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“THE ALIENATION OF OPPRESSION” is a 27”x41” digital colour photograph taken in Richmond, British Columbia in January 2019. Specifically, the photograph was taken at the intersection of Gilbert and Lansdowne Roads, where the Richmond Olympic Oval can be seen at the far end of Lansdowne Road. This is an area that has seen a lot of change over the last 10 years. Previously, the area consisted of light industrial and commercial buildings, as well as small chunks of forested areas that lined some of the banks of the Fraser River. Today, the Richmond Curling Centre is all that is left of that former period, and the building it occupies certainly stands out as being a relic in need of restoration. The old curling building is being swallowed up and surrounded by much newer and taller buildings, some completed and some still under construction. Large construction cranes loom in the distance, representative of the ubiquitous change that is occurring at a breakneck speed. A quieter and more rural time replaced by a fast pace concrete jungle.
The photograph was taken at dusk, during the golden hour just after the sun it set. The sky was dark and cloudy, and it began to rain heavily not long after this photograph was taken. The lights of the cars illuminate different things, creating long shadows of some of the people crossing the street. I found it interesting that these people were walking alone, and although they were grouped together, none of them were talking to each other, and none of them seem to know each other. The lights of the oncoming car that was waiting to turn caused the figures in the crosswalk to be silhouetted, further blurring the elements of their individuality. The light of the golden hour also helped to make the artificial streetlights stand out. The green and red traffic lights serve as a reminder of societies control over the movement of individuals; where the individuals are also walking towards the businesses that line the street, exemplified by the TD Canada Trust banking sign to the left. This, combined with a time of day, certainly suggests how humanity is at a turning point in its own heroes journey, as they leave the light of the day for the darkness of the cave they are about to enter.
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The above writeup also appears on my website's journal.
Pride Week is a really big deal in Toronto. It celebrates the diversity of the LBGT community but its popularity has spread far beyond the LGBT community as the city goes into party mode. (www.seetorontonow.com/annual-events/toronto-pride-week/)
I was sitting with a friend on the patio of the Ryerson University coffee shop having a chat and a cup of joe and people-watching as a street fair associated with the Pride Festival took place in front of us. I saw her at a table across the street with a coworker, giving out information about Inside Out, a nonprofit cultural organization “committed to challenging attitudes and changing lives through year-round initiatives in queer cinema.” (www.insideout.ca) I was drawn to her great smile and her beautiful collection of tattoos. When I finished my coffee, I introduced myself by asking if she felt as photogenic as she looked. She laughed and said “No, not at all.” I told her about 100 Strangers and my wish to include her as part of my project and she said “I love it. The project sounds fantastic – kind of like Humans of New York.” “Yes” I replied. “Kind of but a bit different.” I have her my card and we shook hands. Meet Diana.
Diana’s coworker agreed to look after the table for a couple of minutes while Diana and I crossed the street to the shade of the coffee shop patio where I had been sitting a few minutes before. We took the photos rather quickly with the reflective windows of the coffee shop in the background and I then returned Diana to the promotions table to chat.
Diana is 29 and is originally from Vancouver on Canada’s west coast. Her family is of Vietnamese origin but she was born and raised in Canada. I learned that she does some photography herself and would like to look into 100 Strangers and perhaps join the group. She really likes the way it encourages reaching out socially and connecting people along with its photographic goals.
Diana is the Marketing Manager of Inside Out and said she likes he job because it’s a small, somewhat informal organization and she is given a lot of independence to come up with her own ideas of how to best do the promotions –such as being present at the Ryerson University street festival today. When I asked her about the greatest challenge she has faced in life, Diana said it has been finding her place in the world. She went on to explain that while most young people who identify as queer go through a process of not fitting in with other kids, they eventually find a strong connection with the queer community. “It wasn’t like that for me” she went on. “I didn’t connect strongly with the queer community either so I’ve had to find my own way. Now I have a mixture of friends and activities that are not just straight or queer.” I had the impression that this has been a challenge for Diana but that she is making her way in the world without defining herself purely through terms of sexual preference.
I found Diana to be very outgoing, friendly, and an eager participant in 100 Strangers. She said she was happy to have been invited to the project and I told her it had been fun meeting her. It was time to leave her to her promotion work – a job that is a good match for her personality. I meant to ask her about the Kings Avenue cap she was wearing and returned after my class to ask but discovered that the street event was winding down and she and her coworker had returned to the office. With a bit of googling, I discovered that Kings Avenue is the name of a highly-rated tattoo shop with studios in Manhattan and Long Island. (www.kingsavenuetattoo.com/) If Kings Avenue is in fact the source of Diana’s body art, they certainly do good work.
Thank you Diana for the friendly response to my photo request and for taking a few minutes to get acquainted. Thanks for your participation in The Human Family where you are #835 in Round 9 of my project. Have a great time at Pride Week.
Update: I received a very nice email from Diana saying she is pleased with the writeup and explaining that two of her tattoos are, in fact, from Kings Avenue studio. It's always great to hear back from someone in my project. Thanks Diana. :-)
Crosshair from G1 Transformers Cartoon Series transforms into a futuristic buggy.
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The FG Mason Engineering model A2 receiver was a portable solid state, ulta-wideband receiver introduced in 1964 and discontinued in the 1980's. It could demodulate AM, FM and CW signals with a range of bandwidths, and was intended primarily for "TSCM" (bug-sweeping and transmitter locating) applications. It was supplied in a custom briefcase with a collection of front-end tuning modules providing full coverage between 2 KHz and 2 GHz. This photo shows the A2 with the rear panel removed, exposing the discrete solid state components and wiring. (Additional components are inside the two cans and on the opposite side). The lower part of the case houses (long since removed) dry cell batteries.
Each unit was hand made to order, and the kit was priced accordingly. The main customer was the US Government, and a total of about 800 units were said to have been produced. I purchased mine a few years ago from a GSA surplus auction;I believe the original owner was the State Department Diplomatic Security Service. The radio and all its tuning modules still function well, although the AF gain pot is a bit noisy and could use a cleaning. (Note that this radio, serial number 61, was an early production version from around 1965.)
A good writeup on the A2 can be found at www.cryptomuseum.com/df/mason/a2.htm
It’s hard to imagine today what an engineering accomplishment the Mason A2 was in 1964. It basically replaced a small truckload of RF gear with something that fit into a single portable, reasonably concealable case.
The Cold War may have nearly killed us all, but it produced some pretty neat gadgets.
Rodenstock 105mm/5.6 Digaron macro floating element lens (@ f/11), Phase one IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo Actus-XL camera with movements applied.
No emulsions were harmed in the making of this image,
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At least, I think that's what it is. Sulphurs always throw me.
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I have stressed this in a few other write ups but I feel the compulsive need to stress it again. What I want to stress to you, is that California is a beautiful place. If you have the means to visit or the opportunity to live here, do so. You will not regret it, and if you do then... nah, you probably won't. LOL
Today I went out to the beach with a few photographer friends of mine, we left town at 5pm and stayed until sunset. It's been a while since i've taken photos at the beach. I have sincerely forgotten how wet and sandy these beach things are. I ended up getting both my legs and 60% of my tripod engulfed in the ocean, but it was entirely worth it. After today I've really realized how beautiful the Bay Area truly is. There are honestly very few places i'd rather live than California, off the top of my head I can only think of Germany. For the pretty cars of course, hehe.
After the beach, we headed back to town to get the most awesome burritos from our local Taco Truck. The ending of this write up is rather anticlimactic but this is the end.
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Crosshair from G1 Transformers Cartoon Series transforms into a futuristic buggy.
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Pointblank from G1 Transformers cartoon series, turns into a futuristic speedster. Transformation doesn't require reassembly of parts.
I am taking inspiration from both his original toy version from the 80s and also some design cues from his cartoon/comic version.
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While in Tokyo last year, I retraced the steps I took during my first vacation there, almost 20 years ago. I tried to recreate some of the photos I took to see how things had changed.
I made a full writeup in this blog post, which will also include more photos than I'll be posting here on Flickr.
去年、東京にいる間に、ほぼ20年前の初めて東京へ行った旅行の行った道を戻りました。景色はどうやて変わったのかと思いました。それで、昔に撮った写真と比べるために、出来るだけ同じように現代版を撮りました。
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My photo from the 5 October 2022 Air Tahiti Nui launch of a new route from Tahiti to Seattle & back. Simple Flying writeup up at bit.ly/ATNSEA .
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When your wife is a chef and her friends try to impress each other....
Michael Pollan was in town last night, ate here and gave them a great writeup in his blog. Real happy for them. That's good publicity.
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56302 draws forward after having been sat partially under the Wilderspool Causeway, clagging away.
The working was about to enter the start of the engineering possession at the girder bridge over the River Mersey.
The whole of the overnight engineering posession was located between Arpley Junction to Ditton East Junction and Arpley Junction to Walton old Junction.
During daylight hours the Railvac was working on the up and down goods lines between Arpley Junction Signal box and the bridge at Slutchers Lane.
The drivers and the engineering chaps were good sports and did not mind 4 people taking loads of photographs. The suggestion that one photographer on a ladder should pay a fee for each photo was politely declined as long as there was a good writeup :-)
27/07 6C52 1653 Crewe Bas Hall S.S.M. to Latchford Sdgs
28/07 6C52 0645 Walton Old Jn. to Crewe Bas Hall S.S.M.
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I had a suspicion these bodies wouldn't quite match up, but I tracked one down to be certain.
Spoiler: Lies.
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"Stephen Ball, died in Barracks."
After some frustrating research, I think I have located some records that shine a small light on this young man. In Fort Vancouver, Oregon Territory, records for July 1850, written by the fort's commander William W. Loving, report that in the new Vancouver Barracks (built in 1849) was a private soldier named Stephen Ball. He had been received at the post on 28 June, 1850. By 19 July, Ball was discharged and ordered "to report to General Smith at Sonoma, California."
The July report lists one of the other soldiers at the fort had died--probably from disease, as there was no action occurring at the fort. My suspicion is that Ball also died of disease before leaving the Barracks, or shortly thereafter, and never arrived in Sonoma.
This image may have been taken for his family before Ball joined the army.
Wikipedia says of Fort Vancouver, "It was was a 19th century fur trading outpost along the Columbia River that served as the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company in the company's Columbia District (which covered the northern half of the region known to Americans as the Oregon Country). Named for Captain George Vancouver, the fort was located on the northern bank of the Columbia River in present-day Vancouver, Washington, near Portland, Oregon. Today, a full-scale replica of the fort, with internal buildings, has been constructed and is open to the public as Fort Vancouver National Historic Site."
For a fascinating writeup about the fort and pictures of it as Ball would have known it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Vancouver.
This is an idol made by me by hand. We have a tradition in our family of making these Ganesha idols and give it to our family members and close friends. We make around 33 idols every year. My uncle, my father and I know the art of making them. We do not use any moulds or machines to make them. It is purely made by hand. All that we use is a small wooden stick to groove/mark the designs on the ornaments.
It all started like this: (as told by my father) My great grand father had a wish that he wanted to offer prayers to a hand made ganesha and he seldom found one. Knowing this, my grandfather tried once using pure clay and for his luck it turned out to be a master piece. Then he started doing it every year for the Vinayak Chaturthi. This attracted relatives and friends and he started making idols for them also. Later my father and my uncle joined his hands to cater to the demands.
I began making clay idols as early as when I was 6. I used to sit with my uncle and my dad and help them roll clay to make ornaments. Initially my work did not meet the requirements; either they were not fully perfect or improper shapes. But I persisted and now kind of mastered the art. My uncle is my guru, he has taught me and shaped my art. Thanks to both my father and uncle. No one in our family knows this art. I am lucky to get the hang of it and hopefully I will keep up the tradition.
The making of idols need lots of effort, we need to soften the clay, take out impurities and all. The most important thing is that we need to find the Clay - Yes proper soft pure clay which is now becoming a challenge for us. We do paint them using poster solvable colors which are more eco friendly. When the idols are immersed in water, the idol does not harm the aquatic animals or plants. We do this work with great sanctity. There is a huge demand for these hand made pure idols but we are keeping this low as we would be able to meet the demands. We reject the demands on face as we know we can not make more than that. None of us have the free time. My uncle, aged 76, and my father, aged 74, can not afford to do more than this. My uncle takes the major chunk of doing around 20 and I and my father together finish the remaining. I would upload the colored finished ones when we start coloring them.
This is not from pottery town :-)
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Richard sent me these very cool techniques along with a great writeup on his blog. Details are now on Swooshable: #1 and #2.
An image from the Lightscape Event held at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. Photo editing in Lightroom before being processed in topaz Denoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI. Captured on 6/08/2022 9:22:46 PM with a Sony ILCE-7RM4 and E 28-75mm F2.8-2.8 @ 28 mm, 1/30 sec at ƒ / 2.8, ISO 1250. More photos and a full writeup at trav.to/ls2022
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Harlinsdale Farm is a historic farm for breeding Tennessee Walking Horses. The farm was purchased by the city of Franklin to preserve history and to be used as a park.
Here is a portion of the National Register of Historic Places writeup of this stable. Read the PDF for the thorough story.
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Harlinsdale Farm is a 198-acre historic district north of downtown Franklin on the west side of U. S. Highway 31 (Franklin Road). The highway provides a portion of the western boundary of the property while the Harpeth River is the eastern boundary. The property's entrance faces the location of the historic Dortch Stove Works (Now The Factory at Franklin). The nominated property contains 18 contributing and 4 non-contributing resources. The related buildings and structures of the Harlinsdale stables visually dominate the nominated property. The stables are connected to the highway by a paved driveway, which is lined by a white board fence that splits the eastern most horse pasture into two separate fields. Large expanses of open land, critical for a training stable, characterize the farm.
Main Horse Stable (1935)
At the center of the complex, approached by a paved road, is the main horse stable, completed in 1935. Set back about 680 feet from Franklin Road, the long facade of the gable end stable is parallel to the road and only the wood fence lining the drive to the barn interrupts the view. This arrangement was an innovation in the modem revival of the Tennessee Walking Horse industry in the 1930s.
The one story plus monitor roof main horse stable is capped by a green asphalt shingle gable roof, sheathed with white weatherboard and green wood trim, and rests on a concrete slab foundation. It has a centered gable bay entrance on both front and rear facades and two side wings, creating a cross-shaped plan precedent setting for Tennessee Walking Horse stables. This bay projects approximately fifteen feet from the wings, which are approximately forty feet long. The front, or east facade (street facade) has two wood six-over-six double hung sash windows flanking the one-story overhead rolling "garage-type" door on the central projecting bay. Above the door in the monitor roof are two three-paned single sash windows with a single metal tube centered between them that projects, curving downward. The walls are constructed of five-inch weatherboarding. The first story wings each contain four open, barred, and symmetrically placed square windows. The monitor roof repeats this pattern but with five windows, two of which abut the central bay.
The principal features of the south elevation are the two sliding wood doors. Each door has a square six-pane window. Flanking the entry doors are square windows identical to those on the east facade, while the monitor roof also repeats the window and lighting pattern of the east facade. Also visible are the south elevations of the central bays of the east (farm side) and west (street side) facades. Evident on the eastern part are two six-over-six double hung sash windows on the first story and two triple paned single sash windows in the monitor roof. The western section has one six-over-six double hung sash window on the first story.
Harlinsdale Farm is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for its statewide significance in agriculture as Tennessee's most significant extant historic stables associated with the modern Tennessee Walking Horse industry from 1935 to 1956. The property also possesses local architectural significance as a cohesive, extant collection of buildings that became a model for the image and appearance of the Tennessee Walking Horse stables. Dating from c. 1900, the farm complex represents an archetypical Middle Tennessee farm that would turn into one of the premier Walking Horse sites in the state. The collection of buildings includes the walking horse farm and the dairy farm complexes, complete with laborer houses, equipment sheds, a smokehouse, a farmhouse, various horse and livestock barns, a dairy barn, and silos.
Due to its success as a Walking Horse breeding and training center, Harlinsdale Farm has been a model by which other breeders and trainers in the industry have patterned the layouts of their stables. Other successful horse breeding farms, such as Haynes Haven in Spring Hill, Maury County, and the Wilson Farm in Sumner County, followed the precedents of Harlinsdale's design and layout. Instead of the traditional Tennessee placement of the main barn behind a centrally located house, with the barn's primary entry being on its gable end and facing the rear of the house, the Harlins chose a new model that highlighted the horse stables. By drawing attention to the central structure, through a lengthwise positioning and unusual cross-gable placement of the primary entryway and facade on this long side, the architecture becomes a social statement of pride and position. The main horse barn contains impressive craftsmanship and balances work spaces for employees and stalls for the horses. Its exterior facade reflects an unmistakable 1920s industrial aesthetic: here was a facility to produce horses, large numbers of them, for sale.
he repaired one of my friend watch. he had all the good stuffs here, I mean some of them were antiques. worth hundred of dollars. he had it all but never for sell. we did ask him why he didn't want to sell, he said it was passed to him and so it's a memories of the past. As long he kept it in good shape, so the memories.
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Sureshot transform into a dune buggy .As a robot, he has great articulations.
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Worn sent me to the Fashion Pop Montreal event where Angie Johnson (Norwegian Wood) won 1st place! I'm working on my write up as we speak, but I thought I'd post pictures of my first fashion show ever outfit!
it's actually as simple as can be. the dress i got second hand, i loved it for it's sort of longer sleeves and big huge Peter Pan collar. It also has big floppy pockets at the front and I loved the plastic buttons!
Red rights and my highest of platforms with a little black jacket!
dress: thrift store
tights: urban outffiters
shoes: aldo
headband: 1$ store
jacket: antique mall in Pigeon Forge
bag: stole from my sis!
My writeup should be up on the Worn blog by Monday or Tuesday!
A Marshosaurus and a Ceratosaurus circle a Stegasaurus carcass -- found in the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry, on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City. Writeup coming soon to a blog near you.
This is the third time I have been tagged by Drashi, Sandhya and Atul
I have already been tagged twice before by Sakshi Sharma.... and Ravi .... so I have consolidated all those 30 points into 10 points.. I know most of you might be knowing that much about me... but writing 10 different points again was very hard for me... :(
-----> Born on 21st March.... I am Pisces/Aries cusp... my eyes are very small... so most of the time people think that i am sleepy... which is not true many times... :P I love chocolates and ice-cream.... I love watching Tom and Jerry.... I love dogs and want to have 3 dogs... one Labrador, one Alsatian and one Golden Retriever
-----> I was born in Shillong and spent initial years of my childhood in Bhutan.... den moved to Jaipur... did schooling from KV... and graduation and postgraduation from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi...... I was very notorious kid... when I was 6 I set my Aunt's house on fire.. :D luckily no one was injured and fire was controlled in time... :P
-----> I am very short tempered... I can easily go out of my mind when I am angry and irritated. Once I have thrown my HP iPaq on wall and it was broken into pieces.... I regret for this habit... :(
-----> like every other person in Blr i am also in IT.... :P but I always wanted to become fighter pilot... but nw I am too old to get into that... but one day i'll go for the CPL and will live my drm...
-----> my first bike was hero puch and i used to roam a lot on it.... sometimes i used to steal petrol from my Dad's scooter... i even rode it with 4 persons on it... including me... it was fun... once me and my frnd was going on bike and they was a camel cart in front.... i told him that i will take a cut and dodge the cart at last moment... but i kept thinking only and den... boooommm.... we hit the cart and found ourself on road... luckily noone got hurt... i guess that was most foolish of me... :D
-----> I love adrenaline rush... In my school days I was in NCC air wing and flied Guilders many times... I have done lot of shooting (includes .22, 7.63 SLR, revolver, pistol, .303 single and double barrel, skeet shooting, target shoot) and camping.... white river rafting in Gang... cliff diving... paragliding... I wanna do bungie jumping and sky diving...
----->I am very choosy making frnds..... generally I go by my instincts..... if i dont like a person in first meeting i never bother to get involved with him..... I have very few frnds but they are with me from past 9 yrs... they are most imp for me after my family.....
-----> I write diary, not everyday but whenever am tensed and disturbed; jotting down everything makes me feel better.... and when I read it later, I laugh out loudly that how stupid I was.. :D I like rains very much and love to get drenched in it.... love to ride bike wen its raining... making paper boats and set them free when it rains.....
-----> after all these years I realized that
a) dont think so much abt issues and incidents that happen in your life... just let them go out of your head.. and your life will be much more peaceful
b) respect other and they will respect you... dont be harsh on anyone.. i knw its bit hard to follow.. even i'm trying to follow it..
c) live your life as its for one day only.... who knows wat will happen tomorrow... and most imp last two points are...
d) Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without..... but whatever you do, you'll regret it later..... :P
e) If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you'll have trouble putting on your pants..... :P (the last two were added to put smile on your face... actually these lines are the only interesting thing in this huge writeup... )
-----> lastly I wanna thank you all for commenting on my pics and adding them to your faves.... its a constant motivation to me... and a way to improve my work... I have met few wonderful photographer on flicker and even joined some of them in group shoots..... thank you all for your constant support and encouragement... :)
I will tag 10 people from my contact list thru mail.. :)
Thanks Prashant Adukia for this shot... :)
Once again, thank you friends for reading such a long writeup.... have a wonderful evening... :)
As part of the activities of the 2013 Railfest at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga, Southern Railway's EMD FP7 #6133 made a visit. This Diesel locomotive built in 1950 was used to pull their excursion, the Missionary Ridge Local throughout the weekend. It is normally on display at the North Carolina Transportation Museum which offers this writeup:
"Southern Railway #6133: The locomotive was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in 1950. This FP-7, operated by the Southern Railway, was the property of the CNO&TP (Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific). The FP designation meant the locomotive could be used for passenger or freight trains, using a 567-B 16 cylinder prime mover, generating 1500 horsepower. These were F-7 freight locomotives with a steam generator placed at the rear of the locomotive, increasing body length by four feet. FP-7 locomotives were used on small branch-line passenger trains throughout the Southern Railway System. By the late 1970s, there were very few FP-7s left on the roster due to Southern eliminating many passenger trains. The 5-8 left were used for excursion trains as part of the Steam Program begun in 1966. The 6133 was donated to the NCTHC in 1980, and restored by the volunteers to its original green/ imitation aluminum paint scheme. It is used to pull the train ride around the property when needed."
I took more photos of #6133 than I have posted to flickr. You can also see quite a thorough collection of photos of the highlighted steam locomotive Southern #630, the Missionary Ridge Local with #6133, and other rolling stock on the grounds. This gallery is on my website here:
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Also, I took video and put it on youtube: All the steam footage, plus the Missionary Ridge local: youtu.be/AhCCpvO41iM
My entry for the Golden Mask Competition. Also my first serious Bionicle MoC in about 3-4 years I think.
2015 Character profile writeup:
Legend speaks of a mysterious being of immense power lurking in the darkest parts of Okoto's forests: Mithosix. It is said to be a fierce hunter and warrior, as well as a collector of rarities - be they masks of power or the poor souls that wear them. Many who ventured too deeply into the jungle were stolen away, never to return. Where Mithosix has its lair, or if it even is a living being or a dark spirit in physical form is anyone's guess. But the villagers of Okoto have learned it might be better to leave that mystery unsolved.
Primary Color: Black, Orange, Teal
Element: Unknown
Favorite environment: Deep within the jungle and dark, maze-like places in general
Masks: Unknown
Powers: Phasing through solid objects and active camouflage to perfectly blend with the environment.
Primary weapon: Twin Scythes, taller than the largest Toa.
Secondary weapon: Claws
Signature moves: Scythe Whirlwind & Four-arm Strike
Key traits: Patient, calculating and silent.
Got the new camera, a quick writeup here:
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Processed with VSCOcam with t1 preset
MerDeCha is combined from 3 individual Jaegers. The term MerDeCha is a portmanteau of Merdeka* + Mecha.
*Merdeka is a Malay language term for Independence.
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Trudy is a confident dilute tortie who loves human attention. Her writeup says she loves when people play with her with toys, but she was all about the scritches when I came in and she realized that she'd get more of those if she came down and visited rather than posing on the shelf by the window to the other room, as in this photo. Looks as if she may have lap cat potential, too (once she's burned off that energy). We aren't sure how well she gets along with other cats, but boy she'd like to be someone's cat! She was adopted on 27 November 2015, when thanks to "black (cat) friday" all adoption fees for all cats and kittens were covered by Best Friends and Zappos.com!
"Gendarmes of Marid, ready your lasers! Presume any disturbance is enemy action." - an informational graphic from /u/Grine_'s Scatterverse!
Basic Version: orig04.deviantart.net/680d/f/2016/039/c/3/marid_gendarmes...
Reddit Writeup by /u/Grine_: www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/44r8ia/gendarmes_...
Not sure on the specific species. Stagmomantis californica or Stagmomantis limbata, maybe? Help me out.
In the meantime, we hatched a bunch of tan mantises. Photos as soon as they're not too teeny tiny.
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All shots taken in 2004/2005 of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island, NYC. See here for my original writeup.
A 16 x 10 x 10 shadowbox underwater scene.
Here's the blog writeup on the making of it: srolfe.com/2013/05/15/mermer/
Easy to hear; less easy to spot. Taken this morning at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
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To be able to have an E-locker in the rear I need a full floating rear axle. Land Cruisers (40 series) came factory with one on the FJ45 pickup only. The issue is of course that the axle didn't have an e-brake since it was located on the back of the transfer case. The BJ42 doesn't have that, so I needed to add an e-brake to the FJ45 axle. Not a simple task. The two backing plates are completely different, have different spacing and a different mounting pattern. This required a bit more work. A full writeup will be available soon. In the meantime, here are some pics that give you an idea of what needs to be done.