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A close-up detail of a segment of a new oil painting by artist Stephen B Whatley, created on location in Mid - Levels, Hong Kong this month. The details shows parts of buildings and the waters of Victoria Harbour beyond….a photograph of the whole painting follows soon.
Stephen B Whatley is an expressionist painter, published in TIME magazine, whose major commissions include architectural paintings for public institutions including The Royal Collection of HM Queen Elizabeth II, London Underground and the BBC; and 30 paintings commissioned by the Tower of London permanently showcased throughout Tower Hill Underpass at Tower Hill. The artist’s paintings are in private collections worldwide and public collections including BBC Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces, the London Transport Museum, the Royal Collection, Westminster Cathedral & The Carrollton School of The Sacred Heart, Miami, USA.
Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong: View From MId-Levels. 2014 (Detail)
Oil on canvas, 36 x 48in/91 x 122cm
Private collection, Hong Kong, SAR
Finally had an overcast day with no precipitation to take better pictures as my lighting setup is not great for taking indoor pictures of larger builds.
Both the front and rear connections are built exactly the same.
Steve Fulton Music Performing at Pine Fest Music Festival in Halfway Oregon
A spectacular Saturday on the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway for day Pine Fest - Halfway, Oregon with the Boise based Steve Fulton Music
Billed as the tiniest music festival in the tiniest town, Pine fest is one of our favorite fall events along the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway. We had a great day hanging out with locals and visitors from Oregon Idaho and Washington listening to a great line up of bands and musicians from throughout the Northwest at the Baker County Fairgrounds in Halfway.
Pine Fest is the largest musical festival in Halfway but the community also hosts a number of other musical events including the summer concert series on the Main Street Stage. For more information about Pine Fest including next year’s dates and performers visit www.pinefest.org
The town of Halfway is just one of numerous small towns along the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway, a loop that encircles the Wallowa Mountains, intersecting with Interstate 84 at Baker City and La Grande, and communities all along the byway host a variety of festivals and community events throughout the year providing visitors a chance to celebrate local culture and visit with locals while exploring this incredibly scenic region of North East Oregon.
The byway is a popular destination for group tours and offers visitors a chance to experience small town Americana in small towns like Halfway, as they explore the rugged and spectacular Northeast Oregon landscape along the way.
The entire route is on a paved highway. Plan ahead - you'll find stretches of more than eighty miles without gas and with few services. A segment of the Byway between Joseph and Halfway closes with snow in winter, but allows access to winter recreation areas, offering a whole other kind of Northeast Oregon Adventure.
For more information about the Hells Canyon Scenic byways or other Baker County, scenic drives, events and attractions, visit the Baker County tourism website at www.travelbakercounty.com
nearly finished - only the stained glass windows and the two trees in front of the wall are missing now ;-)
sorry for posting all the time unfinished examples but I have to confess: I really like the moc now ;-))
SN/NC: Jatropha Multifida, Euphorbiaceae Family
Coral bush is a shrub or small tree with a single trunk, a loose, spreading crown and a typical height in cultivation of 6-10 ft, although it can grow up to 20 ft tall. The very beautiful and distinctive leaves are large, growing up to 12 in wide. They are cut deeply into 7-11 narrow lobes with the margins of each lobe themselves dissected into narrow pointed segments. They are dark green above and whitish beneath. The flowers are bright coral red and borne in flat-topped clusters on long stalks held high above the foliage. Coral plant blooms on and off all year long, and especially during hot weather. Most euphorbs have a milky sap that flows from broken stems, but that of coral plant looks more like cloudy water.
Esta planta suculenta de hojas caducas es pariente cercano a las Euphorbias, es fácilmente reconocible por su tronco abultado por la base. Este género de plantas procede de regiones con grandes periodos de sequía de América central y el Caribe.
Da mesma família da mamona, euforbiacea. Nomes comuns no Brasil: Mertiolate, flor-de-coral, coral, coral-dos-jardins, flor-de-sangue. Tem uso medicinal. Alguns chamam de pinhão-manso.
Le buisson de corail est un arbuste ou un petit arbre avec un tronc simple, une couronne lâche et étalée et une hauteur typique en cultivant de 6-10 ft, bien qu'il puisse grandir jusqu'à 20 pieds de haut. Les feuilles très belles et distinctives sont grandes, qui grandissent jusqu'à 12 en large. La plante de corail fleurit sur et en dehors toute l'année, et particulièrement pendant le temps chaud. La plupart des euphorbiaceaes ont une sève laiteuse qui coule des tiges cassées, mais celle de la plante de corail ressemble plus à de l'eau nuageuse.
Il cespuglio di corallo è un arbusto o un piccolo albero con un singolo tronco, una parte superiore allentata e spalmata e un'altezza tipica coltivando 6-10 ft, anche se può svilupparsi fino a 20 piedi di altezza. Le foglie molto belle e distintive sono grandi, che crescono fino a 12 di larghezza. La pianta di corallo fiorisce dentro e fuori tutto l'anno e particolarmente durante il tempo caldo. La maggior parte dei Euphorbiaceae hanno una linfa lattiginosa che scorre dai gambi rotti, ma la pianta di corallo è più come acqua nuvolosa.
Die Coral Bush ist ein Strauch oder ein kleiner Baum mit einem einzigen Kofferraum, eine lockere und schmieren oben und eine typische Höhe kultiviert 6-10 ft, obwohl es bis zu 20 Meter in der Höhe wachsen kann. Das sehr schöne Blätter und tintive sind groß, wächst bis zu 12 von groß. Die Korallen Pflanze blüht in und aus dem ganzen Jahr lang und vor allem bei warmem Wetter. Die meisten der Euphorbiaceae haben eine Milch-Lymphknoten, die Marker aus faulen stalks, aber die Korallen Pflanze ist mehr kommen bewölkt Wasser.
De koraal Bush is een struik of een kleine boom met een één stam, een losse en vlekkerig terug naar boven en een typische hoogte cultiveren van 6-10 ft, hoewel het tot 20 voet in hoogte kan groeien. Das heel mooi bladeren en tintive zijn groot, groeit tot 12 van grote. Het koraal plant bloeit in en uit alle jaar lang en vooral tijdens warm weer. De meeste van de Euphorbiaceae hebben een melkachtig lymfe die markering van rotte stengels, maar de koraal plant is meer kommen troebel water.
المرجان بوش هو شجيرة أو شجره صغيره مع جذع واحد ، وفضفاضة وطخت اعلي وارتفاع نموذجي زراعه 6-10 قدم ، علي الرغم من انه يمكن ان ينمو حتى 20 قدما في الارتفاع. داس أوراق لطيفه جدا والصبغة كبيره ، ويشبون حتى 12 من كبيره. النباتات المرجانية تزهر في وخارج كل سنه طويلة وخصوصا خلال الطقس الحار. معظم المجازات الفطرية لديها الليمفاوية الحليب الذي ماركر من سيقان المتعفنة ، ولكن النبات المرجان هو المزيد من المياه الغائمة كورجال.
Kristina Lapinova from Slovakia in the snowshoes segment of the race.
COUPE DU MONDE ITU TRIATHLON D'HIVER S3 - ÉLITE 2018 - Québec,Canada
ITU Winter Triathlon World Cup Elite S3 2018 - Québec City, Canada
Source: www.oldcarcityusa.com/
Old Car City in White, Georgia contains the worlds largest known classic car junkyard. Visitors enjoy the beautiful vegetation of the deep south that is intertwined with the hundreds of cars that reside in Old Car City. Old Car City started as a small general store in 1931 and is still family owned and operated. Come enjoy the Old South environment, folk art, ghosts of beautiful classic cars, and much more! With over 34 acres and over 4000 American-made cars from the early 20th Century, these cars, trucks, vans, and even a couple school buses are placed in such a way as to be ideally suited for photos, videos and custom camera shoots. Over the 8 decades since first started, thousands of photographers, videographers, ad agencies and media companies have visited Old Car City USA. Popular news magazine and newspaper companies, like CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, the BBC and Georgia Public Television, have made press releases and/or video segments and transmitted it worldwide. Mayor of Old Car City USA, Dean Lewis, welcomes all who come out to visit his varied collection of automobile art with a little help from Mother Nature. You can come and just stroll along with winding paths for a nominal fee or, for a few dollars more, bring a camera and take pictures and/or videos and share them with friends. Among the many cars at Old Car City USA, there is the last car Elvis Presley ever bought back in 1977 just a couple months before he died. Also, a movie starring Andy Griffith and Johnny Cash used one of the cars that now call this place "home." The honorary mayor of the "City," Dean Lewis, is also an artist in his own rite with some of the most unique canvas...the styrofoam cup. In his upstairs loft, Lewis has hundreds of styrofoam canvases featuring his artistic talents on display along with some paintings he will proudly show off.
Welcome to another set of images from my Pan-American Trek using Google Street View. We started in Deadhorse, Alaska, and have made our way through Alaska, the Yukon, and stunning British Columbia at the very northern end of the Rocky Mountain range, about 4400 km. Yet the next 155 km is the most stunning landscape encountered so far – Alberta Highway 93, otherwise known as the Icefields Parkway, or Promenade des Glaciers. At about the half-way you reach the pinnacle of the segment, the Columbia Icefields and the Athabasca Glacier, supposedly the most accessible glacier in North America.
nearly finished - only the stained glass windows and the two trees in front of the wall are missing now ;-)
sorry for posting all the time unfinished examples but I have to confess: I really like the moc now ;-))
National's 60s "Getaway People" advertising, by the London Press Exchange (later part of Leo Burnett) portrayed quite a sophisticated, young, continentally-inspired, seatbelt-less image—somewhat different to the later Smurf-led campaigns, and very different to the traditional stuff that had gone before. Even the emphasis on lifestyle—if you want this life, you need National—was new, especially for petrol.
This 1990 BBC documentary, Washes Whiter, has a segment examining the impact of "Getaway People" www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbbwaELt44#t=11m54s (starts at 11m54s)
The use of the spot colours for the National logo in a magazine which was otherwise black and white (and red) must have been expensive. The italicised version of the National logo is interesting too. Despite remaining in the company name, benzole had been phased out some years previously.
Ok its a composite of images of my Praktica Nova1 - 9 different images cropped 9 different ways with the 4 corners being different crops of the one image of the lens.
Its partly inspired by this cool image from f8125 :
www.flickr.com/photos/f8125/73765424/
Im not 100% sure it works - perhaps nine images is too many - the sections between the images are all the same though they dont seem to look it, originally done in wedges 1000x1000 pixels and then resized down.
What do you think? Does it work? How would you do it differently?
nearly finished - only the stained glass windows and the two trees in front of the wall are missing now ;-)
sorry for posting all the time unfinished examples but I have to confess: I really like the moc now ;-))
the most famous medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the arno river, built in the 1300's. noted for the shops built along it; butchers, tanners, and farmers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers, and souvenir sellers.v
created for italian culture week, one person show, june 2019, sponsored by the national congress of italian canadians.
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The Ponte Vecchio is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. The Ponte Vecchio's two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Santa Trinita and the Ponte alle Grazie.
CO (La Plata County)
Day 4 (Segment 27)
random campsite to Bridge site
The final descent to Taylor Lake, although switchbacked, was pretty difficult. Caution was necessary on this steep sidehill which was strewn with loose talus stones. One misstep could be disastrous. Every step was careful and calculated. I did safely arrive at the Lake.
Taylor Lake is a stunning high alpine lake nestled in its own basin at an elevation of approximately 11,600 feet. An excellent place for a short break and to refill water containers. I encountered the hikers I had seen earlier on the Highline Trail, also taking a break.
Kennebec Trailhead, and the end of Segment 27, was about a mile away. I already had about 9 miles in for the day with about 7 more to go, so I didn’t linger at the lake for long. Kennebec Pass was another .6 mile away.
Steve Fulton Music Performing at Pine Fest Music Festival in Halfway Oregon
A spectacular Saturday on the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway for day Pine Fest - Halfway, Oregon with the Boise based Steve Fulton Music
Billed as the tiniest music festival in the tiniest town, Pine fest is one of our favorite fall events along the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway. We had a great day hanging out with locals and visitors from Oregon Idaho and Washington listening to a great line up of bands and musicians from throughout the Northwest at the Baker County Fairgrounds in Halfway.
Pine Fest is the largest musical festival in Halfway but the community also hosts a number of other musical events including the summer concert series on the Main Street Stage. For more information about Pine Fest including next year’s dates and performers visit www.pinefest.org
The town of Halfway is just one of numerous small towns along the Hells Canyon Scenic Byway, a loop that encircles the Wallowa Mountains, intersecting with Interstate 84 at Baker City and La Grande, and communities all along the byway host a variety of festivals and community events throughout the year providing visitors a chance to celebrate local culture and visit with locals while exploring this incredibly scenic region of North East Oregon.
The byway is a popular destination for group tours and offers visitors a chance to experience small town Americana in small towns like Halfway, as they explore the rugged and spectacular Northeast Oregon landscape along the way.
The entire route is on a paved highway. Plan ahead - you'll find stretches of more than eighty miles without gas and with few services. A segment of the Byway between Joseph and Halfway closes with snow in winter, but allows access to winter recreation areas, offering a whole other kind of Northeast Oregon Adventure.
For more information about the Hells Canyon Scenic byways or other Baker County, scenic drives, events and attractions, visit the Baker County tourism website at www.travelbakercounty.com
A piece of a rainbow I saw while out walking. There was a hole in the clouds to the west, allowing just a shaft of sunlight through, so only a piece of the rainbow was visible.
I made one of these segmented beads during the Genesis online polymer clay course with Christine Dumont and she suggested I make a necklace. Well, here it is and I love the deep jewel tones and how it hangs around my neck. The round and cylindrical beads are ceramic with a metallic glaze from Mykonos beads (where I have been known to spend too much money)
The currents rip off the east cape of Milne Bay. Seamounts rise around the passages from 40 -100m depth and the marine life is prolific. The coral was so dense here that it was often difficult to find even a small segment of dead coral to get a hold off when photographing. It was also hard for us to spot macro life, but never the less it was fantastic to experience such a healthy lush marine environment.
The Tawali Dive Resort situated to the North of Milne Bay has chained tyres to the top of a few of the best seamounts, usually 5-10m from the surface; so if we could find a tyre, it was easy to secure our vessel.
Lots of fun :)
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Nature is beautiful, I love the change in perspective when you get close. The colours in this leaf were gorgeous!
The small south coast Mass town of Middleboro still features three railroads and can get busy at times. After shooting B726 making the transfer moves and the Mass Coastal pick up I caught this meet before heading to the Cape.
Keolis/MBTA inbound train 2004 is moments out of the Middleboro/Lakeville station with an HSP46 on the rear. The MC-X special with the single high wide load is sitting in the clear at Pilgrim Interlocking (about MP 35 on the Middleboro main) on the south leg of the wye. As soon as the T train clears the interlocking the turnout will line over and they'll get the light to head east toward home rails at Bay and continue east all the way to Hyannis.
They will stop in Rochester yard to pick up four loaded MassDOT ballast hoppers that will be dumped at several spots along the way then proceed to the end of the line. This is an extremely rare revenue freight move to Hyannis that hasn't seen anything other than passenger and work trains in a couple decades on the segment of track extending down from Yarmouth Jct.
2009 is a rare model GP28 built by EMD in Nov. 1964 for the Illinois Central as their #9439. Only 31 of the 1800 hp units were built and only 16 of those were for US roads.
Middleborough, Massachusetts
Friday May 8, 2020
Conversation Piece: Art In South Shields, Tyne And Wear
A sculpture comprising 22 bronze figures by Juan Muñoz near South Shields beach.
'Conversation Piece' is a sculpture that was created by the renowned Spanish artist Juan Muñoz in 1999. It comprises 22 bronze figures positioned around an open space in the dunes at Littlehaven, South Shields, each approximately 1.5 metres high and around a quarter of a ton in weight. Their position at the entrance to the River Tyne welcomes visitors from both the land and sea beyond.
The figures are arranged in small groups, with occasional isolated ones, seemingly engaging in conversation with one another. The artwork was originally imagined as being a visual play on the 18th Century style of painting that depicted informal social gatherings, cards games or musical performances. The figures area all monochromatic greys in colour, which may have something to do with Muñoz being colour-blind, but we at Fabulous North think it just adds to the otherworldliness of the piece.
The figures are known affectionately by locals as the 'Weebles' after the toys of the 70s and 80s, though given their weight and robust fixing into the ground, it is no surprise these Weebles neither wobble nor fall down! The artist once said of them “they look like rolling figures, like tumblers, they are about movement but they can't move”.
The sculptor was quite an outspoken artist in his home country of Spain, often criticising cultural institutions, so was never a well-loved figure of the establishment, so it is little wonder that such an outsider should have work that found a home, hundreds of miles from Spain in South Shields.
At South Shields, the figures stand, eyes closed or staring towards the distant horizon, in a strange, eerie silence, which is strange as the sculptor had often expressed an interest in sound and in particular radio. It is fitting perhaps that there is now an app which can be used to listen in to their conversations, written by Lee Mattinson and commissioned by Northern Stage as part of their “Out on the Toon” project. There was a QR code you could scan nearby when we visited to hear the conversations.
Sadly Muñoz died suddenly in 2001 aged only 48 years old, but his work will hopefully find a place in South Shields for many years to come.
“The way people react to the piece and the way they pass between them is very important” - Juan Muñoz (1953 - 2001)
Juan Muñoz (17 June 1953 – 28 August 2001) was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze. He was also interested in the auditory arts and created compositions for the radio. He was a self-described "storyteller". In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes in recognition of his work; he died shortly after, in 2001.
Juan Muñoz was born in 1953 into a prosperous, educated family in Madrid. He was the second of seven brothers. He enrolled in a local school but became bored and was expelled, so his father retained a poet who was also an art critic to provide lessons, which gave Muñoz an awareness of modernism. He grew up under Franco's repressive regime. In the 1970s, he moved to England to study at Croydon College and the Central School of Art and Design. There he met his wife, sculptor Cristina Iglesias, with whom he has two children, Diego (b. 1995) and Lucia (b. 1989). His marriage to Cristina also made him the brother-in-law of the Academy Award-nominated film composer, Alberto Iglesias. In 1982 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and traveled to the United States to study at the Pratt Institute in New York City. He spoke an idiosyncratic English, learned from his experience as a waiter in New York restaurants.
His first exhibition was in 1984 in the Fernando Vijande gallery of Madrid. Since then, his works have been frequently exhibited in Europe and other parts of the world. At the beginning of the 1990s, Juan Muñoz began breaking the rules of traditional sculpture by sculpting works in a "narrative" manner which consisted of creating smaller than life-size figures in an atmosphere of mutual interaction. Muñoz's sculptures often invite the spectator to relate to them, making the viewer feel as if they have discreetly become a part of the work of art. His slate-gray or wax-colored monochrome figures create a sort of discreetness due to their lack of individuality, but that absence of individuality questions the viewer, perhaps even so much as to make the viewer uncomfortable. When asked his occupation, Muñoz would respond simply that he was a "storyteller."
His first solo show in the UK was at the Arnolfini, Bristol curated by Stephen Snoddy. Muñoz's sculptures were created primarily with paper maché, resin and bronze. In addition to sculpture, Muñoz was interested in the creation of auditory arts, creating some works for the radio. One of his more recognized auditory works was a collaboration with British composer Gavin Bryars in 1992 called A Man in a Room, Gambling, which consisted of Muñoz explaining card tricks over a composition by Bryars. The pieces, ten segments all shorter than five minutes, were played on BBC Radio 3.
In one unpublished radio program (Third Ear, 1992), Juan Muñoz proposed that there are two things which are impossible to represent: the present and death, and that the only way to arrive at them was by their absence.
In 2000, Muñoz was awarded Spain's major Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes, about which Muñoz said, "I think I'll buy a watch."
Juan Muñoz died suddenly of cardiac arrest caused by an aneurysm of the esophagus and an internal hemorrhage at the age of 48 in his summer home in Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza, in 2001.
A segment of the moon taken through my 12” telescope. Surface features, such as the mountain range stand out best when they are near the day/night line as their long shadows make them more visible.
eight similar segments (fields) are stuck together with modified plates 4081 (www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=4081a)
just comment if you have any further question -thx for your interest
Detail of spiral staircase at the Southbank Centre. Original architects: GLC Department of Architecture, c.1967. London Borough of Lambeth.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)