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"The dark and dull concrete of a 1960s Leicester landmark has been transformed by graffiti artists.
The six huge pillars supporting the Burley’s fly-over on the city’s inner ring road have become huge canvases and are now adorned with various different colourful designs - including trees, clouds, flowers and images of local landmarks.
The work has been commissioned by Leicester City Council to try to make the link between the city centre and The Golden Mile more attractive and has been carried out by street art specialists Graffwerk."
www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/amazing-tr...
I am wondering if 2015 could possibly be the year that I take Helene to a new level. So far since I began cross-dressing fifteen years ago, then age 41 with much smoother skin, I have transformed into my female alter-ego mainly in privacy and usually alone. I have rarely net another transvestite. I did venture out in public very briefly in 2002 but soon lost my nerve and since then have felt queasy at the prospect of going out in public while dressed as a woman.
I'm aware I have been fortunate enough to be complimented on my appearance when attempt the art of female illusion. My problem is I cannot quite see myself as others do, I feel a complete failure in my efforts but I’m not gloomy or down, far from it. I feel elation and joy and love to be dressed as a woman. I just feel I don’t actually look remotely feminine in any way. I wish I did.
However, I feel my fears on venturing out starting to recede somewhat more because I so enjoy the rare occasions I become Helene that part of myself is desiring to actually spend time actually being her out in the world. There is an enthusiasm starting to build within me.
The adorable and supportive Pamela Lennon has encouraged me for several years now and I am grateful to her. Another T-Girl, Claire Doolan, has also been encouraging me and I am grateful to her as well. The warm hearted Amanda McG has been truly wonderful and has really boosted my confidence considerably recently.
I now find myself musing on what I will wear and how I will style my wig for the day I venture out….there, I’ve said it…venture out…
Yes, I am now musing over the prospect and I’m not quite as fearful as I was. My problem is I genuinely want to be perceived as female not male. I do not want to be a man dressed up i want to be a woman completely when I venture out. Obviously, this is down to me getting the look right, getting my behaviour and mannerisms right and coming across convincingly as female. I want this so much I feel momentum to g through with it pushing me within.
I often hear remarks such as don’t worry about passing, just be who you are. Well who I am is a man that seeks to pass, that’s what I dream of. I don’t ant anything else. I want to go out and portray myself as a woman wholeheartedly for the period I am dressed and acting as one. It’s my goal. I‘m not keen on just settling for a lesser experience I have been heading for this one for all of my adult life.
This is a picture taken on the camera self timer last June. It was evening and I was trying my utmost to create a real world female appearance. To be honest I felt rather nice and excited in this outfit. I was aiming for a feminine nicely dressed woman look with (hopefully) nice enhancing make-up and a shorter contemporary hair style. I am not very tall as a person and my face is quite bland with a weak chin (all good for me as a transvestite). I feel a shorter hair style back combed helps create a slightly more elegant shape to my whole body shape. More importantly, I find when I wear a shorter wig style I feel more feminine, it feels more real to me than the favoured transvestite choices of long hair styles. Some aces suit longer hair but I find a shorter wig opens up my face ore and is a bit more feminine as a result.
I usually study real women that look stylish and feminine and I noticed the key is choosing a hair style that works with ones facial shape not necessarily a hair style one wants to wear because as transvestites it fits more our perceived ideal of how a woman should look.
I believe fervently that discovering what works and looks female is the key to succeeding in creating a convincing female appearance. We usually pursue a goal of that which we like, which is fair enough, one should be free to enjoy what they like, but often that does not mean it is going to work out for the best. My mantra for several years is ‘be the woman you can be, not the woman you want to be’.
If you are keen to become a convincing looking woman then being willing to have an open approach is the best way to proceed in my personal view. It’s all bot getting the mix right and finding the right combinations of styles and make-up application. So often transvestites just put on things in a hotchpotch manner and don’t apply their make-up with any kind of direction to making the most of feminising one’s face. Cross-dressing is fun but you if you seek to pass then some discipline and direction needs to be adhered to of one wishes to look realistically like a woman. It is an art form and becoming skilled in the art of illusion is a skill worth mastering.
I would suggest one does not become too drab and dowdy, nice clothes are out thee for women of all ages, why blend in so much one is invisible. I know my vanity likes the feeling of being admired as a woman. I like the idea of being seen as feminine and (hopefully) attractive and if at all possibly, stylishly dressed. I would enjoy admiring glances for these reasons. It is what I call the right kind of attention. I know many women certainly enjoy admiring attention. As Helene I too would like that.
I suppose Helene frees up suppressed flamboyant aspects of my persona. The dressing up, the make-up, the hair, the click of the heels, the swish f hem on a dress…yes, I want to catch peoples eye but I know it is all just down to my vanity. I do feel more emboldened as a woman so I wonder just how I will become once I have ventured out on a few occasions? Will the dam break? Will I thrive on being Helene the woman out an about? I cannot help feeling I will probably get completely at home with the persona, something within me feels sure of this though I cannot say why.
I’ve reached the point now in my life where women I see and admire and who are quietly confident and draw the admiring glances of both men and women have inspired me to the cusp of I too want to become one of them (albeit part time). I want to be waking along in a tailored skirt suit, legs on display clad in nude coloured tights, feet swathed in stylish high heel court shoes, a perfectly ironed tailored blouse and precisely applied make-up and a beautifully styled wig with my nails painted and a fragrant air of perfume. Yes indeed, I really would like to be such a woman.
Will I finally become such a woman?
This year? Maybe…
Left to Right
Top Row: Magnetic Motion; Hacking Infinity; Wilderness Embodied
Middle Row: Voltage; Hybrid Holism; Micro
Bottom Row: Biopiracy; Synesthesia; Crystallization
Transforming Travel...Better journeys for life.... Typical output from First Glasgow and its contemptible standard of vehicle presentation in Glasgow represented by this superannuated former London Trident/Plaxton entering Bridge Street. Vehicles like this should not be in daily frontline service in Scotland's biggest city.
Red Flag - Rote Flagge
La plage de Boucan Canot est une plage de la côte ouest de l'île de La Réunion, département d'outre-mer français dans le sud-ouest de l'océan Indien. Elle est située sur le territoire communal de Saint-Paul, entre le centre-ville et Saint-Gilles les Bains.
En provenance du nord, par exemple de Saint-Denis, on y accède depuis la route nationale 1a par une bretelle qui descend vers la mer à sa droite. Cette voie se transforme rapidement en une petite rue à double sens sur 50 mètres qui se transforme à son tour en un sens unique balisé par des plots. Elle passe d'abord devant un hôtel et quelques commerces avant de traverser l'arrière-plage proprement dite, réaménagée durant au début des années 2000.
À gauche, on trouve une succession de snack-bars avec de courtes terrasses. La plage se situe quant à elle en contrebas à droite. On y accède par des escaliers en bois qui traversent une mince lisière ombragée. Elle est battue par les vagues, ce qui fait de Boucan Canot, malgré la présence récurrente de requins, un spot de surf réputé.
Au nord, une piscine d'eau de mer, où l'on peut se rafraichir lorsque la flamme est orange (mer agitée), a été aménagée à partir de roches noires trouvées sur place et qui forment comme une courte digue s'avançant dans l'océan. Ces roches abritent ceux qui veulent rester à l'écart de la foule, laquelle est massée immédiatement plus au sud en face de l'abri des maîtres-nageurs. Composé surtout d'adolescents, le public est relativement jeune, les couples avec des enfants en bas âge préférant les plages protégées par le lagon qui se trouvent bien plus au sud de la commune. On considère également que les Zoreilles y sont plus nombreux qu'ailleurs.
Mathieu Schiller, champion de bodyboard, a trouvé la mort lors d'une attaque de requin survenue face à la plage de Boucan Canot.
Depuis décembre 2015, après plusieurs tentatives aux résultats mitigés, Boucan-Canot a été la première plage de La Réunion à être protégée par un filet anti-requins permettant la reprise des activités nautiques, y compris le surf.
La plus grande partie de la plage située au sud, en sortie de la Ravine de Boucan, qui forme un plan d'eau mal entretenu qui ne communique avec la mer qu'en période cyclonique, est moins fréquentée. Il est d'ailleurs interdit de s'y baigner puisqu'elle est non surveillée et non aménagée. Une importante formation rocheuse appelée Cap Homard constitue son extrémité et donne sur la plage surnommée Petit Boucan; il est également interdit de s'y baigner.
Il est possible d'emprunter au pied la falaise abrupte qui forme sur l'océan un petit passage sablonneux donnant accès à une nouvelle plage surnommée plage des Aigrettes. Celle-ci se révèle être ressemblante à celle de l'Hermitage quelques kilomètres plus loin mais n'offre aucune sécurité en matière de baignade car elle non plus n'est pas aménagée. Elle est toutefois très fréquentée en période de vacances scolaires. Une rondavelle a été aménagée par la commune où l'on peut se restaurer.
(Wikipedia)
Der Boucan Canot ist ein schöner Sandstrand, der zwischen Saint Paul und Saint-Gilles les Bains liegt. Er zählt zu den am häufigsten besuchten Stränden der Insel und wird deshalb auch überwacht. Der Badestrand wurde mit dem international anerkannten Ökolabel der blauen Flagge ausgezeichnet. Der nördliche Teil des Strandes ist meistens recht menschenleer. Eine gute touristische Infrastruktur mit Hotels und sanitären Anlagen ist vorhanden.
Boucan Canot liegt etwa 3 km nördlich vom Zentrum Saint-Gilles-Les-Bains. Wellen, mehr Tiefgang und bunte fischreiche Gründe zeichnen den Badeort von Boucan Canot aus, da er nicht von der Lagune, sondern durch ein Hai-Netz geschützt wird. Außerdem gibt es eine Art Naturschwimmbad aus vulkanischen Felsen rechts vom Boucan Canot, besondern für kleine Kinder geeignet. In direkter Umgebung gibt es Snackbars, Restaurants, Souvenirshops und eine Kunstgalerie.
Keine Angst vor Haien, denn ein 680 Meter langes Anti-Hai-Netz spannt sich 11. Dezember 2015 vom Boucan-Becken bis zum Hotel Le Saint-Alexis und schützt Badegäste und Wassersportler wie Surfen oder Bodyboarder.
(reunion.de)
.....Hanmer Forest has transformed from summer through to autumn, lovely golden shades.
For the All New Scavenger Hunt #10 Transformed
Some years ago the balcony of our flat has been painting - one year after the paint began to peel and reveals now its own "beauty" with different patterns.
shot because of dailyshoot: "Make a beautiful photograph of something commonly thought of as ugly. (@divadeb88)
2023 RM Sotheby's Auction Preview, Monterey: 1930 Cadillac V-16 Transformable Town Cabriolet by Fleetwood
A couple of photos today from inside the National Museum of Scotland. This was taken inside the new contemporary extension, really like the design and use of light in this area.
My original painting (24" x 20" vertical) was in yellow with patches of pink and light blueish green. I transformed it into this mixed media horizontal image with the magic of Photoshop. Copyright © 2010 ArtsySF . LINK to the ORIGINAL painting:
artsysf.buzznet.com/user/photos/soft-original-transformed...
"Show your true colors."
('Inkling Girl' and 'Squid' by Nintendo / Amiibo)
Amiibo figures by courtesy of my daughter / Diorama by RK
Back in 1959-60 this was part of the last 1/3 of my High School Cross-Country course. It was just barren rolling hills of hard-packed adobe clay.
As ever we had a wonderful evening at the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba.
Great friends, wonderful dance music and over the top hospitality.
Transformal number nine was a great success.
Beyond The Blue Moon Valley - Future And Hope by Daniel Arrhakis (2016)
With the music : Green Tara Mantra - Dao Xiaojuan 绿度母心咒 - 玉恩明玛
One Of The Seven Beyuls (Hidden Paradises similar to Shangri-La)
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Work made for the Treat This # 125 ~Friday March 25th ---> Thursday March 31st in Kreative People Group :
www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157665758026480/
Thank you to my dear friend Lemon~art for the images for transform in this challenge (in first Comment box)
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My Last Work for this week, wish you wonderful days dear friends and thank you for your always kind visit, comments and invitations ! : )
Dear Friends:
For some reason, my last post (see below), although interlocked, brought "distance" with it in a way I was unable to respond to every person or answer questions. Ironically, right before my eyes, the pepper transformed and became more "colorful" ~ the other *green* pepper, alone in the veggie basket, remained unchanged.
Hopefully I'll be back on track and up for more visits. Thanks for all your comments and faithful friendship. Although we are all separated by distance, the bond we have formed will be forever in my heart.
“Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. ~ Albert Einstein ~
“A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.” anon
“I am in You,You are in Me,There is no distance or distinction.” ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba ~
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.”
~ Roy Croft ~
“Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss.” ~ anon ~
“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
note: the title is a quotation by Diogenes
This is the second image, taken four days after posting (Transform) to Flickr.
If God willing this will transform into a beautiful Gulf Fritallary (agraulis vanillae) Butterfly.
Its amazing the that I am able to document the total live span of these delicate creatures. Thanks.
Sara Pantuliano, Managing Director, Overseas Development Institute, United Kingdom, speaking during the session, Transforming Humanitarian Finance, at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Ciaran McCrickard
These old barges on the river normally look quite dull and uninteresting (unless you particularly like old barges!) but yesterday's morning light and mist transformed them into something of real beauty.
"Light Transformed"
The cool thing about a camera sensor is that it captures light over time, which we cannot do since we observe light in real time. This is a composite of at least 4 long exposure images involving pond ice, a plastic snowflake, a laser pointer, various flashlights and an evening moon photo from last year. What does it conjure in your mind?
How transform a simple and classic black pants and shirt ? Simply : add the beautifull and exuberant jewelry from Aisling "Tortuga Princess", available at The Gacha Fantasy Carnival (50 per play).
Skin from Glam Affair [https://www.flickr.com/photos/aidaewing/]
The amazing furnitures on the backside are from 8f8, available at The Arcade (50 per play).
"My healed chest wound
Transformed into a gate
Where I receive love from
Where I give love from…"
*Björk*
The 23'' Brave Mama Bear Plush Toy, released by the Disney Store online and in stores in the US and Canada on May 14, 2012. The price is $39.50 US. She is the transformed Queen Elinor, has a soft crown on her head, articulated arms and legs, soft black fur, faux leather nose and paws, and embroidered eyes.
Her legs rotate 360 degrees about the hip joint, and her arms are bendable, with internal wiring. When her legs are rotated so she is standing, they are not sturdy or stiff enough for her to be stable free standing, so she needs a bit of support to stand. However, she is very stable sitting down. She is a hefty doll, weighing in at 3 pounds 2 ounces (1.417 kg). Her fur is VERY soft, and looks and feels like real fur, and her body is soft and cuddly. As she is handled, some individual hairs come loose, but there is very minimal shedding.
She is a very accurate depiction of the mama bear in the Brave trailers shown so far. The tag on the bear actually says ''Mum Bear'' which the (mostly) British way of saying Mother (or Mama) Bear.
transform, 2001, 60"w x 40"h, mixed media painting on canvas
transform = transformation = transmute = transubstantiate = metamorphose = translate = convert = change = mutate = reform = modify = revolutionize = tweak
*Exhibited at Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal, Canada, group show. Nov15-26.05.
He's so big, guess he needs a little help.
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La ruche cévenole ou ruche tronc
( lo brusc ou brusquet)
Depuis le néolithique, l homme récolte et transforme les produits issus de la ruche. Le tronc d arbre creux offre un habitat naturel a l abeille. La ruche tronc est un modèle de ruche directement inspirè de cette observation.
En Cévennes, jusqu a environ la seconde guerre mondiale, la plupart des familles possèdaient 10 a 15 ruches troncs, prés de la maison, pour leur consommation personnelle. A cette période , le miel remplaçait le sucre, une denrée rare et chère.
Le prix du miel , lorsqu il était commercialisé, était trés élevé.
La cire , elle, se vendait pour faire des cierges, des chandelles mais aussi pour les meubles.
A partir d une soixantaine de ruches, on pouvait subvenir aux besoins d une famille grace aux revenus induits.