Vivid vintage pictures of Ireland taken between 1890 and 1900, courtesy of the Library of Congress.
What will you and/or your man be wearing next season? Come this way...
There are films that are so aesthetically perfect that they make it impossible for you to unglue your eyes from the screen. This can mostly be attributed to beautifully-shot scenes rather than excellent graphics and visual effects.
Wann hattet ihr zuletzt in eurem Leben ein Buch in der Hand? Wenn ihr diese Protagonisten nicht mehr erkennt, dann ist es mal wieder an der Zeit eine Bibliothek zu besuchen.
This pattern has been retired from donations. Thank you knitters! Together we made a difference. xox Initially designed to help Haiti after their devastating Earthquake, $5 per pattern download was donated to Doctors without Borders for their work throughout the world. I didn’t meet my goal of $50,000 with this single pattern, but with the help of you absolutely amazing knitters, I did reach a stunning $30,770. Thank you so much for your help!!! 02/07/2010: I just sent off my first $500 donation (of many, I hope!) to Doctors without Borders (MSF) from sales of Brandywine. Thank you all so much! 02/08/2010: Just sent off another $500 to MSF! Woot! 02/10/2010: Sent off another $500 for a total of $1,500! Thanks to all of you! 02/12/2010: Sent off another $500 - total: $2,000! 02/14/2010: Sent another $500 - total $2,500! 02/16/2010: Another $500 - total $3,000! 02/19/2010: $500 more for $3,500! 02/24/2010: $4,500 total! Thank you!! 03/01/2010: $5,500 total sent! 03/03/2010: $6,000 total! 03/07/2010: $6,500 total! 03/09/2010: $7,000 total 03/11/2010: $7,500 total 03/15/2010: $8,000 total 03/19/2010: $8,500 total 03/27/2010: $9,000 total 04/05/2010: $9,500 total! 04/21/2010: :drumroll: $10,000 total! - 20% of goal!!! 05/06/2010: $10,500 total 05/20/2010: $11,000 total 05/25/2010: $11,500 total 06/02/2010: $12,000 total 06/19/2010: $12,500 total 07/04/2010: $13,000 total 08/02/2010: $14,000 total 09/10/2010: $14,500 total 09/28/2010: $15,000 total 11/22/2010: $15,500 total 12/31/2010: $16,500 total 03/10/2011: $17,000 total 03/25/2011: $17,500 total 07/25/2011: $19,000 total 12/29/2011: $21,000 total 12/10/2012: $23,500 total 11/10/2013: $24,750 total 12/27/2013: $26,000 total 05/01/2015: $27,000 total 10/11/2016: $29,000 total 04/01/2018: $29,250 total 05/13/2019: $30,000 total 04/23/2020: $30,370 total 12/31/2021: $30,770 total This shawl can be worked in many different weights of yarn by changing needle size. The pattern is worked in a simple lace pattern from tip to top, so that you may use greater or lesser yardage with ease, to produce a smaller or larger shawl of your choice. Pattern includes both written and charted instructions. My sample shawl shown blocked to 56 x 23 inches using 450 yards of sock yarn. Notes: the larger needle is used for bind-off only. There’s a great little video of the bind off on youtube here . Thank you, Roxanne ! Here is the link to a document that shows the stitch numbers for each chart row. Thanks very much to Christi (Momma2abunch) ! Thank you for knitting my patterns and supporting indie pattern design! Subscribe to my newsletter here and get 15% off your first pattern order; find me on Instagram at @RomiDesigns and on YouTube here ; come by and say hello in my Ravelry group, @Romi’s Studio , where you can find friendship, pattern help, and community! Use hashtags #romihill #romiphyle and #romidesigns to connect on social media.
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The task of Japanese artist Ikeda Manabu is seemingly impossible: a blank paper canvas larger than a person spread before him, a small acrylic pen in his hand, and hundreds of days to fill with faintly imperceptible progress from a mind brimming with explosive creativity. Manabu works in areas measuring roughly 4″ square, spending eight hours a day, often for years, on a single drawing that can eventually dominate an entire wall. Traditional Japanese architecture clashes with giant mangled tree roots, while swarms of birds and fish dart through the water or atmosphere in a complete visual cacophony that somehow results in a single cohesive image. More
They’re birds. With people arms. Why am I posting this? Why do I love these so much? (via @joeljohnson)
1. The Pin Up Girl Bunker March 1944: Hundreds of pictures of pin-up girls adorn the entire wall of this bomber crew shack on Adak Island in the Aleutians in Alaska during World War II. Rare photos from World War II's Forgotten Front, found on TIME/LIFE. 2. The International Flag of Pla
With this chromatography activity, you can see what gives leaves their amazing fall colors. It's a perfect kids' science experiment for autumn.
Black cats are thought to bring bad luck—but we think they’re absolutely adorable, ultra pettable, and cuddletastic. Not to mention utterly magnificent and, really, just tinier versions of noble panthers. That’s why Bored Panda compiled this mega-awesome super-duper massively-fluffy list of the cutest and funniest pictures of black cats.
I learned this song from my KTIP mentor, Alicia Franklin, during my first year teaching. I introduce this song in kindergarten and we sing it everyday when we line up. I sing the first note as a fermata and hold it until every student is joining in and doing their job to line up. There are hand motions to accompany the song. On the first word "my", we raise our hands in the air (this makes it easy to see who is actually paying attention in line and ready to sing the song). Then, we do what the song says. Phrase 1: place hands back Phrase 2: exaggerate good posture Phrase 3: take 2 fingers, point at eyes then straight ahead Phrase 4: hands return behind back Phrase 5: zip lips, pretend to put in pocket, hands return behind back, mouth is closed When the kids get to 1st grade, the song only makes guest appearances when we need help remembering how to line up or when I want to see if they can apply the musical concept we just learned. Using the Song For Assessment Assess Tempo If we learned about tempo that day, we may choose a tempo (largo, moderato, allegro) and sing our song accordingly. They may also get to line up to a tempo. I may ask them to show me allegro feet, largo feet, or moderato feet to line up. Depending on how much time is left in class, I may do this individually or in small groups. If I do it individually, I usually take notes in my grade book for a performance assessment. Older students can watch the conductor and respond to accelerandos and ritardandos. Assess Dynamics If we learned about dynamics that day, we may choose a dynamic level for the entire song (piano, mezzopiano, mezzoforte, forte) or watch the conductor to see how the dynamic levels change throughout the song. Older students can usually remember a pattern to assign different dynamic levels to each phrase. Similar to the game discussed above, sometimes we can line up with piano feet (tiptoeing) or forte feet (stomping). Again, depending on the time remaining in class, this is either done individually or in small groups and is sometimes used as a performance assessment. Assess Melody If we learned about melodic direction that day, we may use our hand levels to show the melodic contour. (That's why I like the simple shape of this melody going upward then downward.) If we discussed pitch, we may sing it in a high key or a low key. Assess Harmony If we learned about minor harmony (Halloween), we may choose to change the song to minor and make it sound spooky. (All the kids LOVE this!) Assess Timbre If we discussed different types of voices (speaking, whisper, calling, singing), we may choose to use different voices to use throughout the entire song, or we may change our voices for each phrase. I also have voice cards that I can hold up and show the students what to change to. (View the next post for printable voice cards.) Assess Rhythm If we discussed rhythm (long and short sounds), we may sing the song exaggerating note lengths in tenuto or staccato style. If we discussed a fermata, we may choose one or two words to have a fermata and sing those words really long. Coda These are just a few examples of how I use our line up song for assessment. Sometimes, instead of telling them how to sing it, I let the kids pick a variation to sing. Again, I only sing it every time with kindergarten; and they never get tired of singing it. It only appears occasionally with older grades. It appears sometimes as a warning to those not ready for the hall: "Do we HAVE to revisit kindergarten and sing the line-up song?" Their behavior is quickly corrected. Many older students LOVE the line up song, as it brings nostalgia from kindergarten. Even if you have a line-up song already in place, you could probably use these assessment strategies with your song as well. I would love to hear other ideas to use line-up songs as assessment tools. If you have some more ideas, please comment below.
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Most of us find architecture fascinating. The built environment around us reflects the history and culture of a place that can shape our experiences and perceptions of an area. However, not all the buildings stand the test of time and many are left to decay. For some, they become unwanted ghosts of the past; for others, they are objects of mystery and awe.
Fall at The Amazing Outside This has truly been the most beautiful castle I have ever seen in my life, and I have seen some stunning places… It was also quite the adventure. We first arrived on this terrain somewhere around sunset. We walked all around the forest to find an easy and quiet entrance but getting through the forest and finding the castle was quite easy. When we saw this beautiful spot we decided to camp on the terrain. We wanted to go back to the car and grab our gear and thought that we could find an easier way. So we walked into the forest where we thought the quickest way to the little village was. This was a bad idea… First we were walking on a path, and slowly but surely all the paths we had walked on were nowhere to be found, or completely blocked off by fallen trees. After about half an hour we had really lost all sense of direction, and in the mean time it had gone dark and birds all around us were going mental because of all this forest action. Blair witch project came to mind, but we didn’t speak about this until we were almost out, to spare ourselves the stress… Eventually we found an exit and then we had realized how far we had gone off track, and how huge this forest really is. We went back to the car to get our stuff. We had a small moment of doubt, should we really go back in there? But we hadn’t seen it from the inside, and we had this great idea of getting up at sunrise to photograph this place with the morning fog. So we decided to go back and we did. We went back in the way we knew best, found a good spot and set up base camp. We enjoyed a really nice evening with a lovely bottle of whiskey, wondering what the history of this amazing castle is. We went to sleep and set the alarm for sunrise. That was a bit rough, but oh soo worth it. The surroundings of this castle on a foggy morning in fall are simply breathtaking, but inside the history and the feeling that is left here by its previous owners is incomprehensible. When I walked into one of the bedrooms I saw all the stuff lying around there. The beds still made. Slippers on the floor. Clothes rested on one of the chairs, as if someone went to bed with their clothes hanging there ready for the next day, but then never showed up to put them back on… It was an overwhelming feeling I felt at that moment, quite a sad one as well. I remember saying to my friends that I was so speechless that I simply didn’t know where to start with taking photos, there was just too much beauty. After being inside for about, what I think was 20 minutes, we heard a motorcycle from very close by. We went to peek out of one of the windows and we saw a man looking inside the building. I was quite amazed because I thought we had walked on all the paths in the forest, and all of them were blocked off. Apparently I was wrong. We waited in complete silence until this man had left, then we ran to make our way out. We were sure that he would come back. We went outside where we had hidden all of our packed gear, and waited there again for a while. We heard stuff coming from the forest, but weren’t quite sure if it came from animals or humans. Finally we made our way out of the forest and back to the normal world. We arrived at the car and had to sit on the curb for a while. Lying in the morning sun and realizing what we had just experienced. This was fucking amazing…. Visited end of september 2009 with MRTNSKI & Martino
Maybe I’m just a huge geek, but I found this vertigo-inducing aerial panorama of the world’s highest waterfall, Angel Falls, and nearby Dragon and Cortina Falls in Venezuela to be pretty incredible. This takes a few steps, but trust me it’s worth it. Head on over to AirPano and if you’re on a nice fast internet connection (or have a moment to wait) click the “High Resolution” viewer. You can turn off the music down on the bottom, click full-screen on top and then use the thumbnails on the right to switch views. More
