Another silly galah
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The sun sets on a classic Avro Lancaster. A Neptune is tucked away in the background.
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I have a problem... / Leuvehaven / Rotterdam
View Large [press L] on black for my terrifying experience...
After being stuck at home for six days my doctor ordered me to get out of the house and move, move, move! How can I move without my camera?
So I found myself in the middle of Rotterdam and I looked upwards.... and I fell backwards!
I thought I had a problem!? ;-)
View Large [press L] and/or use the arrows on your keyboard to Flick through my images. Ta!
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Such a great film! (In case you get bored - due to the weather - this weekend)
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Date: Taken on August 26, 2011 at 20:07 h / 8.07 pm CEST
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The Old Barn – Whitehouse Landing, Virginia
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Borderline Biennale 2011 - Japan Apocalypse P1000125_0820
"Survive the Apocalypse"
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Secrets revealed of the Abode of Chaos (112 pages, adult only) >>>
"999" English version with English subtitles is available >>>
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999 : visite initiatique au coeur de la Demeure du Chaos insuffle par l'Esprit de la Salamandre
Film HD d'Etienne PERRONE selon un scnario original de thierry Ehrmann.
courtesy of Organ Museum
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Forza Ferrari!
What a great atmosphere! This shot was taken at the 2011 FCA AGM meet. There were heaps of old, new and exciting Ferraris! The editing on this is a bit different to usual, what do you think about it? I'll stop posting Ferrari's tomorrow, I promise lol!
My friend has made, excuse my language, a fucking sweet video of the 430 Scud that attended.
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latimes.com/media/photo/2011-08/64080683.jpg" alt="Jio Fontan" border="0" width="580" height="444" />
Jio Fontan, shown under pressure by Lehigh's Mackey McKnight, was injured Tuesday night during an exhibition in Sao Paulo when he landed awkwardly after being hit in the air. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)
USC's inexperienced basketball team suffered a severe setback Thursday when guard Jio Fontan, one of the Trojans' two returning starters, was diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Fontan, USC's floor leader and top returning scorer, will require surgery and miss the 2011-12 season, Coach Kevin O'Neill said in by telephone from Brazil.
Fontan, a 6-foot senior from Paterson, N.J., was injured Tuesday night during an exhibition in Sao Paulo when he landed awkwardly after being hit in the air. The Trojans are playing a series of scrimmages and exhibitions in Brazil, and are scheduled to play their final game of trip Friday.
USC said X-rays taken Tuesday came back negative, but O'Neill said he feared the worst. Fontan returned to Los Angeles on Wednesday and an MRI exam revealed the tear.
"It's a huge blow for our team," O'Neill said.
Fontan scored 57 points in USC's first two games in Brazil. He averaged 10.5 points last season, starting every game after joining the team 10 games into the season.
NCAA transfer rules forced him to sit out until USC's Dec. 18 game at then-third-ranked Kansas, but he made an immediate impact, scoring 15 points as the Trojans lost in the final seconds. Three days later, he had 13 points as USC upset No. 19 Tennessee.
The Trojans' only other returning starter is Maurice Jones, a 5-7 sophomore point guard.
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Gooseberry Falls State Park
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Image taken on my recent climb to the summit of Snowdon in North Wales with my brother and business partner Nick.
Photography by Chris Smith.
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When my business partner asked me to climb Scafell Pike last year, I jumped at the chance. I thought I would capture some amazing photos, I would get to see some cracking views. Sad to say, 10 mins into the climb, the heavens opened and it did not stop until we arrived back home. Needless to say, no views, no great pictures, nothing.
So when he asked me to climb Snowdon in Wales I was a bit scepticle to say the least. Pleased to say however, and as I am sure you will have already seen the pic above, the weather was awesome and this capture was one of my 4am sunrise shots as we started to ascend Snowdon.
I will post more images from the trip as soon as they have been processed.
All the best,
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THE ONCE AND FUTURE pennsylvania station Exhibit, New York Transit Museum, Gallery Annex at Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, New York City
Pennsylvania Railroad Poster and Historic photographs (courtesy MTA Metropolitan Transit Authority).
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Cheeky at home sleeping
Had a big day today in the garden, went for a long walk and drive, so time for sleep now.
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An old structure in the Rio Tuia park dwarfed by the giant El Agora arena in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences.
El Agora is one of the newest structures in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences and houses a large indoor arena which hosts the Spanish Open tennis tournament.
Designed by Santiago Calatrava, it stands 230ft high and, unlike the majority of buildings in the complex is coated in a reflective blue surface, rather than being all white.
While I was in town, it was also host to Valencia Fashion Week.
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The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. The founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.
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Skater enjoying the weather on 54th and South Tacoma Way in Tacoma, Washington
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Matthias Heimel has the Olympics figured out. The German spectator knows his way to the ice rink where his country's hockey team plays. He can get around downtown Vancouver.
But he's less certain about the Vancouver Games emblem, which can be seen from one end of the Olympic host city to the other on hats, jackets and shot glasses, and in monumental statues made of everything from chocolate to empty shipping containers. "It looks like an alien," says Mr. Heimel.
Inuit Signpost Becomes Logo of Vancouver Olympics
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The Inukshuk, a traditional Inuit signpost made of stones, is the official logo for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. WSJ's Phred Dvorak explains reaction to the use of the rock piles to represent the Games.
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Skiers walked past a banner with the official logo of the Vancouver games, an inukshuk, in Whistler, British Columbia.
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Olympic logos and mascots usually get plenty of attention, from Moscow's cuddly 1980 teddy bear to London 2012's Day-Glo emblem, whose pink jagged design sparked a flurry of criticism from comparisons to a broken swastika to claims an animated version caused epileptic seizures. Canada's choice of emblem is among the most curious: It's a pile of rocks.
An inukshuk is a stack of stones traditionally used by the Inuit of the arctic to mark anything from a hunting spot to a food cache. In 2005, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympics chose a multicolored humanoid version of an inukshuk as the games' official 2010 emblem. That sparked an inukshuk boom in Canada that has reached far from the frozen tundra where the figures originated—and precipitated its share of controversy.
In Vancouver, the official inukshuk logo can be found on everything from key chains and T-shirts to rain gear for dogs.
Similar rock piles have inspired unofficial products—from $6 bottle openers to the Inukie Cookie designed by the creator of the Vancouver 2010 logo, which lets you build your own inukshuk out of maple-flavored shortbread.
Inukshuk
The Vancouver Aquarium has unveiled a 10-foot-high inukshuk made out of 4,368 cans of sustainably fished salmon and tuna. That one looks more like a Japanese robot, admits aquarium spokesman Kent Hurl. "From far away, it kind of looks like a Transformer," he says.
Other rock piles are sprouting up across Canada, as emblems of the Canada Speed Skating team and latest Group of Seven finance ministers meeting. Cities including Niagara Falls, in Ontario, and La Ronge, in Saskatchewan, have commissioned massive stone statues to commemorate the passing of the Olympic torch through town. Home-goods store Canadian Tire Corp. says its plastic $38 Inukshuk garden statue is a top seller, along with its Golfing Gnomes and Canadian Moose.
In the Inuktitut language, inukshuk means "something that substitutes for a person." (For the grammatical record: One inukshuk. Many inukshuit.) Archaeologists say some piles up north have been around for thousands of years. Luke Suluk, president of the Inuit Heritage Trust, says there are many old inukshuit around his home in Arviat, on the western Hudson Bay.
Some mark boat landings, Mr. Suluk says. Others point out caribou routes or good camping spots; a few memorialize local tragedies such as illness or starvation.
While old versions were meant to stand in for a person, the latest ones are increasingly anthropomorphic: The Michelin Man meets Stonehenge. And as the things sprout all over southern Canada, some Inuit are bemused.
"It can be misleading," says Mr. Suluk, explaining that Inuit don't build inukshuit indiscriminately. "All Inuit are told not to make any inukshuk without a purpose."
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The Inukshuk logo is everywhere at the Vancouver Games: Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway skis past it Sunday.
Elena Rivera MacGregor, the designer of the Vancouver logo, had never seen a real one up north. Her inspiration was a big gray granite statue by her home in Vancouver, built for the city's 1986 Expo as an expression of northern hospitality and friendship.
Ms. MacGregor created a multicolored version: two vertical blocks for legs, a horizontal chunk for a torso, a longer horizontal for outspread arms and, for a head, a crowning block with a gouge for a mouth. She dubbed it Ilanaaq, or "friend" in Inuktitut.
"When you find an inukshuk in the snow, you find friendship, shelter," she says. "The inukshuk kind of gives you a hug."
Not everyone found the idea so cuddly. When the logo was unveiled, Mark Busse, then-head of British Columbia's graphic-design association, was quoted in press reports as calling the logo a "cutesy little smiley-faced Pac-Man on a pile of stones." ("It's grown on me," Mr. Busse says now.)
Some Inuit elders, meanwhile, protested that the humanoid design isn't authentic. Others fret the original meaning is being lost. "Inuit are concerned that inukshuk are being used everywhere without having much meaning or respect to Inuit," says Mr. Suluk.
All that hasn't damped the appeal, in part because an inukshuk is pretty easy to make. Touchstone Site Contractors Inc., an Ontario provider of commercial landscaping and security fencing, had never made a stone sculpture before it landed the contract for the Niagara Falls inukshuk. Office manager Brandon Bradley whipped the design up himself on AutoCAD.
"As long as you keep it somewhat proportional—that's it," he says.
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China's Zang Jialiang and Liu Rui brush atop the logo at the curling venue.
Inukshuit have also been popping up along the highways in central Ontario during the past few years. The stone piles have drawn the wrath of some environmentalists who have complained on blogs that they're eyesores and that building them damages local rock formations from which they say the raw materials have been taken.
On the streets of Vancouver these days, it's hard to go a few blocks without bumping into inukshuit. Some 1,000 Inuit carvers in the arctic territory of Nunavut have been conscripted to make authentic inukshuit for sale at the Olympics as well, says Dennis Kim, head of merchandising for the Vancouver Organizing Committee. A 15½-inch statue goes for about $1,880.
Vancouver's souvenir shops are selling inukshuk statuettes made of pewter, glass, crystal, wood and British Columbian jade, as well as a full collection of inukshuk snow globes and playing cards.
Then there's the monumental approach. In Vancouver's downtown shopping district, the display window of chocolatier Daniel boasts a 320-pound inukshuk made of solid Belgian chocolate. The shipping hub of Richmond, just south of Vancouver, has built a six-story inukshuk out of several empty cargo containers.
So look out, maple leaf.
Cameron Dix, the manager in Vancouver of one of Canada's biggest souvenir trade shows, says the ramp-up in inukshukery he has seen since last year points to a bigger destiny for the inukshuk.
"It's become a Canadian symbol," he says.