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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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'UFO over airport causes speculations'.
Seems they still don't know what it was. The 'UFO' didn't appear on the radars - but was well-visible. Probably made of plastic? Or they test a 'radar-invisble' helicopter? No idea. But if you like unusual things to happen - come to Bremen! It's a nice city anyway. ;)
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View through Poplar trees to the Butterfly Pond & the Compression - Tension Bridge
OTTAWA,- For Mike Blanchfield story- Stephen Harper shuffles his cabinet with speculation that a spring election could be in the cards. Ministers are as follows : Robert Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General. Senator Marjorie LeBreton, Secretary of State(Seniors) & Leader of the Government in The Senate. Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development. Vic Toews, President of Treasury Board. Rona Ambrose, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Western Economic Diversification. Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. John Baird, Minister of Environment, Peter Van Loan, Government House Leader..... Seen here is Helena Guergis who became Sec of State, (Foreign Affirs and International Trade) (Sport) followed by Christian Paradis who became Sec of State (Agriculture)- Photo by Wayne Cuddington, Ottawa Citizen/CanWest News Service. Assignment #81452
Speculation surrounds the fate of the famous Honest Ed's sign, now that the store and adjacent "Mirvish Village" have been sold to Westbank for redevelopment.
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There has been much speculation about whether the church of St Thomas was ever finished, but it is now generally accepted that it was. The ruins of the southwest corner of the nave were shown in a drawing of 1825 (the foundations of the nave were reported in 1850 to have been dug up and sold in 1790 for use in Rye Harbour, but the Harbour closed in 1784) and a tessellated pavement was found in the early 20th century where the nave would have been. The question that then arises is who destroyed the missing nave and ruined the transepts. Conventional wisdom has it that the truncated state of St Thomas’s Church came about because of the French raid of 1360. It has been suggested that the French targeted the church because the English were supporting the Pope in Rome, while the French were supporting the Pope in Avignon. However, a map of 1572 shows that the main tower was still standing. It now seems likely that the lost sections of the church were probably demolished by the church authorities between 1572 and 1597, when a second map shows the church without a tower or nave, to reduce the burden of maintenance on the impoverished parish. The materials would have been sold off. The roof timbers of the transepts were removed only in the 1640's.
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.
A truly fascinating 1772 map of the northwestern parts of North America by Robert de Vaugondy. Essentially depicts the north eastern parts of Asia, speculations on northwestern America and Admiral De Fonte’s mythical conception of a Northwest Passage. Heavily based upon earlier work by Thomas Jefferys, Thomas Swaine Drage, Gerhard Muller, and James De Lisle. Vaugondy prepared this map prior to the voyages of James Cook to this region. Around this time Europe was rampant with speculation both regarding the existence of a Northwest Passage and the northwestern parts of America in general. The discoveries of Admiral de Fonte and Juan de Fuca though now known to be entirely mythical, inspired the European imagination. Barthlomew de Fonte was supposedly a Spanish Admiral who, sailing up the Pacific coast c. 1640 discovered a series of gigantic lakes, seas, and rivers heading eastward towards the Hudson Bay. Supposedly, upon one of these great inland lakes, he met with a ship from Boston that claimed to have come through a Northwestern Passage. De Fonte’s story appeared in a short lived 1706 English publication entitled “Memoirs of the Curious”. The story inspired no less than Joseph-Nicholas de L’Isle, younger brother of the better known Guilleme de L’Isle. Joseph-Nicholas, at the time, was employed by the Russian Tzar Peter the Great in the compilation of Russian surveys and discoveries in Siberia and the extreme northeast of Asia. When he published his somewhat accurate map of northeast Asia, he paradoxically decided to include with it an entirely speculative map of North America based largely on De Fonte’s letter. De L’Isle’s mantle was later taken up by Jefferys, another ardent supporter of the Northwest Passage theory, in his own map of the region, which was, ultimately, the inspiration for this map by Vaugondy. In accord with De Fonte’s suggestions this map displays the strait of Juan de Fuca continuing inland past the large lakes of Velasco, Belle and De Fonte to communicate with the Baffin and Hudson Bay. There are also a series of rivers and waterways connecting the lakes themselves to an outlet in the Arctic. Based upon Russian reports, Vaugondy rename the “Straits of Ainan”, the “Detroit de Bering”, paying homage to the great Russian navigator. Anian itself has been moved southward nearer to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Anian is a term derived from the journals of Marco Polo and first appeared in 1561 on a map by teh Venetian cartographer Bolognini Zaltieri. Later it appeared in a John Donne poem, “Anyan if I go west by the North-West passage.” However, it was interpreted as the Bering Strait by cartographers, successfully transitioning it from the realms of poetry to cartography. Anian presupposed the existence of a Northwest Passage and, as such, was entirely mythical, though the lands that are now Alaska long bore that name. Further south still we find Quivira, one of the legendary northern American Kingdoms of Gold. Nearer to Russia the Aleutian Islands have been consolidated into a large peninsular landmass extending eastward towards Asia. In the extreme north, between 80 and 60 degrees of latitude is an archipelago, presumably discovered by the Japanese, and purportedly inhabited entirely by pigmies. This entire map is in sharp contrast to De L’Isle map of the same region. In an alternative to the Jefferys map, De L’Isle imagined a slightly more distorted picture of the extreme northeast divided into a number of great islands with gigantic Bays and inland seas heading eastward towards Hudson Bay. These two disparate cartographic interpretations of the De Fonte story inspired considerable debate among European intellectual circles until the matter was finally put to rest by the expeditions of James Cook. Nonetheless, this is altogether fascinating map of the Northwest Passage and the American west and a must for any serious collection dedicated to this region.
Speculation about the future of Hornsea Mere was clarified this week with suggestions that the public were no longer able to use facilities firmly squashed
Hornsea Gazette - 12th July 2012
Following international banking over speculation Irish & worldwide property values collapse.
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Charcoal, Metallic paint, Spray Paint, Gloss house paint, Glitter powders & Inks
Large Cave Wall Sized - H:148cm by W:228cm
(Not yet Exhibited - Unsold)
Metallic Inks,Glitter & Gloss paint used in this art make photographing it accurately difficult. When it is exhibited spotlighting or strong side on sunlight could be used to take full advantage of the quality of the picture's surface effects. All these large pictures as with any large pictures are created firstly to be seen large as they are & in the flesh!
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This is from a series I call Documentary Expressionism - Where using source photos collected from real events in the world I make an expression of art with hopefully a respect to that event. During this expression the relative size of characters can grow bigger or smaller & their species may transform & even mix together!
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…
fitc.ca/presentation/fantasy-fact-journey-speculation-inn...
Kirkwall was first mentioned in the Orkneyinga Saga in 1046, when it was recorded as the residence of Rögnvald Brusason, Earl of Orkney, who was killed by his uncle Thorfinn Sigurdsson (aka Thorfinn the Mighty) on the island of Stronsay.
St Magnus Cathedral is the oldest cathedral in Scotland and the most northerly cathedral in the United Kingdom - an example of architecture built when the islands were ruled by the Norse Earls of Orkney.
In 1137 the cathedral was founded by Jarl Rögnvald Kali Kolsson. The church was entrusted to the patronage of Saint Magnus Erlendsson, an uncle of the founder. Before the Reformation, the cathedral belonged to the Archdiocese of Trondheim. After Orkney had become part of the Scottish kingdom, the cathedral was handed over to the burgh of Kirkwall in 1486. During the Reformation worship was reformed in 1560. However, unlike many churches in Scotland, there was no iconoclasm. Today, the cathedral is used by the Church of Scotland.
The oldest parts of the cathedral are the transept, the choir and the east side of the nave. The cathedral was built in a mixture of northwest European, Romanesque-Norman and early Gothic styles. The east side ended in an apse in the 12th century. Only speculation is known about the west building. A double-towered facade is said to have been planned in the 13th century. The most recent parts of the cathedral are in the west.
The memorial of John Rae
John Rae was born in Orphir in 1813. After studying medicine in Edinburgh, he entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company as a doctor. On their behalf, he undertook a research trip in 1846-48 to complete the mapping of Hudson Bay.
He returned to the Arctic as second in command in Sir John Richardson’s search party looking for the lost Franklin Expedition. In 1849 Richardson returned to England while Rae continued to explore the coastline to Wollaston Land by boat with six men. A third Arctic expedition in 1851 saw the first trace of Franklin’s missing ships when Rae found a piece of wood and a part of a flagstaff containing the remnants of cloth. He was awarded the Founder’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1852 for his discoveries of 1846–47 and 1851.
His expedition of 1853-4 saw him make the important discovery that King William Land was an island. His discovery of Rae Strait was the last link in a navigable Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, which was successfully used by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen in 1903-06. Rae also met Inuit who told him that a party of around 40 white men had died of starvation on King William Island, resorting to cannibalism in a final attempt to stay alive. He returned to London with the sad news of the fate of Sir John Franklin and the crews of his two ships, only to enter a storm of controversy.
His report, containing the reports of cannibalism, was issued to The Times by the Admiralty. Lady Franklin rallied support from Charles Dickens who vilified the Inuit as savages and liars in his magazine. Lady Franklin destroyed Rae’s reputation, while erecting a bust in Westminster Abbey proclaiming Franklin as the discoverer of the Northwest Passage.
Rae was finally awarded the £10,000 reward for news of the fate of the Franklin expedition, which he shared with his party.
Returning to Canada in 1856, he worked on surveying the route for a telegraph link from Britain to Canada, via Iceland and Greenland. In 1865 he surveyed the Red River to Victoria for another telegraph link from America to Russia. He retired to Orkney, before moving to London. Rae was a highly respected explorer, his respect of the indigenous peoples of Canada made him many friends there. He died on 22nd July 1893. His body was taken north for burial in the grounds of St Magnus Cathedral
I recently learned of speculation that it was really a pomegranate rather than an apple in the garden of eden. How the heck did that change over the years? (I mean, I know how that happens, but still.)
Just when speculation was soaring, the first glimpse of what they were in store for actually strolled out of the quarantine zone. It was the LA Tim Biskup Dunny...but it wasn't. What is this abomination??
This project is my speculation about presumable existence of parallel universes. The universe is infinite, but there is only limited amount of particles everything is made of. That means, that any combination of limited amount of participles will repeat again. Theory of hyperspace says, that our universe is just one small bubble in the foam full of bubbles.What if somewhere there, in the depth of infinite universe, exists exactly the same version of me?
Or you?
1. pile 'o clarity birds, 2. 32:365 "photographs, which cannot themselves explain anything, are inexhaustible invitations to deduction, speculation, and fantasy." -- susan sontag, 3. 33:365 "the photographer is always trying to colonize new experiences or find new ways to look at familiar subjects - to fight against boredom." - susan sontag, 4. 34:365 "to photograph is to confer importance." - susan sontag, 5. 35:365 "but when we are nostalgic, we take pictures." - susan sontag, 6. 35 (take 2):365 "it would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph." - susan sontag, 7. 36:365 "like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive." - susan sontag, 8. 38:365 "photographing, and thereby redeeming the homely, trite, and humble is also an ingenious means of individual expression." - susan sontag, 9. 37:365 "today everything exists to end in a photograph." - susan sontag, 10. 39:365 "...photography offers instant romanticism about the present." - susan sontag, 11. 40:365 "the lure of photographs, their hold on us, is that they offer at one and the same time a connoisseur's relation to the world and a promiscuous acceptance of the world." - susan sontag, 12. 41:365 "'one of the things i felt i suffered from as a kid,' Arbus wrote, 'was that i never felt adversity." - susan sontag, 13. 42:365 "the proliferation of photographs is ultimately an affirmation of kitsch." - susan sontag, 14. 43:365 "nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs." - susan sontag, 15. 44:365 "photographs, when they get scrofulous, tarnished, stained, cracked, faded still look good; do often look better." - susan sontag, 16. 45:365 "a photograph is only a fragment, and with the passage of time its moorings come unstuck." - susan sontag, 17. 46:365 "the camera's rendering of reality must always hide more than it discloses." - susan sontag, 18. 47:365 "the photograph is a thin slice of space as well as time." - susan sontag, 19. 48:365 "the arbitrariness of photographic evidence indicates that reality is fundamentally unclassifiable." - susan sontag, 20. 49:365 "photographic seeing meant an aptitude for discovering beauty in what everybody sees but neglects as too ordinary." - susan sontag, 21. 50:365 "the camera has the power to catch so-called normal people in such a way as to make them look abnormal." - susan sontag, 22. 51:365 "photographs are, of course, artifacts." - susan sontag, 23. 52:365 "photography has the unappealing reputation of being the most realistic, therefore facile, of the mimetic arts." - susan sontag, 24. 53:365 "certain glories of nature, for example, have been all but abandoned to the indefatigable attentions of amateur camera buffs." - susan sontag, 25. 54:365 "the primitive notion of the efficacy of images presumes that images possess the qualities of real things, but our inclination is to attribute to real things the qualities of an image." - susan sontag, 26. 55:365 "photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art." - susan sontag, 27. 56:365 house hunting in bad weather, 28. 57:365 future blue room, 29. 58:365 "the photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker..." - susan sontag, 30. 59:365 "photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is." - susan sontag
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Following international banking over speculation Irish & worldwide property values collapse.
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Charcoal, Metallic paint, Spray Paint, Gloss house paint, Glitter powders & Inks
Large Cave Wall Sized - H:148cm by W:228cm
(Not yet Exhibited - Unsold)
Metallic Inks,Glitter & Gloss paint used in this art make photographing it accurately difficult. When it is exhibited spotlighting or strong side on sunlight could be used to take full advantage of the quality of the picture's surface effects. All these large pictures as with any large pictures are created firstly to be seen large as they are & in the flesh!
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This is from a series I call Documentary Expressionism - Where using source photos collected from real events in the world I make an expression of art with hopefully a respect to that event. During this expression the relative size of characters can grow bigger or smaller & their species may transform & even mix together!
It is pure speculation that this is a backcross between Catesbey's pitcher plant and yellow pitcher plant. The pitchers most resemble yellow pitcher plants but they are very short and the hoods angle up. The flowers certainly resemble yellow pitcher plants but are very short. On a couple of them, I spotted a red blush.
I visited a one of the nearby yellow pitcher plant sites. The blooms were very tall and the developing pitchers were just as tall. Here is a photo of the fully developed pitchers: www.flickr.com/photos/alan_cressler/14146053312/in/set-72...
Sukumar gave a full stop to all speculations going around on his next with Megastar Chiranjeevi by stating it is just a rumor , though he is a big fan of Megastar and it i dream come true to work with him but as of now he is not having any plans to work with him because of commitments
As per t...
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