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The Chin tattooed women live in the Chin, Rakhine and Arakan states in northwestern Myanmar. The origin of facial tattoos in the region is unknown. Some believe that the practice began during the reigns of Kings long ago. The royalty used to come to the villages to capture young women. The men from the tribe may have tattooed their women to make them ugly, thereby saving them from a life of slavery. Interestingly, I heard a similar origin for body modification among the Mursi tribe in Ethiopia. As legend has it, the tribeswomen began wearing giant lip plates to make them uglier to would-be kidnappers. Now, the bigger the lip plate the higher the bride price.
For years, access to the tribal Mindat area was restricted by the burmese government. It was opened just two years ago. Only about 700 tourists visit per year. Most of them only visit the bucolic Mount Victoria by bus, never meeting the tattooed women who remain isolated, hours away by foot. Those who do wish to meet them better pack good walking shoes and be prepared to sleep in smoke-filled local houses complete with rats.
There are a few different face tattoo patterns. The spiderweb tattoo is popular in the Mrauk U region. It takes a three hour long tail boat ride to reach this remote area. This tattoo is usually accompanied by a circle in the center of the forehead which represents the sun or lines under the nose symbolizing tiger whiskers.
Another design, known as the bee pattern, is common in the Mindat area. It is composed of dots, lines and occasionally circles. It is worn by the Muun tribe who inhabit the hills of the Arakan state.
The Magan tribeswomen wear huge earrings made of beads and calabashes. They can also play the flute with their noses.
I ventured to Kanpelet village in search of the women from the U Pu tribe who have the incredibly rare whole face tattoo. This is one of the most impressive styles: the entire face is inked up. Rumors had it that only three women in this area had the tattoo. After hours of off roading, I arrive in the village only to learn that one died recently and another was very ill. I was lucky enough to meet Pa Late. At 85, she is nearly deaf but still works hard with her family in a small house on the top of a little hill.
Pa Late said that a completely black face had become a symbol of beauty in the past. The few women who refused to do it looked ugly to the men. The tattoo took three days but the pain lasted over a month.
There are two ways to make the tattoo needle. The first consists of tying three pieces of bamboo together and the second uses thorns. The ink is a mixture of cow bile, soot, plants, and pig fat. It usually took one day to complete the standard tattoo and a few more for the totally black one. The tattoo artist was a specialist or in some cases a parent. Infection was a common problem as the girls had blood all over their face.
Everything, including the eyelids, was tattooed. Many women say that the neck was the most sensitive area.
Ma Aung Seim shared her memories of the tattoo sessions : “I was 10 years old. The day before the tattoo ceremony, I only ate sugarcane and drank tea. It was forbidden to eat meat or peanuts. During the tattoo session, I cried a lot, but I could not move at all. After the session, my face bled for 3 days. It was very painful. My mother put fresh beans leaves on my face to alleviate the pain. I had no choice if i wanted to get married. Men wanted women with tattoos at this time. My mother told me that without a tattoo on my face, i would look like... a man! The web drawn on my face attracted the men like a spiderweb catches insects!”
Not all the tattooed women live in remote areas deep in the mountains. Some have integrated into modern society. Miss Heu, 67, lives in Kanpelet. Her grandmother forced her to get tattooed. She lives in a modern house and even has TV (when electricity is not out). Chin people have maintained their modesty and shyness: when a movie showspeople kissing or making love, most of them still fast forward the scene.
As a leader in the local community, Miss Heu had the chance to meet Aung San Suu Kyi when she came in the area for a meeting. She is very aware of the tattooed women and the ethnicities that are forgotten by the central government. She says she and Aung San Suu Kyi are friends now. Heu’s daughter has graduated and works in Singapore.
The Chin culture is threatened by the government as their teachers are usually not Chin. For a long time, they fought for independence, but since the country began to democratize, things have calmed down.
“I am old. Soon I will die” says to me a Chin woman from Pan Baung village, while she does the gesture of drying tears from her eyes. In her village, only 6 tattooed woman remain alive. Those women are the last of their kind…
© Eric Lafforgue
Nelcebee was launched on Port Adelaide’s Cruickshanks Corner in 1883 and worked the southern coast of Australia for 99 years. Nellie is older than many of the buildings in Port Adelaide’s heritage precinct and it holds a history of shipping in its riveted-iron hull. It has worked as a tug, coastal steamer, an auxiliary ketch and a motor trader. Its engines have been changed from steam to diesel, and a sailing rig was added decades after its launch. Nellie was one of the last of the ketch trade and made its final voyage from Kangaroo Island to Port Adelaide under sail in 1982.
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An old man playing "Tumbi" one of the oldest music instrument alive today.
Clicked at Chandigarh Carnival 2005.
Chandigarh is where I live,its a capital of 2 states of India i.e Punjab and Haryana.
So diversity of culture is here , as I call it hub of cultures .
About Tumbi
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tumbi is a traditional South-Asian instrument form the Punjab region. The high pitched, single string plucking instrument is associated with folk music of Punjab and presently very popular in Western Bhangra Music.
The tumbi was popularized by the Punjabi folk-singer Yamla Jatt (also spelled 'Jamla Jatt'). The instrument is made of a wooden stick mounted with a Toomba or wooden resonator covered with skin. A metallic string is passed on a resonator over a bridge and tied to the key at the end of the stick. The string is struck with the continuous flick and retraction of the forefinger.
"Get your freak on" by Timbaland and Missy Elliot saw the introduction of the distinct tumbi sound into the popular mainstream music scene.
"Mundeya tou bach ke rahi" (Beware of Boys) from Panjabi MC, a huge hit in the UK charts, is perhaps the most widely-known example of the use of tumbi in popular music.
The tumbi was also featured in the song "20 Inch" by Jamaican reggae artist Cutty Ranks in which it was played by Toronto, Ontario, Canada native Shawn Ramta (grandson of the famous Punjabi folk singer, Hazara Singh Ramta)
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Entrance to the church is through the north porch, which together with the north aisle is the oldest part of the church, c1290. The church has had many alterations, a wooden Saxon church probably occupied the site (or close by) and used by "the wardsmen of Wesstbury" who were killed in a skirmish with the Welsh in 1053, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle. A grant of land was made in 1100 "saving the rights of the Rector of Westbury". The nave of seven bays has alternating quatrefoil and octagonal pillars. The south aisle is also known as the Elton Aisle. The oak pews are 16th century and were probably box pews originally. The ends are carved with linen fold panels. They were remodelled in 1888. By the south door is an old font. The plain bowl is supposedly Norman and stands on a pillar carved with the arms of Elizabeth I and dated 1583. At one time the font was thrown out of the church and the pillar broken. The bowl and pillar were found in separate gardens and returned to their rightful place. The later, Victorian, font stands at the back of the church and has a conical carved cover. The west door dates to 1400, the south porch probably dates to the same period. The chancel is early 14th century, although the chancel arch and east window are Victorian. The carved stone and alabaster reredos dates from 1878. The altar frontal contains old pieces of needlework. In the south window sill is a rose piscina with eight drainage holes. There are memorials on the north wall to two local families, the Boughtons and the Wintles. On the south wall are memorials to the Colchester family of Westbury Court, who created the Dutch Garden, now the property of the National Trust.
The detached tower is about 50 feet from the church, and was built as a garrison or watch tower when the area was subjected to raids by the Welsh. The 160ft (49m) high spire was added during the 14th century and is constructed entirely of wood.
During the Civil War 1642-46 the tower and church were occupied for long periods. One battle took place here in May 1644 between the Parliamentary army in the tower under Colonel Edward Massey and the Royalist Brigade in the church under Colonel Winter. The Parliamentarians defeated the Royalists and later occupied Westbury Court (now demolished).
A last view of the church
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The last of the day's sunlight illuminates the face of NJ Transit Arrow III car 1524 as it arrives at Metuchen Station with Northeast Corridor Line train 7861. The clocks would be set back an hour overnight, and this train's run would be entirely in darkness the next day.
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One of my first photos with my new Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 lens that arrived yesterday. It's a long read on the history of this building, but you can see the construction is ongoing. I'm glad they're saving these early buildings.
Below is from a Calgary Citizen column from Frebruary 7, 2022
In 1949, lawyer Jacob Bell Barron began building himself a home on top of a business; an 11-storey art-modern-style building at 610-8th Ave. SW, then the Western edge of Calgary's downtown.
Barron came to Calgary at the urging of his Uncle, Charlie Bell, who built the King George Hotel. In 1947, oil was discovered in Leduc, and JB Barron's building would come to house several burgeoning oil companies.
The structure, designed by Jack Cawston, cost just $1.25 million to build. It was one of only a few buildings in Calgary built in the modern style at the time.
The style was modelled after two other significant buildings, the Lougheed Building and The Grand Theatre but with some unique feaetures.
The Big Oil Boom
When completed in 1951, the building was known as the Mobil Oil Building.
One of the first multi-use buildings in the city, it housed Sun Oil, Shell, Socony Vacuum Oil, and Trans Canada Pipelines, as well as a two-storey theatre, and office space on the second to tenth floors.
The Barron family occupied the entire 11th-floor penthouse overlooking a youn, energetic, and growing city.
Barrons building was the first of several others housing oil companies in the area, which became knows as the oil patch.
The budding oil sector "anchored the oil industry in Calgary, transforming the city into the oil capital of Canada," says writer and historian, Irena Karshsenbaum, in a 2011 Chinook Country Historical Society newsletter.
Barron and his family occupied the home from 1955 until the patriarch's passing in 1965. On the lower floors, businesses came and went, thrived, and shifted with economies and the vagaries of a rapidly growingn city.
Beyond the Barron building
At the time, Barron also owned the Grand Theatre on First Street SW.
With the Uptown Theatre opening in March 1951, Barron had free rein to indulge his passion for live theatre and music. Daniel Barron, JB's grandson, remembers the crowds lining the streets and says the Uptown was "one of the premier places for first-run shows."
The theatres, part of the Odeon chain, closed in 1989, but reopened in 1993 as the Uptown Stage and Screen, hosting everything from WordFest, to live music, to theatre productions.
JB Barron's sonse, William and Roberta sold the building in 1981. At the time, it was fully leased.
Between that sale and the Strategic group's later purchase, an inspired but underfunded owner with grand plans, purchased the building and had begun tearings away the building's interior features and structures. That owner quickly ran out of funds and abandoned the project.
The Strategic group acquired the Barron building in 2007.
A Change Of Plans
Three weeks later, a "pick and pull" was announced and a few doesn people trick in to take Uptown souvenires that included '50's and '60s furniture, art-house movied posters, toilettes, and a dozen buckets filled with broken chunks of Terrazzo floors.
in 2015, the Strategic group developed plans to revitalize the building and add a six-storey glass atrium on the East side.
But, by 2019, Calgary's high vacancy rates combined with significant downward pressure on international oil markets, and a resulting struggling provicial economy, gravely affected the developer's plans to redevlop the building.
At the time, Strategic CEO Riaz Mamdani, cited Alberta's lagging economy and high city vacanty rates as the reason the company liquidated much of their inventory. However, Strategic retained the Barron Building.
What's Next For The Iconic Structure?
The Barron building's interior fixtures cannot be incorporated into the redevlopment, as they cannot satisfy current building and safety codes.
The theatres have been removed, as has the curved stairway. The building's elevataors and pullies are gone as well. Toews says construction will preserve and revivve the buildings iconic exterior.
A New Lease On Life
The entire building, including the emblematic penthouse, will be converted to residential rental units which is much needed in the core.
The building should be ready for occupancy in late 2024.
i had a major developing problem with this roll of polachrome; the film came out the processor totally dark.
i was about to threw it in the bin, when, taking a closer look, i saw the pictures on the film, in negative. so i proceed to remove the black, thick layer that should have been removed in the processor. under running tap water and using my fingers, i managed to remove the most of the dark layer, but, as you can see, the emulsion suffered major loss.
the lesson here is: never trash away your polachrome, the truth is under the thick black layer.
this polachrome film is expired in 1990
shot with a minolta srt101
The attractive town of Tewkesbury has been dominated by its superb abbey church since the beginning of the 12th century, and we can be forever grateful to its townspeople for purchasing the monastic church in 1540 for £453 for use as their parish church, saving it from the fate that befell countless similar great churches across the land during the turmoil of the Dissolution. It reminds us both how lucky we are to still marvel at it today, yet also how great a loss to our heritage the period wrought when many more such buildings were so utterly plundered as to have gone without trace (the fate of the monastic buildings here and even the lady chapel of the church whose footings are laid out in the grass at the east end).
Tewkesbury Abbey is thus rightly celebrated as one of our greatest non-cathedral churches, and remarkably much of the original Norman church remains substantially intact, most apparently in the great central tower, a fine example of Romanesque architecture adorned with rows of blind-arcading. The west front is dominated by a massive Norman-arched recess (enclosing the somewhat later west window) and the nave and transepts remain largely as originally built, though this is less clear externally owing to the changes made to the windows, nearly all of which were enlarged in the 14th century in the Decorated Gothic style. This century also saw the complete rebuilding of the eastern limb of the church, of a form less common in England with radiating chapels surrounding the eastern apse of the choir (the central lady chapel sadly missing since 1540).
The interior reveals far more of the Romanesque structure with mighty columns supporting the round Norman arches of the nave arcades giving the building a great sense of solidity. The space is further enlivened by the changes made during the 14th century by the stunning vault over the nave (adorned with a rewarding series of figurative bosses) which sits surprisingly well with the Norman work below. Beyond the apsidal choir beckons, and both this and the space below the tower are enriched with stunningly complex vaulted ceilings (replete with further bosses and gilded metal stars), all ablaze with colour and gilding.
There is much to enjoy in glass here, most remarkably a complete set of 14th century glazing in the clerestorey of the choir, seven windows filled with saints and prophets (and most memorably two groups of knights in the westernmost windows on each side). A few of the figures have fared less well over the centuries but on the whole this is a wonderfully rare and well preserved scheme. There is much glass from the 19th century too, with an extensive scheme in the nave of good quality work by Hardman's, and more recently a pair of rich windows by Tom Denny were added in one of the polygonal chapels around the east end.
Some of the most memorable features are the monuments with many medieval tombs of note, primarily the effigies and chantry chapels of members of the Despenser family around the choir (two of the chantries being miniature architectural gems in their own right with exquisite fan-vaulting). In one of the apsidal chapels is the unusual cenotaph to Abbot Wakeman with his grisly cadaver effigy, a late medieval reminder of earthly mortality.
Tewkesbury Abbey is not to be missed and is every bit as rewarding as many of our cathedrals (superior in fact to all but the best). It is normally kept open and welcoming to visitors on a daily basis. I have also had the privilege of working on this great building several times over the years (as part of the team at the studio I once worked for), and have left my mark in glass in a few discreet places.
shots taken out of boredom series
100mm+Nissin Di622
... playing w/ the flash. im quiet amazed of what this "cheap" flash can do : )
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My former boss got my some red roses for leaving my job.
When I woke up this morning, at 5am for a wee moment, I noticed it had snowed and the first thing that popped into my head is how beautiful a red rose would look in the snow <3
Please, let me know your thoughts on this photograph.
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Before the prescribe gets to some equipment, the fire crew is putting asbestos to kept from burning up. The backfire has been started as you see the smoke behind them.
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Makeup & Hair style: Xiao Mei
Driver: Hieu Kenzo
Location: Bavi wild church
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Used my coffee can flash modifier to really narrow the light from my flash. People were looking at it in amusement and confusion, but if they saw how the results looked they might make their own.
Whilst looking for another building location, I came across this former Saw Manufacturers complete with ghost signage. Workies are inside doing by the sounds and curses, some conversion and conservation work. Outside the rear wall is supported by beams, scaffolding and water-filled IBC's to stop it collapsing.
I Have to admit that im not the best dark ride photographer but this picture comes with a story. A few years ago, I was in California with my friend and her family. We were in Hollywood eating at the Disney Soda Fountain Shop. We take two of the three tables they had at the front window. After a while a couple comes in and asks if anybody was sitting at the table next to us and we said, "your more then welcome to sit here". After a few minutes we finally realized who those nice people were. It was the great Richard Sherman and his wife. Now being the Disney fan that I am, I couldn't believe that I was sitting next a person who wrote some of the greatest Disney songs know to man and whose boss was none other then my idol Walt Disney. We respected him and and went about eating, but man, the questions I wish I could have asked that man. Come to find out, they were having the premier at the El Capitan Theater for the new Sherman Boys movie that very same day. What a great memory to have. He had any table to choose from and he chose to sit with us. What an honor. I hope you enjoyed my story.
Here’s my “destined for donation but has potential” dolls. I’ve been trying to see if I should keep this Sharpay due to her glue head but a treatment of cornstarch to remove huge chunks of glue, laundry powder to take care of her gummy hair and then a boilwash made her more tolerable to me.
The guy is a Fairy Prince doll I thought looked too awkward but then I switched him over to an older style Ken body and his long face suits the ken body’s proportions. I made his shirt from scraps cuz I loved the feel and weight but thought the print was too big. But i remember @dollsahoy‘s philosophy on “scale” fabric and I’m glad I made it. his skinny jeans are the My Scene Hudson bellbottoms I took in on the sides lol.
And the Shimmeron style doll was a *tiny* fairy doll head I modded to fit an old style ballerina body and painted it silver.
We have begun the mamoth task of organizing all of the crap we've accumulated before moving house next month. Sometimes it's almost impossible to throw something away, even though you know you won't need it.
Date: March 17, 2012
Camera: Sony DSLR-A900
Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/1.4, ISO 400
Lens: 50mm F1.4 at 50 mm
© 2012 Benjamin Torode