Like ”Hopper Meditations,” my previous series, the images in “Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz” were created by digitally marrying dollhouse-size dioramas with live models. First, I built, painted and photographed the sets in my studio. I then photographed the live models against a plain backdrop, and lastly, made the digital composites using Photoshop.
I like dinosaurs ! 🙂
Here is a modern-day weird creature occupying this planet of ours.
I put the explanation of the video in the spoiler box (there is only dubbed music in the video / I muted it) .
EXPLANATION OF THE BARRELEYE FISH VIDEO (DEEP SEA REMOTE CAMERA / 54 SECONDS) MONTEREY BAY AQUARIAM
New deep-sea sighting: The barreleye fish has a transparent head and tubular eyes
During a dive with our education and outreach partner, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the team came across a rare treat: a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma).
MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles Ventana and Doc Ricketts have logged more than 5,600 successful dives and recorded more than 27,600 hours of video—yet we’ve only encountered this fish nine times!
The barreleye lives in the ocean’s twilight zone, at depths of 600 to 800 meters (2,000 to 2,600 feet). Its eyes look upwards to spot its favorite prey—usually small crustaceans trapped in the tentacles of siphonophores—from the shadows they cast in the faint shimmer of sunlight from above. But how does this fish eat when its eyes point upward and its mouth points forward? MBARI researchers learned the barreleye can rotate its eyes beneath that dome of transparent tissue.
Aquarist Tommy Knowles and his team were aboard MBARI’s R/V Rachel Carson with our ROV Ventana to collect jellies and comb jellies for the Aquarium’s upcoming Into the Deep exhibition when they spotted this fascinating fish. The team stopped to marvel at Macropinna before it swam away.
to the Monterey Bay Aquarium main site is well worth the time (it can get a bit confusing, but even if you didn’t get where you thought you were going there will be something there that’s interesting).
There are real time camera feeds set up at a number of the exhibits, and some listed feeding times for the occupants thereof. Just because I’m me:
1) The aquarium’s “Open Sea” exhibit is listed as holding 1,000,000 U.S. gallons.
2) The US EPA says the average American uses 82 gallons of water a day at home.
3) Simple division says that (including leap-years) that volume of water would last the average American just short of a day over 33 years 141 days (using McGill University figures it would only last the average Canadian just a smidgeon over 31 years 183 days).
It’s a beautiful bottle, but good luck getting all the syrup out. One of my pet peeves is all the fancy bottles that have nooks and crannies so you can’t reach the contents. That and pump bottles that never can be emptied, so you have to cut the tops off to get to the (sometimes 1/4) of the contents.
remote possibility, indeed!
I never did establish where our carolers went to and if there’s a gruesome pit
strewn with the bones of past carolers—-but Cleo wouldn’t do THAT.
mine too, you old scalawag.
the AHEEE! sound effect has been in my arsenal since my early early days of drawing
comics — back when I was 12 or so.
old habits are slow to extinguish themselves
Over and under captioned HERE: { Russell Lee – June 1940. “The gasoline pumps at Pie Town, New Mexico.” / [Photo: Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration] }
If you go to the links (the “heres”) at, “Russell Lee in Pie Town previously, here and here.” , you’re in for a treat.
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Nice photo but, yuck!
I like the streetlamp.
They look good without the snow too!
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An OLDie but goodie!
Richard Tuschman
Richard Tuschman (quoting)
Like ”Hopper Meditations,” my previous series, the images in “Once Upon A Time In Kazimierz” were created by digitally marrying dollhouse-size dioramas with live models. First, I built, painted and photographed the sets in my studio. I then photographed the live models against a plain backdrop, and lastly, made the digital composites using Photoshop.
So he created that cobblestone street? And those little posters?
Seems it would have been easier to find and photograph the environment he wanted. But hey, whatever inspires you.
That’s what I was thinking too.
I love dollhouses, and miniatures, and I admire his work, so if that’s what he wants to do, great.
But since we don’t get to go to a gallery or his studio, and gasp at the excellence of his tiny creation….
it seems like the better he gets at modelling reality for these photographs, the more it looks like he’s using a real place anyway…
Though maybe it’s actually harder to find the real places than to recreate them, difficult as that may be.
Did you see this? MontanaLady thought it sounded good (thanks, ML).
These are the only two photographs I could find of Richcard Tuschman working in his studio.
The detail !
He begins in this lecture at 1 minute 25 seconds and goes through to the end at 1 hour 8 minutes
thanks Alex!—his work fascinates me, and a peek into his methods
is really cool
I will pick this up tomorrow. Sounds interesting.
I’ll bet there is a story there.
I thought Cleo’s last name was Clifford. But no, apparently it’s “Scrooge.”
And a very merry christmas to you to Mrs Scrooge.
thanks for posting, Hap!—-we’re never too old to learn
I like dinosaurs ! 🙂
Here is a modern-day weird creature occupying this planet of ours.
I put the explanation of the video in the spoiler box (there is only dubbed music in the video / I muted it) .
New deep-sea sighting: The barreleye fish has a transparent head and tubular eyes
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During a dive with our education and outreach partner, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the team came across a rare treat: a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma).
MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles Ventana and Doc Ricketts have logged more than 5,600 successful dives and recorded more than 27,600 hours of video—yet we’ve only encountered this fish nine times!
The barreleye lives in the ocean’s twilight zone, at depths of 600 to 800 meters (2,000 to 2,600 feet). Its eyes look upwards to spot its favorite prey—usually small crustaceans trapped in the tentacles of siphonophores—from the shadows they cast in the faint shimmer of sunlight from above. But how does this fish eat when its eyes point upward and its mouth points forward? MBARI researchers learned the barreleye can rotate its eyes beneath that dome of transparent tissue.
Aquarist Tommy Knowles and his team were aboard MBARI’s R/V Rachel Carson with our ROV Ventana to collect jellies and comb jellies for the Aquarium’s upcoming Into the Deep exhibition when they spotted this fascinating fish. The team stopped to marvel at Macropinna before it swam away.
This
to the Monterey Bay Aquarium main site is well worth the time (it can get a bit confusing, but even if you didn’t get where you thought you were going there will be something there that’s interesting).
There are real time camera feeds set up at a number of the exhibits, and some listed feeding times for the occupants thereof.
Just because I’m me:
1) The aquarium’s “Open Sea” exhibit is listed as holding 1,000,000 U.S. gallons.
2) The US EPA says the average American uses 82 gallons of water a day at home.
3) Simple division says that (including leap-years) that volume of water would last the average American just short of a day over 33 years 141 days (using McGill University figures it would only last the average Canadian just a smidgeon over 31 years 183 days).
I’ve seen that clip. I watch Woods Hole, Monterey Bay, and Nautilus vids whenever they pop up on YouTube.
“MBARI’s remotely operated vehicles Ventana and Doc Ricketts…”
The second one is named for Ed Ricketts — “Doc” from Steinbeck’s Cannery Row.
Three fine songs by three fine singers.
Golly. And no one evened mentioned ‘purplie’.
and therefore no one heard me scream
LOL!
maple syrup day!
My aunt’s Christmas box contained a 1/2 litre bottle of maple syrup this year!
Best stuff for pancakes with butter. LINK TO MY NOVEMBER 14 PANCAKE RECIPE POSTING
Apparently all, this company’s products are sold out for the year.
It’s a beautiful bottle, but good luck getting all the syrup out. One of my pet peeves is all the fancy bottles that have nooks and crannies so you can’t reach the contents. That and pump bottles that never can be emptied, so you have to cut the tops off to get to the (sometimes 1/4) of the contents.
towards the end, if you microwave it, the syrup will have lower viscosity and me more likely to find the exit.
I’ve seen magazine articles with titles like “How To Get A Guy To Fall For You.”
Well… Cleo just showed us how she got THREE guys to fall for her … and two ladies as well.
Hopefully, they didn’t fall head over heels…though we could see that they did fall deeply.
….
I’d never thought such a thing was a remote possibility, but obviously, it was.
She didn’t even have to be nice.
remote possibility, indeed!
I never did establish where our carolers went to and if there’s a gruesome pit
strewn with the bones of past carolers—-but Cleo wouldn’t do THAT.
or…would she?
Can’t see Cleo letting bones go to waste…
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mine too, you old scalawag.
the AHEEE! sound effect has been in my arsenal since my early early days of drawing
comics — back when I was 12 or so.
old habits are slow to extinguish themselves
Pietown, New Mexico…1940
Over and under captioned HERE: { Russell Lee – June 1940. “The gasoline pumps at Pie Town, New Mexico.” / [Photo: Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration] }
If you go to the links (the “heres”) at, “Russell Lee in Pie Town previously, here and here.” , you’re in for a treat.
great find!–this one is even more interesting.
FYI: Pie Town still exists. It is on US60 just west of the Continental Divide. There is even a radio telescope antenna which is part of the VLA.
Either that, or it’s a very large pie tin.
I doubled this is below
Multi purpose cat and caroler drop.
Good morning Cleo phans!
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Y’all have a great TGIF! (((((HuGz!)))))
That is sooooooooooooo nice of you to share your picture with all of us! It’s always helpful to see who we are talking to.
Is that you, JP? If it were not photoshopped I would have to give you the crown for ugliest Christmas sweater.
Nice job. Steve!
I thought it was a real photo, but that the sweater was a paper cutout.
Just the ugliest sweater I could Google, then Tampered With® til it fitted my body. (Does this sweater make me look fat?)
*Today’s earworm*
Bennnyyyyy………..
Only 10 hours? Isn’t there a 3 day one?
Cleo sighs when she has to answer the door…….but you know she loves it!