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A bodhisattva is a being committed to achieving nirvana, but who postpones Buddhahood in order to help people in this world achieve enlightenment. The fine attire of these figures and their relaxed posture of Royal Ease underline their high status.
Excavated in Dazu. Southern Song dynasty, AD1174-1252. Carved sandstone.
(c) Dazu Rock Carvings Museum, Chongqing, China
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Dau bodhisattva yn eistedd (1 o 2)
Bod sy’n ymroi i gyrraedd nirvana yw bodhisattva, ond sy’n gohirio troi’n Fwdha er mwyn helpu pobl y byd hwn i gyrraedd goleuedigaeth. Mae’r ffigurau hyn yn gwisgo dillad crand, ac maen nhw’n ymlacio yn osgo hamddenol y ‘Royal Ease’ – mae hyn yn tanlinellu eu statws uchel.
Wedi’i gloddio yn Dazu. Llinach Song y de, OC 1174-1252. Tywodfaen cerfiedig.
(c) Amgueddfa Cerfiadau Caerreg Dazu, Chongqing, Tsieina
After a friend insisted my testing was flawed, I checked the Chrome memory usage with similar (though not exact) same tabs:
18 tabs running (counting the about memory tab) including streaming video and audio content. Many pages are average, low image types but there is a variety.
Task Manager shows 19 instances of chrome, running 286mb and hogging my machine.
About:memory shows it using 226MB private memory with a total at 281MB. Virtual memory is listed at 309MB private and only 55MB mapped
That said... yes they opened fast, but then I was experiencing lag.
→→ Similarly, opening the same tabs in Firefox3 uses 128mb according to Task Manager, though with the mem leak issue I'm sure that'd just increase as It stays open or tabs are opened/closed. They opened a bit slower but I didn't have lag after the same point as I did with Chrome.
Maybe Chrome is the wave of the future.... for dual core machines? Vista, no XP?
→→ IE8 beta - 9 tabs, mainly microsoft's own sites and streaming services, opens 9 instances in TM. The MB count is much higher - 30mb for the smallest and 65 for the highest with a total of around 392mb! AND it crashed twice to pull them up.
This is Tobbe and Linda, I met them in Västerhaninge yesterday and asked if I could take a portrait. Linda lives in Västerhaninge and is looking for work after graduating from the Fredrika Bremer secondary school, where she attended the Media Programme. She enjoys photography and while at the school she took the same course as this trio. She said she hadn't had any inspiration for photography lately, which she blamed on the weather. Tobbe, who is from Skogås, is still at the school where he is studying music. He is in a band. They play a bit of grunge, but have yet to set up a MySpace site. I play the guitar, Tobbe told me, and we are currently looking for a drummer, but can't seem to find one, so I may have to switch to the drums, as it's easier to find another guitarist, he continued. Perhaps not a coincidence, but I did meet a guy from Skogås a couple of weeks ago who, and he was also in a band.
Georgetown Airport Classic Car and Vintage Plane Show
February 27, 2016
Georgetown, TX
I went to my first large-scale Texas car show yesterday, actually it was cars and airplanes, which is something I hadn't seen in all my years of attending these types of shows in California.
Billed as the "5th Annual Georgetown Airport Classic Car and Vintage Plane Show - Motorcycles Welcome," the event was free, but donations were accepted for a veterans organization. Of course, I gave.
It was pretty big, with a decent mix of chrome, rust, and tattoos. There was a C-47 that was giving half-hour rides, a beautiful P-40, and a quarter mile stretch of really cool hot rods.
I was there for a little over an hour and a half, the weather was perfect, sunny and just below 70º, and I walked up and down the length of the show four times, taking over a hundred pictures. About half were keepers.
I had a great time.
i hate how it's one week before christmas and i still have a weeks worth of school left.
where's the fun in that?
Wat Triamit was one of Bangkok's lesser temples until the amazing discovery of it's main attraction in 1955, when an old painted-stucco sculpture of the seated Buddha was being relocated to the temple; dropped by a crane during the process, the figure's stucco finished cracked, revealing beneath a beautiful solid gold statue, the largest in the World.
The Golden Buddha is believed to date as far back as the 13th century, in the Sukhothai style. It is believed to have been moved to the previous capital Ayutthaya until it's sack by the Burmese, at which point the statue must have been disguised under a stucco layer to protect it from the invading forces who looted the city. It lay forgotten for a good two centuries in Bangkok before it's true importance was revealed again.
Today it is housed in a brand new shrine at the Wat Triamit Temple complex in Bangkok's Chinatown. The new Temple takes the form of a terraced structure crowned by a golden-steepled tower, under which the Buddha has sat since his relocation here in February 2010.
The new temple is quite stunning, especially since all it's gilt and marble was still less than a year old when we visited, a wonderful introduction to the glorious Buddhist sites of the city.
Éjszaka a Siemens Combino villamosok között (Budapest, Magyarország) / Between two Siemens Combino trams at night (Budapest, Hungary)
My 28 " wheel New Hudson single speed / coaster brake & my Dayton cycle Co London single speed / coaster brake roadster. I will restore these two bikes this winter to use on Vintage events next year.
#22 : Students excercise
On the front of this clay tablet is part of an incantation or spell against evil spirits written in both Sumerian and Babylonian. On the back the text has been repeated phonetically in Greek script. Students in Babylonia wrote tablets like this to practice their translation.
3rd-1st century BCE, Babylon, Iraq
#24 The last dated cuneiform tablet
This is the last datable cuneiform tablet in the British Museum. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac signs and the dates of their characterisitc phenomena. Dates of solstices , equinoxes and eclipses are also given. The text also refers to the rising of Sirius, and especially bright star used as a calender markers by various cultures across the ancient world.
AD 61, Babylon, Iraq
I was making ripple by shaking a withered branches with some water on top of Danbo.
My friend, kctsang helps me to take the photo. Thanks a lot.
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Langen Foundation Neuss, Germany
Main building by Tadao Ando
The Langen Foundation is located at the Raketenstation Hombroich, a former NATO base, in the midst of the idyllic landscape of the Hombroich cultural environment. Visitors enter through a cut-out in the semicircular concrete wall, opening up the view to the glass, steel and concrete building. A path, bordered by a row of cherry trees, guide visitors around the pond to the entrance on the longitudinal side of the building. The glass envelope, supported by steel girders, protects the perimeter around the 76 meter long, 10.8 meter wide and 6 meter high concrete core. Reflections in the glass skin and in the water of the shallow pond dissolve borders and communicate an impression of weightlessness. The ticket office and museum shop break through the concrete core and connect with the northern side of the glass envelope, where the border between inside and outside can be experienced along its entire length. The polished concrete floor is inlaid with turquoise illuminated strips. The building is composed of two architecturally distinct complexes: a long concrete structure within a glass envelope and, at a 45 degree angle, two parallel concrete wings buried six meters deep in the earth and protruding only 3.45 meters above it. A grand stairway between the two wings of the building leads back to ground level. The long and narrow (43 x 5.4 meters) exhibition room in the concrete core, reserved for the Langen Foundation Japanese collection, receives daylight through linear light rails worked into the ceiling. On the south side of building, between the concrete core and the glass envelope, the pathway descends slightly toward the mezzanine overlooking the 8 meter tall exhibition wings containing the Modern I and Modern II galleries. The two galleries, each 436 square meters, have identical dimensions but appear very different. In Modern I a concrete ramp takes up almost half of the space where as Modern II presents itself in pure size and monumentality. The two galleries receive daylight through central narrow skylights with adjustable slats. The Langen Foundation is a masterpiece composed of lines and a fascinating interplay between inside and outside, art and nature, massiveness and lightness. It is a constructed place that is not only an envelope for art but also exhibits itself.
The Hombroich Missile Base is part of the visionary project of collector Karl-Heinrich Müller to turn a "neglected corner of the earth" in North-Rhine Westphalia into a unique synthesis of art and nature. After the development of the Museum Insel Hombroich, he bought the 13 hectares of land of a former NATO base in 1994. Not marked on any map, this area served defence purposes and the storage of cruise missile warheads and Pershing rockets. In 1992/93 it was mothballed as a result of the disarmament agreements between the NATO states and the former USSR. The overall concept, developed by Karl-Heinrich Müller, Erwin Heerich, Oliver Kruse and Katsuhito Nishikawa between 1994 and 1995, was not to completely eradicate the history of the location but to provide it with a new face and purpose. Military elements like barbed wire fences, spotlight systems and bullet-proof glass were removed. The halls, hangars, bunker systems, earth berms and observation tower were preserved, renovated and, in part, redesigned. New buildings by Heerich and Nishikawa complemented the existing ensemble, as did sculptures by Heinz Baumüller, Mark di Suvero, and Eduardo Chillida, among others. Tadao Ando's big arch, today's entrance to the Langen Foundation, was realized in 1998/99 as one of the first buildings serving as a portal to the missile base.
Site area: 120,220 m2; Building area museum by Ando: 1,860 m2; Opening 2004.