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There's a lot of good graffiti, particularly on the pavements, around the beach suburbs of Wollongong. I'm a fan.
Sam
Stomp
Sapphire Lounge
COMO USA
May 11, 2005
I`m a total sucker for a guy in a skirt, I mean kilt. ;) It`s not everyday that a gorgeous man walks across Broadway wearing a kilt. Well, I HAD to say something to him, didn`t I?
The pissed off giant stomped throughout the city streets angrily yelling profanities at the terrified little citizens who scrambled to get out of his way. He swore that someone in town stole his lighter and if it didn’t turn up in 10 minutes he was going to ‘tear this piece of shit town apart’ with his bare hands. As the deadline approached the nervous citizens gazed on as the giant reached behind his greasy ear and produced the lighter. “My bad” said the giant.
Grape stomp at the Julian, Calif. Grape Stomp wine festival. This is an example of using flash during the day time in full sun. I used a Canon 420EX, dialed back a few stops to just add some definition to the legs, which would have been too dark otherwise, in my view. The flash also gave some additional highlights to the grapes and liquid.
That's how my shoe soles look like.
The picture taken for the dailyshoot assignment #452: Change your point of view. Make a photograph from an unusual point of view today.
Day 41/365 10/2/2011
Try not to get under the bronze kids in the mosh pit. They're totally hardcore even though they're hollow.
I added some blood detail to the 'fig, so I thought it appropriate to show how the blood got all over his boot.
This was supposed to be a kick, but the Lux's corset was a bit too restricting for her to get her leg all the way up. Instead we're left wondering what faceless bug is about to meet its demise at the boot of our femme fatale.
Note to self: Remember to shoot the bottom foot unless you want people to think the model has a peg leg.
Model: LuxBot Lächeln
Makeup: LuxBot Lächeln
The second of two MOCs for Christmas! Here we have a porky, stompy villain. He's slow, but most certainly dangerous.
The stomper is a hardsuit for high-gravity environments. On the right we have a RollBot science and exploration robot.
So i had to work on an advert yesterday on the eurostar with a 4 hour stop turnaround in Belgium. But someone had to stay behind and wait for a load of unused kit to be picked up, and that was me. so i didn;t get to go ;-(
instead i phoned alison and my sister and we had a fun day out in london. it was great, i felt like ferris bueller! but near the end of the day i realsied i hadn't done a 365 and didn;t want to wait until i got home, as i wanted to do something different, and looking around whilst the girls went into a bead shop (why?) i saw the stage doors to stomp and bingo an idea. so a big hi to the brighton boys done good!
D200, Nikkor 18-200, mini tripod, SB-600 on floor 1/4 power, sibling remote, some scrap wood that was lying around, me jumping and loads of office workers having fags watching me, thinking what a weirdo!
Stomping...I came across these boots today while out shopping for something else.
I had to have them :O) I will be leaving heart imprints everywhere now.......smiling everyone who knows me and 'hearts'
Until a few years ago, I never knew that the Virgin Mary was often depicted with her foot on the snake - now that I've seen it, I see it quite often -
catholicjules.net/2010/09/02/statue-of-mary-stepping-on-a...
In the Book of Genesis 3:15 God speaks to the serpent after the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed; He shall crush your head and you shall lie in wait for his heel.” This is a correct translation of the original Hebrew text and the traditional text of the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament. But two ancient translations, the Latin Vulgate (revised by St. Jerome) and the ancient Coptic version (Coptic is the Egyptian language used prior to the Arab Muslim invasions), read, “She shall crush your head.” But current editions of the Bible in modern languages, translations from the original languages, all follow the translation “He shall crush.”
Now, in order to understand why Our Lady is depicted crushing the serpent, you need to know that the whole of Christian tradition in any language of East or West interprets that passage as a prophecy of the coming of the Messiah or Savior, Jesus Christ, the “seed of the woman.” He is the Second or New Adam, and His Mother Mary, because she was completely free from sin, both original and actual, is the new Eve, the only woman who has a perfect enmity with the devil. This passage, sometimes referred to as the Protoevangelium (Greek = “first Gospel”) is the first announcement of the Good News of Salvation after the Bad News of Sin and Death. Many popes, including the Pope John Paul II, have repeatedly interpreted this passage in a prophetic sense, referring to Christ and Mary.
Some Scripture scholars deny that this passage refers to Jesus or Mary. They see the literal sense of this verse only as a popular folk tale, written as a way to explain why humans are afraid of snakes!
Naturally in the Latin tradition, because of the translation “she shall crush,” the passage has had a more vivid Marian meaning. That’s where the tradition of depicting Mary crushing the head of the serpent arose. But it’s a very apt and theologically precise image, nonetheless, since it’s a perfect image of her Immaculate Conception, her lifelong immunity from sin, won for her by Christ’s saving passion and death on the cross (cf. Luke 1:47). This is one reason why the new liturgy of the Roman Rite, promulgated at Vatican II, retains the reading “she will crush your head.” It is part of the antiphon (a short thematic verse) used for Mass on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. It’s part of the Church’s tradition, a witness to the Blessed Virgin Mary’s special role in her Divine Son’s plan of salvation.
(Question Answered by FR. HUGH BARBOUR, O.PRAEM)
www.templeofthesacredfeminine.com/articles/article_36.html
Who is Snake? For the patriarchy, snake has been associated with Eve, and both have been the symbols of evil and the “Fall of Man.” Eve was identified with the Snake by the “church fathers,” and they both have received the fearful projections of all that isn't known or understood about the Feminine, the Great Mystery, and that which lies beyond the comprehension of the rational, egoic, mind. The snake was one of the most widely used symbols associated with the goddess in many cultures of the Near East, where the Eve mythology had its roots. Ancient maps often depicted great serpents at the outer edges of the oceans, warning men not to dare to sail their ships beyond the known, lest they meet with a terrible serpent and succumb to certain death. It is interesting that ancient men used the same symbol as the symbol for the goddess to depict death, the unknown, and the uncharted.
In The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (1983 ), Barbara Walker points out that practically every culture has a snake in its mythology, and most often it is seen as a symbol of wisdom, healing, initiation, and secret knowledge, or it is associated with eternal life and ongoing renewal.
Snakes were kept in the healing temples of Aesklepius, the god of medicine. When people came to the temple for a healing, they were invited to ask for a healing dream. If they were lucky, they would dream of a snake, which they believed to be Aesklepius himself, offering a healing. The caduceus, two snakes intertwined, is the symbol of the medical profession today. It was the symbol of Aesklepius, and according to Barbara Walker in The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects (1988), the symbol goes back to 2000 BC Mesopotamia, where the “intertwined snakes represented the healing god Ningishzida, one of the lovers of the Goddess Ishtar.” The Greek god Hermes, messenger of the gods, had a magic staff entwined with snakes and surmounted by wings, which was said to be so powerful that it could raise the dead from Hades. Hermes’ job was to conduct the souls of the dead to the underworld and he was believed to possess magical powers over sleep and dreams.
The Snake Dance ceremony of the Hopi or Moqui people of northeastern Arizona, includes the skilled handling of live snakes. The ceremony is held every two years near August 20. The celebrants are the Snake and Antelope fraternities of the Hopi tribe. The dance, which is performed in public after eight days of secret ceremonies, is a petition to the nature gods to bring rain. The Hopi believe that snakes are their brothers, the children of their ancestors the Snake Maid and the Snake Hero, who were changed into snakes, and that they therefore have special powers of intercession.
In the Catholic Church, there are statues and paintings of the Blessed Mother, Mary, shown with one foot upon the head of a snake. We were told in Catholic school that she was crushing the snake, symbol of evil.
Minolta Maxxum 400si
Kodak Gold 200
I have absolutely no luck with Minolta cameras. This one kept on rewinding after 6 photos, so it was basically a waste of a roll. I own at least 7 Minolta cameras and every single one has some sort of mechanical/battery related problem. Dang Minolta, retrospectively get your shit together.
This is our son's cat, Turbo, who lived with us, and a famous cat was he.
He even made it onto CNN News.
In some ways, he was very uncat-like, especially the way he moved. He didn't flow smoothly as most cats do; he stomped along like a storm trooper.
He used to love to wander into the local laundromat and take over someone's laundry basket, and he let it be known quite clearly that if anyone tried to remove him, they did so at their own peril.
The barber shop was another favorite of his. He'd take over a barber's chair, and it took some doing to convince him that maybe there were some more comfortable places, like maybe a warm laundry basket full of nice clean clothes next door.
And, he loved to walk up to the glass door of the local dog grooming place and sit there, watching all the dogs go wild wanting to get at him and driving the groomers crazy.
His favorite place, however was the pet food store. He showed up at opening time every morning, marched in as if he owned the place when the door opened, and promptly curled up in a nice comfy doggy bed and took his morning nap. The owners realized this cat was unique and had some potential, and so each day they set out three bowls of different cat food, and whichever bowl he went to became the advertised Turbo choice of the day.
He became very well known, and a local TV station sent a camera crew to document his shenanigans, and then CNN picked up on the story and broadcast it on their national news. Everyone loved Turbo (they knew who to call when they needed to get him to move on: us...), and the TV interviews were really quite hilarious; everyone had a Turbo story. As fate would have it, our sons were channel surfing one day and just happened to hit upon CNN when they saw the headline, Turbo the Cat. We have the CNN tape, but unfortunately we no longer have a VCR.
Eventually, we told the owners of the pet store that, since Turbo clearly preferred them to us, they could consider him their own. After all, Turbo had already made that decision, so who were we to argue?