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All of my cats loved airing cupboards.
They migrated there in winter. The routine was the same; they would eat breakfast, nip outside to perform a covert bowel evacuation in next door’s garden, scrape ashamedly over the mess and then scurry back in through the cat flap with icy cold coat, straight past everyone in the kitchen, ignoring the chorus of delighted greetings, trotting straight up the stairs to Bedfordshire.
Meanwhile I, ashen faced, would be getting ready to go to wretched school with a churning, nervous tummy and feeling unrelenting envy towards my cat.
Upon my return home from hell my first priority would be a routine sweep of the house to seek out some furry comfort. Having looked on each bed and each lap I knew where pussy would be. Pulling open those venetian airing cupboard doors I would be met with my two favourite things; the warm waft of fresh washing and curled atop it a roasted, furry, purring bundle. My visiting of the airing cupboard became like a pilgrimage to some kind of religious shrine, the scent calmed me and to behold my god all contented and relaxed on his or her throne filled me with peace. My arrival always prompted God to stretch and yawn and I would plunge my face into the piping hot fur and breathe in purest comfort. The scent of washing and of washing enwrapped cat is a fragrance Jo Malone really needs to work on.
In my daily grind I see a lot of airing cupboards. Photographing and floorplanning people’s homes is what (just barely) pays for my wine and nibbles and in every house I visit, without fail I will have to measure the airing cupboard. I may in fact hold a world record for the sheer number of airing cupboards I have inhaled. I have no idea if the vendors are aware of the high that the washing scent gives me. Do I emerge from their cupboards with dilated pupils, or nostrils? Do they think I get off on the smell of their smalls? I am thinking of creating a book filled with surreptitiously taken photos of the nation’s airing cupboards. This book instead of being on the coffee table must be stowed in an airing cupboard where it can be infused with the scent of its subject.
I have lately found myself particularly drawn to my own airing cupboard. On particularly low mornings I will open the door to hunt out a pair of oven fresh knickers with the same ashen face that I wore before school, hear the reassuring sound of the boiler chugging, feel the cuddle of mumsy air and want to curl up on a shelf, fall asleep and wait for someone who worships me to come and plunge their face into my belly after school.
Couldnt get to quite the same place as the railway is now there along with Margaretta buildings to the right.
The old picture shows the old hump backed bridge which was replaced with the flat bridge for trams to cross.
The only building in bothe pictures can be seen clearly on the right in the old picture and is now Barbarosa wine bar.
Same difficult problem, two slightly different ways of tackling it..
I have been going here since it opened!!
Luther, Katie and I had a good session down there this evening..
Luther and Katie were doing great!
History -
"The Foundry Climbing Centre in Sheffield was the UK's first dedicated indoor climbing centre. Opened in 1991 it was designed, by climbers, to suit everyone from beginner to expert. It offers walls up to 13m high and lead/top rope climbs with 150 routes and bouldering"
"We at The Foundry provide climbing facilities for people of all ages and abilities. We have over 75 lead routes, 75+ top rope routes, 7 Autobelays, 100+ boulder problems and training and gym facilities"
DMBS of Class 105/2 No M50779 stands at Derby station after arriving with a train from Crewe 26th March 1961, delivered in April 1958, withdrawn in August 1982 and scrapped at Mayer Newman at Snailwell in December of the same year.
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The "African Queen' used in the 1951 film of the same name, starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, at her home in Key Largo, Florida Keys.
'....let's jump back to 1912 to England where this 30-foot, steam-powered vessel was built. From England she was sent to Africa where she served as a riverboat near Stanley Falls hauling hunters and light cargo on the Ruiki River, a branch of the Congo.
In 1950, John Huston needed just such a boat for his film, found this one in Africa, and that was the beginning of her fame. Actually, it was the film's art director, John Hoesli, who found the boat--the Steam Launch (S/L) Livingstone--in Butiaba, Uganda, a town on the east shore of Lake Albert.
Renamed the African Queen, after the film's production she went back to work as a river boat.'
For more of the history of this wonderful old boat, see:
africanqueenflkeys.com/history.html
edition.cnn.com/2012/04/30/showbiz/african-queen-bogart/i...
USA trip January 1997
Same location as 6011 previous but 60015 appeared from the posession first with 7T70 13.00 Armley Jnc - Doncaster Up Decoy engineers, Sunday 10 April 2011.
Same pic of "Snowman" (MS Paint Adventures "Homestuck" character) but with Topaz Adjust's dark - ghostly filter and brightened up the EL wire elements (trim and buttons) of her coat.
Marble, AD 66-8
Celebrating Nero's success over the Parthians, the breastplate of this statue depicts the emperor as the Sun riding in his chariot. The same image decorated the awning of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome during Tiridates's coronation. Below, two mythological figures symbolise the Parthian submission to Rome. The statue originall carried a portrait of Nero like the one displayed above, stressing his martial qualities.
[British Museum]
Nero: the Man Behind the Myth
(May - Oct 2021)
Nero is known as one of Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty, debauchery and madness.
The last male descendant of the emperor Augustus, Nero succeeded to the throne in AD 54 aged just 16 and died a violent death at 30. His turbulent rule saw momentous events including the Great Fire of Rome, Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, the execution of his own mother and first wife, grand projects and extravagant excesses.
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Through some 200 spectacular objects, from the imperial palace in Rome to the streets of Pompeii, follow the young emperor’s rise and fall and make up your own mind about Nero. Was he a young, inexperienced ruler trying his best in a divided society, or the merciless, matricidal megalomaniac history has painted him to be?
Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar). Nero is known as one of Rome’s most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and debauchery. He ascended to power in AD 54 aged just 16 and died at 30. He ruled at a time of great social and political change, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica’s rebellion in Britain. He allegedly killed his mother and two of his wives, only cared about his art and had very little interest in ruling the empire.
Most of what we know about Nero comes from the surviving works of three historians – Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. All written decades after Nero’s death, their accounts have long shaped our understanding of this emperor’s rule. However, far from being impartial narrators presenting objective accounts of past events, these authors and their sources wrote with a very clear agenda in mind. Nero’s demise brought forward a period of chaos and civil war – one that ended only when a new dynasty seized power, the Flavians. Authors writing under the Flavians all had an interest in legitimising the new ruling family by portraying the last of the Julio-Claudians in the worst possible light, turning history into propaganda. These accounts became the ‘historical’ sources used by later historians, therefore perpetuating a fabricated image of Nero, which has survived all the way to the present.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. Both Gnaeus and Agrippina were the grandchildren of Augustus, making Nero Augustus’ great, great grandson with a strong claim to power.
Nero was only two years old when his mother was exiled and three when his father died. His inheritance was taken from him and he was sent to live with his aunt. However, Nero’s fate changed again when Claudius became emperor, restoring the boy’s property and recalling his mother Agrippina from exile.
In AD 49 the emperor Claudius married Agrippina, and adopted Nero the following year. It is at this point that Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In Roman times it was normal to change your name when adopted, abandoning your family name in favour of your adoptive father’s. Nero was a common name among members of the Claudian family, especially in Claudius’ branch.
Nero and Agrippina offered Claudius a politically useful link back to Augustus, strengthening his position.
Claudius appeared to favour Nero over his natural son, Britannicus, marking Nero as the designated heir.
When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor just two months before turning 17.
As he was supported by both the army and the senate, his rise to power was smooth. His mother Agrippina exerted a significant influence, especially at the beginning of his rule.
The Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all claim that Nero, fed up with Agrippina’s interference, decided to kill her.
Given the lack of eyewitnesses, there is no way of knowing if or how this happened. However, this did not stop historians from fabricating dramatic stories of Agrippina’s murder, asserting that Nero tried (and failed) to kill her with a boat engineered to sink, before sending his men to do the job.
Agrippina allegedly told them to stab her in the womb that bore Nero, her last words clearly borrowed from stage plays.
It is entirely possible, as claimed by Nero himself, that Agrippina chose (or was more likely forced) to take her own life after her plot against her son was discovered.
Early in his rule, Nero had to contend with a rebellion in the newly conquered province of Britain.
In AD 60–61, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe led a revolt against the Romans, attacking and laying waste to important Roman settlements. The possible causes of the rebellion were numerous – the greed of the Romans exploiting the newly conquered territories, the recalling of loans made to local leaders, ongoing conflict in Wales and, above all, violence against the family of Prasutagus, Boudica’s husband and king of the Iceni.
Boudica and the rebels destroyed Colchester, London and St Albans before being heavily defeated by Roman troops. After the uprising, the governor of Britain Suetonius Paulinus introduced harsher laws against the Britons, until Nero replaced him with the more conciliatory governor Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The marriage between Nero and Octavia, aged 15 and 13/14 at the time, was arranged by their parents in order to further legitimise Nero’s claim to the throne. Octavia was the daughter of the emperor Claudius from a previous marriage, so when Claudius married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero, Nero and Octavia became brother and sister. In order to arrange their marriage, Octavia had to be adopted into another family.
Their marriage was not a happy one. According to ancient writers, Nero had various affairs until his lover Poppaea Sabina convinced him to divorce his wife. Octavia was first exiled then executed in AD 62 on adultery charges. According to ancient writers, her banishment and death caused great unrest among the public, who sympathised with the dutiful Octavia.
No further motives were offered for Octavia’s death other than Nero’s passion for Poppaea, and we will probably never know what transpired at court. The fact that Octavia couldn’t produce an heir while Poppaea was pregnant with Nero’s daughter likely played an important role in deciding Octavia’s fate.
On 19 July AD 64, a fire started close to the Circus Maximus. The flames soon encompassed the entire city of Rome and the fire raged for nine days. Only four of the 14 districts of the capital were spared, while three were completely destroyed.
Rome had already been razed by flames – and would be again in its long history – but this event was so severe it came to be known as the Great Fire of Rome.
Later historians blamed Nero for the event, claiming that he set the capital ablaze in order to clear land for the construction of a vast new palace. According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Nero took in the view of the burning city from the imperial residence while playing the lyre and singing about the fall of Troy. This story, however, is fictional.
Tacitus, the only historian who was actually alive at the time of the Great Fire of Rome (although only 8 years old), wrote that Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started, but returned to the capital and led the relief efforts.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all describe Nero as being blinded by passion for his wife Poppaea, yet they accuse him of killing her, allegedly by kicking her in an outburst of rage while she was pregnant.
Interestingly, pregnant women being kicked to death by enraged husbands is a recurring theme in ancient literature, used to explore the (self) destructive tendencies of autocrats. The Greek writer Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian king Cambyses kicked his pregnant wife in the stomach, causing her death. A similar episode is told of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Nero is just one of many allegedly ‘mad’ tyrants for which this literary convention was used.
Poppaea probably died from complications connected with her pregnancy and not at Nero’s hands. She was given a lavish funeral and was deified.
Centred on greater Iran, the Parthian empire was a major political and cultural power and a long-standing enemy of Rome. The two powers had long been contending for control over the buffer state of Armenia and open conflict sparked again during Nero’s rule. The Parthian War started in AD 58 and, after initial victories and following set-backs, ended in AD 63 when a diplomatic solution was reached between Nero and the Parthian king Vologases I.
According to this settlement Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, would rule over Armenia, but only after having travelled all the way to Rome to be crowned by Nero.
The journey lasted 9 months, Tiridates’ retinue included 3,000 Parthian horsemen and many Roman soldiers. The coronation ceremony took place in the summer of AD 66 and the day was celebrated with much pomp: all the people of Rome saw the new king of Armenia kneeling in front of Nero. This was the Golden Day of Nero’s rule
In AD 68, Vindex, the governor of Gaul (France), rebelled against Nero and declared his support for Galba, the governor of Spain. Vindex was defeated in battle by troops loyal to Nero, yet Galba started gaining more military support.
It was at this point that Nero lost the support of Rome’s people due to a grain shortage, caused by a rebellious commander who cut the crucial food supply from Egypt to the capital. Abandoned by the people and declared an enemy of the state by the senate, Nero tried to flee Rome and eventually committed suicide.
Following his death, Nero’s memory was condemned (a practice called damnatio memoriae) and the images of the emperor were destroyed, removed or reworked. However, Nero was still given an expensive funeral and for a long time people decorated his tomb with flowers, some even believing he was still alive.
After Nero’s death, civil war ensued. At the end of the so-called ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (AD 69), Vespasian became emperor and started a new dynasty: the Flavians.
[Francesca Bologna, curator, for British Museum]
Taken in the British Museum
For those interested, this is our rain barrel system. We took video to explain it, haven't gotten around to editing it yet.
We have 7-55 gallon barrels all hooked together. They fill at the same time and drain together. We have one spigot to fill watering cans and a pump with another spigot for use with the hose or sprinkler.
There's an overflow as well, they're all hooked together and overflow into the downspout if they're full. We have a clear tube at the end so we can see how much water we have. The system is also easily expandable if we want to add more barrels, we think we can fit 7-10 more across the back of the garage.
One of the best things about this system is the cost. We only spent about $120 for the entire system (including deck). The deck was built with lumber we removed from the deck on our house, we wanted a smaller sized deck on the house. The barrels are food grade plastic barrels and cost us only $10 each (you want to make sure you don't get barrels that had chemicals in them). We spent about $50 on other materials, posts, PVC (we also had some of that sitting around that we used up).
Taken just prior to the previous posting of it, across the road from St. Martin's church Talke.
What a waste in these energy conscious times to leave the moon switched on when the sun's out!
Same photo as posted earlier but with a black and white layer where I masked out all the colorful portions of the MDRF patron. I refer to this technique as "color blocking."
One path leads to sacrifice
One path leads to shame
One path leads to freedom
But They 're all look the same
I am shooting both stills & video at the same time at the Hurley Pro at Trestles in San Clemente.
Here's some of the video I shot with the above 45WINDSURF / 9SHOOTER rig:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o3Yh2CWKsk
And here're some of the photographic stills! www.flickr.com/photos/herosjourneymythology45surf/sets/72...
Enjoy!
Nikon D4 with AF-S Nikkor 600mm f/4G ED VR & Video Camera!
I call the above combination the 9SHOOTER / 45WINDSURFER as it lets you SURF the intermittent waves of stills photography, while catching the constant WIND of video. :) I shoot all my models with a variation of this setup too, using the D800 instead with the 70-200 mm VR2.
Here is my gear for the 2012 Hurley Pro:
Nikon D4 with AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR & Video Camera!
The AF-S NIKKOR
600mm f/4G ED VR is a high-speed, high-performance prime lens which features Nikon’s VR image stabilization and Nano Crystal Coat!
The Nikon D4 rocks! It focuses fast and continuously! It can shoot 11 RAWS/second! Ideal for shooting Kelly Slater carving waves and landing airs!
The video camera is the amazing image-stabilized Panasonic X900MK 3MOS 3D Full HD SD Camcorder. The 3MOS Sensor splits the light information captured by the lens into the three primary colors - red, green and blue - and processes each color with its own individual sensor. This reduces light loss compared to the 1MOS sensor. Pixel Shift Technology provides a huge number of effective pixels for moving pictures – equivalent to four times the pixel count of Full-HD. This technology renders ultrafine images with excellent color reproduction and superb detail! It is built with an awesome F1.5 LEICA lens! The image stabilization is amazing on this, even at full zoom!
Using a rugged Manfrotto tripod and a Manfrotto Bogen tripod head!
Wish me luck @ the Hurly PRo finals! :) Wish you could join me to shoot stills & video of the world's greatest surfers!
These pictures were shot with the Sony Alpha 77 (A77).
The panasonic camcorder shoots at 60P and I slow it down to 24P in post for slow motion!
Photos from 20 July activities in Tenerife. “AMANAR: Under the same sky” is an initiative to promote and support the scientific education of children living in the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria). The project, conceived by the international organization GalileoMobile and the Canary Association for Friendship with the Saharawi People (ACAPS, in Spanish), consists of a combination of outreach activities and visits to the Canary observatories with the children in July and August as part of their summer in the Canary Islands with the “Holidays in Peace” program. The project will also include a visit to the refugee camps by a group of scientists and experts in October. The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is one of the participating partners in this project, supporting the organization of activities and the provision of educational material for the camp visits.
More: www.cta-observatory.org/amanar-under-the-same-sky/
Credit: Demetrio Rodrigues/GalileoMobile
(L-R) Honbless, Rodelicious, Mawie Chan, Tsiklotsilog, Rembcc, Boiworx, Christy (Rodel's wife), Sweet Caroline, Chocoaficionada, Maggy Buenaventura, Dabawenya, Aby (Maraculio's wife), Maraculio, Rey Nunez, Mang Kiko, rempleo (meee!!)
Before going back to Manila yesterday.. we headed to Samal for a quick tour of the islands including Talicud...
it was heaven!.. the white sands, blue skies.. clear blue and cyan waters perfect for a swim... great food.. and we even met a beautiful fil-austrian girl that gladly posed as our model.
Tall, thin, fit, and tan pretty brunette swimsuit bikni model goddess modeling the Nikon D800 E-based 45WindSurfer!
Shooting photographic stills & video @ same time with Nikon D800 & 70-200 mm VR2 Nikkor Lens bracketed to a camcorder--the awsome Panasonic HDC-TM900 32GB Flash Memory HD Camcorder ! It shoots stabilized 60P video for super-smooth slow-mo when I slow it down in post!
I call it the 45WindSurfer Bracket, as you can catch video's constant wind and still photography's intermittent waves!
Just as windsurding was invented by combining two sports--surfing and sailing--so too was 45windsurfing born by combining two art forms!
When you get to work with pretty swimsuit bikni models, you want to make the most of everyone's time & shoot stills photography and motion pictures / video @ the same time!
Shooting (45WindSurfing) on El Matador Beach in Malbu!
The 45WindSurfer bracket allows one to attach any two cameras! Can hardly wait to attch a 4K Sony or JVC!
Modeling a Gold'N'Virtue bikini!
All the best on your hero's journey!