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[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

yes, photography saved artists from the yolk of representation

but not only that. frames changed, cropped figures started appearing in paintings. Motion itself became a subject of interest.

photography changed painting.

john berger's "ways of seeing" was a reference on this subject. I don't know if it is still relevant or is it now considered outdated 🤷

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

it's the shoulder thrust that locks the right hand in and renders it useless

today it didn't work against Kirishima though

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

they more anarchister the are

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

i remember that burnt car post

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

and at least one woman kills her dog herself

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Orientalist fantasies?

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by.

He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, "Perfect timing. You're just like Frank."

Passenger: "Who?"

Cabbie: "Frank Feldman... he's a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank Feldman every single time."

Passenger: "There are always a few clouds over everybody."

Cabbie: "Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone, and danced like a Broadway star. And you should have heard him play the piano! He was an amazing guy."

Passenger: "Sounds like he was something really special."

Cabbie: "There's more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order, and which fork to eat them with. And he could fix anything. Not like me -I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman, he could do everything right."

Passenger: "Wow, some guy then."

Cabbie: "He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back, even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too. He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank Feldman."

Passenger: "An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?"

Cabbie: "Well... I never actually met Frank. You see, several years ago Frank died, and I married his fucking wife."

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

no airbag either?

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 days ago

futile conversation

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

after watching the video?

 

He repeatedly uses the same trick with a 'left outside grip' and the following shoulder thrust which seems to be difficult for his opponents to resist

 

A genetic chimerism or chimera (en-US), also chimaerism or chimaera (en-UK), (/kaɪˈmɪərə, kɪ-/ ky-MEER-ə, kih-) is a single organism composed of cells of different genotypes. Animal chimeras can be produced by the fusion of two (or more) embryos. In plants and some animal chimeras, mosaicism involves distinct types of tissue that originated from the same zygote, but differ due to mutation during ordinary cell division.

An animal chimera is a single organism that is composed of two or more different populations of genetically distinct cells that originated from different zygotes involved in sexual reproduction. If the different cells have emerged from the same zygote, the organism is called a mosaic. Innate chimeras are formed from at least four parent cells (two fertilised eggs or early embryos fused together). Each population of cells keeps its own character and the resulting organism is a mixture of tissues. Cases of human chimeras have been documented.

Most human chimeras will go through life without realizing they are chimeras. The difference in phenotypes may be subtle (e.g., having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.) or completely undetectable. Chimeras may also show, under a certain spectrum of UV light, distinctive marks on the back resembling that of arrow points pointing downward from the shoulders down to the lower back; this is one expression of pigment unevenness called Blaschko's lines.

Another case was that of Karen Keegan, who was also suspected (initially) of not being her children's biological mother, after DNA tests on her adult sons for a kidney transplant she needed seemed to show that she was not their mother.

 
 
 

Artificial cranial deformation or modification, head flattening, or head binding is a form of body alteration in which the skull of a human being is deformed intentionally. It is done by distorting the normal growth of a child's skull by applying pressure. Flat shapes, elongated ones (produced by binding between two pieces of wood), rounded ones (binding in cloth), and conical ones are among those chosen or valued in various cultures.

Alchon kings are generally recognized by their elongated skulls, a result of artificial skull deformation. Archaeologist Cameron Petrie wrote that "The depictions of elongated heads suggest that the Alchon kings engaged in skull modification, which was also practised by the Hun groups that appeared in Europe." The elongated skulls appear clearly in most portraits of rulers in the coinage of the Alchon Huns, and most visibly on the coinage of Khingila. These elongated skulls, which they obviously displayed with pride, distinguished them from other peoples, such as their predecessors the Kidarites. On their coins, the spectacular skulls came to replace the Sasanian crowns which had been current in the region's coinage. This practice is also known among other peoples of the steppes, particularly the Huns, and as far as Europe, where it was introduced by the Huns themselves.

The custom of binding babies' heads in Europe in the twentieth century, though dying out at the time, was still extant in France, and also found in pockets in western Russia, the Caucasus, and in Scandinavia among the Sámi. The reasons for the shaping of the head varied over time, from aesthetic to pseudoscientific ideas about the brain's ability to hold certain types of thought depending on its shape.

The pre-colonial standard of beauty among these groups were of broad faces and receding foreheads, with the ideal skull dimensions being of equal length and width. The devices used to achieve this include a comb-like set of thin rods known as tangad, plates or tablets called sipit, or padded boards called saop. These were bound to a baby's forehead with bandages and fastened at the back.

He reported that in the central Philippines, people placed the heads of children between two boards to horizontally flatten their skulls towards the back, and that they viewed this as a mark of beauty. Other historic sources confirmed the practice, further identifying it as also being a practice done by the nobility (tumao) as a mark of social status, although whether it was restricted to nobility is still unclear.

Deformation usually begins just after birth for the next couple of years until the desired shape has been reached or the child rejects the apparatus.

It has also been suggested that the practice of cranial deformation originated as an attempt to emulate groups in which an elongated head shape was a natural condition. The skulls of some ancient Egyptians are among those identified as often being naturally elongated, and macrocephaly may be a familial characteristic.

There is no statistically significant difference in cranial capacity between artificially deformed skulls and normal skulls in Peruvian samples.

 

In 2005, Paul Davidson, a filmmaker, made a blog post in which he claimed that the term "wifebeater" had evolved from a medieval chain mail undergarment called a "waif-beater", and this was picked up as fact by other outlets. In the same blog post, he claimed that the term became synonymous with an undershirt after a Detroit man was reportedly arrested in 1947 for beating his wife to death. The story claims that newspapers printed a photo of the "wife beater" wearing a stained undershirt. This claim was repeated by numerous outlets. However, no evidence has been found in news archives to substantiate this rumor. Davidson openly admitted in 2018 that the blog post was a hoax, created to trick people who unquestioningly believed anything they read on the Internet.

A sleeveless shirt, also known as a tank top, "wife beater", among other names, is a shirt that is manufactured without sleeves or with sleeves that have been cut off.

 

The Droste effect is the effect of a picture [recursively] appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. In art history, the technique is known as mise en abyme. This produces a loop which in theory could go on forever, but in practice only continues as far as the image's resolution allows.

 

if the article isn't appropriate for this community, let me know and i will delete it.

Ernie Dosio, a 75-year-old vineyard owner, was hunting an antelope species in Africa when the incident occured

Originally from Lodi, California, Dosio had built an extensive collection of hunting trophies over the years, including animals such as elephants and lions. He was reportedly a familiar name within the Sacramento Safari Club.

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a friend gave it to me ±15 years ago. He thought it was impossible to get the ring out. Maybe it's faulty and they cut the rope shorter than they should have.

We don't know what this is 🤷

a baby toy?

 

The lake's name comes from the Algonquian language of the Nipmuc and is often said to mean, "Fishing Place at the Boundaries—Neutral Meeting Grounds." A more fitting translation is "lake divided by islands," according to anthropologist Ives Goddard.

The humorous translation is: "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle." Its humorous translation was perhaps invented by Laurence J. Daly, editor of The Webster Times.

The exaggerated name "Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg" is a 45-letter alternative name for this body of fresh water, often cited as the longest place name in the United States and one of the longest in the world. Some signs include an even longer 49-letter version of the name, "Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg." Many area residents and the official website of the town of Webster consider the 45-letter version correct.

Algonquian-speaking people had several different names for the lake as recorded on old maps and historical records. However, all of these were similar in part and had almost the same translation. Among other early names were "Chabanaguncamogue" and "Chaubanagogum." Early town records show the name as "Chabunagungamaug Pond," which was also the name of the local Nipmuc town (recorded in 1668 and 1674 with somewhat different spellings). This has been translated as "boundary fishing place," but something close to "fishing place at the boundary" or "that which is a divided island lake" may be more accurate.

Webster Lake is a 1,442-acre (5.84 km2) lake with a 17-mile (27 km) shoreline in southern Massachusetts, near the Connecticut border. It is the fourth largest fresh body of water in Massachusetts, after slightly larger Long Pond, The Wachusett Reservoir in Clinton, and the much larger Quabbin Reservoir. The average depth is 13 feet (4.0 m) and the maximum depth is 49 feet (15 m).

 

He describes how, even before it was completed (in 1607), gangs hid out in and around it, robbing and murdering people. It remained a dangerous place even as it became busier. For a long time, the bridge even had its own gallows.

This did not prevent people from congregating there, drawn by various stands and street performers (acrobats, fire-eaters, musicians, etc.). Charlatans and quacks of various sorts were also common, as well as the hustlers (shell game hucksters, etc.) and pickpockets often found in crowds – not to mention a lively trade in prostitution. Among the many businesses which, however, unofficially set up there, were several famous tooth pullers.

One finds on the Pont-Neuf an infinity of people who give tickets, some put fallen teeth back in, and others make crystal eyes; there are those who cure incurable illnesses; those who claim to have discovered the virtues of some powdered stones to white and to beautify the face. This one claims he makes old men young; there are those who remove wrinkles from the forehead and the eyes, who make wooden legs to repair the violence of bombs; finally everybody is so applied to work, so strongly and continually, that the devil can tempt no one but on Holidays and Sundays.

"So central an artery is the Pont Neuf, that it used to be a saying with the Parisian police, that if, after watching three days, they did not see a man cross the bridge, he must have left Paris."

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