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When science fiction films envisage credible futures, is there a bigger role that design studios can play in converting creative speculation to technological innovation? This talk looks at the challenges and real…
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After months of speculation, her majesty has made an appearance upon the common folk.
Isabella young daughter to the mother I befriended at the flea-market I work weekends and who is now about a year and and a half in age.
When this photo was taken, I had not seen her presence in a while. Lo and behold she was walking in tow with her mom and all eyes on the hustle and bustle of the market goings on. Not exactly at the running stage, walked more like the shuffle of an old woman, taking cautious furtive steps with her mother's leg nearby as a safety net. She may not be a real princess in title, but in my eyes she certainly is
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House is open just one day a year. We went along, with what must have been half the county, to have a look
"Hannah Courtoy (1784 - 26 January 1849), born Hannah Peters, was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant John Courtoy in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's Brompton Cemetery has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by Reuters in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine.
"Hannah Courtoy was born Hannah Peters in 1784. She never married but had three daughters, Mary Ann (1801), Elizabeth (1804-1876), and Susannah (1807-1895). In 1830, Susannah married Septimus Holmes Godson, a barrister of Gray's Inn.
"In 1815, Courtoy inherited a fortune from the elderly merchant John Courtoy (born Nicholas Jacquinet in France, 1709) through a Will that was disputed in court.
"Courtoy's distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum of 1854[9] in Brompton Cemetery, where her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Mary Ann are also interred, has been the subject of considerable curiosity ever since a report by Reuters in 1998[10] reported on rumours that it might be or contain a working time machine, a speculation that has been fuelled by various articles written by the musician Stephen Coates of the band The Real Tuesday Weld."
Source: Wikipedia
More on the story of Hannah Courtoy's mausoleum
Independent article on the time machine theory
"Brompton Cemetery is a London cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is managed by The Royal Parks, and is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Established by Act of Parliament and erected in 1839, it opened in 1840 and was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery.
"Consecrated by Charles James Blomfield, the Bishop of London in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. Some 35,000 monuments, from simple headstones to substantial mausolea, mark the resting place of more than 205,000 burials. The site includes large plots for family mausolea, and common graves where coffins are piled deep into the earth, as well as a small columbarium. There is also a secluded Garden of Remembrance at the northern end, for cremated remains. It is also an urban haven for nature.
"By the early years of the 19th century, inner city burial grounds, mostly churchyards, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. In 1837 a decision was made to lay out a new burial ground in Brompton, London. The moving spirit behind the project was the engineer, Stephen Geary, and it was necessary to form a company in order to get parliamentary permission to raise capital for the purpose. Securing the land – some 40 acres – from local landowner, Lord Kensington and the Equitable Gas Light Company, as well as raising the money proved an extended challenge. The cemetery became one of seven large, new cemeteries founded by private companies in the mid-19th century (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') forming a ring around the edge of London."
Source: Wikipedia
After much speculation, the Cloverfield monster has finally been revealed. Pictured here is a behind-the-scenes snapshot taken just moments before the Statue of Liberty has her head smacked clear across Manhattan.
Speculation that the little Citroën C15D van could become a collectable ‘youngtimer’ vehicle has begun to appear in some sections of the French media.
The vans have been part of French rural life since 1984, but the C15D is gradually becoming a rare sight on the roads.
Citroën stopped building the vans in 2006 after selling 1.18 million of them, officially because tools used in the factory in Spain which made them were worn out.
The decision was not popular at the time, and conspiracy theories abounded, including that it was to save face after poor sales of the first Berlingo vans, designed by a committee from scratch to replace the C15.
Others blamed new management at the time, brought in by Peugeot, who, the story goes, decided that modern, anonymous vehicles were the key to success and were embarrassed by the C15D’s distinctive shape.
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall on which they were painted. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of his works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency he created called Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets." An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy. Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.
In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie. The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature. In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.
Other speculations on Banksy's identity include the following:
Robert Del Naja (also known as 3D), a member of the trip hop band Massive Attack, had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band, and was previously identified as a personal friend of Banksy.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In 2022, Billy Gannon, a local councillor in Pembroke Dock was rumoured to be Banksy. He subsequently resigned because the speculation was affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. "I'm being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist," he said. "I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I'm not somebody who doesn't exist? Just how do you do that?"
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
So I've been hearing a lot of rumors about Hollyleaf lately...
That she isn't really dead for one. This one didn't surpise me, every time a character in a book dies the fans will create the most off the wall ways that the character might have survived. It's silly really.
However, there are persistant rumors circulating that not only did Hollyleaf survive the collapsing tunnels, but that she will come back in Omen of the Stars... as an antagonist.
Hollyleaf, or so the fans surmise, will turn evil.
Devil's Teeth around the Moss Mound
In the background are young Willow trees which are part of the Willow Twist installation.
'Landscapes of speculation' explores the role of unbuilt sites as ephemeral landscapes conceived by real estate market. Santiago de Chile, as many latin-american countries, is a fast-paced growing city under a free market economy. The transformation of land into a commodity has imposed the logic of speculation onto traditional city developing processes, leaving purposedly undeveloped lots in between highly demanded areas.
These somewhat invisible spaces are closed to the eyes of the passerby; they are not meant to be experienced in their actual conditions, and as such they exist in a liminal situation between nature and currency, space and metaphor. Under this threshold state, space is subject to - or defended from - social practices that are themselves outcasted from contemporary cities. This has led me to wonder about the value this landscapes have to contemporary culture, as they range from 'archeological registries' of economic pressures over land to highly representational and personal spaces.
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. Active since the 1990s, his satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stenciling technique. His works of political and social commentary have appeared on streets, walls, and bridges throughout the world. His work grew out of the Bristol underground scene, which involved collaborations between artists and musicians. Banksy says that he was inspired by 3D, a graffiti artist and founding member of the musical group Massive Attack.
Banksy displays his art on publicly visible surfaces such as walls and self-built physical prop pieces. He no longer sells photographs or reproductions of his street graffiti, but his public "installations" are regularly resold, often even by removing the wall on which they were painted. Much of his work can be classified as temporary art. A small number of his works are officially, non-publicly, sold through an agency he created called Pest Control. Banksy's documentary film Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film. In 2014, he was awarded Person of the Year at the 2014 Webby Awards.
Banksy's name and identity remain unconfirmed and the subject of speculation. In a 2003 interview with Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, Banksy is described as "white, 28, scruffy casual—jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of The Streets." An ITV News segment of 2003 featured a short interview with someone identified in the reporting as Banksy. Banksy began as an artist at the age of 14, was expelled from school, and served time in prison for petty crime. According to Hattenstone, "anonymity is vital to him because graffiti is illegal". Banksy reportedly lived in Easton, Bristol, during the late 1990s, before moving to London around 2000.
In an interview with the BBC in 2003, which was rediscovered in November 2023, reporter Nigel Wrench asked if Banksy is called Robert Banks; Banksy responded that his forename is Robbie. The Mail on Sunday claimed in 2008 that Banksy is Robin Gunningham, born on 28 July 1974 in Yate, 12 miles (19 km) from Bristol. Several of Gunningham's associates and former schoolmates at Bristol Cathedral School have corroborated this, and, in 2016, a study by researchers at the Queen Mary University of London using geographic profiling found that the incidence of Banksy's works correlated with the known movements of Gunningham. According to The Sunday Times, Gunningham began employing the name Robin Banks, which eventually became Banksy. Two cassette sleeves featuring his art work from 1993, for the Bristol band Mother Samosa, exist with his signature. In June 2017, DJ Goldie referred to Banksy as "Rob" in an interview for a podcast.
Other speculations on Banksy's identity include the following:
Robert Del Naja (also known as 3D), a member of the trip hop band Massive Attack, had been a graffiti artist during the 1980s prior to forming the band, and was previously identified as a personal friend of Banksy.
In 2020, users on Twitter began to speculate that former Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan was Banksy. This was denied by Buchanan's publicist.
In 2022, Billy Gannon, a local councillor in Pembroke Dock was rumoured to be Banksy. He subsequently resigned because the speculation was affecting his ability to carry out the duties of a councillor. "I'm being asked to prove who I am not, and the person that I am not may not exist," he said. "I mean, how am I supposed to prove that I'm not somebody who doesn't exist? Just how do you do that?"
In October 2014, an internet hoax circulated that Banksy had been arrested and his identity revealed.
View from under the Old Railway viaduct which Jencks used after it was removed to make way for the new Rail bridge. He also had a hand in the design of the new bridge.
There is speculation that if Lee had listened to Longstreet before the the 2nd day of fighting at Gettysburg, the war might have ended differently. Longstreet wanted to withdraw and go around the Union Forces and set up a defensive position between the Army of the Potomac and Washington, D.C. Fortunately for the United States, Lee didn't listen.
Taken at Gettysburg National Battlefield.
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While global food prices are rising, pushing the world's poorest people into hunger, bankers are betting on food prices and once again look set to push them even higher.
We're campaigning hard for new laws to regulate food speculation - and the next few weeks will be crucial.
Euro MPs and finance ministers are both about to decide their position on the new rules. The UK government, represented by Chancellor George Osborne, is opposed to strong rules to tackle food speculation.
So we are going to present him with a photo petition to show him just how many people are concerned about the issue.
Stephen Pennells (Manchester World Development Movement (WDM) with Arlene McCarthy MEP presenting her with a petition of 80+ signatures raised at Gatley Festival the previous Sunday in supplement to the national petition of 2099 collected electronically on the national website. We had lobbied her about reform of MfID on Thurs. 5th. July 2012. The bag of "basics" flour with its price inflated 100x to £52- reflects the cost to a purchaser in a developing country when the price is inflated by casino speculation by bankers.
Garden of Worthies
David Hume 1711 - 1776
Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of passions
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
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A barge crew discovered female human remains Wednesday afternoon in the Des Plaines River, prompting speculation that Stacy Peterson or Lisa Stebic may have been found. A source said the remains looked like that of a smallish female wearing underwear, but that DNA testing likely would be required for a positive ID. Relatives of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson said they've been contacted by state police, but the remains are still unidentified.
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Earthshine and the Pleiades
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CAD drawing of Mechaboic scuplture. Finished sculpture will be 110 feet long divided into three sections, Head, Lung, Abdomen. It will move fueling off of trash. Solving our trash and Fuel problems in one go!
After the speculation of oilwells, goldmines and shopping trolly heaven, the truth has been revealed!
From the 'Strabane Chronicle' 26th March 2009;
"For the next week, the Larne based company will be boring holes into the river bed to test the rock base and to gauge just where the pedestrian bridge will go when work does eventually get under way. Whitford have to have their work completed by March 31st when the Strabane fishing season kicks off
Funding has yet to be secured for the bridge, however those within Strabane 2000, co-ordinators of the Bridges Project, remain confident that this will happen in the not too distant future"
Sadly in the same paper there is another report;
"Police in Strabane are appealing for information following damage caused to a tugboat moored on the river close to Meetinghouse Street.
Sometime over the weekend eight windows were broken and a beacon light stolen."
FULL DISCLOSURE: what follows is pure speculation on my part and is not based on any inside knowledge that I have; it is purely educated guesswork. What I will think will happen at ILM/Lucasfilm Animation, specifically where Star Wars is concerned. - Lucasfilm Animation will be re-branded under the Walt Disney Animation banner, and subsequent seasons of The Clone Wars animated show will be produced in Singapore as they are presently. - The hush-hush fairies/rockabilly CG feature that Lucasfilm Animation have been on/off with over the past 6 years will either be shut down or get a quiet DVD release under the Walt Disney banner. - ILM will continue to serve external clients as they always have done, with an increasing reliance on satellite offices around the world in major production centres. - Star Wars VII visual effects will be centered in San Francisco with a small core team, with the majority of the work produced at ILM Singapore and by a network of tightly controlled 3rd-party vendors all over the world.
frightening and delighting tourists and locals alike. Speculation is rampant about some stray canine day of reckoning. Local post modern Nostradamuses claim that the possible joining of the three legged Hieronymus Dog with the fabled Boneless Salvador Dali Cat and the Bubonic Marcel Duchamp Rat would mean the end is finally near. If they band together with the usually solitary Dada Cockroach (the Switzerland of the surrealist world), an absurbist wailing and gnashing of teeth can't be far behind.
The Anti-Cruelty Society has annouced that laws regarding humane treatment of animals still apply to this dog. Mistreatment would not only result in legal action, but could prompt Cerberus to emerge from his post at the Gates of Hell. The tourist board and the Office of the Mayor are working together on a possible three legged race event for the hosting of the Olympics. "If the end is near, what better place for it than in Chicago during the Olympics. If we can get a Riverboat Casino in here by then, prepare for a highly successful, and thoroughly enjoyable end. Free drink tickets will, of course, be provided." Available at the Decameron Beer Tent. Promotional soothsayer wished to remain anonymous.
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House is open just one day a year. We went along, with what must have been half the county, to have a look
Re-enact your own Escher painting