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Church of St Mary , Higher Brixham Devon has solid roughcast walls with some details in exposed, squared and coursed red sandstone & others in limestone, probably from Beer.
This building is probably the third on the site of a Celtic burial ground. It is assumed that Christian Saxons settled here shortly after 926AD
The wooden Saxon church was succeeded by a Norman church 14 feet wide with walls 28 inches thick, the foundations of which were discovered in January 1892 when excavations were made to install hot water pipes.
The actual date of the present building is not recorded, but the pillars are so close in design to those in Totnes church (known to have been in the course of construction in 1432) that many experts feel the 2 churches had the same architect.
It consists of a nave, north & south aisles, north & south transepts, chancel, north and south chancel chapels, three stage west tower & south porch. There is a stair turret at the west end of each aisle with battlemented tops;
The south porch is single-storeyed with diagonal buttresses and battlements. It has a restored pointed-arched limestone doorway with heavily-weathered holy water stoup to its right. Inside are stone seats and a Beer stone star vault springing from corner shafts; centre boss carved with Virgin Mary flanked by angels; further bosses at intersections. 2 carved with animals, the rest with flowers.
Re-roofed by Ashworth in 1867, restored by Tait & Harvey in 1905.
Fixed to south wall of south transept is a stone sundial with rounded top, this filled with a happy gilded face with sun rays instead of hair. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/s8iT5r6vEf
The tower has a clock on each side added in 1931, the one to the west is more ornate of 1740 with names of wardens , W Clarke and L Edwards. The west doorway is of medieval Beer stone, heavily moulded and with pointed arch. The second stage has a statue of the Virgin Mary. North and south faces each have a large blocked window in lowest stage.
Inside the aisled nave is flanked by Beer stone arcades . There are small, pointed-arched, chamfered red sandstone doorways to each of the aisle stair turrets, that to north now blocked.
Ogee-headed Beer stone piscinas in chancel and north transept, both with carved basins and stone shelves; that in chancel has the arms of Bishop Courtenay of Exeter (1478-87).
The north transept (later converted to Churston family pew) has screen of fluted wooden columns removed from former south gallery of 1792;
The early 14c Beer stone font has an octagonal base buttressed by 3 grotesque animals. It is surmounted by a Gothic font cover dated 1908.
Under the tower the original clock mechanism (now out of use) of 1740, with maker's plate of William Stumbels, Totnes.
At either side of chancel, piercing the walls with chancel chapels, are late-medieval stone tombs. That to north has quatrefoil-panelled base and carved ogee canopy with traces of old paint with inscribed top of grey stone, said to be for William Hille, vicar 1464-87. The tomb to the south also has panelled front; panelled interior with vaulted canopy; but no inscription, in place of effigy an early-medieval stone coffin lid. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/626QnZbUQj
The north chancel chapel has 3 ornate 17c monuments to the Upton family of Lupton. In south chancel chapel there is a white marble monument of c1720 to Anne Stucley, in the form of a cartouche with a pair of skulls at the base;
All but the north window of the north transept contain Victorian or early 20c stained glass.
Tom Jolliffe CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/366669
see notes for more details on this body, and i'll have a review up on ph.brhfl.com soon a little review is now ready for reading right here. all in all, this is a pretty impressive camera. it's large by my standards, but small by those of many. for as much functionality is crammed in, i guess it earns its size. fully electronic, no mechanical fallback whatsoever. full range of p,a,s,m exposure modes, buttons for shutter speed selection. no program shift. shutter range from 15" to 1/2000" (plus bulb). decent, though not necessarily complete, readout in finder. shutter fires at 1/1000" until frame one, meaning you probably lose frame zero, odd quirk. feel is pretty solid, but nothing like, say, an mx. shutter sound is rather heavenly. all in all, a pretty sweet camera. the meter switch is really pretty bad on mine, which is a shame.
I figured the (now) dated graphics of Metal Gear Solid would be best represented with a miniland figure. I really want to make others, so hopefully this won't be the last one. I'll at least attempt to make Meryl and Ocelot, and perhaps Otacon.
Reviewing these pictures, I realized that the only solid I’m wearing is my shoes. The sweater, scarf, dress, bag, and even tights are patterned. I’m wearing stripes, leopard spots, paisley, snakeskin, and geometric shapes.
Sweater, H&M. Dress, Muse (gift from a reader). Tights, Target. Booties, Style & Co. Earrings, Claire’s. Scarf, gift from Londyn. Bag, Fossil (gift). Rings, Black Hills Gold and Puzzrollrings.
AI artwork generated with Stable Diffusion AI v1.4
Prompt: "abstract art of a black hole, solid shapes, neotokyo colors, muted colors, geometric, depth of field, tilt shift, film grain, noise, detailed textures "
Seed: 5345452
CFG usually either 7, or 14
Upscaled with Topaz Gigapixel AI:
- Upscale: 2x
- Mode: Standard
- De-noising: 0
- Blur Reduction: 20
- Face recovery: 10
My Workflow:
- Generate hundreds of 10-20 step "rough draft" images in Google Colab
- Grab the seeds of the good-ish ones
- Rerun in Google Colab with 50-100 steps using the seeds
- Send the good images to Gigapixel AI, export with Standard Mode settings
- Finally, send them through Sharpen AI, often with "Too soft - Normal" and 30-70 added grain. This step isn't that crucial, but it does help a tiny bit.
- Post to flikr with JS scripts to automate this description :)
- Probably about 1%-5% of AI generations get posted to Flickr. It depends a lot on the prompt, different prompts run into different issues. Bust portraits tend to be more successful since hands, arms, and legs almost always come out wrong.
Start creating right away with the official Stable Diffusion web UI: beta.dreamstudio.ai/
You get 200 free credits. Alternatively, find a Google Colab to make images at a cheaper rate. My personal one is too personalized to publicly share.
Join the Stable Diffusion community on Discord: discord.gg/stablediffusion
Almost all generations use v1.4 Stable Diffusion. However, a couple anime-related images may instead use the anime-trained Stable Diffusion model, "Waifu Diffusion".
Katrina is my cousin’s 11 year old daughter and this is her quilt. This quilt was more than 2 years in the making, mainly because I could not decide how to finish off the improv block that I made for the front. It all started when Trina told me she would like a quilt “with pink and green and a touch of cyan”.
With those marching orders I used a bunch of Kona Cotton solids (I shied away from prints so the quilt could grow with her and not be too “little girl”) and finally decided to use Essex linen cotton blend to frame the main block with a lot of negative space.
I pieced the back of the quilt by simply using the extra Kona colors from the front put together on the fly. Then came the quilting, after drawing out a couple of options I went with echo straight line quilting in dark pink and even snuck in some light pink and green around the square on the front with pebble quilting inside the block. It was my first time pebble quilting on a large quilt and I ended up with some puckers but after washing it looked great! I finished the quilt off with a printed binding and a hand-stitched tag.
The quilt is a finished 60.5”x67”.
SOLID MTB Maraton - Śrem (15/08/2021)
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From the autumn 2016 trip to Vietnam:
Touchdown brings me ‘round again to find…solid ground. Though I sometimes do feel like a rocket man. Including layovers, this trip to Vietnam consisted of 8 separate flights. The third one brought me to tiny Phu Quoc Island, a tropical island 40 kilometers west of the southern tip of Vietnam (and less than 5 kilometers from Cambodia on the mainland). The island, then, is actually west of the southern tip of Vietnam, and less than an hour flight from Saigon. The flight goes something like this: “Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated as it’s time for take…and now we’re landing.”
There are actually two tropical islands off the southern coast of Vietnam that I would have liked visiting, Phu Quoc being the more appealing of the two. (The other, for those curious, are the Con Dao Islands which actually are south of the mainland…but there doesn’t seem to be daily flights to/from there, which took it out of this trip’s consideration.)
Compared with Thailand, you would probably never think of coming to Vietnam for a tropical island experience – mainly because it’s not developed – and you’d be correct. I can easily name a handful of islands in Thailand (or Malaysia) that I would prefer to visit from an island standpoint.
However, that’s not to say that I was disappointed by Phu Quoc. On the contrary, I love the island. I found myself thinking, many times, “If I were an investor interested in developing a tourist resort, this would almost be at the top of my list.” (So, any investors reading this…feel free to take a slightly closer look at this island.)
It’s an easily accessible island with many daily flights to Saigon, and also flights to Hanoi. It claims to be an international airport, so I assume there are flights from Cambodia, as well, though I can’t say for certain. I can only say…it’s easy to get here.
Once you get here, you’ll find Vietnam’s largest island (though not large in comparison with many others). It’s 50 kilometers from north to south and 25 kilometers at its widest. It’s triangular in shape and, poetically speaking, can be said to look like a tear drop. Located in the Gulf of Thailand, the island also includes smaller neighboring islands as well.
Phu Quoc has slightly over 100,000 full-time residents, mostly living in Duong Dong, the island’s main town on the midpoint of the west coast of the island. Other than tourism, the economy here is driven, obviously, by the sea. Fishing, seafood, and so on are the staple here. Phu Quoc is the producer of the most famous fish sauce coming out of Vietnam. (Phu Quoc’s fish sauce can be found on grocery store shelves around the world.)
It’s also an island of hills. Our tour guide claimed that Phu Quoc has 99 mountains and, while I can’t (or won’t) dispute that, it struck me as a curious claim. There are hilly parts, though, and they include two waterfalls, one of which we visited on a day trip.
I mention that Phu Quoc struck me as being somewhat underdeveloped. I’ll elaborate by saying that they have a solid foundation – lots of restaurants (catered to foreigners; western food, pizza joints, etc., in addition to local/Vietnamese cuisine) – and hotels ranging from budget to top end. The basic utilities on the island (electricity, internet, etc.) are also completely stable and reliable. Where they could develop more is in the following: infrastructure and the actual amenities of tourism.
The roads weren’t shoddy, by many standards, though there’s still a lot of room for development. Once this is improved, it’ll make getting around more comfortable for anyone who wants to be completely insulated from “natural.”
The other thing that struck us as a little odd is that there doesn’t seem to be much going on at night (unless you’re a fisherman). It’s still a very quiet island and there weren’t many options for bars, clubs, live music, for example. (This is a huge difference between here and, say, Koh Chang in Thailand; the only other nearby island I have for comparison.) There aren’t convenience stores here that are open 24 hours a day and they don’t have much to offer after dark…besides the Night Market. Perhaps that’s the way they want to keep it, but there’s certainly potential here.
During the daytime, though, there’s plenty for tourists. As a photographer not equipped with waterproof gear, I was much more limited, but for the typical tourist you have options of fishing, diving, snorkeling, and swimming. The beaches were, in my opinion, a little dirty, but there are others on the island that are better, I think. (All in all, it would be nice to see things cleaned up a bit…)
In addition to water pursuits, there’s Phu Quoc National Park (that we didn’t visit; apparently better other times of the year) and – though the crux of the economy is tied to the sea – there are also other aspects of the economy that they represent well: pearl farms, pepper farms, cashew plantations, fish sauce factories, and local wine (wine aficionados, don’t get your hopes up).
For the land-loving folks, this is far from a crowded island. There are a number of beaches, the national park in the northern part of the island, and a few small waterfalls (one a classic, the other more of a rapids where you can swim). In short, there’s not a lack of things to do during the day.
With the long-winded generalities about the island out of the way, time to carry on with our experience. We took an early flight out of Saigon, around 9 or 10 o’clock. Flying into the airport, in the heart of the island (on the south side), my first impressions were “green” and “hilly.”
Naturally, it’s a small airport – everything here is small – which made it easy to get our things and be on our way to the hotel. I paid about $5 for the ride into Duong Dong. Our hotel, the Sea Breeze, had very friendly staff. (I can actually say that about every hotel we stayed at, with the New Moon in Danang being the least friendly…and they weren’t bad by any means at all.)
Anyway, the Sea Breeze was a fine place to sleep, though the Cat Huy was slightly nicer. But, for three nights, this hotel was perfect. Comfortable bed…and they did same day laundry service. I don’t remember the cost, but it was probably between $20-30 USD/night.
The hotel wasn’t one that had a restaurant or breakfast included (Saigon, Hoi An, Hue, and Hanoi all did), but there was a restaurant attached and a few feet away. I had breakfast there two of the three mornings and, while not the best western breakfast I’ve had, the staff were exceptionally friendly. I think that’s a Vietnamese quality…be really cordial to folks.
We had most of Friday on the island, plus the entire weekend, with a Monday morning flight to Danang (via Saigon) around 10:00 in the morning. Friday, then, was a completely unplanned day. So we spent Friday toddling around Duong Dong.
The first place we went (besides the hotel, obviously), was to find something to eat. We ended up going with was a decidedly non-Vietnamese restaurant named Buddy’s, walking there via the Night Market street. For me, I loved ‘em because they had milkshakes with real ice cream. Didn’t matter what else they had. That was enough to get me to go back 2-3 times.
After lunch and sitting around Buddy’s for a while, we walked across the street and followed the river out to its mouth in the Gulf of Thailand. (The river is why the main town was built at this spot.)
At the river’s head is a curiously named spot called Dinh Cau Castle. There is nothing about this place that shouts out “castle” if you were to just chance upon it. It’s actually a combination lighthouse-temple. The temple aspect is just a small room with a statue dedicated to the Goddess of the Sea. The lighthouse, obviously, has its practical purposes. It’s more a light station, though; there’s no house for a keeper.
However, this was a very enjoyable spot (much nicer than the Thien Hau “Pagoda” in Saigon) and would end up being the spot where we watched the sunset on Friday and Saturday. The lighthouse-station-temple was built in 1937. There are a few tables benches on an upper platform to sit and enjoy the view of the sea (or the river mouth with its fishing fleet behind you) and there’s also a jetty going out into the sea that gives some nice perspectives. I can only say that I was surprisingly pleased with both Friday and Saturday’s sunsets.
Staying at Dinh Cau well past sunset, we strolled back towards the Sea Breeze via the Night Market, which is rather clean as far as Asian markets go. (I mention this to contrast it with Phu Quoc’s Day Market, mentioned below.)
Before getting back to the hotel, we stopped at the recently (2015) established Crab House (Nha Ghe Phu Quoc) on the main road at the south end of the market. The owner was – as all seem to be – very friendly and talkative. I was curious to know why the interior had banners from a handful of SEC schools (US folks will know what this is) along with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Turns out, the guy used to live in Muskegon, Michigan, which isn’t terribly far from where I was born (and a town I’ll be passing near in about 3-4 weeks’ time).
Junebug & I split the Crab House battered garlic pepper fries (65,000 VND); miniature crab cakes with sweet mango coulis (175,000 VND); and com ghe: hot, steamy jasmine rice with fresh, sweet crab meat, julienne cucumber, and nuoc mam cay (Phu Quoc fish sauce) for 175,000 VND. Add in two cans of Sprite at 20,000 VND a pop and that’s a happy stomach. (The exchange rate, while we were there, was around 21,000-22,000 VND to the US dollar, so we’re looking at…$20-25 for a fresh seafood dinner for two.) With a thoroughly happy stomach, it was time to call it a night, even though it was barely 8:00.
Saturday brought with it another day trip with a small group. This was similar to the Saigon trip with Bao in terms of time and what we did, though I think Bao was a better guide than the girl here. She seemed disinterested half the time, though was never rude or mean, per se. Anyway, at $11/person, it wasn’t a bad way to spend the day.
Since the one part of this tour I was looking forward to most was a waterfall, I was grateful that it was overcast almost the entire day. For parts of it, rain was pretty heavy. (It even made me mildly – albeit very mildly concerned about the flight out on Monday as it was the first of two for the day.)
First up, though, was a pearl farm where I found it interesting to see them pulling pearls out of oysters. That thrill lasted for about a minute or two. However, we were scheduled to be here for close to an hour. (They were hoping that people would buy pearl jewelry.) Given that we were in a fairly heavy rain, I was surprised that there were so many people here. It made me think the entire day would be like this with overcrowded spots. (Forunately, that didn’t come to pass.)
With no interest in buying jewelry, I spent the hour on the back patio looking out at the very rough and stormy sea, and a few of these shots are from there. Finally ready to go, we were waiting on two Vietnamese women from the group (a recurring theme for the day) before we headed off to the next stop: a pepper farm.
To call it a pepper farm would be to stretch one’s imagination to its utmost. It was about 5 rows of pepper trees with each row being no more than 10 meters long. (I’d like to hope this is just the “sample” section they show us dopey tourists.) Much more attractive was the attached shop where they hoped you’d buy pepper. This time around, I pulled out my wallet. There’s one of us born every minute, you know. I bought four separate jars of pepper, one of which wasn’t a powder (and was subsequently confiscated in Guangzhou as I rarely check luggage and this trip was no exception). At about a dollar a jar, it wasn’t a bad deal.
From the pepper farm we were off to the wine shop. This tour was beginning to feel like just going from one spot to another to buy local goods. This wasn’t grape wine, but was a berry wine and was, for the most part very sweet. Don’t think port or sherry, though. It wasn’t quite that sweet, but it was close. Certainly not bad, but also something I could’ve done without. However, they seemed proud of their wine, and I don’t blame them. (It’s better than most of what I had in Korea.) Once again being held up by the Vietnamese ladies, we finally all settled back into the van and went off to Suoi Tranh.
The waterfall was actually much nicer than I expected. Apparently, half the year, it’s dry, so it worked out well that we came at the end of the rainy season. The fall is a classic cascade in a very nice, wooded setting. (Even if it were sunny, it probably would’ve photographed rather well because it had enough cover to give it shade.) We were given 45 minutes to walk the 600 meters up to the falls and back, which meant a bit of a rush for me, but…fortunately, the Vietnamese ladies were even slower than I was.
The creek leading up to the falls had some nice rapids, too, but it also had some unfortunate eyesores: a manmade fall at the entrance (why would you need that when you have the real thing a few minutes away?) and, worse, some fake animal statuary. Count my lucky stars, but these all disappeared after the first 100-200 meters, and you were left with a tasteful and well-made natural path leading up to the falls.
After this – it was around 12:00 or 12:30 by this point – we hopped in the van and headed to Sao Beach at the southern tip of the island. To get here required driving down a very bumpy road for a few minutes at the end. (As I said…they can still do a little infrastructure work here unless one of the unstated tourist goals is to make people feel like they’re bouncing around in a bag of popcorn.)
The beach was…pleasant, I guess I can say. It wasn’t a large beach. In length, it covered a small cove, so it had a nice setting. It also isn’t a wide beach; only about 30 meters from the restaurant to the water, and maybe even less than 20 meters. I saw a little too much trash around which disheartened me, though we aren’t talking dirty to levels that I’m accustomed to seeing in China. I didn’t go swimming, and the lunch at the restaurant here – though Vietnamese – was among the most unimpressive meals we had in the entire two weeks here. The best part of the time at the beach is that the weather cleared up from overcast and rainy to mostly cloudy. So it wasn’t crowded here, nor was it raining.
We left the beach at 2:00 and drove to a nearby fish sauce factory. This was a lot like the pearl farm, pepper farm, and wine shop. “We make this here. Please buy it.” Of the four of these places, the pearl farm is the only one who actually had some kind of “demonstration,” and that lasted about a minute.
If it seems I’m being critical of the roped in commercialism of these types of tours, perhaps I am a little jaded. The spots in and of themselves are actually quite interesting and I just accept this as an unnecessary evil. They need to survive somehow, and for that, I guess I’m grateful that they do this. Back to the actual tour, the fish sauce factory was quick and interesting. (Though I don’t like seafood that much, I do like fish sauce to add flavor.)
The last “scheduled” stop was Nha Tu Phu Quoc – Coconut Tree Prison – right across the street. This isn’t a place that I would otherwise go out of my way to visit, though in conjunction with the beach and the fish sauce factory, it was perfect. (Individually, none of the three spots amazed me, but as a whole, they were quite pleasing.)
The prison was built by the French in the 1940s and this was one of the ARVN’s POW camps during the Vietnam War. Apparently, prisoner treatment here was quite inhumane, as detailed by the signs around the barracks. The recreations of people, though, aren’t the most lifelike I’ve ever seen and seem kind of cheap. There aren’t any period photographs, so there’s a little “oomph” missing here, but it’s still a good effort all around.
Our last stop before being dropped off back in Duong Dong was at Ham Ninh, a small fishing village on the east coast of the island (almost directly across the island from Duong Dong. We didn’t do anything here except have 15-20 minutes to walk to the end of the pier and come back. As uneventful as that may sound, I enjoyed it a lot because the surrounding scenery and seeing the fishing fleet up close (along with a lot of small floating restaurants) made it unique and worthwhile to me.
When we got dropped off, we went right back to Buddy’s and repeated the same thing from Friday night (minus eating at the Crab House). I can’t recall what we ate for dinner on Saturday night and perhaps we didn’t. Lunch at Buddy’s was late enough that I doubt we were terribly hungry by evening except for some snacks.
The only difference between Friday & Saturday was my positioning to photograph the sunset. Friday night was from up near the lighthouse, and Saturday was a little ways out on the jetty. Skies were equally moody both nights.
I’m easy like Sunday morning. No rush to wake up since there was absolutely nothing whatsoever on the agenda. Brunch, around 9:00 or 10:00, after stopping by the post office to send off some postcards, was at Buddy’s. From there, we crossed the river to the day market and spent about an hour or so wandering up and down the street photographing a variety of things.
Going back to the west side of the river, we spent a little while at Dinh Cau, but decided not to watch the sunset there for the third night in a row. We had a late (and small) lunch of a wood-fired pizza, which was surprisingly delicious – so much so that I considered going back for dinner.
Instead, we went to one of the few access points for Long Beach (the beach nearest the hotel) to watch the least spectacular of the three sunsets in my opinion. Sunday night’s was cloudier than Friday and Saturday’s. However, there are still some interesting pictures. It’s just the most muted of the three, by far, and there’s simply less to work with.
After sundown, we walked the few hundred meters north up the main road, passing the Sea Breeze, and stopped at a local restaurant. (I suggested it not because it was local, but because they proudly talked of the ice cream that they have.) The food was not terribly great. I had fish and chips that didn’t have enough tartar and was a bit bland. I also ordered some smoked cheese that, when they brought it, they didn’t say what it was and, since it looked more like noodles than cheese, didn’t eat it. The ice cream, however, was sorbet, and it was wonderful.
All in all, Phu Quoc was about as good as I wished it would be, and I was lucky enough to have three reasonably good sunsets and decent weather for the weekend. Also, the waterfall was actually nicer than I had expected, we ate well (for the most part), and it was a relaxing weekend. Not a bad way to spend life.
After breakfast Monday morning, we grabbed our bags and headed to the airport at 9:00 for the first of two flights on the day.
As always, thanks for dropping by and viewing these pictures. Please feel free to leave any questions or comments and I’ll answer as I have time.
Un solido archimedeo è un poliedro convesso le cui facce sono costituite da due o più tipi di poligoni regolari e i cui vertici sono omogenei. Quelli della foto, costruiti con le palline magnetiche del tetramag, sono due esempi di cubottaedro, le cui facce sono appunto quadrati e triangoli equilateri.
No, my photographic interests are not solely focused on Romanesque churches! True, I am intent on building a solid photographic collection of them, but I also occasionally enjoy walking through a cute village or town, and doing “my kind” of street photography, which does not mean so much taking snaps of people on the streets as taking “cityscapes”, as they call them —or rather “villagescapes”, in this case!
Beuvron-en-Auge is such a well-preserved Norman village that it has been listed among the Plus beaux villages de France. Therefore, it can be over-touristed during the Summer months, but on a late afternoon in September, one feels safer that the streets will not be too packed with the latest busloads...
The uncertain weather that day (typically Norman, one would say!) made me feel like doing black-and-white, although I kept the occasional color photograph, and one or two duos as I couldn’t bring myself to decide which version was the best. Do chip in if you feel like it.
A rain hat is always a good precaution in Normandy...!
Solids
11 juillet 2014
Le Cercle, dans le cadre des spectacles en salle présentés par Groupe Voyages Québec
(Crédit: Sébastien Dion)
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solar solider heads move as they want, bend with the wind and sun...
this is very cool to see and I wish it were much larger... I went here much later in the evening and I wondered for a long time about how we spend our money.... this is not a all far form the white house --wish the pres would stop by here...
many people walked by and wondered "what is she taking pictures of?"
Arlington County Presents Innovative Solar-Powered Art
June 7 - September 1, 2007
CO2LED is designed to promote the use of alternative energy sources and recycling, as part of Arlington's environmental initiative, FreshAIRE (Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions). At each site, the artists will erect hundreds of solar-powered LEDs (light-emitting diodes) secured to rods topped with reused plastic bottles. They will create a soft, undulating cloud of light
For more information got to www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural_affairs/publicart.htm
I think it's solid. This part of the photowalk is pretty much a blur after the two-hour nap, six-hour drive, and all the rest of the excitement preceding the Proton Assembly Building. I'm pretty sure I dozed off while leaning up against a wall at this site.
As a result, I completely forgot what this setup does. I do, however, remember that it looked really cool.
Hopefully this conveys the colors I like! I like that all of these are quite bright, but have a nice balance of white/cream.
Feel free to swap out the solids. I only have an old Kona card in easy reach, so that's what I used to pick the solids. I trust your judgement though!
1. RAEWADOLLY Tiny Mini Small Buttons 6mm, 2-hole, 2. EggCratePinnies, 3. accordian paper flowers, 4. from Helinaq, 5. 10 Lovely Tea Roses - Progress, 6. Kaleidoscope Quilt, 7. HST star for Summer Sampler quilt, 8. Patchwork Squares, 9. potholders, 10. personalized frame pouches, 11. Spiderweb quilt - so far., 12. Tyson's Quilt13. Not available14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
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68% Polyester. 32% Rayon.Regular Fit.Sharkskin Fabrication.Two Button Front.Traditional Fully Lined Through Body and Sleeve.Structured Jacket Construction.Double Besom Pockets with Flap.Dry Clean Recommended.Pair with Suit Pant 42MB4304
www.appareljar.com/item/890/perry-ellis-solid-suit-jacket/.
68% Polyester. 32% Rayon.Regular Fit.Sharkskin Fabrication.Two Button Front.Traditional Fully Lined Through Body and Sleeve.Structured Jacket Construction.Double Besom Pockets with Flap.Dry Clean Recommended.Pair with Suit Pant 42MB4304
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Flow is an established lifestyle concept company that bridges the gap between raw nature and modern living. We allow nature to guide our hands, not only to inspire but also to dictate our creative process, making our tables a culmination of both natural beauty and human artistry.
Our direction in furniture design is a channel for exposing the miracle and beauty of the natural\ world by producing uniquely organic functional art. When sourcing for wood slabs we hand select and evaluate each individual piece by it's size, natural shape, thickness, color, characteristics of the grain, texture, figure and structural integrity. We look for slabs which have the most beautiful grain and natural characteristics because we feel that it's nature's art that can be seen and enjoyed everyday.
Lead Time:
Our lead time is 4 to 6 weeks (depending on the weather) to create your table which I will keep you involved and updated from start to finish of your table creations by emails and photos. We feel that we are working together with you bringing to life your timeless table. We are very passionate in each table we create and want to share each step of this passion with you.
Shipping:
We work with a shipping company and ship our tables worldwide by sea freight. We oversee and control the packing and shipping steps for your table which will include professional packing, flat pack crating for your table top and legs, transport and loading onto the vessel in Bangkok, all documentation and full Insurance for your table to your designated port which during it's sea transport you will have a tracking code to follow it's location at all time.
To see custom tables and projects we completed in the past at www.flowbkk.com We customize each of our tables so please contact me at flow.with.tino@gmail.com and let me know your specific in sizes, finishing and leg type you are interested in for your dream table. I am able to ship worldwide, please let me also know the closest shipping port to your location and I will provide you with a shipping quote.
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68% Polyester. 32% Rayon.Regular Fit.Sharkskin Fabrication.Two Button Front.Traditional Fully Lined Through Body and Sleeve.Structured Jacket Construction.Double Besom Pockets with Flap.Dry Clean Recommended.Pair with Suit Pant 42MB4304
Featuring flattering mesh and solid panels in just the right places, our Shaper Legging will enhance your curves. Slimming lines for your legs, your waist and your behind.
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Dendritic crystalline copper from the Precambrian of Michigan, USA. (SMM JTR 1739, Seaman Mineral Museum, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA)
A mineral is a naturally-occurring, solid, inorganic, crystalline substance having a fairly definite chemical composition and having fairly definite physical properties. At its simplest, a mineral is a naturally-occurring solid chemical. Currently, there are about 5400 named and described minerals - about 200 of them are common and about 20 of them are very common. Mineral classification is based on anion chemistry. Major categories of minerals are: elements, sulfides, oxides, halides, carbonates, sulfates, phosphates, and silicates.
Elements are fundamental substances of matter - matter that is composed of the same types of atoms. At present, 118 elements are known (four of them are still unnamed). Of these, 98 occur naturally on Earth (hydrogen to californium). Most of these occur in rocks & minerals, although some occur in very small, trace amounts. Only some elements occur in their native elemental state as minerals.
To find a native element in nature, it must be relatively non-reactive and there must be some concentration process. Metallic, semimetallic (metalloid), and nonmetallic elements are known in their native state as minerals.
Copper is the only metallic element that has a "reddish" color - it’s actually a metallic orange color. Most metallic elements, apart from gold & copper, are silvery-gray colored. Copper tends to form sharp-edged, irregular, twisted masses of moderately high density. It is moderately soft, but is extremely difficult to break. It has no cleavage and has a distinctive hackly fracture.
The dendritic crystalline copper specimen shown above comes from northern Michigan's Portage Lake Volcanic Series, an extremely thick, Precambrian-aged, flood-basalt deposit that fills up an ancient continental rift valley. This rift valley, analogous to the present-day East African Rift Valley, extends from Kansas to Minnesota to the Lake Superior area to southern Michigan. Unlike many flood basalts (e.g., Deccan Traps, Siberian Traps, Columbia River), the Portage Lake only filled up the rift valley. The unit is exposed throughout Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, in the vicinity of the towns of Houghton & Hancock.
The Portage Lake succession thickens northward through the Keweenaw, up to >5.5 km worth of section in places. The dominant rock type is basalt - vesicular basalts, for the most part. Most of the original vesicles (gas bubbles) have since been filled up with a wide variety of different minerals. A vesicular basalt that has had its vesicles filled up with minerals is called an amygdaloidal basalt (try saying that five times quickly). Keweenaw amygdaloidal basalts have long had significant economic importance because native copper (Cu) is one of the more common vesicle-filling and fracture-filling minerals. Native silver (Ag) is sometimes closely associated with copper. Copper and silver mineralization occurred during the late Mesoproterozoic, at 1.05 to 1.06 billion years ago. The Portage Lake host rocks are 1.093 to 1.097 billion years old.
Locality: Minesota Mine (a.k.a. Minnesota Mine), Rockland, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA
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Den of Imagination - Your Miniature Painting Service
We are a registered studio in Torun, Poland. We have been in line of work since 2008. Our still growing staff of painters and sculptors is ready to work on any project you can imagine!
We are credible, solid and reliable. We work best with large commissions and we guarantee fast service.
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Want these shells to become your very own TreeHouse drumset?
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Just a reminder that the second Sew Solid Sunday is on Feb 9 and we are having a linky party! So write a blog post about your recent solid projects and get ready to link away.
AC_CORTEN restructuring project, energy requalification and functional of a building from early '900 Tuscany; Designed by LAD studio / AC_CORTEN progetto di ristrutturazione, riqualificazione energetica e funzionale di un organismo edilizio dei primi del '900 Toscano; Progettato da LAD studio
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Sfioravo il Corten con lo sguardo e non riuscivo a comprendere da quanto tempo la sua presenza avesse modificato il luogo. Prima di allora non mi ero accorto di nulla... adesso lo sento, percepisco la sua presenza, la sua materia mi sussurra una storia che scivola tra le inquiete tonalità della patina di ossidazione e si estende lungo tutta la ruvida superficie. Incredulo e confuso interrogo le mie inconsapevoli percezioni ...Appare allo sguardo come se da sempre fosse stato presente, prima dell'edificio, quando tutt'attorno era solo Natura. In realtà, solo da pochi mesi abbraccia, profondamente ancorato, la bianca struttura intonacata in conglomerato di calcestruzzo armato.
Mi avvicino e bisbigliando comincio a dialogare... da prima, con lo sguardo; la scabra patina, rivela un'infinita gamma tonale, che nelle mutanti sfumature, anima nel tempo e nella percezione l'essenza composita della sua lega [Carbonio ≤ 0.12% / Manganese = 0.20 - 0.50 % / Fosforo 0.07 - 0.15% / Zolfo ≤ 0.035 / Silicio 0.25 - 0.75% / Rame 0.25 - 0.55% / Cromo 0.30 - 1.25% / Nichel ≤ 0.65]; Osservo scendere, lungo il candido intonaco, calde lacrime di colore che contaminano l'estensione materica, trasformandola, in viva tela abilmente dipinta.
Adesso il tatto... la mano si distende e lambisce la nuda superficie, che sincera rivela la sua genuina natura. Percepisco la forza, che si sprigiona nelle essenziali forme, forgiate dal sogno del progettista e si propaga orizzontalmente nello spazio, sfidando con estrema semplicità le regole che la sprezzante fisica impone.
.di Siro Tolomei (dedicato al “Corten”, alla Sincerità e a coloro che riescono ad Afferrare il Sogno)
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Some information on weathering steels / Alcune informazioni sull'Acciaio Corten:
Questo particolare acciaio, fu brevettato dalla United States Steel Corporation (U.S.S.) nel 1933,
notevolmente affermato e diffuso non solo in America, dove attualmente viene utilizzato su vastissima scala, ma anche in Europa e in altri Paesi. Il segreto del grande successo raggiunto dal COR-TEN è insito nelle due principali caratteristiche, che lo contraddistinguono: l'elevata resistenza alla corrosione “CORrosion resistance” e l'elevata resistenza meccanica “TENsile strength”, dalle quali prende anche lessicalmente il nome.
La caratteristica più evidente, che fa subito riconoscere l'acciaio Corten è la patina uniforme e resistente, costituita dagli ossidi dei suoi elementi in lega, che si crea durante l'esposizione alle diverse condizioni atmosferiche; Questa impedisce il progressivo estendersi della corrosione, creando la particolare e inconfondibile colorazione “ruggine”.
In relazione all'utilizzo e alla composizione chimica esistono tre tipologie di Corten:
Corten A “al fosforo” caratterizzato da un elevata resistenza all'attacco degli agenti atmosferici da cinque a otto volte superiore a quella di un comune acciaio al carbonio;
particolarmente idoneo per applicazioni Architettoniche, viene normalmente prodotto fino a spessori di 12.5 mm.
Corten B “al vanadio” di minore resistenza alla corrosione atmosferica, solo quattro volte superiore a quella di un comune acciaio al carbonio; ma con elevate caratteristiche meccaniche anche in forti spessori, 100mm.
Corten C di recente concezione, presenta la stessa resistenza alla corrosione atmosferica del (B) ma con caratteristiche meccaniche decisamente superiori; viene normalmente prodotto fino a spessori di 25.5mm.
Manufacturer: Gecco.
Artists: Akao Masaki (Sculptor), Akeyama Katsushige (Color producer), Tanabe Shin (Sculptor).