion of what good critics should do; however, in reading it one gleans much wisdom on the qualities poets should strive for in their own work. In Part I of “An Essay on Criticism,” Pope notes the lack of “true taste” in critics, stating: “’Tis with our judgments as our watches, none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own.” Pope advocates knowing one’s own artistic limits: “Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet, / And mark that point where sense and dullness meet.” He stresses the order in nature and the value of the work of the “Ancients” of Greece, but also states that not all good work can be explained by rules: “Some beauties yet, no precepts can declare, / For there’s a happiness as well as care.”
In Part II, Pope lists the mistakes that critics make, as well as the defects in poems that some critics short-sightedly praise. He advocates looking at a whole piece of work, instead of being swayed by some of its showier or faulty parts: “As men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, / T’ avoid great errors, must the less commit.” He advises against too much ornamentation in writing, and against fancy style that communicates little of merit. In his description of versification, his lines enact the effects of clumsy writing: “And ten low words oft creep in one dull line,” and “A needless Alexandrine ends the song, / That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.” In Part III, Pope discusses what critics should do, holding up the “Ancients” as models, including Aristotle (the “Stagirite”) who was respected by the lawless poets: “Poets, a race long unconfin’d and free, / Still fond and proud of savage liberty, / Receiv’d his laws; and stood convinc’d ‘twas fit, / Who conquer’d nature, should preside o’er wit.”
~ Spanish Proverb
So Cory and I made a TON of these Cheerio Bars and then I wrapped them in wax paper and wrapped ribbon around them for a bit of extra flare. Cory took them to the office and they were gone in a flash.
They are DELICIOUS.
Here's what you need:
6 cups of Cheerios
1 bag of marshmallows
1 cup of dried cranberries (that's what the recipe calls for anyways, but I always add a bit extra. You can also substitute the dried cranberries for any other dried fruit)
1/2 a stick of unsalted butter
Combine the Cheerios and dried fruit in a greased 13" x 9" pan.
Melt the butter in a pan on medium high heat and once melted add the marshmallows.
Once the marshmallows are melted take it off the heat and poor it on top of the cheerio and dried fruit mixture. Stir it up so everything is coated with marshmallow and then press the mixture down into the pan so the top is even (I usually spray my hands with some pam and use them to handle the mixture).
Let harden for about 2 hrs. Then you can cut out perfect squares of deliciousness :)
Fabulous collection of quotation from famous people.
You can download for free these quotes about motivational funny quotes for you .
Below are some unique quote you can read :
Certainly one of the most quotable athletes in recent memory, the Sifter reflects on the musings of Mike Tyson....
Our Daily Challenge 6-12 August : Quotable Quotes
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are".
~Teddy Roosevelt
Stitched as part of a new thermal insulator (i.e. hot pad!) for the kitchen, to celebrate Carl Sagan Day on 9 November. Central motif is the Rutherford-Bohr model of a lithium atom, with the electrons represented by half-apples and the nucleus by a whole apple. The quote is one of (the very quotable) Sagan's more famous, from his Cosmos series: "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Apropos of the kitchen, no?
More straight-on shot to illustrate design here. Pattern here.
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are".
~Teddy Roosevelt
Our Daily Challenge:
5 QUOTABLE QUOTES is the topic for Saturday, August 6, 2022
Yesterday evening I surf fished Torrey Pines State Beach once again this summer. I caught a 20 inch leopard shark which I released,,, got very wet... had my veggie sandwich for dinner... saw another landslide while not huge as seen before it was large enough to kill... warned parents to keep their kids playing on the rocks at the face of the cliff to have them stay clear (later down pass the landslide the same kids were playing against the cliff).
I also warned a young woman about the stingrays around her in the water and to do the 'stingray shuffle' which I do while fishing in the surf.
Later while watering down my pole, reel, trunks, and silk Hawaiian shirt I watched a lifeguard attend to a young woman who was stung in the foot by a stingray... soaking the foot in hot water. She was finally feeling better.
*I did what I could to create this photograph by standing on a rail of the fence next to my truck. I was putting my fishing stuff away when it suddenly came by!
our gender neutral 'codpiece-free' Tudorbethan ensembles from ChaCha's 'Neutrato'©, de-emphasise the groin, range'.
The ever-quotable ChaCha raved this morning, "Think totally innocent crotchless underwear, think 'kind castrato', think Lanech. If our 2024 collection doesn't give you a chubby", he continued, "then nothing will!"
Once more towards that star, ChaCha!
100% silk, with Irish Virgin-Linen crotchless knickers and 'wife/husband-beater'.
This is a sketch of Anil Dash talking about blogging.
Some sketch-notes I took at the Meshforum conference in San Francisco. Please apply notes and tags liberally. Comments too!
I heart metadata!
We're Here is visiting Quotably Suitable for Framing.
Lighting: YN 560-III at 1/32 power with a grid spot, right to the left from the camera. Triggered with a Yongnuo RF trigger.
Here are the two best prayers I know: Help me, help me, help me and Thank you, thank you, thank you." ~ Anne Lamott
Volvo (3rd Gen Facelift) FH500 6x2 (2020-on) Engine 12777cc S6 503hp
Fleet Arclid Transport, Arclid Quarry, Congleton Road, Sandbach, Cheshire
Registration Number PK 71 OCV (Preston)
VOLVO TRUCKS ALBUM
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157625222431370
The FH Series, is a series of heavy trucks, first introduced by Volvo in 1993 which has remained in production through several generation changes and updates. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide
First unveiled in September 1993 as a replacement for the F Series as the FH12 and FH16. FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. which shared common cabs. The FH12 won Truck of the Year award in 1994
The third generation FH was launched in 2012 with major technology upgrades, and a new design. The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which became compulsory for new trucks from 2014. Other quotable new features are the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel-saving technology. Volvo Trucks has demonstrated the new Autonomous Emergency Braking system that combines radar and a camera that works together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h. When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road.
The third generation FH was updated with a facelift in 2020, with most notably a new headlight design, an updated interior, new safety features, and efficiency improvements. The pre-facelift model continues to be offered in selected markets where the facelifted model was introduced, now marketed as Volvo FH Classic
Diolch am 94,827,467 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 94,827,467 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 28.05.2022 at Smallwood Steam Rally. Cheshire REF 160-358
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
― Dorothea Lange
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #10 - Quotable Quotes " "Shoot Anything Saturday"
Volvo (3rd Gen) FH16 750 6x4R HSLP (2012-on) Engine 16120cc S6 single overhead camshaft four valves per cylinder twin sequential turbochargers
Decals Die Hard (welcome to the third party pal)
Fleet J Davidson
Registration Number 42 JD (Fleet based, cherished number)
VOLVO TRUCKS ALBUM
www.flickr.com/photos/45676495@N05/albums/72157625222431370
The FH Series, is a series of heavy trucks, first introduced by Volvo in 1993 which has remained in production through several generation changes and updates. The FH range is one of the most successful truck series ever having sold more than 400,000 units worldwide
First unveiled in September 1993 as a replacement for the F Series as the FH12 and FH16. FH stands for Forward control High entry, where numbers denominate engine capacity in litres. which shared common cabs. The FH12 won Truck of the Year award in 1994
The third generation FH was launched in 2012 with major technology upgrades, and a new design. The company also introduced the first of its Euro VI engines, the D13K which became compulsory for new trucks from 2014. Other quotable new features are the I-torque driveline and the I-see fuel-saving technology. Volvo Trucks has demonstrated the new Autonomous Emergency Braking system that combines radar and a camera that works together to identify and monitor vehicles in front. The system is designed to deal with both stationary and moving vehicles and can prevent a collision with a moving target at relative speeds of up to 70 km/h. When the system detects a vehicle that the truck will hit at its current speed, the warning system activates a constant red light in the windscreen in order to bring the driver's attention back to the road. The flagship FH16 is built with the tried-and-tested straight-6 configuration, with a single overhead camshaft operating four valves per cylinder. In the interests of noise and general refinement, the camshaft is fitted with a hydraulic vibration damper, as well as the more usual one fitted to the crankshaft. Common-rail injection supplies the fuelling, but unlike the smaller Volvo engines, it’s into an airstream delivered by twin sequential turbochargers. The smaller one spools up rapidly to provide a quick response to demands for low-speed torque, while the second, larger unit provides high volumes for outright power.
Diolch am 94,825,457 o olygfeydd anhygoel, mae pob un yn cael ei werthfawrogi'n fawr.
Thanks for 94,825,427 amazing views, every one is greatly appreciated.
Shot 28.05.2022 at Smallwood Steam Rally. Cheshire REF 160-352
So good I am reposting for 2014
Full quote:
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. May your coming year be a wonderful thing in which you dream both dangerously and outrageously.
I hope that you will make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and you will be liked and you will have people to love and to like in return. And most importantly, because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now — I hope that you will, when you need to, be wise and that you will always be kind. And I hope that somewhere in the next year you surprise yourself. ~ Neil Gaiman
Raleigh, NC (Wake County)
The Capitol Area Historic District includes this central square, the surrounding structures - churches on each corner and government offices facing the capitol - and streets extending to the east and west. These streets include a number of distinguished and representative domestic buildings and churches. No commercial buildings are represented. Though the buildings represent a plethora of styles and periods, there is a persistent, identifiable continuity with few intrusions (except for gap sites created by large parking areas). The boundaries of the district roughly correspond to the locally designated historic district. (1)
The square itself became a landscape of commemoration for noble deeds, sacrifices, achievements, sayings, and official sentiments of the state. A third of the memorials pay tribute to individual and events of the Civil War. The largest and earliest of these, a Confederate monument erected in 1894, features a tall stone shaft on an elaborate base, with two statues, decorations, and inscriptions, and cannon placed at Fort Caswell during the War. Other Civil lvar monuments include Gutzon Borglum's statue of Henry Lawwon Wyatt of Bethel, North Carolina, said to have been the first soldier to die in battle; sculptor Augustus Lukeman's sentimental tribute to the women of the Confederacy (1914); a plaque honoring Samuel A'Court Ashe (1840-1938), last surviving commissioned officer of the Confederate States Army and noted editor.
The non-Civil War monuments include a mid-nineteenth century copy of Houdon's statue of Washington; F. H. Packer's statue of Worth Bagley, first American killed in action in the Spanish-American War; statues of Zebulon B. Vance (by H. J. Ellicot) and Charles Aycock, each flanked by tablets of bas reliefs by Borglum and quotable quotations; statue of noted educator Charles Duncan Mciver (1806-1906) by Ruchstuhl; and a large tableau (1948) of the three presidents of the United States claimed by North Carolina: James K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, and Andrew Johnson. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA0053.pdf
Guaranteed to make you slow down and make the driver behind you nervous...
Barbie Beach is a roadside oddity that has sprung up in nearby Turin Georgia. As you drive along Hwy 16 you cannot help but notice a sandy beach filled with naked Barbie and Ken dolls obviously having fun in the south Georgia sun. I've seen it before but never had the nerve to slow down enough for a photo - since this is an extremely busy highway. This weekend a jam-up at the intersection ahead allowed me to get a shot.
Check out an AJC-originated article here:
Barbie Beach turns heads in Turin, Georgia
Notable quotable on the beach's origin: "It takes two to three beers," Quick said, "to plan some of these things."
The Barbie Beach Facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=58070577786#!/group.php?gi...
By Bambam-Collective: Marc Hennes, Berta Mattern, Joe Villion,
Marek Kochanowicz, Mariya Sulymenko, Benedikt Rugar,
Pia Zölzer, Lena Schrieb, Ellen Wagner.
17,5 x 24,5 cm / Edition of 100 /
cover: laserprint / 44 Pages: riso print / 12 €.
I don't know what it is today but I've been in the most mischievous snarky mood after reading the news about Rumsfeld leaked memo. He's such a clever man and his past quotes are a great reminder of that...
""I am not going to give you a number for it because it's not my business to do intelligent work." -asked to estimate the number of Iraqi insurgents while testifying before Congress
"I believe what I said yesterday. I don't know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it's what I said."
"Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said."
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know."
"If I said yes, that would then suggest that that might be the only place where it might be done which would not be accurate, necessarily accurate. It might also not be inaccurate, but I'm disinclined to mislead anyone."
"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." –on looting in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, adding "stuff happens"
desktop made using:
- wallpaper made from my photo and a quote by WB Yeats typeset in the Homemade Apple font by Font Diner
- Rainmeter (Faenzometer battery skin, Elegance2 clock skin)
- Metro UI Dock Icon Set for Rocket Dock
Windows 7 Ultimate
...couldnt think of any other title :))
"When you cant think of a title, throw in a quote" - ancient Sumerian saying ;) ps: why is it that they seem even more "quotable" when in italics? :))
Nothing more to see Large On Black, but definitely better.
Newspapers... hands - well - what can I say :P
Wonderful quotes to inspire and lift up at Oprah.com www.oprah.com/more.html?section_type=undefined&page_l...
Eckhart Tolle on Super Soul Sunday with Oprah... www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnZ83CSVWF8