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It's a Grinch's Christmas!
Project 52
Week 51/52
Week 51's theme is: Pretend
From: Catcher In My Eye :)
Pretend... It's not much of a stretch that I feel as if I am the Grinch as our room addition & remodel drags on...
Hmmm???
I'm pretending that some painters WANT to WORK...
...to get our remodel painted BEFORE CHRISTMAS...
Sooo...
The floor finishers could come and finish the wood floors...
Sooo...
I could move back into my new kitchen and living room...
And put up a Christmas tree...and decorate our home...
AND put wrapped gifts under the tree...
And then my Granddaughter, alias,"Little Susie Lou-Who" reminded me;
Gram... the best Christmas gift isn't the presents...
but the PRESENCE of a Happy Family all wrapped-up in Each Other!
As, I have my hands full of cleaning construction dust, hoping to wrap gifts and cook Christmas goodies by this weekend...
Here's hoping that you all have a warm & meaningful Merry Christmas!!!
The monthly party courtesy of Anna Butterfly & CK
Visit this location at CK's Corner - open to all - CSC in Second Life
Theme was an arabian night / princess Jasmine theme wow this cake was my first attempt at pillows and MAN they are heavy!! And hard! Uff! But I was so proud! It was my first everything! First attempt at lace, pillow cakes, tassels, diamond patterns 1st all
Variation on a theme for which opinions on compo’ would be gratefully received.
I took this a couple of weeks ago at Appleby a few seconds after the one below which I posted recently.
The question is; is the locomotive too central?
It still draws the eye due to the lack of focus on the speed-limit sign but is there too much foreground, even though I think that the point-rodding adds interest?
I like it but it doesn’t really conform.
Be interesting to hear any views.
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Live, Believe & Dream! See You There!
Since the theme is "Masks," I decided to do an empty smile since I have friends who deal with depression. It's a bit uncanon, I know, but it's personal. So yeah.
Designed and folded by me from one uncut square.
Turquoise and Purple Paris Themed Birthday Cakes and Desserts.
Two 2 Tier (12in and 10in both cake) cakes
One cake, bottom: almond-butter flavor, top strawberry layered with fresh strawberries
Other cake, bottom red velvet, top chocolate layered with homemade caramel sauce, all with cream-cheese buttercream frosting.
2 Dozen Cupcakes: strawberry, vanilla and red velvet, w/fondant toppers
2 Dozen Cake-pops, vanilla and red velvet
2 Dozen Dipped Pretzel Rods
Theme com menu falso Iframe, com abas a sua escolha.
Preço: R$ 20,00 (vinte reais).
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I took the train to visit my Sis. It’s less tiring than driving but I may regret it when I have to try and get everything in my case when I go home tomorrow. It’s not as big as the boot of the car!
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Live, Believe & Dream! See You There!
hello the new theme is: disguise
here is my new Look For the shoot -- Pink Hair, RED Lips and Yellow Make-up
and here is my Rules:
Chelsea : I would like to see your hair a different colour and different makeup . You have been rocking the same looks for the past few weeks , I want to see something a little different .
i hope you like my shooting
-chelsea
This week's theme is The Dark side THE DARK SIDE is about capturing images with silhouettes and/or shadows. Shadows in your shots bring out interesting detail, and work to add facet and meaning to your image.
Thanks to the bride for being my attacker model. Even when I have tested our all the lights prior and saying it will take 1 minute, tops. She endured my fluffing about to change the lighting settings. It was eery has easily she fell into this pose behind me. :)
Strobist:
Elinchrom RX 600 with reflector 4 o'clock way back 1/4 power aimed at attacker for silhouette
Elinchrom RX 600 into collapsed reflective umbrella 9 o'clock1/4 power
triggered by PW's TT1 & ST4's
Going Linear
Our pre-schooler, G.son spends his afternoons with me playing with all shapes of building toys...these are, "Imagability Wedgits". I have created my own little camera hog as he now asks me to "take a picture" of EVERY MASTERPIECE that he builds! I think he may have a future in engineering and structural art!
Project 52
Week 15//52
Week 15's theme is - LINES
From : Catcher In My Eye :)
For those who don’t have a Wii (yet :)), here’s how my blog would look like if accessed on the Wii’s Opera browser. I’m using a normal browser (Firefox 2.0 in this case) and temporarily showed my blog on this theme. The blue color is much darker and richer on a Wii.
Harry Potter Theme Park official attractions updates and reviews. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attractions include Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey.
Isn't it amazing how Disney can make something like a bus stop look special?
You probably don't need me to tell you that this bus stop is at Fort Wilderness.
It's right outside the Reception Outpost (one of my very favorite buildings on WDW property...I want to turn it into a bar, but that's another story!)
But have a close look at the work that has been done here. The benches are made of huge logs and are unlike any you'll see anywhere else and check out the rustic roof on the bus shelter that matches the building in teh background. The trash can is themed for Fort Wilderness as is the resort directory. Don't forget the lamp post in the background and the newspaper and soft drink machines to the left that have been made to blend in as much as vending machines can.
A lot of effort by Disney on really simple things that add up to a great guest experience...
john
The Campground at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort and The Cabins at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort are located in Walt Disney World.
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Joseph Stella ( 1877 – 1946 )
The Heron - 1925
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Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature
February 24 – May 21, 2023
Italian-born American modernist Joseph Stella (1877–1946) is primarily recognized for his dynamic Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, especially the Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island. Lesser known, but equally as ambitious, is his work dedicated to the natural world, a theme that served as a lifelong inspiration. Throughout his career, Stella produced an extraordinary number of works—in many formats and in diverse media—that take nature as their subject. These lush and colorful works are filled with flowers, trees, birds, and fish—some of which he encountered on his travels across continents or during his visits to botanical gardens, while others are abstracted and fantastical. Through these pictures, he created a rich and variegated portrait of nature, a sanctuary for a painter in a modern world.
Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature is co-organized by the High and the Brandywine River Museum of Art and is the first major museum exhibition to exclusively examine Stella’s nature-based works. The exhibition features more than one hundred paintings and works on paper that reveal the complexity and spirituality that drove Stella’s nature-based works and the breadth of his artistic vision. Through expanded in-gallery didactics, including a graphic timeline of Stella’s career and a short film, the exhibition digs deeply into the context of the works, exploring their inspirations, meanings, and stylistic influences.
Touring Dates:
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (October 15, 2022–January 15, 2023)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (June 17, 2023–September 24, 2023)
www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/arts/design/joseph-stella-flor...
www.forbes.com/sites/natashagural/2022/12/21/joseph-stell...
www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/joseph-stel...
If you know the painter Joseph Stella, it’s probably from his famous urban landscapes like Brooklyn Bridge (1921), a futurist interpretation of New York’s dramatic 20th-century industrialization. But Stella was just as captivated by the botanical world as he was by cityscapes, and today, Atlantans can see that side of the artist in vivid color. Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, an explosive new exhibit at the High Museum of Art, features dozens of his flower and plant-filled paintings and drawings. In Atlanta through May 21, the exhibit travels chronologically through Stella’s lifelong love-affair with the natural world, from an early study of a piece of bark to the epic, intricate Tree of My Life.
Visionary Nature was a joint effort between the High; the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida; and the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where it heads next. “They were really focused on [Stella’s] nature works, and we have a great work by Stella here at the High,” said Stephanie Heydt, the museum’s Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art. “It was a great collaboration.”
Stella was born in 1877 in Muro Lucano, a hilly city in southern Italy. He immigrated to New York originally intending to follow his brother into medicine, but after a uninspired stint in medical school, he pivoted to painting. Stella studied briefly under the impressionist painter William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and soon developed a reputation as a sensitive interpreter of the urban working class.
The High’s exhibit features of some of these early works, in which the natural world spills out amidst the smokestacks and steel mills of America’s industrial revolution. “This is the Progressive Era at the turn of the twentieth century,” Heydt explained. “And he’s looking at the people in his own community, specifically the Italian immigrants.”
Traveling back in Europe, Stella was inspired by the contemporary artists he saw there: the cubism of Pablo Picasso and early futurism of Umberto Boccioni. He drew on these sources back in the U.S, earning acclaim for his dynamic geometric paintings of the metropolis; several choice selections, including American Landscape (1929), and Smoke Stacks (1921), are on view in this exhibit.
But even as Stella built his career on the towering achievements of urban industry, he yearned for the sunny landscapes of his youth. He frequented havens like the Bronx Botanical Gardens, which opened in 1891 and offered escape from New York’s sooty streets. Walking through Brooklyn one day, he later wrote in an essay, he stumbled across a sapling.
“This little tree is coming up from a crack in the sidewalk, shadowed by a factory, and he sees himself in this tree,” Heydt said. “He says, This is me.”
That encounter inspired Tree of My Life (1919) a florid aria sung to the natural world. A sturdy olive tree—Stella himself—anchors the canvas, surrounded by a vortex of tropical plants, birds, and, in the background, Stella’s native Italian hills. Brandywine Museum Director Thomas Padon envisaged the exhibit after seeing Tree of My Life in a private collection. “I was transfixed,” Padon told the New York Times.
Stella painted Tree of My Life and Brooklyn Bridge within a year of each other, announcing a duality that would define the rest of this career. While he painted flowers throughout his life, it was his moody, futurist treatments of New York that made him an art-world celebrity. European artists fleeing World War I were landing in New York in droves, sparking a new creative fascination with the cutting-edge American city. “(Marcel) Duchamp says the art of Europe is dead, and this century is about America,” explained Heydt. “Stella’s understood to be one of the first American-based painters to figure out . . . how to paint the new modern city.”
But Stella’s love of the natural world—and of Europe—endured. He returned to botanical themes throughout his life, infused with the Old Master styles of the Italian Renaissance. Many works in this exhibit invoke the sun-drenched vistas and towering cathedrals of Italy, overrun by sumptuous flowers that are decidedly not native to the Iberian peninsula. Stella—a native turned immigrant—seems to delight in the contradiction: in Dance of Spring (1924), tropical orchids and calla lilies burst open in a beam of beatific light, like Jesus rising to the heavens in a Raphael. Purissima (1927), part of the High’s own collection, evokes the iconic Renaissance Madonna, here transformed by Stella’s whimsy: the stamens of a lily serve as her celestial crown, while snowy egrets (the Florida kind) grace her sides.
With saturations of color abounding in every room, Visionary Nature enjoys an added depth through words. Stella was a prolific writer, and the exhibit makes canny use of text to explore his passion for the living world. “My devout wish,” reads one such diary segment on view, “That my every working day might begin and end . . . with the light, gay painting of a flower.” In a unique addition to their exhibition, the High created a short video featuring more of Stella’s own thoughts. “We wanted to end with his voice telling us how he felt about various paintings in the show . . . or his ideas about art,” explained Heydt.
Stella, who died in 1946, spent the last years of his life in ill health, largely confined to his studio. He never stopped painting the natural world; a few of those last works, modest trees still full of flair, are on view here. A few years before his death, his friend and fellow artist Charmion von Wiegand paid a visit to his studio. She found Stella amidst a riot of color, studiously painting his favorite subject. “Flower studies of all kinds litter the floor,” wrote von Wiegand, “and turn it into a growing garden.”
The theme of this 25 square meters large German club layout is a small harbor with city and rural scenes in the Ruhr, epoch III. There's a lot of shunting around the harbors and digitally controlled cranes live the scene up. The atmosphere is a mix of typical "Ruhrpott" area, where city and (haevy) Industrial activities are very close to each others.
LEGOLAND Windsor a theme park dedicated to children aged 3-12 years old and of course big kid adults.
An inspirational land where the kids are the hero and adults relive their childhood.
The fun never stops and imagination knows no bounds, a family attraction like no other.
Set in 150 acres of beautiful parkland, LEGOLAND Windsor is a unique family theme park with over 55 interactive rides, live shows, building workshops, driving schools and attractions.
It's amazing what can be built with LEGO bricks - nearly 55 million of them!
From comical camels to fearsome fire-breathing dragons, world landmarks to musical pirates, young and old alike will be fascinated by the incredible LEGO models throughout the park.
Fun Facts about LEGOLAND Windsor
There are 34 LEGO pieces in an average Miniland figure.
The largest model in Miniland is the Canary Wharf Tower which is 5.2 metres tall and took 3 model makers 850 hours to complete using 200,000 LEGO Bricks!
The smallest models are the pigeons in Trafalgar Square which contain 5 LEGO bricks each
New in 2011 - Atlantis Submarine Voyage
Take a deep breath and submerge yourself in an underwater adventure.
Plunge into the depths with this world-first LEGO® submarine ride and immerse yourself in a magical underwater adventure.
So what’s New in 2012
STAR WARS MINILAND EXPERIENCE - The Force has arrived at LEGOLAND
Take a trip to a galaxy far, far away at the UK’s only indoor LEGO® Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at the LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort. Enjoy seven of the most famous scenes from the six live-action Star Wars movies, as well as a scene from the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars™ all made out of 1.5 million LEGO® bricks built in 1:20 scale. Follow the chronological path through the Star Wars timeline and retrace the major events of the beloved Saga featuring 2,000 LEGO® models, authentic sounds and lighting effects in the ultimate LEGO® Star Wars experience.
LEGOLAND WINDSOR RESORT HOTEL - Now open
An exciting LEGO adventure awaits you, as the amazing 150 room, fully themed LEGOLAND Hotel opens at LEGOLAND Windsor RESORT!
Staying overnight at the new LEGOLAND Windsor Resort Hotel is a must for all LEGO fans. From the spectacular dragon-guarded entrance and interactive LEGO features through to the brightly coloured pirate splash pool and fully themed bedrooms, the new hotel will inspire imaginations and create laugh-out loud memories. With dedicated indoor play areas, entertainment and a buffet-style restaurant serving child-friendly meals, it’s the perfect family treat.
Facul extremamente puxada, tive que dar uma parada com os designs... Mas, décadas depois, arrumei um tempinho pra mudar o theme do meu querido tumblr! *o*
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