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- Camera: Polaroid SX-70
- Film: Impossible Color SX-70 Bruch
- Settings camera: 1 notch to darken
During PBS’ SIDE BY SIDE session at the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, August 6, 2013, host and producer Keanu Reeves and producer Justin Szlasa discuss the history, process and workflow of digital and photochemical films.
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS.
I was really overthinking this topic today. I was about to give up when I saw my son come into the room. I thought I might as well make him useful whether he likes it or not! This is my grandpa's chair that has been sitting in the basement. I was trying to get something gritty as well as getting the definition of my son's back. My son is not thrilled with this shot but he just got himself extra computer time and his face is not visible so he's ok with the image.
Our Daily Challenge - The Other Side - April 10, 2011
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Outstanding Achievement Award: Malaysian Nuclear Agency
Side event: Achievement Awards in Plant Mutation Breeding and Associated Biotechnologies, at the 65th General Conference held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 20 September 2021.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
This side event celebrated successes achieved by Member States in applying nuclear techniques towards the achievement of food security and crop adaptation to climate change. After speeches by IAEA and FAO DGs, DG Grossi honoured the 28 awardees from 20 Member States by giving their certificates to their respective ambassadors. Awards were in three categories: Outstanding Achievement, Women in Plant Mutation Breeding and Young Scientists. Several Ambassadors who took the floor at the event praised the work of the IAEA and the FAO.
this was a side peice to the beccy cake, it was origionally to be the cake topper (the castle) but we decided it was too much for the cake and popped it to the side with the horse and cart i made from gumpaste
We ate here last November after the cold and snowy Bears - 49ers game. A varied menu and friendly service in the 1891 building at 1456 W. George St.
East Side Access tunnel boring machine launch March 18, 2011. Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The Pyramid of Cestius (in Italian, Piramide di Caio Cestio or Piramide Cestia) is an ancient pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It stands at a fork between two ancient roads, the Via Ostiensis and another road that ran west to the Tiber along the approximate line of the modern Via della Marmorata. Due to its incorporation into the city's fortifications, it is today one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome.
The pyramid was built about 18 BC–12 BC as a tomb for Gaius Cestius, a magistrate and member of one of the four great religious corporations in Rome, the Septemviri Epulonum. It is of brick-faced concrete covered with slabs of white marble standing on a travertine foundation, measuring 100 Roman feet (29.6 m) square at the base and standing 125 Roman feet (37 m) high.
In the interior is the burial chamber, a simple barrel-vaulted rectangular cavity measuring 5.95 metres long, 4.10 m wide and 4.80 m high. When it was (re)discovered in 1660, the chamber was found to be decorated with frescoes, which were recorded by Pietro Santi Bartoli, but only the scantest traces of these now remain. There was no trace left of any other contents in the tomb, which had been plundered in antiquity. The tomb had been sealed when it was built, with no exterior entrance; it is not possible for visitors to access the interior, except by special permission typically only granted to scholars.
A dedicatory inscription is carved into the east and west flanks of the pyramid, so as to be visible from both sides. It reads:
C · CESTIVS · L · F · POB · EPULO · PR · TR · PL VII · VIR · EPOLONVM Gaius Cestius, son of Lucius, of the gens Pobilia, member of the College of Epulones, praetor, tribune of the plebs, septemvir of the Epulones.
Below the inscription on the east-facing side is a second inscription recording the circumstances of the tomb's construction. This reads:
OPVS · APSOLVTVM · EX · TESTAMENTO · DIEBVS · CCCXXX ARBITRATV PONTI · P · F · CLA · MELAE · HEREDIS · ET · POTHI · L The work was completed, in accordance with the will, in 330 days, by the decision of the heir [Lucius] Pontus Mela, son of Publius of the Claudia, and Pothus, freedman.
Another inscription on the east face is of modern origins, having been carved on the orders of Pope Alexander VII in 1663. Reading INSTAVRATVM · AN · DOMINI · MDCLXIII, it commemorates excavation and restoration work carried out in and around the tomb between 1660–62.
At the time of its construction, the Pyramid of Cestius would have stood in open countryside (tombs being forbidden within the city walls). Rome grew enormously during the imperial period, and, by the third century AD, the pyramid would have been surrounded by buildings. It originally stood in a low-walled enclosure, flanked by statues, columns and other tombs. Two marble bases were found next to the pyramid during excavations in the 1660s, complete with fragments of the bronze statues that originally had stood on their tops. The bases carried an inscription recorded by Bartoli in an engraving of 1697:
M · VALERIVS · MESSALLA · CORVINVS · P · RVTILIVS · LVPVS · L · IVNIVS · SILANVS · L · PONTIVS · MELA · D · MARIVS · NIGER · HEREDES · C · CESTI · ET · L · CESTIVS · QVAE · EX · PARTE · AD · EVM · FRATRIS · HEREDITAS · M · AGRIPPAE · MVNERE · PER · VENIT · EX · EA · PECVNIA · QVAM · PRO · SVIS · PARTIEVS · RECEPER · EX · VENDITIONE · ATTALICOR · QVAE · EIS · PER · EDICTVM · AEDILIS · IN · SEPVLCRVM · C · CESTI · EX · TESTAMENTO · EIVS · INFERRE · NON · LICVIT ·
This identifies Cestius' heirs as Marcus Valerius Messala Corvinus, a famous general; Publius Rutilius Lupus, an orator whose father of the same name had been consul in 90 BC; and Lucius Junius Silanus, a member of the distinguished gens Junia. The heirs had set up the statues and bases using money raised from the sale of valuable cloths (attalici). Cestius had stated in his will that the cloths were to be deposited in the tomb, but this practice had been forbidden by a recent edict passed by the aediles.
Pyramid of Cestius and environs by Giuseppe Vasi (18th century).
The sharply pointed shape of the pyramid is strongly reminiscent of the pyramids of Nubia, in particular of the kingdom of Meroë, which had been attacked by Rome in 23 BC. The similarity suggests that Cestius had possibly served in that campaign and perhaps intended the pyramid to serve as a commemoration. His pyramid was not the only one in Rome; a larger one—the so-called "pyramid of Romulus"—of similar form but unknown origins stood between the Vatican and the Mausoleum of Hadrian but was demolished in the 16th century.
Some writers have questioned whether the Roman pyramids were modelled on the much less steeply pointed Egyptian pyramids exemplified by the famous pyramids of Giza. However, the relatively shallow Giza-type pyramids were not exclusively used by the Egyptians; steeper pyramids of the Nubian type were favoured by the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt that had been brought to an end in the Roman conquest of 30 BC. The pyramid was, in any case, built during a period when Rome was going through a fad for all things Egyptian. The Circus Maximus was adorned by Augustus with an Egyptian obelisk, and pyramids were built elsewhere in the Roman Empire around this time; the Falicon pyramid near Nice in France was suspected by some to have been constructed by Roman legionaries who followed an Egyptian cult, but more recent research has indicated that it was actually built between 1803 and 1812.
During the construction of the Aurelian Walls between 271 and 275, the pyramid was incorporated into the walls to form a triangular bastion. It was one of many structures in the city to be reused to form part of the new walls, probably to reduce the cost and enable the structure to be built more quickly. It still forms part of a well-preserved stretch of the walls, a short distance from the Porta San Paolo.
The origins of the pyramid were forgotten during the Middle Ages. The inhabitants of Rome came to believe that it was the tomb of Remus (Meta Remi) and that its counterpart near the Vatican was the tomb of Romulus, a belief recorded by Petrarch. Its true provenance was clarified by Pope Alexander VII's excavations in the 1660s, which cleared the vegetation that had overgrown the pyramid, uncovered the inscriptions on its faces, tunnelled into the tomb's burial chamber and found the bases of two bronze statues that had stood alongside the pyramid.
The pyramid was an essential sight for many who undertook the Grand Tour in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was much admired by architects, becoming the primary model for pyramids built in the West during this period. Percy Bysshe Shelley described it as "one keen pyramid with wedge sublime" in Adonaïs, his 1821 elegy for John Keats. In turn the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy saw the pyramid during a visit to the nearby Protestant Cemetery in 1887 and was inspired to write a poem, Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats, in which he wondered: "Who, then was Cestius, / and what is he to me?"
In 2001, the pyramid's entrance and interior underwent restoration. In 2011, further work was announced to clean and restore the pyramid's badly damaged external walls, through which water seepage has endangered the frescoes within. The €1-million project will be sponsored by Japanese businessman Yuzu Yakhi and supervised by Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
The pyramid is the namesake of the Piramide station of the Rome Metro.
Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius
Back to Europe for a while..
These are some more shots of my Tour to Europe in Sept - Nov 2012. I has been a while since I last saw them.. great to be able to catch up on them at last!
We are travelling from Valencia to Madrid Oct 16, 2012 Spain. We have just reach the city of Cuenca. This shot is of the Cathedral Cuenca.
Cuenca Cathedral was built from 1182 to 1270. The façade was rebuilt after it crumbled down in 1902. It is the first gothic style Cathedral in Spain (together with Avila's one), because of the influence of Alfonso VIII's wife, Eleanor, daughter of the King of England and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, who introduced the Anglo-Norman style.
From that date the cathedral has undergone some changes. An apse-aisle (doble girola) was added in the 15th century, while the Renaissance Esteban Jamete's Arch was erected in the 16th century. The main altar was redesigned during the 18th century by famous architect Ventura RodrÃguez: it features a precious iron-work gate. The façade was rebuilt in 1902 from ruins due to the collapse of the former bell tower, the Giraldo. In the early 1990s modern coloured windows were installed, and in 2006 one of the two old baroque organs from Julián de la Orden was recovered. The other organ has also been restored, and on 4 April 2009 an inauguration ceremony was held.
The naves do not follow exactly a straight line. The San Julián altar, dedicated to Saint Julian of Cuenca, at the apse-aisle, consists of columns made of green marble.
Another curiosity are the "Unum ex septem" signs at some chapels. It is said that if one prays looking at these signs one would obtain a five-year forgiveness for one's sins, and seven years if one prays during the patron saint's day.
The Historic Walled Town of Cuenca was built by the Moors in a defensive position at the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca is an unusually well-preserved medieval fortified city. Conquered by the Castilians in the 12th century, it became a royal town and bishopric endowed with important buildings, such as Spain's first Gothic cathedral, and the famous casas colgadas (hanging houses), suspended from sheer cliffs overlooking the Huécar river. Taking full advantage of its location, the city towers above the magnificent countryside.
For more information on this interesting place: whc.unesco.org/en/list/781
MINI is taking the craze for personalization to extreme lengths with the launch of a six meter long MINI Cooper S limo called the MINI XXL which will make its world premiere in Athens this week.
The six wheel, four door, six-seater stretch MINI Cooper S features the John Cooper Works Tuning Kit and was built by a specialist coach builder in Los Angeles. Fully loaded with all of the toys you would expect to find in a limousine, the MINI XXL comes equipped with a retractable flat screen TV, a DVD player, CD and radio, air conditioning, sunroof, full black leather and a telephone in the rear so that passengers can communicate with the driver. However, the highlight of the MINI XXL is the whirlpool integrated into the rear section of the car. The whirlpool seats two people and is easy to operate. Its detachable roof means that it can be covered when not in use and emptying it is a simple matter of pulling the plug to release the water.
To accommodate the extra body length of the MINI XXL, the car is supported by a third rear axle that has two additional wheels.
Following its stay in Athens the MINI XXL will commence a tour around Europe and parts of Asia where it is set to be the star attraction at various events.
One final look at the side of the completed Dodge's, from Old Goodman Rd. Here's the same view from about six month's prior: flic.kr/p/p5t42r. The back fuel canopy had already been installed back then. Same big front canopy, drastically altered with a notch taken out of the front, and all new concrete and fuel pumps. As stated before, that notch was very likely done to satisfy setback requirements for the newly widened Hwy. 305. Here's another view of the canopy while it was under reconstruction, and it's color still mismatched all the new stuff: flic.kr/p/pVhCrc
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Dodge's Chicken, 2014-15 built, Hwy. 305 at Goodman Rd., Olive Branch MS