CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
Posting this early this weekend because I will be going out today. Hope to see many creative things posted when I return. This article is a good place to post and see things that are a lot nicer than what you are seeing on the Front (Home) Page these days, so enjoy.
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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These are photographs I have taken of Chinese artworks, some of which are quite ancient.
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Nice. Interesting artwork..
As you know, a very limited sampling.
Like the artwork, Buzz
Thank you boss.
Good pictures. I like the one with guys head.
It's about 8 feet tall. It's on the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute campus that is kitty-corner to where we live.
Was it modeled on a real person or just the artists imagination?
LOL. I hope it was the artist's imagination.
Imagine he was a muppet …
Too scary for the kids who watch the Muppet Show. Guess AI was so scared it poked it in the head.
What you see protruding from the head is probably meant to be the pin felting needle...
We learn something new every day.
Is it actually kitty-corner-- or is it catty corner?
Kitty-corner vs. Catty-corner – What’s the Difference?
LINK -> Kitty-corner vs. Catty-corner – What’s the Difference? - Writing Explained
I recently got a sweet 3d printer and have been having some fun with it. This guy is about three inches tall and pretty highly detailed. I ran the photo through a “wooly” AI filter and got these results.
Hey that's cool!
LOL, and I thought the head statue I posted was scary!!!
Oh man, a 3D printer must be like the ultimate toy, lol.
It is a fun new hobby for me.
Yes it is. When I did some free ones a while ago it was fun, but I'm not going to pay for the service. But I'll get a kick out of the ones you do.
The stars are bright...
The northern lights...
Yes, I'm dreaming of warmer days.
Wow. Living in the city with all the lights, I haven't seen the Milky Way for years. Probably since the last time I went camping. It's such an amazing sight. Also, living as far to the south as I do, I have never seen the Aurora Borealis. It's one of the things I would really love to experience.
To get a real good shot, I've got to travel more than an hour where it's darkest.
So much digital noise in long night shots.
For the northern lights shots, my cell phone did a better job than my canon.
Totally amazing!
In your third and fourth photos, is that a small moon or a close planet on the left?
It's an amazing sight to see them shimmering - they were particularly visible from my lakeside chalet north of Toronto.
Mars.
Must have been pretty close when you took those photos.
But great shots of the night sky!!
The stars at night are big and bright
Deep in the heart of....where?
To see the Northern Lights, in what state do you live?
Those photos were taken around WI Point, our local park beach near the harbor breakwalls.
The last photo, the city lights in the background are of Duluth, MN.
I knew it had to have been a northern state.
Morning..we just had temperatures hit 45c here y'day and naturally bushfires everywhere from one end of the State to the other..
The sky last night was the dreaded orange, smoke in the air from fires hundreds of kms away...
I love summer but hate what comes with it..so far no lives lost but houses, live stock and wildlife have gone...
The hot temps missed where I live but we all share the heart break when Mother Nature strikes back..
Have such high temperatures been usual or have they been increasing recently? Is it officially being blamed on Global Warming?
It has been a year since we had the horrendous fires here in Los Angeles. Thousands of people are still displaced. They have only just begun to rebuild a few homes. I have lived through a lot of wildfires in our area, but nothing like that. The Palisades fire came within about a mile of our house, but it was burning on the south side of the ridge and we are located on the north, and it did not cross over. The winds were mostly blowing away from us to the south, and we are protected by a major fire break at the summit of the ridge just over on our side. We were ready to evacuate if necessary, but happily, we didn't need to. That is the closest a fire has ever been to us.
Hard to say really.. roughly every 20 odd years the forces combine and set the scene for catastrophic fire situations here...
As fast as the heat comes it goes..42 one day 20 the next..going back in history especially in the 1800s stories and diaries tell of the same conditions in Victoria..with the same results...birds literally dropping dead from the trees etc but back then the heat would last for days and they only had Hessian bags to battle 100 metre fire fronts..fires would burn for weeks....
Victoria and California are the two most fire prone regions on earth.. combination of climate, terrain and temperatures..
We were warned days before hand it was coming etc and to prepare which we do, but when Mother Nature lets rip nothing stands in her way....
Fires currently burning in Victoria...where all the triangles are...
Probably due to the anniversary there have been news stories on TV here about how little has been accomplished concerning the water supply and fireplug problem, ongoing battles with insurance companies, the extensive time required to acquire building permits, how few homes have been rebuilt, and the growing frustration of the residents.
That's devestating.
Life was very tough here in the 1800s...droughts and lack of water no one had any to spare for animals let alone wild life..
I have 5 birdbaths alot of people put them out for the wildlife etc and birds.. it's amazing to watch which birds come in and use them..
Eastern Rosella that visits.
Crimson Rosella calls in as well.
There is no problem with the water supply or "fireplugs", and there was no problem during the fires. That was basically a false claim.
People are battling with the insurance companies (nothing new) and the permitting process is slow.
The delay in rebuilding is exacerbated by a labor shortage resulting from the significant demand, since so many (thousands) of homes were destroyed, and because of the Trump immigration crackdown and fears of enforcement affecting the immigrant labor force which is a very large segment of the workforce here.
Beautiful!!!
Evening...yep exactly the same here.. insurance companies and shortage of tradies..
100 houses lost here so far and 70 fires still going thankfully the wind is now dropping...
Quite a few firies have lost their houses while out fighting the fires...
Yes the fires at LA were just horrendous so far there has been no loss of life here and hopefully stays that way..
Wow - absolutely beautiful birds.
Actually the news here didn't mention the fact that the construction labour force has been decimated by the actions and fear of ICE, but of course that has to have been a major factor.
Morning...I also get Magpies here and usually very difficult to get them all together as a family..
There are 4 in the group 2 males, a female and baby.. Maggie's can live up to 20 years and these are the 3rd generation since I have lived here..
Baby is sitting on the pole to the right, then two males and mum is far left..not the best photo as I took it from inside..
They love mince steak..
I get it. We spent a lot of the summer choking on wildfire smoke.
LOL, so do I.
Well you can always sit on the fence and I will throw you some..🤣
Considering where I am and where you are, you must really have one hell of an arm. The L.A. Dodgers would hire you for sure.
Oh, wait a sec, you meant YOUR fence. LOL
Great night shots. I can't to get my camera to hold exposures long enough for stuff like that.
Morning dig..yes it is hard to beat the night sky and the stars..
I am often out the front on my place at night with my cat just watching the stars and satellites whizzing by..
They don't look that high up but there are so many of them and so much space junk going around..
One night I counted 10 satellites going over in the space of 5 minutes..
I've discovered the weirdest satellite show you can see. I started noticing it a couple of winters ago. Every now and then I'm up before first light, and I used to have to take Polly out for bathroom trips. One day I went out with her around 4:30 AM, and in the winter here the sun isn't even starting to light up the horizon at that time, but it is far enough around the planet to send invisible light up through space above the horizon. Well, I happened to look off to the east and noticed several lights moving horizontally about a hand's-width above the horizon, some moving left and some moving right. It kept happening for a long time, and whenever a light would move far enough left or right it would fade out, but another would light up and repeat the movement.
Needless to say, at first this freaked me out. I had never seen anything like that before. It took a little investigating, but it turns out they were Starlink satellites. I guess enough of them had finally been deployed over my latitude to notice. I found a coverage map that showed how they are distributed in the sky, and they travel in trains, some distance apart from each other, but with parallel trains moving in opposite directions. From my perspective looking out across the curvature of the earth, I was seeing a cross section of several trains low in the sky that were flaring in the soon-to-rise sun, which was still below the horizon itself. Some moving one way, some moving the other.
I'm able to see the show on any clear morning, usually after 3:00 AM and later. Only in the winter, though. Must have something to do with the position of the sun on the horizon, shining light up and hitting the satellites right where I can see them. I've tried spotting them in the summer, but because the sun is in a different position, the light must reflect off of them in a different direction or something, probably too far to the north for me to see through the trees. At any rate, winter is the best time for me to spot them.
I just checked and you have Starlink in Australia. If you ever happen to be up very early in the morning, before the first hint of light, maybe go outside and check out the eastern horizon for a little while. I don't know if summer or winter will matter for you, but if you can see them all flaring and moving in different directions it's pretty cool. I imagine some people might see them and think it's an alien invasion or something, lol.
The same thing might be viewable in evenings in the west, after the sun has completely set and there's no light from it remaining above the horizon, but I have woods directly west of me, so I've never noticed. I've also never had the presence of mind to check when I've been somewhere else right after dark. Maybe I'll do that one of these days.
Let me know if you ever happen to see the show.
Arvo....yes I have spotted starlink satellites here.
I am out side around 10pm or sometimes later and start looking in the Western sky..sure enough you see them going over..
One night there was 5 in a row one behind the other..that put the wind up me for a few seconds till I realised they were satellites and not aliens..
The cat was creeping around out the front till it ran into a possum and that was the end of star gazing for that night..
The cops often cruise by here at night and just waiting for the time they pull up and ask what am I doing...🤣
What's really great is when you see a bunch of them moving in different directions at the same time in the same small patch of sky, maybe 10 or more at once.
Although it was more than a quarter of a century ago, when at my lakeside chalet north of Toronto I saw a flashing light cross the sky. It was the only time I ever saw a satellite.
Bird's Eye View (So to speak) (© G. Gam)
That is a perfect shot! Just gorgeous!
Thanks, Perrie. It's a view from in front of our house, but (the reveal) I took the photo of the bird while it was standing on the edge of a bird bath in my backyard, and edited it in.
Morning...not a bad view there G..
Thanks, shona. It's looking west.
Then you must enjoy great sunsets.
We often do.
Good bird's eye view shot. Here is mine, but not edited...
I took the photo from a window in our apartment in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.
It's a "bird's eyeing me" view.
LOL. One eye's on the road and the other one's on me.
Thanks to all who helped to make this the most successful Creative Arts Weekend we've had for quite a while. Now it's time to call it a day. See you next weekend.