#cupola view

[tamarackshack]

Took a year to complete this quilt! Pattern is by NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg called Cupola View. Fabrics used were also designed by Karen, the collection is called Earth Views.

#quilting #astronaut #handmade #longarm quilting #quilt #cupola view #space crafts #made for my son #husband is holding the quilt #removed his hands from the pic #you can see his shadow #quilts in the wild

[chiropteracupola]

return of the sketchbook scribblescrabble

#the cupola report #(featuring My Dad) #despite the ongoing clickclacking of my knees we bike onward to Sites My Father Is Interested In Viewing #such as Locations where he can drink Beers And/Or Very Small Coffees

[charlesreeza]

Catania, Sicily

Photo by Charles Reeza

#architecture #city view #cupola #Italy #travel photos #Baroque

[gazebos-galore]

#gazebosgalore another 6 m octagonal gazebo with breathtaking views #australianmade #australiangrown #australianowned #octagonalgazebo #prefabricated #cupola #colorbondwalls #colorbond #roof #picketfence #views (at Berry, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnygfLArg4E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#gazebosgalore #australianmade #australiangrown #australianowned #octagonalgazebo #prefabricated #cupola #colorbondwalls #colorbond #roof #picketfence #views

[clairity-org]

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, View of Rome: The Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the Cupola of Saint Peter's, 1826-1827, Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 11/23/22 #legionofhonor #artmuseum by Sharon Mollerus

#fine art #Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot #Legion of Honor Museum #Oil on paper mounted on canvas #San Francisco #1826-1827 #View of Rome: The Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the Cupola #CA #View of Rome: The Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo with the Cupola of Saint Peter's #flickr

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Gorgeous 1965 mid-century modern tree house style home on the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur, California. 4bds, 3ba, $11.5M.

This home has been impeccably maintained and features a cupolaed living room with a panoramic view and round stone fireplace. Look at the wood flooring pattern.

Not sure I like the stove in the middle of the floor, though. There's no counter space.

I wonder if the bed conveys, since it's attached.

What a cool bathroom, it's like being out in the garden. In fact, it looks like it IS open to the garden.

Look at the tub.

Round window with a view of the patio.

All of these multi-million dollar homes have yoga studios.

Spiral stairs in the hall.

Bedroom #2 has a pyramid-shaped window and lights, b/c pyramids are said to have positive energy.

This is a beautiful office with a fireplace and stone floor.

It's a stepdown from this bedroom and can be closed off by a sliding accordion door.

Cozy family room with an ocean view.

It's so private up here there's an outdoor tub next to the pool. That hill, though, is a little too close.

Terrace over a pond.

There are 5.10 acres of beautiful land, but most of it looks hilly.

Path to a cute she shed.

This is called the Big Creek State Marine Conservation Area.

#mid century modern home #treehouses #MCM architecture #houses #house tours #home tour

[wandering-italy]

Views of Rome from the cupola of St. Peters.

#st peter's basilica #rome #roma #italy #italia #original photography #photography #travel #cityscape #urban photography #urban landscape #vatican #vatican city #photographers on tumblr #lensblr #historical architecture #architecture #wanderingjana

[kavaeric]

Run of "Yinmai Cinematic" commissions from 2022. Commentary on each piece (yes, each) below.

I learned that I really, really liked comms where I was tasked to tell a story in a single still composition. The Yinmai series of commissions was an experiment in limiting/directing the prompts to suit this desire: the composition is inherently limited with the anamorphic-esque crop, which means having a typical character-on-white-background comm isn't really possible. The space around a character becomes exaggerated and emphasised, and so by nature this comm style forces you to engage in visual storytelling.

Luckily, I seem to have really good clients who know how to rise to the occasion. I actually had a contingency tier for Yinmai, where I would accept avatar/portrait comms for those not interested in the whole cinematic affair—no one took me up on it.

In order of appearance:

AstroVernox

She commissioned me years ago, before she came out as trans. I think her initial prompt was actually a more mundane scene of being in a cupola, but to work with the drama of yinmai we agreed to adjust it, as well as making a bit of a reference to her transition.

Noir

A fun experiment in quads composition, where the negative space around the subject is further exaggerated and creates a strong sense of empathy. Good for a bit of horror.

Flake (Light Era diagetic)

Ditto as above. One of the two trial comms before I opened publicly. The character of theirs is Trellis, and they included a Dropbox folder of inspiration images; one of them was of the hydroponics scene from the film Sunshine. I incorporated that into this.

Fosh (Light Era diagetic)

She wanted a piece about being out in the field in the Olympic forests. I had a lot of fun with the trees and the colour in the sky makes it really stand out amongst this set.

Taky (no social media) (Light Era diagetic)

They requested them as a Wintertide Adept, which got me a bit hesitant since I never liked to romanticise the military aspect of Light Era too much, but I read their prompt further and they requested a more sombre mood of anticipation, maybe dread. A great example of a client understanding the assignment, if you will. I thought about showing the feeling of isolation by strategically placing the window frame to separate him and the rest of the group in the background.

Forth & Hydrophagist

The other trial comm of this series. The dramatic nature of Yinmai means it's predisposed to show character at a moment of weakness or emotional vulnerability. It makes me more comfortable portraying military themes as it moves it away from ideas of dominance or strength.

Ashii (Light Era diagetic)

Much the same as above, but taken to a larger scale—a little more chaotic, a little more frantic. Playing with depth was very fun. This one is the most popular piece of the series, apparently.

Panzica

Prompt was making a call under the feeling of uncertainty, if I recall correctly. I sneakily referenced a police interrogation room for the environment. The worm's eye view works for the idea, but I feel like I could have executed the anatomy better.

Phenokage

The prompt was of their character, Trouble, whose backstory is a lot of them learning how to deal with being turned into a macro; feelings of being out of place and learning to cope felt resonant as someone of Asian descent living in a foreign country. I felt like I could evoke this feeling by trapping her between a building and the cage-like railings of an expressway headed in the wrong direction.

#artwork commentary #artwork backlog #furry #anthro #furry art #artwork commission #yinmai #light era #kouwa #cinematic #science fiction #scifi #artwork

[zvetenze]

Roženski manastir (Rožen monastery), view of konak čardak

Rožen (Rozhen), Bulgaria

The northeast corner of the monastery is marked by an čardak and cupola (bell tower) that project from the konak galleries and rise above the perimeter walls. Views from the square-shaped čardak platform span east, south and west to include the monastery church, courtyard, and surrounding konaks as well as the mountainous landscape beyond. The bold wood construction of the čardak constrasts with the delicate octagon of the cupola, whose eight wooden posts are topped by plastered arches that rise outward as soffits to the roof eaves. (photo 1994)

#Bulgaria #architecture #monastery

[fandomwarehouse]

One of the funniest conceits of jumping through time and space is that you find a (habitable) planet on the other side. Even if you're just moving through time, the earth is in constant orbit around the sun, which is in constant orbit around our galaxy's center. Chances are, your ass will end up somewhere in space.

Naturally, I'm thinking Ciri yeets herself through spacetime to escape the Wild Hunt and then bonks into the International Space Station or some shit.

It's theoretically possible to survive exposure to vacuum for a few minutes (although you'll probably only have a few seconds of consciousness left.)

And because it's too funny not to, imagine Ciri just bonked the cupola module. There's this beautiful vista of Earth and then Ciri spins by holding her head before she vanishes in contravention of all known physics.

Shortly after that, a bunch of wraith-larping weirdos on horseback appear, bonk the cupola, and then disappear just as quickly. Not before the horses poop though, which leaves a trail of frozen manure nuggets in low earth orbit.

POV: You're one of the ISS crew who had been enjoying the view of Earth with some peanut butter on a tortilla

#cirilla fiona elen riannon #in space no one can you bonk #adventures in spacetime

[paperhound]

Quite certain that this is the only vantage point in architecturally-impoverished Vancouver where you can perceive a classical Composite column and a domed cupola without even having to swivel your head. And we've strategically inserted ourselves right into the view. This only works in the leafless months before the Victory Square maples conceal the Sun Tower so hasten down to historic Crosstown*, we are open our usual 10-6 daily all through the Easter long weekend.

*Crosstown is that area of downtown that’s not Gastown, not Chinatown, and almost but not quite the DTES. Historically it was home to Vancouver’s Book Row, a concentration of used booksellers, which is perhaps from whence it got its name (Curmudgeon Alley having been rejected as being too much of a mouthful).

[fictionalafvsmybeloved]

How about this non-credible gem!

I remember when things like this were getting posted on

r/Noncredibledefense all the time, the mods started removing them for being "low effort posts". I happen to thing they're pretty low effort as well, so I'm going to rate Just This One and ask that you send me some thing other than a photoshop in the future.

This is an M113 with the gun and mantlet from a "Hetzer" photoshopped to the front. This would not work, the front of the M113 is entirely taken up by the engine and driver's positions.

But, I'll tell you how to turn an M113 into a casemate gun TD anyway.

In the 1960's Germany had something called the Kanonenjagdpanzer 90.

This guy, the idea of gun TDs was starting to become obsolete, but this is what we're going to try and mimic.

Put a water proof side hatch on both sides of the M113

Move the engine to the back of the tank, the original rear door is the new engine service hatch

Take the gun and traversal system from an M56 scorpion mount it where the previous engine hatch was

upgrade the gunners sight with nightvision

make a mantlet for the gun and install the sight in it; don't worry about armor, just make it waterproof with good traversal speeds and angles

mount panoramic nightvision periscopes for the driver and gunner

enlarge the commander's cupola and install a rotatable nightvision view finder

install seating for the gunner and loader

install ammo racks

And that should do it! If you followed the instructions your vehicle will have a FINAL SCORE of:

Credibility: 7/10 - Ready For The A1 Model

Coolness: 6/10 - Forest MultiCam

BONUS

The Online Tank Encyclopedia ,where you'll fine plenty of cursed things that people actually tried to build! (sometimes they even succeded)

#noncredibledefense #ncd #noncredible defense #tank ratings #tanks

[thetruearchmagos]

The Commonwealth Calls

An Excerpt: Steel Clad Coffins

Hey all! Wrote up a scene for SCC, and in a sense it's the one that started it all. Now in a very different form, of course, but I still liked it, at least as a one-shot first draft.

Major spoilers below, though, so proceed with caution.

Tagging @athenswrites @theprissythumbelina [I'll tell you that Goyan's here, but not in a way you'd probably be happy about] @hessdalen-globe @caxycreations @nerdexer @thatndginger @coffeexafterxmidnight

Bright light. Pitch black. Somewhere outside, a furious, throaty roar, and something was burning. The thick smoke stung her awake, and Goyan opened her eyes, wet with more than just tears, and saw the pit of hell that her armtrack had become. Smoke filled the turret compartment, and down past her own feet she saw Kopp’s slumped form lying there, unmoving. Her mouth creaked opened without a sound, and trying to grab his shoulder she found she couldn’t even raise herself, her arm pinned against the turret wall by her own weight. “Major…” Goyan heard a voice, or thought she did, somewhere to her left and out of sight. A horse, crying voice, and suddenly a pair of hands on her left shoulder pulled her facing straight. She saw Cochise’s wide-eyed face stare into her, and gasped for air more to let him know she still breathed than to fill her lungs with the fumes. He stared for maybe another second, before his wits returned, and the corporal reached up to his hatch on the ‘ceiling’. With a final burst of effort he swung it out and open, and scrambled to find enough purchase to crawl out of the turret. Though her legs felt as dead as wood, Goyan strained, and with a hiss of pain turned her head up to her own cupola. Its hatch was as tightly shut as she’d left it, but steeling herself she reached out with one hand, then the other, crawling up in her seat and dragging her legs all the way. Her hands tried to grapple with the hatch, but suddenly it swung open, and the sounds of battle raging beyond leaked into her world once again. For a moment, she could see the stars, before a helmeted figure came into view. Not Cochise, but they reached with a hand down into the turret, shouting at her with words she couldn’t hear. She turned her head back down to Kopp, still face down at his gunner’s station, then took it.

#writing #my writing #writeblr #my wips #writeblr stuff #original writing #The 12 Worlds

[gazebos-galore]

#gazebosgalore today we broke another record. 4.5 hrs on site building this 7 m diameter octagonal wedding style gazebo with the ultimate valley views. Very happy customer and very surprised at the speed and accuracy of this build. #speed #efficiency #octagonal #build #weddingstyle #happycustomer #vallyview #views #cupola #colorbond #nightsky (at Lithgow, New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiwfH7uPONU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#gazebosgalore #speed #efficiency #octagonal #build #weddingstyle #happycustomer #vallyview #views #cupola #colorbond #nightsky

[itsfullofstars]

Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti looks out from a window on the cupola by NASA Johnson iss067e359828 (Sept. 12, 2022) --- ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Expedition 67 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti is pictured looking out from a window on the cupola, the International Space Station's "window to the world." The astronauts use the seven-windowed cupola to monitor the arrival of spaceships at the orbiting lab and view the Earth below. https://flic.kr/p/2nLTvBU

#IFTTT #Flickr

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Just look at this beautiful freshly restored 1882 Victorian with the mansard roof. It's in Stillwater, Minnesota, has 3bd 2ba, priced at $550K, and some lucky people already have a pending offer on it.

I thought that they painted the wood black, but that's its natural color and patina. Note the original bell on the door.

Enter directly into the living room and there're stairs, plus a cute alcove.

Isn't this a sweet little niche to sit with a book or needlework, and a cup of tea.

The living/dining room are an open concept layout.

The kitchen was completely remodeled and is super cute. Plus, it has a nice-sized everyday dining area.

Off the kitchen is a powder room with the cutest little sink.

Nice stairs to the 2nd fl. has the perfect choice of carpet.

Wow, this is a spacious main bd.

And, the interior reflects the shape of the mansard roof.

The secondary bedroom is just as lovely.

And, here's the smaller 3rd bd. that is also very nice.

What a sweet little claw foot tub.

Sunny little yellow Victorian is a dollhouse and it's know as "Grandma Bean's Playhouse," to the family.

There's a nice 2 car garage.

A small stone patio in the garden.

The cupola is the jewel in the crown.

Plus there's a great view of the St. Croix River.

#victorian house #mansard roof #old house dreams #houses #house tours #home tour