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hobbyspacer · 10 months

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The Space Show this week - July.10.2023

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week: 1. Tuesday, July. 11, 2023; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome Matt Bille with Kerri Westburg on the Guardian Scout project for Space Force launching and training. 2. Hotel Mars - Wednesday, July. 12, 2023; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com will talk with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about Roscosmos training Russian troops for the Ukraine war. 3. Friday, July.14, 2023; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST): We welcome Manuel Cuba of Helix Space in Luxembourg. 4. Sunday, July.16, 2023; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome Dr. Arun Sharma of Cedars Sinai in Los Angles to discuss their program for sending stem cells to space for basic medical and science research. Some recent shows: ** Sunday, July.9.2023 - Stephanie Thomas of Princeton Satellite Systems gave fusion industry updates plus the latest on the fusion Princeton Satellite is working on. We talked about fusion in general, the government and fusion, other private companies, fusion in space and more. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4051-BWB-2023-07-09.mp3 ** Friday, July.7.2023 - Jean-Francois Gauthier of the GHGSat (Green House Gas Satellite) project discussed methane and other gas detection satellites, the industry seeking such leak detection, data usage including for climate change purposes and much more. Other topics of interest also discussed. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4050-BWB-2023-07-07.mp3 ** Hotel Mars - Friday, July.7.2023 - Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman of MIT talked with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about ... MOXIE, the experiment making O2 on Mars. Our two segment discussion was wide ranging regarding O2 and its needs on Mars, plus timing for possible commercial Mars operations and humans to Mars. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4049-BWB-2023-07-07.mp3 ** Sunday, July.2.2023 - Open lines program covered Lots of different topics, many callers, several program emails. Great discussions on a variety of space subjects and events. https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4048-BWB-2023-07-02.mp3 ** Friday, June.30.2023 - Dr. Angie Bukley and Dr. Josef Koller from the Aerospace Corporation discussed space safety involved in "all segments of the space industry plus we spent time on rescue". https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4047-BWB-2023-06-30.mp3 ** Hotel Mars - Wednesday, June.29.2023 - Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com talked with John Batchelor and David Livingston about "the upcoming Russian mission to the Moon with their Luna-Glob lander finally ready for prime time having been started back in the 1990's". https://thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4046-BWB-2023-06-28.mp3 ** Sunday, June.25.2023 - Dr. Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute discussed "SETI news and updates, using radio and optical seti for searches and more". https://www.thespaceshow.com/sites/default/files/shows/4045-BWB-2023-06-25.mp3 ** See also: * The Space Show Archives * The Space Show Newsletter * The Space Show Shop The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

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mrsmoerlii · 2 years

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LARES Trek, day 3

12.09, Ollantaytambo, Aguas Caliente/ Machu Picchu Town

Wir starteten wie immer früh, so früh - es lag sogar Frost morgens auf unserem Zelt.

Ich hatte ganz gut geschlafen eigentlich - diese Nacht gab es zum Glück keine Hunde, sondern nur gluckende Hühner, die um unser Zelt herum liefen. Merle hatte am Abend zuvor einen kleinen Camping-Koller gehabt und freute sich definitiv auf unser bevorstehendes Hostelzimmer in Aguas Calientes - ich aber auch:)

Jedoch standen uns noch 19 km Strecke bevor und 800m bergab. Die Strecke an sich konnte nicht ganz mithalten mit dem vorherigen Tag. Wir liefen viel durchs Tal und auch oft auf der Straße. Dafür kamen wir heute immer wieder an Ruinen, Pfaden und Terrassen der Inkas vorbei.

Funfact:

"Der Inkatrail" zum Machu Picchu ist nur Marketing, denn in Wirklichkeit gibt es noch weit über 42.000 km Inkawege verteilt durch das gesamte frühere Inkareich. Auch wir sind oft auf den Spuren der Inkas unterwegs gewesen.

Es war übrigens teilweise ziemlich warm, unser Zwiebelsystem stieß an ihre Grenzen…

Kurz vorm Ziel hatte Merle leider noch eine unschöne Begegnung mit einem Nagel, der auf kopfhöhe aus einem Häuservordach ragte.🫣 Ist halt alles nicht so auf Merlegröße gebaut…😬

In Ollantaytambo angekommen, wartete Jesús bereits seit 1,5 h auf unsere Ankunft, gab uns unser Gepäck und Mittagessen und verabschiedete sich. Wir werden ihn vermissen! Hätten ihn gerne mitgenommen;)

Wir sind noch Mal kurz über den riesigen Markt gelaufen, schön anzusehen, aber wir waren völlig überfordert und leider nicht in Shoppinglaune.

Um 16 Uhr ging dann unser Zug nach Aguas Calientes. Der Bürgermeister ließ aber vor ein paar Jahren die Stadt umbenennen in Machu Picchu Town. Marketingtechnisch lässt sich der Machu Picchu wohl besser vermarkten, als die Heißen Quellen, die es dort auch gibt (Aguas Calientes=Heißes Wasser).

Unsere Unterkunft war eigentlich nicht als besonders zu bezeichnen, aber für uns war es in dem Moment wie ein 5-Sterne Hotel!😂 Wasser! Heißes Wasser! Eine Dusche! Eine Toilette! Eine Klospülung! Ein Bett! Wow!! Ein Traum!😂✌🏼

Wir waren nochmal ein letztes Mal mit Alfredo essen und sind früh ins Bett gefallen. Denn wir hatten uns in unserem jugendlichen Leichtsinn dafür entschieden, am nächsten Tag zum Machu Picchu nicht mit dem Bus hoch zu fahren, sondern die Stufen zu nehmen!😬🫣 Genauer gesagt: 1821 Stufen, 440 Höhenmeter. Und da unser Ticket für morgens ab 6 Uhr gültig war, mussten wir bereits um 4:30 loslaufen…

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wievent · 4 years

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So schön ist Urlaub in Berlin - Naherholung in der Hauptstadt

Grüne Oasen, Dschungel mitten in der großen Stadt, dazu imposante Bauten und Geschichte zum Anfassen. Urlaub in Berlin Naherholung in der Hauptstadt ist eine perfekte Alternative für eine großartige Sommer-Auszeit.

Urlaubsreif? Warum in die Ferne schweifen, wenn das Gute liegt so nah. Nach dem Corona-Koller und der Rückkehr der Reisefreiheit ist die deutsche Hauptstadt Berlin ist eine gute Option, wunderbare Urlaubstage zu verbringen.

Berlin Stadtführungen Stadterkundungen oder Schiffsausflüge

Und Berlin hat viel zu bieten: Markante Wahrzeichen, Prachtstraßen, bedeutende Plätze, UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel … Eine Berliner Stadtführung Sightseeing-Tour ist ideal um die schönsten Seiten auf einem Stadtbummel hautnah zu entdecken. Auf einem Stadtspaziergang Berliner Luft schnuppern und Hauptstadtflair erleben. Promenade durch das historische oder Neue Berlin, Reste der Berliner Mauer erkunden oder auf dem Ku´damm flanieren. Alternative zum Stadtrundgang ist eine geführte Berlin Stadtrundfahrt.

Berliner Sehenswürdigkeiten und touristische Attraktionen

Berlin-Touristen steuern gerne diese Sehenswürdigkeiten und Attraktionen an: Tierpark Berlin, Zoologischer Garten und Botanischem Garten, Gärten der Welt Berlin; Staunen Sie über Gartenkunst aus aller Welt. Über 170 Museen und Ausstellungen für jedes Interesse, Panoramapunkt Potsdamer Platz mit bestem Blick auf Berlin und dem schnellsten Aufzug Europas, unvergessliche Aussicht vom Berliner Fernsehturm am Alexanderplatz mit 368 Metern das höchste Bauwerk in Deutschland, Berlin Stadtrundfahrt für Gruppen, AquaDom & SEA LIFE Berlin bietet auf einzigartige Weise spannende Einblicke in die wunderschöne Welt der Meere, besuchen Sie die Archenhold-Sternwarte der Superlative oder als Alternative das Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Schaurig-düstere Geschichten aus der Berliner Geschichte gibt’s es im Berlin Dungeon, individuelle Berlin City Tour, Führungen in historische Bunker, Flakanlagen und alte Brauereikeller im Berliner Unterwelten-Museum, Berliner Wachsfigurenkabinett Madame Tussauds Berlin … und noch viele mehr. Die touristischen Attraktionen in Berlin haben immer Saison.

Stadtführung in Berlin

Berliner Hotels, Pensionen, Herbergen und Unterkünfte in allen Lagen und Preisklassen laden für einen erholsamen und erlebnisreichen Kurzurlaub in Berlin ein. Endlich wieder in fremden Betten schlafen.

Schmieden Sie jetzt Pläne für die nächste Reise nach Berlin und verlieben Sie sich ein weiteres Mal in die deutsche Hauptstadt.

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Berlin individuell entdecken

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remember-panchaea · 5 years

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DXHC // beach_day

I have beach-y headcanons for if they all went to the beach together and I shared them with @kentaurex so now I’ll share them with you guys, too.

Adam Jensen: Spends all day in his hotel room with the curtains wide open, napping in bed. When the sun starts to go down, he hits up the tiki bar. On days where he goes outside, he sits in the pool and has snacks at the edge of it and occasionally has a light beer or fruity drink. He won’t go in water because of #Panchaea but likes the pool because the water is warm from the sun and not cold like the ocean.

David Sarif: Spends all his time gettin’ a nice tan. It’s gotta be even. He uses one of those ridiculous mirror things for tanning along with the little stupid goggle eye-cover things. Absolutely would go to the nude beach and terrify his co-workers. Wants to try ALL THE DRINKS but his tolerence isn’t what it used to be so he starts making dumb jokes and thinks they’re overly funny.

Faridah Malik: Surfs nonstop. She just cant sit still. Runs up and down the beach with either a surf board or a boogie board all day long. The few times she's still she's chowing down on vendor food and insists on trying new things, and has an adventurous diet of "try anything once". Has stopped to splash Frank by the pool and make him lose his mind at least once, and giggled while Adam tries to not laugh at Frank's "OH MY GAWD DO YOU MIND" outburst.

Francis Pritchard: He’s that guy who's trying to do work on his laptop at the beach. He’s always doing it and sometimes won’t go out. Once the sun is down, he goes and swims in the pool and sits half in the ocean waves to enjoy the cooler air and night sky sky over the water. He'll take any chance he gets to photograph the sunset and the sunrise, and is up early to make sure he gets the best recording possible of the waves washing over the sand. He makes it a secret.

Jim Miller

He has a strict "no work while we're here" policy. Surf board main. He won’t stay out of the water. Came back to shore one (1) time and Mac bitched about something and he dove right back in. Absolutely gets sloshed at the bar and sleeps on his beach towel under the umbrella, sunglasses on like he thinks it's fooling anyone.

Duncan MacReady He has insisted on super soaker party, because he wasn’t allowed to bring a real gun. The whole department that came along gets involved, and eventually him and Adam get way too into it and everyone bails when Mac reveals he came prepared with water balloon "grenades" and absolutely wages war on Adam's face with them. A stray one hits Miller and they both drop the guns and book it across the sand in a gleeful manic screaming panic.

Aria Argento She slowly manages to ease Adam into trying out the ocean water. He's hesitant but she never pushes him very far. Lurks with him in his hotel room when he doesn’t want to come out. They watch the programming on the TV and have a laugh. At night she asks if he wants to go out and get dinner and eat it on the beach. Cue romantic cute cuddly shit.

Václav Koller He isn’t used to being outside but now that he's been forced to, he's a maniac, maaaaniac (on the beach)! Absolutely mirror fold to Malik and neither of them would be able to sit the fuck down. It gets to the point they steal Mac's super soakers and go racing down the beach screaming as he fires at her. By the time they’re both actually worn out they're just collapsed in the same room passed the fuck out because apparently I imagine they get along perfectly. Vac is face down on the floor snoring.

Ivan Berk He is nothing if not inovative and decides he can swim too because ISOLAY FOOTS WITH FLIPPERS!! He's very good at swimming but complains when the sand grinds in his augs. He has discovered several people by the pool and decides a cannon ball is in fact the best course of action and absolutely howls when everyone shrieks in fear. They laugh along eventually, except for Frank who is still shrieking. He's forgotten his laptop has a waterproof case. Ivan likes the beach stalls for ice cream and haunts them forever. He's found a penguin on a surf board key chain and attaches it to a spot on his arm. He is very proud of it.

Bob Page He got a really bad sunburn and went home early because fuck the beach who even likes beach fuck the water ugh this is awful.

Bonus DX1 Beach Headcanon

Contributed by @kentaurex as well!

Anna Navarre She’s decided to go snorkeling to try and find a real jellyfish. She finds one and just is like taking a million pictures and later shows EVERY SINGLE ONE to Gunther but most have almost no real difference. She spends a while petting it because her augs let her. She has breathing upgrades and uses them to stay under the water for as long as possible. They see her like once, and it’s when they’re leaving.

"She’s gone. She lives out there now." “Was nice knowing her." “Was it?" “No, she's spooky."

Gunther Hermann He’s discovered no less than a dozen orange-flavored tropical alcohol drinks and orders one of each, all at the same time. He is seen frequently walking away from the bar with them in his arms, and he’s never been happier to finally get to drown himself in his one true love: orange drinks. Anna makes a super soaker modification for him that’s a skulgun. He can live his dream safely now, even if only for a little while.

JC Denton He wears his trench coat and shades to the beach, and everyone tries to get him to take them off. He cannot, for fashion is of the utmost importance. He stands around a lot and eats junk food and absolutely cannot be arsed to partake in fun but makes quips from time to time.

Paul Denton He is never in one place for long and is barely at the beach at all. He comes back to the hotel at the end of the day with a million bracelets and necklaces from the boardwalk shops. He shows up with shutter shades one time and immediately says “hey guys look, I’m JC”. At one point after being unable to convince JC to take his coat off, he makes like he’s walking off, only to run at him full tilt, nab him around the waist and launch them both into the pool amidst JC’s frantic screams of “THIS IS REAL ITALIAN LEATHER!!”

#deus ex #JensenDownTime #adam jensen #frank pritchard #david sarif #faridah malik #vaclav koller #francis pritchard #gunther hermann #jc denton #paul denton #ivan berk #aria argento #jim miller #duncan macready #anna navarre #and #bob page #too i guess

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vrgamertc · 4 years

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John Prine was an Army veteran walking a U.S. Postal Service beat in Chicago and writing songs on the side when Kris Kristofferson heard him and helped spread the word about Prine’s gifts. Pretty soon, he resigned as a letter carrier; his supervisor snickered, “You’ll be back.” Nearly 50 years later, this January, he was given a lifetime achievement Grammy for his contributions to songwriting. The singing mailman almost always had the last laugh.

Prine, who died on Tuesday from complications of the coronavirus, was legitimately unique. He took familiar blues themes — my baby left me — but filled them with whimsy and kindness. He liked a saucy lyric, and wrote movingly, in character, of the quiet lives and loneliness of humdrum people. He seemed like a Zen sage and offered an uncynical live-and-let-live morality in his songs, writing in a colloquial voice that revealed a love of the way Americans speak. He showed how much humor you could put in a song and still be taken seriously. He had less in common with any other songwriter than he did with Mark Twain.

He grew up in Maywood, a western suburb of Chicago, and was reared by working-class parents from Kentucky, where he often spent summers with relatives and fell in love with country music and bluegrass. By 13, he was performing in rural jamborees. When he debuted in 1971, in his mid-20s, he sounded like an old man already, so years later, when he got old and went through two cancer treatments, he still sounded like himself. From his first to his last, he wrote songs that were tender, hilarious, and wise, without grandstanding any of these traits. Here are 15 of the best.

‘Angel From Montgomery’ (1971)

“Angel From Montgomery,” his best-known song, begins with a little declarative startle: “I am an old woman, named after my mother.” It’s an incisive and terrifying look at the dissatisfactions of a bad marriage and a woman’s sense of being economically trapped in her misery. Bonnie Raitt recorded it three years later and uncovered some of the song’s dormant melodies.

‘Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore’ (1971)

Prine’s self-titled 1971 debut album is a playlist all its own; it has more great songs than a lot of respected songwriters have in their entire careers. The moral stance of this sprightly folk-rock ditty is a response to what he saw as sham patriotism during the Nixon years, and it remains relevant: “Jesus don’t like killing/No matter what the reason’s for.” Prine, a former altar boy, stopped playing it live for a number of years, but when George W. Bush became president, Prine said, “I thought I’d bring it back.”

‘Hello in There’ (1971)

Some fans and critics are put off by this song and its slightly lesser companion, “Sam Stone,” which they see as performative displays of sensitivity toward the vulnerable, or what we now call virtue signaling. Yet somehow, we don’t ever criticize singers for signaling vices and meanness. Prine sings in the voice of an old married man with a dead son, who spends his days in silence and loneliness, and who at the end of the song, asks people to be kind to the elderly.

‘The Frying Pan’ (1972)

For his second album, “Diamonds in the Rough,” Prine assembled a small, mostly acoustic band and pursued a front-porch, Appalachian simplicity. Like a lot of his songs, this one takes a lighthearted view of domestic complications: A man comes home and discovers his wife has run off with a traveling salesman. He cries miserably, recounts what he loved about her (“I miss the way she used to yell at me/The way she used to cuss and moan”), and full of pride, comes to the wrong conclusion: Never leave your wife at home.

‘Please Don’t Bury Me’ (1973)

For people who love Prine’s music, there’s some small solace in listening to his songs about death, which have the same sense of mischief and acceptance as the ones about broken marriages. (Try “Mexican Home” or “He Was in Heaven Before He Died.”) The narrator is dead, and as angels explain to him how it happened, they also recap his last wish: to not be dropped into a cold grave, but to be put to practical use, as an organ donor: “I’d druther have ’em cut me up/And pass me all around.” A kind of recycling anthem from his terrific third album, “Sweet Revenge.”

‘You Never Can Tell’ (1975)

Almost like an apology, Prine concludes “Sweet Revenge,” a grieving, downhearted album, with an exuberant Chuck Berry cover, one great writer nodding to another. The Memphis R&B guitarist Steve Cropper produced the record and put together a crack horn section, which pushes ahead of some barrelhouse piano. Prine wasn’t a rocker, but he could rock.

‘That’s the Way the World Goes Round’ (1978)

Prine seemed to have an unlimited ability to expand and vary songwriting structures and perspectives. This track, which has been covered by Miranda Lambert and Norah Jones, has two verses: In the first, the narrator describes a drunk who “beats his old lady with a rubber hose,” and in the second, the narrator gets stuck in a frozen bathtub (it’s hard to explain) and imagines the worst until a sudden sun thaws him out. Both verses illustrate the refrain: that’s the way the world goes round. Even when circumstances are bad in Prine songs, he favors optimism and acceptance.

‘Iron Ore Betty’ (1978)

A lot of Prine songs celebrate physical pleasure: food, dancing and sex, which he gallantly prefers to call “making love.” The working-class singer in this soulful, up-tempo shuffle feels unreserved delight at having a girlfriend (“We receive our mail in the same mailbox/And we watch the same TV”), and wants us to know he and Betty aren’t just friends (“I got rug burns on my elbows/She’s got ’em on her knees”). OK guy, we get it.

‘Just Wanna Be With You’ (1980)

A stomping number from “Storm Windows” in the style of Chuck Berry, with the Rolling Stones sideman Wayne Perkins on guitar. Prine’s lyrics don’t distinguish between reality and absurdity — they don’t clash, they mix — and here’s one more way to say you’re happy and in love: “I don’t even care what kind of gum I chew.” And another: “Lonely won’t be lonesome when we get through.”

‘Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian’ (1986)

Prine had a sideline in novelty songs, which give full voice to his comic absurdity, throwaways that are worth saving, including the 1973 semi-hit “Dear Abby,” and this now-problematic number from “German Afternoons” inspired by a paperback book called “Instant Hawaiian.” Prine and his co-writer Fred Koller began making up Hawaiian-sounding nonsense words full of sexual innuendo, and Lloyd Green added airport-Tiki-bar bar steel guitar for maximum faux authenticity. You can say Prine’s loving disposition makes the song OK, and you can also say it doesn’t.

‘All the Best’ (1991)

After five years away, Prine returned with “The Missing Years,” a Grammy-winning album produced by Howie Epstein, Tom Petty’s bass player. The singer in this gentle, masterly miniature claims to want good things for an ex-lover, but feelings aren’t simple: “I wish you don’t do like I do/And never fall in love with someone like you” twists the knife. Now recording for his own label, Oh Boy Records, Prine was about to hit a hot streak.

‘Lake Marie’ (1995)

Bob Dylan, who was a huge fan, called the haunted, mysterious “Lake Marie” his favorite Prine song, and who are we to disagree with Dylan on the topic of songwriting? Even though Epstein’s booming production draws too much attention to itself, “Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings” is full of winners: the simple, loving ballad “Day is Done,” the rapid-fire doggerel of “We Are the Lonely” and the calm, ornery “Quit Hollerin’ at Me,” where Prine tells his wife that the neighbors “already think my name is ‘Where in the hell you been?’”

‘In Spite of Ourselves’ (1999)

Prine was diagnosed with cancer, and doctors removed a tumor from the right side of his neck, which took away his already-modest ability to project his voice. But incredibly, his stolid singing was now perfect for harmonies, and he cut a duets album called “In Spite of Ourselves” with female country and Americana singers. On its one original song, Prine and Iris DeMent trade backhanded compliments (“She thinks all my jokes are corny/Convict movies make her horny”) that read like a divorce complaint, but turn out to be only pillow talk.

‘Some Humans Ain’t Human’ (2005)

At seven minutes and three seconds, this track from “Fair and Square” is the longest song on any of his studio albums. A cloud of slide guitar keeps this soft waltz afloat and allows Prine to express his disapproval of, if not contempt for, so-called humans who lack empathy for others. There’s a couplet that is clearly about George W. Bush, and Prine noticed that some audience members were surprised by it. “I never tried to rub it in anybody’s face, but I thought it was pretty clear that I wasn’t a closet Republican,” he told the Houston Press.

‘When I Get to Heaven’ (2018)

In 2013, doctors removed the cancerous part of Prine’s left lung, which sidelined and weakened him. It’s hard now to listen to his final album, “The Tree of Forgiveness,” which was nominated for three Grammys, and not think that Prine heard the clock ticking louder. There’s so much tenderness in “Knockin’ on Your Screen Door,” about a man whose family left him with only an 8-track tape of George Jones, and in the elegiac, reassuring parental entreaty “Summer’s End.” In the last song, “When I Get to Heaven,” Prine describes his ideal afterlife: a rock band, a cushy hotel, a girl, a cocktail (“vodka and ginger ale”) and “a cigarette that’s nine miles long.” He removes his watch, and asks, “What are you gonna do with time after you’ve bought the farm?”

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heaveninawildflower · 5 years

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Palace Hotel St. Moritz in Switzerland.

Poster by Emile Cardinaux (1877–1936).

Koller Auktionen.

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#Emile Cardinaux #poster art #graphic design #Switzerland #St. Moritz

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ryuki-blogs · 5 years

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I am back from Italy!

I found out how Elijah Baley felt when he saw open space when I found myself surrounded by nothing but runways for kilometers when boarding the plane

I also had a mighty need to grab at the first person sitting next to me when taking off

but I survived both flights

I was shocked in Italy there are still mosquitos and they are insane

I saw Botticelli’s Venus and Michelangelo’s David

but queues at Uffizi are even more insane than the mosquitoes

there was a guy looking exactly like Václav Koller working in Carrefour

Italy why are your sockets different from the rest of Europe, explain please

“walking distance” in Florence means “you will run for 30 minutes from hotel to cinema and still be late”

listening to Utena soundtracks when walking through evening Forence is A+ experience

my mom went with me and had it as a vacation when I was at the festival

but she didn’t speak any Italian nor English and it was very interesting

everyone assumed we were Russian and it was funny

but I don’t blame them since Slovak sounds probably the most similar to Russian from Slavic languages

I am hella tired

I but I live!

yay!

#spam

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punkrockaugdoc · 6 years

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Václav Koller had a few things on his suck-it list that he never wanted to really experience. It was like a bucket list, you see, but for every item crossed off he only really got more nightmares.

He was intimately aware of the process that was behind a lot of the augs he fitted his, ah, customers with; the ones that weren't the cheapest possible hodgepodge of outdated machinery usually came from some poor sap who ended up in the wrong alleyway at the wrong time, whether living or dead at the time. And he wasn't exactly too keen on recieveing that kind of treatment-- tub of ice, less limbs--, much like he wasn't keen on having some stranger poking around in him.

So imagine his surprise when he woke up not without his arms, but with ones that looked... Well, he didn't know, but they sure as hell didn't look like his. He could still move them, thank god, so as much as they looked like the prosthetics he'd seen in his books, they thankfully kept whatever function he'd had before. (With the exception of his blowtorch but, honestly, he could probably live without that.)

(... It didn't mean he wasn't slightly peeved that they'd taken out the fingers anyway. You know, underneath all that absolute terror. What kind of an asshole took out a tool and didn't even have the fucking courtesy to give him his fingers back?)

...

... Everything felt like a themepark, like a vintage movie, and Václav was neither awake or clear-minded enough to do anything more but freak out as silently as possible in the hotel room he'd all but been ushered into. Like he'd been walking, talking, getting his dumb, sleepdeprived ass all the way into the past somehow; and he only came to in time for that horrible, gutwrenching dread to kick in.

... ...So where the hell was this place even?

#plrp intro

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en24news · 4 years

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This is how the Davos promenade is to be revitalized

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Urs Wiprächtiger (Shopping Promenade Platz association), Prisca Koller (Davos second-home owner association), Stefan Steiner (regional development), Boris Bossi (Davos trade and business association), Jean-Pierre Galey (Davos Klosters destination), Remo Dieth (Shopping Promenade Platz association ), Zoe Käser (Shopping Promenade Platz Association), Adrian Weber (Hotel Gastro Davos…

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#Davos #promenade #revitalized

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adscampaign · 7 years

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Toni Sailer | Fall Winter 2017/18 Collection by Sacha Tassilo Höchstetter

Sacha Tassilo Höchstetter photographed Abi Fox and Eugen Bauder for a campaign of high-quality function and ski apparel brand Toni Sailer. Each season, a completely new collection of the finest quality is designed.

The campaign was photographed in Zermatt near the hotel 3100 Kulmhotel Gornergrat directly opposite the Matterhorns.

Photographer: Sacha Tassilo Höchstetter Production: Axel Gundermann Models: Abi Fox & Eugen Bauder Styling: Petra Wiebe Hair & Make-Up: Christopher Koller

Courtesy of Toni Sailer

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Artis: Rudolf Koller (Swiss, 1828 - 1905)

Rudolf Koller (21 Mei 1828 - 5 Januari 1905) adalah seorang pelukis Swiss. Ia dikaitkan dengan gaya realis dan klasik, dan juga dengan sekolah lukisan Düsseldorf yang pada dasarnya romantis. Gaya Koller mirip dengan pelukis realis Gustave Courbet dan Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Dianggap sebagai pelukis binatang terbaik di Swiss, Koller dinilai bersama George Stubbs, Rosa Bonheur dan Théodore Géricault. Walaupun reputasinya didasarkan pada lukisan-lukisan binatangnya, ia adalah seniman yang sensitif dan inovatif yang karya-karyanya yang bagus dalam tradisi "plein air", termasuk lanskap gunung Swiss, juga dieksekusi dengan sangat halus.

Dia telah digambarkan sebagai "pelukis binatang nasional Swiss", karena lukisan sapi di lanskap Swiss. Ia dianggap, bersama dengan Frank Buchser dan Gustave Castan, sebagai salah satu pelukis Swiss terpenting di abad ke-19. The Gotthardpost, atau The St Gotthard Mailcoach, adalah salah satu lukisannya yang paling terkenal. Ini menggambarkan seorang pelatih surat, ditarik oleh kuda putih, melaju di sepanjang jalan gunung.

Koller lahir di Zürich pada tahun 1828. Pada tahun 1830 ayahnya, Johann Heinrich, adalah seorang tukang daging dan pembuat bir, yang menjadi pemilik penginapan di hotel "Schwarzen Adler", di pusat kota dekat sungai. Ibunya adalah Maria Ursula née Forster. Karena sebagian besar pelanggannya adalah waggoner dan pedagang sapi, Koller melihat kuda dan sapi setiap hari. Dia memulai pendidikannya di sekolah swasta; kemudian dia bersekolah di sekolah dasar bernama Fraumünster.

Dari tahun 1840 hingga 1843 ia belajar di sekolah industri kewilayahan di Zürich. Dia mendapat uang kuliah artistik pertamanya dari pamannya, yang adalah seorang pelukis lanskap. Koller muda memutuskan untuk berspesialisasi sebagai pelukis dalam menggambarkan kuda.

Setelah ia meninggalkan Sekolah Industri di Zurich, pada Oktober 1843, Koller mulai belajar di bawah guru seni Jacques Schweizer, pelukis potret Johann Rudolf Obrist, dan pelukis lanskap Hans Jacob Ulrich, dan mengambil kelas melukis pribadi bersama mereka. Ulrich, yang merupakan seorang pelukis lanskap dan hewan yang sukses, memengaruhinya lebih jauh dalam pilihan tema selama karir artistiknya.

Pada tahun 1845 ia pergi ke Munich di mana ia bekerja dengan sekelompok seniman yang disebut "the Schweizer", yang dipimpin oleh ahli lanskap Swiss, Johann Gottfried Steffan.

Pada tahun 1845 percobaan kuda dimulai di peternakan pejantan Raja Württemberg, dekat Stuttgart, dan Koller disewa untuk menghasilkan gambar kuda dan anjing di sana. Pada 1846 - 47, ia belajar menggambar di bawah Karl Ferdinand Sohn di Akademi Seni Rupa Düsseldorf. Di Academy Koller menjalin pertemanan dengan pelukis simbolis Swiss masa depan Arnold Böcklin dan klasikis Jerman Anselm Feuerbach. Rudolf Koller bepergian bersama temannya Arnold Böcklin ke Brussels dan Antwerp, pada tahun 1847.

Kemudian Koller pindah ke Paris. Pada tahun 1847, ketika tinggal di Paris, ia berbagi studio dengan Arnold Böcklin. Di Louvre ia menyalin karya seni Belanda abad ke-17 dan membiasakan dirinya dengan karya-karya pelukis hewan kontemporer seperti Rosa Bonheur dan Constant Troyon. Dia juga mengunjungi studio pelukis binatang Jacques Raymond Brascassat.

Dengan dukungan koloni para seniman di Barbizon, Koller melukis pemandangan dalam pengaturan luar ruangan. Pada tahun 1848, karena kesulitan keuangan, ia kembali dari Prancis ke Zürich.

Dari tahun 1849 hingga 1850, Koller melukis di Hasliberg, sebuah desa yang indah di dekat Interlaken. Kemudian dia pergi ke Munich, di mana dia berkenalan dengan lanskap dan pelukis binatang Johann Gottfried Steffan dan Friedrich Voltz. Di sebuah peternakan kuda di Bavaria Bagian Atas, ia membuat studi tentang kuda dan melakukan perjalanan ke Zugspitze dan Tirol untuk mempelajari pemandangan gunung.

Dari April 1851 ia kembali tinggal di Zürich, di mana ia berteman dengan pelukis Swiss Robert Zünd dan Ernst Stückelberg. Koller membuka studio di Zürich, dan dari situ ia memperoleh banyak komisi untuk lukisan binatang. Pada 1852-53, bekerja sama dengan Zünd, ia melukis beberapa studi lanskap di dekat Walensee, sebuah danau besar di Swiss timur.

Pada Mei 1856 Koller, berusia 28, menikahi Bertha Schlatter, yang potretnya telah dilukisnya setahun sebelumnya. Mereka pergi berbulan madu ke Wina, di mana karya-karya Koller telah dipamerkan beberapa kali.

Pada 1857 ia menghasilkan lukisan terkenal Die Kuh im Krautgarten (Sapi di Kebun Sayur). Dia menjadi teman dengan novelis Bildungsroman Swiss Gottfried Keller, sejarawan budaya Jacob Burckhardt dan novelis dan penulis naskah Friedrich Theodor Vischer. Selama 1858, Koller melakukan perjalanan ke Kanton Glarus di Swiss; Karyanya Richisau berasal dari perjalanan ini.

Pada tahun 1862, Koller membeli sebuah chalet di pantai timur Danau Zürich, tempat ia akan tinggal selama sisa hidupnya. Di sana ia memelihara berbagai binatang, terutama untuk mempelajarinya sebagai subjek melukis. Dia sering melukis pemandangan pedesaan, pemandangan dan pemandangan yang menggambarkan binatang. Dia mencintai binatang dan memperlakukan mereka dalam gambar-gambarnya sebagai bagian dari kekuatan alam yang masih alami. Pada 1868-69, perjalanannya membawanya ke Florence, Roma, dan Napoli.

Setelah kembali, ia menerima mahasiswa seni di studionya. Lukisannya Hay Harvest di Threatening Weather of 1854 adalah contoh yang baik tentang komposisi yang harmonis dan integritas ekspresi.

Pada 1870 Koller mulai menderita gangguan penglihatan yang mengganggu pekerjaannya. Namun demikian, pada tahun 1873, masih berada di puncak kekuatan artistiknya, ia mendapatkan tugas dari Kereta Api Timur Laut Swiss, untuk menghasilkan hadiah bagi perintis industri dan kereta api Alfred Escher pada saat pensiun. Koller memilih untuk menyinggung proyek terowongan St. Gotthard, yang diperjuangkan Escher, dan akhirnya menggabungkan beberapa studi untuk melukiskan Gotthardpost, atau The Gotthard Mail Coach, yang menunjukkan salah satu pelatih surat yang ditarik kuda, dibuat usang oleh pembukaan kereta. terowongan. Lukisan itu diakui sebagai salah satu yang terbaik yang pernah dilakukan oleh seorang pelukis Swiss. Sekarang hang di Kunsthaus Zürich. Koller melukis replika pada tahun 1874 untuk bank Credit Suisse di Zurich. Pada tahun 1900 Koller melakukan perjalanan untuk terakhir kalinya ke Italia, di mana ia bertemu dengan temannya Böcklin di dekat Florence.

Koller meninggal pada tahun 1905, berusia 76 tahun, di chalet-nya. Makamnya berada di Pemakaman Sihlfeld di Zürich, dekat makam temannya Gottfried Keller (yang meninggal pada tahun 1890).

Setelah kematian Koller, Museum Seni Zürich menggelar pameran karya-karyanya, termasuk beberapa dari tahun-tahun awalnya, dan berbagai artefak pribadi. Untuk menghormati peringatan 100 tahun wafatnya, Hotel Adler memasang "bar untuk anjing", yang terdiri dari bak air dari besi, ke dinding luar hotel. Bar memiliki mekanisme yang menyegarkan air setiap 30 menit.

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