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The theme song for this blog is : Am I dreaming by Xscape, Ol Skool, and Keith Sweat
I got a shopping problem, got expensive taste
Bustdown Patek with the expensive face
Gotta get me ice if he tryna skate
Gotta swipe the AmEx if we go on a date (Uh)
If we go on a date, gotta blow on my cake
But don't hit me if it's tiny, girl from Xscape
These studs for my ears, Louis scarf for my hairs
Latest bag from Chanel and I ain't tryin' to wait (Uh)
Uh, I'm tryna meet the plug, no sockets
Uh, pussy deep, so is my pockets
Uh, Tom Ford heels with the locket
Uh, a nigga get me he better lock it, uh
Taken 26th April 2008. Take off of runway 21 at Cranfield. Xscape can be seen in the background. Parked on the disused runway is a lightning which occasionally does fast taxi runs.
Part of my architecture (Set)
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2014-06-20 20.23.35>2014-06-20 20.24.06
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Investigating a D&D sighting. Jay & Jerry were baffled by what could have happened to Jeff. 'One second he was there, an the next he was gone?
tuesday 17th november;
my birthday ideas:
- spend day with joe, then he goes to cadets in which i then go to see anna, carl etc (as planned ages ago) then go to mc'donalds and sleep at anna's.
- joe come over to mine (bus?) though my parents will be out and i'm not aloud anyone over if they're not there (though i will be turning bloody 17).
- my dad take the afternoon off and take joe and i to "xscape" then back to mine.
- my dad take the afternoon off and me, my mum and joe have a meal out providing my mum having to be at work at 3pm.
- my dad take the afternoon off and take joe and i out for a meal, then go back to mine.
there are loads more, but none of them really matter. my birthday is going to be a tragic disaster tbh. not only do i want it to be a happy day for me, obv, but i want everyone else to be happy too. i want to see joe, my friends and spend time with my family all in one day, providing that my mum is at work at 3pm, my dad is at work in the morning and joe has cadets that night.
i did have planned ages ago that i sleep at anna's but now, the next day i am going out with jess, joe, sally, laura, matt and having to catch a train at 10:15am + i might be on my period (which i'm sure you all want to know) so i can't really sleep over at someones + and take a bath the morning either! FFS!
what i do have planned though at the moment is;
my dad take the afternoon off, pick up joe and us three + my mum go out for a meal somewhere, in two cars. my mum then drives back home to go to work and then my dad, joe and i go shopping for my birthday present. BUT however, its still crap cause i want to see more of joe and my friends. grrr!
Found this cute little dress by Xscape at Macys recently. I can't wait to wear it to a party again. Got great reviews the night I took this photo!
Too busy to learn how to mesh so why not dabble in something I'm somewhat good at and that's creating shapes. :>
I made it limited just to give it a go. Get yours before it runs out!
LINK: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/XSCAPE-Logans-Shape/11190145
** Huge THANK YOU to my sister Becs for guiding me through the process, you the real MVP **
(copy and paste from the kinship website)
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The "90's Girl" Bomber honors the ladies of the 90's RnB and hip hop era. The satin jacket features an all-over print of the biggest acts of the decade from Mariah Carey to TLC to Xscape and Aaliyah on the outside, paired with a powder pink on the inside. It's one in a million.
100% satin bomber with satin lining and full zip front. Hand pockets at front, with a zipper breast pocket.Retail of this jacket is $200.
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Download includes both meshes by Milasimsworld made separate by Alwayssims.In addition to a pair of plain black joggers(the same bottom used with the double C sweatsuit sets the heel version)All textures used are my own.Except the 90's demin shorts, those are by Tsdsims.tumblr.com 90s collection.Same policy applies.Any mishaps or something not working correctly, please let me know.Enjoy!!
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This is another mermaid gown I purchased by the same maker (Xscape). It's very similar to the red one but, a slightly different design and a darker color. You can never have enough gowns for formal events!
So I finally got something in motion and not blurry (well not blurry enough to become distorted at least *_*)
Somehow after uploading it to flickr ... it looks a bit tilted towards right .. though looks normal otherwise ... ahh well.
Taken at Xscape retail park in Leeds... now thats my kind of swirling tale ... makes you wana ride until u drop ... heheh.
E X P L O R E D # 52 ~ 9-01-10
This new series of digital abstracts (Xscapes) explores the so-called 'mind's eye' of the artist. This is the relationship between what the visual cortex (eye) observes ('sees') and transmits to the mind and what the mind imposes upon this visual information and guides the manner in which the eye 'sees.
Jeff Hawkins in his work 'On Intelligence' points out that the information relayed by the cortex: 'always flows in the opposite directiion as well...The higher regions of your cortex send more signals "down" to your primary visual cortex than your eyes receive.' And in the case of artists this is a particularly rich mixture.
This series of digital abstracts (Xscapes) explores the so-called 'mind's eye' of the artist. This is the relationship between what the visual cortex (eye) observes ('sees') and transmits to the mind and what the mind imposes upon this visual information and guides the manner in which the eye 'sees.
Jeff Hawkins in his work 'On Intelligence' points out that the information relayed by the cortex: 'always flows in the opposite directiion as well...The higher regions of your cortex send more signals "down" to your primary visual cortex than your eyes receive.' And in the case of artists this is a particularly rich mixture.
Captured near Xscape in Milton Keynes. Interestingly, both the plane and the cage appeared on a single shot.
It was a bit closer than I thought...
Whilst appearances of Volvo 7900Hs on the X10 are not unknown, they tend to only appear during the evening and overnight.
Seen on a rarer daylight hour duty subbing for an E200MMC allocation, BV13ZBC (69901) passes down Chelmsford Road in Barnston with an X10 service for Basildon via Chelmsford 19/04/19
DSC_0008 SOOC
For those who are interested, the sloping cylinder visible at the bottom LH corner of the image is 'Xscape', the Milton Keynes Snow Dome.
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From The Times
August 2, 2008
Kevin McCloud’s big town plan for Castleford
Kevin McCloud’s latest grand design is to inject new life into the town of Castleford. Our correspondents assesses the results
Tom Dyckhoff
We thought ’old on, they’ll come with their TV cameras and MDF messing the place up. Well no, you’re not, and that’s that.” Rheta Davison wasn’t, at first, looking forward to the arrival of Kevin McCloud. Reality TV hasn’t had the best press, so when Channel 4 and Talkback, the makers of McCloud’s hit TV series Grand Designs, turned up in 2003 to film the regeneration of Davison’s home town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, a run-down former coal-mining town, you could forgive locals for being a tad sceptical.
Davison, a no-nonsense, call-a-spade-a-spade lady of the kind only Yorkshire produces, has lived here all her life. She now runs her estate’s community group. “You’ve got to remember Cas has been promised things time and again,” she explains. “We’ve all been through times. My husband was made redundant, which is why we ended up here [on the council estate] with four kids to bring up. The place is full of scars, bad scars an’ all. We all just thought they’d do some cheap makeover, make us northerners out to be idiots and disappear and that would be that.”
How wrong she was. This was no instant makeover. “The Castleford Project” became a joke in TV circles. Heard the one about the channel that thought it could film eight building projects from scratch in, er, two years? Have they never watched Grand Designs?
“I think I was the only one to say, you know it takes two years just to design and build a house,” says McCloud. “And you want to regenerate a town? Mad, just mad. TV people think that if they say two years real life will just fit in.”
Five years on, though, and the project is not only finished but ready for broadcast. The idea is simple, says McCloud: “Can design save a failing town?” Talkback “interviewed” many contenders left behind by Britain’s so-called urban renaissance, but selected Castleford for its community spirit. The town may have above-average stats for teenage pregnancy and below-average ones for educational attainment, but, says McCloud “the locals really had drive”.
“There is a version of events that nothing was happening here till Channel 4 turned up with their magic dust,” says Wakefield Council’s leader, Peter Box, “but that’s nonsense.” Two decades on, Glasshoughton colliery has been replaced by the giant Xscape indoor dry ski slope, employing more people than the pit – many of them new arrivals, mind you – and surrounded by retail sheds, a multiplex, a new Asda and rising new suburban homes. At the junction of the M62 and M1, Castleford is rebranding itself as a commuter ’burb for émigrés from Leeds. But its existing residents weren’t without ideas either.
All Davison and her community group wanted was a play area. “Children have a right to be heard in a community,” she says. “They’re no less clever here than anywhere else. It’s just that they’ve got no aspirations. They’re born into families with no jobs.” Talkback selected Cutsyke’s “playforest”, and seven other projects, large and small: a new underpass to the town centre replacing a grotty alley beneath the railway; a new “village green” in the former pit village of New Fryston; a newly landscaped market area; a new town centre gallery; a new pedestrian bridge across the Aire, and improvements such as new bollards and traffic calming around Wilson Street. These were partnered with eight teams of designers, with all decisions to be made by the locals and community champions, and let the cameras roll.
Five years later, the physical results are impressive. Talkback attracted serious talent. On the steering committees are leading lights such as Roger Zogolovitch, one of Britain’s most influential, design-led developers, and Peter Rogers, brother of Richard and the founding CEO of developers Stanhope. Architects included rising stars such as DSDHA and Hudson Architects, plus international luminaries including Martha Schwartz.
Schwartz’s new village green gleams – even if its avant-garde angles and artfully rusted bollards by Antony Gormley seem grandiose for the edge of town. Renato Benedetti’s £4.8 million footbridge is an astonishing tour de force, its steel, serpentine curves daintily tiptoeing across the torrent of the Aire. Locals swarm across day and night, says its community champion, Wendy Rayner. “When you get to the middle of the bridge, you’re not in Castleford, you are somewhere else. You meet your friends. They’ve started having picnics on it. Nobody ever had picnics here before. We’ve got kingfishers, cormorants, mallard ducks and water-hens. They’re pulling pike out the river. It’s a living museum. Kids his age,” she nods to her grandson, Thomas, “they don’t even know what a lump of coal is.”
The smaller projects are just as influential. The new underpass beneath Tickle Cott Bridge cost only a couple of hundred thousand pounds, but for that, DSDHA delivered a piece of sophisticated concrete geometry, which, says the architect Deborah Saunt, “is about cheering up those spots planning usually forgets about”. And the impact on all participants is palpable. But there are, of course, naysayers. As I gawp at Benedetti’s bridge, a man comes up and literally spits on it – “Bloody waste of money” – before hurtling off. “Ah, you always get ’em. Bloody moaners,” Davison says. “Don’t put the effort in. Where would you rather the money went? Wakefield?”
This new series of digital abstracts (Xscapes) explores the so-called 'mind's eye' of the artist. This is the relationship between what the visual cortex (eye) observes ('sees') and transmits to the mind and what the mind imposes upon this visual information and guides the manner in which the eye 'sees.
Jeff Hawkins in his work 'On Intelligence' points out that the information relayed by the cortex: 'always flows in the opposite directiion as well...The higher regions of your cortex send more signals "down" to your primary visual cortex than your eyes receive.' And in the case of artists this is a particularly rich mixture.
A clear example illustrating the kind of weather we have had in Yorkshire during December...cloudy days with dirty spray uplifting from roads, add a white bus and well ! The working is notable though, most of the day the 183 from Pontefract to Wakefield is operated by M Travel using Dennis Tridents but at school times CT Plus from Leeds pops out with its white BMC covering an odd journey or two. There cant be many places a full size BMC works normal service ? Think these came from Hull, redundant off park & ride duties, which ironically ran in black !
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This was city sponsered event where almost every active writer came and painted a letter, except for Bacon and Water who painted their own thing. Shame is most of the work on this bridge was destroyed by construtction work and idiots bombing an easy to access spot to get up. Guess not everyone can be like Forte and Xscape and blast a tough bridge spot right next to it. The new generation just wants fame instead of finding their own spots like everyone else did 25 years ago. Not everyone of course, but don't go over anything you can't paint better.