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"Chimpanzees make tools and use them to acquire foods and for social displays; they have sophisticated hunting strategies requiring cooperation, influence and rank; they are status conscious, manipulative and capable of deception; they can learn to use symbols and understand aspects of human language including some relational syntax, concepts of number and numerical sequence; and they are capable of spontaneous planning for a future state or event." (Wikipedia)
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A public house named after a famous racehorse, closed in 2009 and converted into a Chinese Restaurant.
My 23rd Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Pyrratz tribe. The Pyrratz Mixels were difficult to work with due to all the assymetry in the model's pieces and a low quantity of balljoints for articulated limbs. I leaned to the absurd on this one and fully embraced the pirate them.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
C&C solicited as always!
The Grove bus stop was a familiar landmark and reference point for many Preston residents. The bus stop retained its name long after the pub was demolished. Grove Street can be seen to the right of the pub running down to the canal aqueduct. This area, like many other parts of Preston, was well served with public houses. Within walking (staggering) distance of the Grove were the two Ship Inn's, Neptune, Grand Junction, Wheatsheaf, Fountain, Steamer, Lime Kiln, Princess Alexandra (hole in T' wall), and Dr. Syntax - to name a few!
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A mod of my 8-Belle tablescrap as a VV.
Unlike my previous Duplo builds which were pure Duplo, this uses technic pistons as pins (thanks to optimus-convoy for the technique).
My 19th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the MCPD tribe.
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With 16 and 17 being very action-figure-y, I went a little absurd on 18. A little too absurd. With 19 I tried to go a little more functional with this urban police scout and patrol mech.
Alla fine degli anni '30 la Zeiss Ikon AG Dresden inizió lo sviluppo di una reflex monoottica per controbattere il successo della Kine-Exakta. Strettamente derivata dalla Contax II dopo aver aggiunto un pentaprisma le fu dato il nome di SYNTAX ed fu brevettata il 1.9.1941, ma l'avvento della guerra in Germania prima ed il bombardamento di Dresda tra il 14 ed il 15 Febbraio poi, ne bloccarono lo sviluppo.
Dopo il conflitto Dresda passò sotto il dominio della Germania Est, gli stabilimenti Zeiss furono nazionalizzati e tutto il materiale esistente fu requisito e trasportato in Russia, tecnici compresi, dal regime Comunista e per riavviare la produzione furono utilizzati i pezzi delle Contax presenti in magazzino. Quando nel 1949 le scorte furono terminate bisognó approntare qualcosa di nuovo si rispolveró il progetto Syntax creando di fatto la prima reflex moderna, la Contax Spiegel (specchio) meglio nota come Contax S. L'apparecchio era infatti munito di un pentaprisma, sistema giá stato adottato in guerra per i sistemi di puntamento balistici, che offriva un'immagine naturale nel mirino e non capovolta o invertita. La casa aveva sostituito il vecchio otturatore di metallo a saracinesca con uno di tessuto a scorrimento orizzontale rendendone il corpo snello ed agile e cambiato il sistema di montaggio dell'obiettivo passando al bocchettone a vite 42mm che diverrá adottato di fatto universale. Altra particolaritá l'assenza del ritorno automatico dello specchio, che per abbassarsi necessita la ricarica della macchina oltre all'assenza del comando automatico di chiusura dei diaframmi dell'obiettivo.
Con la Contax D ( Dachprism o Dresden, non é dato sapere) del '52 apparve la seconda serie di queste fotocamere. La presa del flash passó dal fondello alla calotta e il controllo dei tempi dell'otturatore fu rivisto. Dalla metà del 1956, le piccole manopole di trasporto del film furono sostituite con modelli di diametro maggiore.
Caratteristiche tecniche:
- Tipo di otturatore meccanico in tela a scorrimento orizzontale
- Tempi di esposizione B, 1/1, 1/2, 1/5, 1/10, 1/20, 1/50, 1/100, 1 / 200,1 / 500, 1/1000
- Mirino a pentaprisma fisso con schermo di messa a fuoco a vetro smerigliato
- Specchio senza ritorno immediato
- Avanzamento del film a manopola, contatore manuale,
- Innesto dell'obiettivo a vite M42x1
- Autoscatto meccanico, circa 10 s
- sistema flash sincronizzazione X con presa coassiale sul coperchio superiore, nessuna slitta per accessori
Dal '59 in poi il marchio Contax scomparirá definitivamente anche dal mercato interno e bisognerá aspettare la fine degli anni '70 per ritrovarlo sui modelli di pregio coprodotti dalla giapponese Yashica e dalla Zeiss di Stoccarda.
A big thanks to my friend Rphilo004 for cleaning up my crap pics. This makes me smile! :D
More pics in my Duplo album.
My 13th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Klinkers tribe.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
Lobster à la Riseholme is the leitmotif in two of the 'Lucia' collection of books written by E.F. Benson from 1920 through to 1939. The recipe is central to the antagonism between the two main characters and was ostensibly obtained by Lucia's Aunt whilst on a trip to Normandie. Once purloined by Mapp and for the benefit of the reader, she divulges just the first four words, thus revealing it to have the distinct syntax of a classic Mrs Beeton. Yesterday we went again to collect oyster shells for our chicks at a beautiful spot I have always considered the dead ringer for Tilling, the fictional seaside town (based in reality on Rye in East Sussex), where the lobster dish is first served. Well I am an aunt and I live in Normandie and so... If you would like the recipe it is here: simplyorganicrecipes.blogspot.fr/2016/06/crabe-la-risehol...
Female demons, as opposed to incubas, succubuses (male names) tempt men during their sleep and make every effort to unite with them. The belief in sexual relations between a spirit and a mortal, man or woman, is very ancient and present in many peoples. Monks, anachoretes and shepherds claimed to be the object of the loving pursuits of succubi.All the dreamers and hallucinators of fasting and abstinence, were beset by their lascivious caresses and devouring ardour. These demons often animated a body torn from the sepulchre and the wealthy lover, or rather lost by passion, found between his arms, after a night of drunkenness, a corpse emaciated and stinking. The succubi also took on the appearance of the beloved person, in order to incite the boyfriend or chaste man to commit the sin of lust. A succubus is a Lilin-demon in female form, or supernatural entity in folklore (traced back to medieval legend) that appears in dreams and takes the form of a woman in order to seduce men, usually through sexual activity. The male counterpart is the incubus. Religious traditions hold that repeated sexual activity with a succubus may result in the deterioration of health or mental state, or even in death. In modern representations, a succubus may or may not appear in dreams and is often depicted as a highly attractive seductress or enchantress; whereas, in the past, succubi were generally depicted as frightening and demonic.
Les Cent Contes drolatiques d' Honoré de Balzac is a little-known work that appeared between 1832 and 1837. Balzac wrote only thirty of the one hundred stories, divided into three dizains. This work was conceived as the second pillar of the Balzacian edifice, facing La Comédie humaine. They are tales in the tradition of the fabliaux of the Middle Ages and written in a re-invented language of the 16th century. The archaic, anachronistic construction of this work made reception impossible, struck the critics, surprised and discouraged the public. This reception is still problematic today, as familiarity with medieval writing and syntax is reserved for an elite readership. ""
The word is derived from Late Latin succuba "paramour"; from succub(āre) "to lie beneath" (sub- "under" + cubāre "to lie in bed"), used to describe the supernatural being as well. The word "succubus" originates from the late 14th century.
According to Zohar and the Alphabet of Ben Sira, Lilith was Adam's first wife, who later became a succubus. She left Adam and refused to return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael. In Zoharistic Kabbalah, there were four succubi who mated with the archangel Samael. There were four original queens of the demons: Lilith, Eisheth, Agrat Bat Mahlat, and Naamah. A succubus may take a form of a beautiful young girl but closer inspection may reveal deformities of her body, such as bird-like claws or serpentine tails.Folklore also describes the act of sexually penetrating a succubus as akin to entering a cavern of ice, and there are reports of succubi forcing men to perform cunnilingus on their vulvas that drip with urine and other fluids. In later folklore, a succubus took the form of a siren.
Throughout history, priests and rabbis, including Hanina Ben Dosa and Abaye, tried to curb the power of succubi over humans.However, not all succubi were malevolent. According to Walter Map in the satire De Nugis Curialium (Trifles of Courtiers), Pope Sylvester II (999–1003) was allegedly involved with a succubus named Meridiana, who helped him achieve his high rank in the Catholic Church. Before his death, he confessed of his sins and died repentant.According to the Kabbalah and the school of Rashba, the original three queens of the demons, Agrat Bat Mahlat, Naamah, Eisheth Zenunim, and all their cohorts give birth to children, except Lilith. According to other legends, the children of Lilith are called Lilin.
According to the Malleus Maleficarum, or "Witches' Hammer", written by Heinrich Kramer (Institoris) in 1486, a succubus collects semen from the men she seduces. The incubi or male demons then use the semen to impregnate human females, thus explaining how demons could apparently sire children despite the traditional belief that they were incapable of reproduction. Children so begotten – cambions – were supposed to be those that were born deformed, or more susceptible to supernatural influences. The book does not address why a human female impregnated with the semen of a human male would not produce a regular human offspring, although after transferring the male semen to the Incubi it is believed the semen is altered to match the genetic material of the Succubus and the incubi before being transferred to a human female host. But in some lore the child is born deformed because the conception was unnatural.
King James in his dissertation titled Dæmonologie refutes the possibility for angelic entities to reproduce and instead offered a suggestion that a devil would carry out two methods of impregnating women: the first, to steal the sperm out of a dead man and deliver it into a woman. If a demon could extract the semen quickly, the transportation of the substance could not be instantly transported to a female host, causing it to go cold. This explains his view that Succubae and Incubi were the same demonic entity only to be described differently based on the tormented sexes being conversed with. The second method was the idea that a dead body could be possessed by a devil, causing it to rise and have sexual relations with others. However, there is no mention of a female corpse being possessed to elicit sex from men.In Arabian mythology, the qarînah (قرينة) is a spirit similar to the succubus, with origins possibly in ancient Egyptian religion or in the animistic beliefs of pre-Islamic Arabia. A qarînah "sleeps with the person and has relations during sleep as is known by the dreams."They are said to be invisible, but a person with "second sight" can see them, often in the form of a cat, dog, or other household pet. "In Omdurman it is a spirit which possesses. ... Only certain people are possessed and such people cannot marry or the qarina will harm them."To date, many African myths claim[citation needed] that men who have similar experience with such principality (succubus) in dreams (usually in form of a beautiful woman) find themselves exhausted as soon as they awaken; often claiming spiritual attack upon them. Local rituals/divination are often invoked in order to appeal the god for divine protection and intervention.In Arabian mythology, the qarînah (قرينة) is a spirit similar to the succubus, with origins possibly in ancient Egyptian religion or in the animistic beliefs of pre-Islamic Arabia. A qarînah "sleeps with the person and has relations during sleep as is known by the dreams."They are said to be invisible, but a person with "second sight" can see them, often in the form of a cat, dog, or other household pet."In Omdurman it is a spirit which possesses. ... Only certain people are possessed and such people cannot marry or the qarina will harm them."To date, many African myths claim[citation needed] that men who have similar experience with such principality (succubus) in dreams (usually in form of a beautiful woman) find themselves exhausted as soon as they awaken; often claiming spiritual attack upon them. Local rituals/divination are often invoked in order to appeal the god for divine protection and intervention.In India, the succubus is referred to as Yakshini and are mythical beings within Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain mythology. Yakshinis are the female counterpart of the male Yaksha, and they are attendees of Kubera, the Hindu god of wealth who rules in the mythical Himalayan kingdom of Alaka. They are the guardians of the treasure hidden in the earth and resemble fairies. Yakshinis are often depicted as beautiful and voluptuous, with wide hips, narrow waists, broad shoulders, and exaggerated, spherical breasts.In the field of medicine, there is some belief that the stories relating to encounters with succubi bear resemblance to the contemporary phenomenon of people reporting alien abductions,[which has been ascribed to the condition known as sleep paralysis. It is therefore suggested that historical accounts of people experiencing encounters with succubi may rather have been symptoms of sleep paralysis, with the hallucination of the said creatures coming from their contemporary culture.
Many, including King James[disambiguation needed], have also correlated the succubi to wet dreams, or nocturnal emission. During the time when succubus lore was created, any sexual activities that were not purposefully procreative were considered sinful. The succubi may well have been an explanation for men who could not control their biological function, yet wanted to stay faithful to their society.Church scholars have long debated about the true nature of the incubus and succubi and sin committed in contact with them. Some thought it was the same demon, sexually asexual at the base, who could become an incubus or succubus, as the case may be. He could gather the seed of a man and pass it on to a woman, which was a very simple excuse to explain an adulterous pregnancy.
My 26th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Nindjas tribe.
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C&C solicited as always!
My 14th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Frosticons2 tribe.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
I know a few Dutch words and I try to write simple Dutch sentences sometimes. But of course I don`t know Dutch syntax so I`m using English thinking when writing Dutch. Not really sure if my title makes any sense at all!
De Bijenkorf (literally, the Beehive) is the largest upmarket department store chain in the Netherlands. This is the Amsterdam flagship store. Interestingly, De Bijenkorf chain is owned by Irish-Canadian retail magnate the Westons family.
My 15th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Lixers tribe.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
C6 Mobile Strike Frame with assault rifle and jump pack.
Inspired by the work of Dark Syntax I revisited C6 trying to make something that is a little less boxy than my last large frame.
Built for Mobile Frame Zero.
Mobile Frame Zero company from only the bricks in a Lego 75002 set.
more pics in my Alt Model/SSC set
Another shot at Mantiskings's Single Set
JCS New Belfast (Jovian Confederation)
Light tactical carrier
Profile image forSHIPtember 2019 entry.
More pics in my Duplo album.
My 17th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Glorp Corp 2 tribe.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
Boone Hall Plantation.
What is special about Boone Hall? It has a wonderful Virginian Live Oak alley which was planted from 1743 to 1843. The plantation has been continuously producing crops since 1681. It especially focuses on Gullah culture and the slave quarters with presentations by black Americans. Eight slave cabins (1790-1810) depict different aspects of Gullah culture and history. The plantation style homestead was only built in 1936 but the original house was built around 1700. It has beautiful flower gardens and the azaleas should be at their best. In the 1850s the plantation had 85 slaves with many involved in red brick production. Its main crops in early years were indigo and then cotton from the early 1800s. Its structures include the round smokehouse (1750); and the cotton gin factory (1853).
Gullah Culture and Language and Blacks in Charleston.
Gullah language is recognised as a distinct language and the black American population of coastal Sth Carolina and Georgia recognise themselves as Gullah people. But where did this culture originate? American historian Joseph Opala has spent decades researching the connections between Sierra Leone in Africa and Sth Carolina. A majority of the coastal black slaves arriving in Sth Carolina in the 1700s came from Sierra Leone where the area was known as the “Rice Coast” of Africa. The slaves brought with them the knowledge and skills for rice cultivation in Sth Carolina; their rice cooking methods; their West African language; their legends and myths; and their beliefs in spirits and voodoo. The Gullah people are thought to have the best preserved African culture of any black American group. Few have moved around the USA and black families in Charleston are now tracing their family history (and having family reunions with relatives) in Sierra Leone and Gambia, despite a break of 250 years in family contact! Many can trace their family links back to the Mende or Temne tribal groups in Sierra Leone. The Gullah language is a Creole language based on English but with different syntax more akin to African languages and with many African words and a few French words. The word Gullah is believed to be a mispronunciation of the African word Gora or Gola which came from several tribal groups in Sierra Leone. The direct links with Sierra Leone have been supported by the discovery of an African American funeral song which is identical to one sung by villagers in Sierra Leone.
The Gullah women in Charleston are also known for their weaving- the Sweetgrass basket sellers who can be found in several locations around the city. The skill and tradition of basket making came directly from Africa. And although they do not usually use the term voodoo the Gullah people believe in spirits and the power of roots, herbs or potions to ward off evil spirits or to snare a reluctant lover. If a spell is cast upon you can be “rooted” or “fixed” by this witchcraft and unable to resist the spell. This spiritual tradition is still strong and even whites in Charleston paint the ceilings of their piazzas blue to ward off old hags and evil spirits (and the colour is also meant to deter mosquitoes.)
In the city of Charleston about 18,000 of its residents were slaves in 1861. Large households often had 10 to 20 slaves to do gardening, the laundry, the cooking, the cleaning, the food serving, caring for the horses etc. Some households hired out servants to others for short periods and some households sold products produced by the slaves - dresses, other clothing, pastries, shoes, hats, horse shoes etc. Some slaves were musicians and played for their masters or were hired out for social functions to other houses; others were hired out with horse teams for transportation of others etc. So not all slaves worked as domestic servants. But there were also free blacks in Charleston. Often illegitimate children were freed upon their white father’s death and some slaves received small incomes if they had special skills and they could saved enough to buy their freedom. Eventually some free blacks became slave owners themselves by either purchasing slaves or by inheriting slaves from their white fathers. One of the wealthiest free blacks in Charleston in the Antebellum period was Richard DeReef who owned a wharf where he ran a timber business. He also owned a number of rental properties in Charleston. Richard was not a former slave. His African father with his Indian wife had migrated to Sth Carolina in the late 1700s when this was still possible. As his business grew Richard purchased slaves of his own. Despite his wealth Richard DeReef was considered a mixed race or coloured man and was never accepted into Charleston society. After the Civil War when the Radical Republicans from the North were overseeing/controlling Southern governments Richard DeReef was elected as a city councillor in 1868. That was the year that the new federally enforced state constitution allowing blacks to vote came into force. DeReef probably only served for a year or two. By 1870 the Ku Klux Klan was active and blacks disappeared from elected positions. When Northerners left Sth Carolina to its own devises in 1877, with the end of Northern Reconstruction, Sth Carolina stripped blacks of their right to vote by new state laws. Ballots for each of the usual eight categories of office had to be placed in a different ballot box. If any ballot was placed incorrectly all votes by that person were illegal. Later in the 1880s southern states brought in grandfather clauses- you could only vote if your grandfather did. This meant that slaves were not eligible to vote.
New Improved Semantic Web: Now with added meaning! More machine processable than before. May be incompatible with existing XML tools. Databases may take up to ten times as much memory and 24 hours to load.
Picture taken from Mark Butlers presentation "Is the semantic web hype?" Hewlett Packard labs presentation at Manchester Metropolitan University. Conceived by Mark Butler and drawn by Rachel Murphy of Rude Girl Designs. Reproduced here with kind permission from Mark Butler.
Typography Exercises Book for Fundamentals of Typography at Valencia Community College.
These pages are part of the third exercise, Typographic Syntax.
My tribute build of my favorite SHIP from SHIPtember 2013, Jacob Unterreiner's Phoenix
Special thanks to dark_syntax for the suggestions on the connections for the side "wings".
nixel claw mech (spikels max)
inspired from dark_syntax nixel mech squad, i made a new nixel mech, this time using spikels mixels.
video review:
Mirit Ben Nun: Shortness of breath
'Shortness of breath' is not only a sign of physical weakness, it is a metaphor for a mental state of strong desire that knows no repletion; more and more, an unbearable glut, without repose. Mirit Ben Nun's type of work on the other hand requires an abundance of patience. This is a Sisyphean work (requiring hard labor) of marking lines and dots, filling every empty millimeter with brilliant blots. Therefore we are facing a paradox or a logical conflict. A patient and effortful work that stems from an urgent need to cover and fill, to adorn and coat. Her craft of layering reaches a state of a continuous ceremonial ritual.
This ritual digests every object into itself - useful or discarded -- available and ordinary or rare and exceptional -- they submit and devote to the overlay work. Mirit BN gathers scrap off the streets -- cardboard rolls of fabric, assortments of wooden boards and pieces, plates and planks -- and constructs a new link, her own syntax, which she alone is fully responsible for. The new combination -- a type of a sculptural construction -- goes through a process of patching by the act of painting.
In fact Mirit regards her three dimensional objects as a platform for painting, with a uniform continuity, even if it has obstacles, mounds and valleys. These objects beg her to paint, to lay down colors, to set in motion an intricate weave of abstract patterns that at times finds itself wandering the contours of human images and sometimes -- not. In those cases what is left is the monotonous activity of running the patterns, inch by inch, till their absolute coverage, till a short and passing instant of respite and than on again to a new onset.
Next to this assembly of garbage and it's recycling into 'painted sculptures' Mirit offers a surprising reunion between her illustrated objects and so called cheap African sculpture; popular artifacts or articles that are classified in the standard culture as 'primitive'.
This combination emphasizes the difference between her individualistic performance and the collective creation which is translated into cultural clichés. The wood carved image creates a moment of peace within the crowded bustle; an introverted image, without repetitiveness and reverberation. This meeting of strangers testifies that Mirit' work could not be labeled under the ´outsiders art´ category. She is a one woman school who is compelled to do the art work she picked out to perform. Therefore she isn't creating ´an image´ such as the carved wooden statues, but she produces breathless ´emotional jam' whose highest values are color, motion, beauty and plenitude. May it never lack, neither diluted, nor dull for even an instant
Tali Tamir
August 2010
Mobile Frame Zero frames using only the bricks currently available from the Lego stores Pick A Model bins for this quarters Pick A Model.
I spent some more time with the 16 bricks in the current PaM.
The main pod houses the cockpit and main power source, and allows for one of three conveyance/manipulator configurations: humanoid, chicken walker, or quad. The arms on the humanoid can be fitted to the chicken walker or quad, but I'm not sure how useful they'd be. I'm still striking out on coming up with weapons systems, but these cores should be easy and cheap enough that if you wanted a company of them you could pull parts from elsewhere for systems. Also, these three frames only use 12 unique parts.
PaM-10/35h "Panda-H"
PaM-10/29q "Panda-Q"
PaM-10/29c "Panda-C"
C&C solicited as always!
A different feel to the last as I look up to the snow capped slopes of Sca Fell from Netherbeck Bridge on Wastwater, (with Pikes Crag to the left.)(Thanks to Doctor Syntax for correct identifications!)
A company of Veyman Genesis frames for Mobile Frame Zero.
Equipped systems L to R:
Rd, Y, B, G
Rh, Y, B, G8, SSRx2
Ra, Y, Y, B, SSR
Rd, Y, B, G
Rd, Y, B, G
Systems: MG4b shoulder-integrated Gatling gun “brrrt” (Rd), M1d shoulder-integrated sniper rifle (Ra), P38 combat rotary saw “can opener” (Rh), S3c EMP shield (B), Mk3 comm’s pack (Y), Quad-spectrum targeting array (Y), J5 jump pack, R2b single-use rockets (SSR)
My 13th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Klinkers tribe.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
My 18th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Munchos tribe.
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My last five in this series were all humanoid bipeds, so I wanted to go a little absurd but still theoretically functional to mix it up.
Violence In The City.
Sharp thunderous cyrms on thee nocturnal byrne gisl night,
screams in thy gremian city and thee outskirts,
shadows of thy death dance with thee petrified clatter alle around,within, here,
constellations roar wyth thy butchery on thee ponderous front,
slaughters on thee brows of thy innocent, allye is lost,
obfuscation of decrepit'd fires shed down its primal burst engulfing towers,
shatter'd afflictions dement'd madman take control, who is now thoust boss?
eerie loneliness sleeps close to thy starvation of thy child's wound'd,no shirts,
loud reject'd moaning ov'r thee torturing choking of rapturous despair,seeking moore to confront,
riotous masses immeasurably lost,atomic demands demonstrat'd therein,O'what a cost,
euphonious strategies autonomous note,causes a new hope of showers,
incommensurately a syntax now arrives on thee horizon toss'd,
significance all is contradict'd intrinsically to keep thy peace, a polictical stunt,
vehement lies for shroud'd peace,if thoust has a ear than hear,
that is their dehumanising reasoning,thoust must really be O' so v'ry lost,
endless adversaries make scorch'd new plans,hap's tyme for another affront?
weeping shimmering embers dost just mak'st thee hungry moore hungry,
for justice that is!
now who is't that runs and falls with Icarus fear?
Steve.D.Hammond.
Carol Bove (b. 1971 Switzerland )
Carol Bove’s sculpture turns the clean lines of Modernism on its head. Her formal syntax is an adept language of bends, dents, torques, kinks, crumples, creases, and other folds that animate the sculptural surface. The artist has called these works “collage sculptures” – a type of activity that navigates a productive tension between the industrially formed and the merely found, between the obsolete and the newly minted. The physical friction of her material is animated through a bold, candy-coloured palette of reds, yellows, pinks and greens placed in dynamic contrast to her rough untreated steel. The slick finish of her paint jars with the rough faded materiality of her found objects. In this mode, the surface colour promotes the illusion that her steel tubes are constructed from a soft, malleable substance. Bove’s deft twists, folds, and bends demand a kinaesthetic approach from the viewer: they force the body, eye, and mind to shift, move and circumnavigate the work. If these objects were to tell a story it would be an account of movement and pressure, force and softness.
Très d’actualité…
En réelle syntaxe yoda-esque:
A la colère la peur mène
A la haine la colère mène
A la souffrance la haine mène
In 1786 the Reverend William Gilpin published his great work “Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England, particularly the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland”.
In 1812, there appeared a book entitled “The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the Picturesque” (with the alternative title “Doctor Syntax’s Tour of the Lakes”), illustrated by the caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and accompanied by a long, comic poem by William Combe. This was a direct satire of William Gilpin and his book and proved to be hugely popular at a time when Lake District tourism was beginning to take off.
Of the thousands of lines in Combe’s poem here are four :
He ne’er will, as an artist shine,
Who copies nature line by line,
Who’er from nature takes a view,
Must copy and improve it too.
So nothing much has changed.
In the poem, needless to say, the horse makes sure (soon after this picture was "taken") that Doctor Syntax ends up in the lake.
A Mobile Frame Zero frame using only the bricks currently available from the Lego stores Pick A Model bins for this quarters Pick A Model.
C&C solicited as always!
My 24th Mecha Mixel-Nixel Expeditionary Force (MMNEF) mech; this one from the Medix tribe.So many good pieces in this tribe. I spent a good amount of time trying for a maintenance mech; some kind of mobile workshop, but couldn't make it work and look good. The more I tried to add on, the worse it looked. So I stripped it down and found I liked it better a little undersized and sleeker compared to the rest of the MMNEF. Although I wish I could've gotten more from the medic theme, I like how finished this turned out.
For more on the MMNEF click here.
(Please forgive the crap photos. Not much sunlight in the northern latitudes this time of year.)
C&C solicited as always!