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On one of my birding trips near Jeypore I saw this old man carrying a heavy log balanced on his shoulders. He did not give me enough time to take a proper shot hence the taken image is a bit soft. Nothing photographically exceptional about this image. This is just a perspective to highlight the hard work done by this old man. His weathered body shows signs of ageing but he has aged well. Tough enough to take on more hardships that life might throw before him. God Bless Him.
Tom Bass sculpture of the winged figure of Ethos representing the spirit of the community, Civic Square, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1962
Ethos was the first work of art commissioned by the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC) for a public place in Canberra and was co-sponsored by the Canberra Chamber of Commerce. The title uses an early Greek word meaning ‘the place of living’.
The winged female figure celebrates the civic pride of Canberra and the fabric of her robe is richly embossed with emblems and figures representing the community. Ethos stands in a dish bearing a relief map of the City and holds aloft a bursting sun representing culture and enlightenment.
The work stands before the ACT Legislative Assembly building and has, overtime, become a well-known Canberra landmark and a symbol of the city.
Ethos is listed on the ACT Heritage Objects Register. The Draft heritage nomination states:
“The NCDC intended that the work would emphasize that Canberra is the non-political centre, the locale of commerce and of private enterprise in its best sense. "The restless, virile, energetic movement of free enterprise" arising out of the planned city "and the two facets should become as one, striving forward progressively".(NCDC Meeting notes not dated, early 1960, NCDC file 66/1181).
The sculpture was thus conceived as representing the spirit of the community. Bass interpreted this in the figure which he intended "the love which Canberra people have for their city to be identified with her...I want them to be conscious of her first as an image from a distance...then comes the moment when they become personally involved with her... they feel her looking at them, reflecting their love for the place". (Daily Telegraph 7/12/61) She was "beauty arising from and through a plan - in this case, beauty represented by the National Capital arising from and through a planned city" (NCDC file note 4/5/60) and in form possessing true civic style and scale.
The form of the work is highly symbolic. The figure is robed in a fabric richly embossed with emblems and figures representing the Community. The shallow saucer on which the figure stands represents Canberra's nick-name "Frosty Hollow". The saucer is 6 sided because the plan for Civic square is itself hexagonal. The surface of the saucer bears a relief map of Canberra and the rolling countryside around it. At the feet of Ethos are indentations that represent the lake that was later to fill the space between the Civic Centre and the administrative part of the city. The bursting sun she holds aloft is symbolic of culture and enlightenment which the presence of Canberra's University, its research organisations and the Diplomatic Corps and so on give to the City.”
Tom Bass composed a poem inspired by Ethos for the 90th anniversary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom which was celebrated with a week-long festival of peace in October 2005.
The poem is reproduced below:
ETHOS
I am Ethos
and though I do not speak
with words
I speak to you
in other ways.
I say to you that
I am the spirit
of this place
and this people.
I am the love
peace and beauty
of this place.
I am Ethos
and in me
there is no violence
no war, only peace
the resolution
of all the conflicts
that lead to war.
I am Ethos
I am peace and love
and I give you
these things
every day
and always.
(Tom Bass for Canberra's Festival of Peace, October 2005)
Source ACT Government website
the accounting department on Monday... was changed into the Wild Wild West, full of bank robbers and missing lute!
Why this other person couldn't do the work, even though she forced herself on the project, I will never know. Its easy work that only will take about an hour or so once a week to do but it pisses me off she feels she's my boss and can tell me what to do.
Yesterday I got an email from her saying "we" need to do this. I replied back pretty much telling her to go ahead and get to it. She forwarded the email to my boss, and now it's my job. I had this in my NSM Part 1 video but decided to edit it out since people at work know my website address.
U.S. Navy Airman Justin Klippert installs a leading edge flap transmission assembly on an F/A-18E Super Hornet in the hangar bay aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Arabian Sea, Nov. 13, 2010. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Ryan McLearnon
I used this to blog about the work breakdown structure, read on here: www.7aleva.com/2012/12/work-breakdown-structure.html
This friendly guy and his four buddies came over and let me pet their noses when I stopped by a farmer's roadside stand. The farmer's wife said they still use work horses to pull some of the equipment. They had some tractors, too; I guess horses are still the only way to get the job done on some of the steep mountain slopes.
Today was my 1st "bug hunt trip" of the year. Actually I'm quite glad of the result, and hope this year will be a good macro year ! ;)
Resultado das aulas do Laboratório de Figurino 2013 do Projeto Valores de Minas.
Todas as estampas foram criadas pelos alunos e a impressão digital feita em parceria com a Criata estamparia digital.