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jophinabean · 3 months

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The guys I've dated first in each ikemen game I've played so far

I guess I have "a type"

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blinday · 15 days

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If I had a nickel for every sword wielding blue themed three fingered self sacrificial boy I love I would have two nickels. Which isn't much but its weird that it happened twice

#nightcrawler #x men #kurt wagner #and #leonardo #of course #hamato leonardo #leo tmnt

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spacewarriorsam · 1 year

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This is a mini project I was working on in the span of well…a couple hours. It’s the Will Trent characters if they were book accurate. I used Leonardo AI for this one. Here they are.

Will Trent (I tried to get it to include the scars in there but no. UGH. Ah well) (Also I don’t see Will wearing that 3 piece suit all the damn time that shit bugs me watching the show. LIKE GIVE MY MAN SOMETHING ELSE TO WEAR RAMON!)

Angie Polaski (Pretty sure in the books she was pretty mean to him like Lacienega is to Penny. I honestly thought she had this tough girl outfit to go with it soooo….)

Faith Mitchell

Michael Ormewood (I think he had hair and wasn’t nearing Benson from regular show levels of bald. Also he had a bad temper so I gave him an annoyed look)

Amanda Wagner (I’ll admit, Amanda was soooo hard. I often imagined her as someone in her mid to late 50s. I also thought she had red hair)

#will trent #leonardo ai #this is the best i could do #spare me #faith mitchell #angie polaski #Amanda Wagner #Michael Ormewood #karin slaughter #Georgia #will Trent CTV #will trent abc

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pumpkinpie59 · 2 years

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my blue favorites have issues

#i should do another with optimus #x-men #marvel #x men evolution #kurt wagner #nightcrawler #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt leonardo #pumpkin stuff

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mercsandmonsters · 7 months

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Tag Dump #5: Male Faceclaims

Let's get it tagged.

#The Hazel-eyed Hunter: {Jared Padalecki}#The Mulholland Man: {Jack Nicholson}#The Greatest Entertainer: {Elvis Presley}#The Emerald-eyed Squirrel: {Jensen Ackles}#The Broadway Baritone: {Chuck Wagner}#The DCOM Basketball Star: {Zac Efron}#The Amazing Broadway Goblin: {Alex Brightman}#The One-Time Oscar Winner: {Leonardo DiCaprio}#The Nephilim Turned God: {Alexander Calvert}#The Murderous Clown From Outer Space: {Bill Skarsgård}#The Irish Bad Boy: {Colin Farrell}#The Baz Luhrmann Boy: {Austin Butler}

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clouds-of-wings · 4 months

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I don't even know what my top albums of the year are, but here are some I discovered this year that I really liked, so that I don't come across as ONLY a hater. Linking my fav track, or one of my fave tracks, on YT every time.

Molllust - Mother Universe (A glimmer of hope in the irradiated wasteland that is symphonic metal at present. Also one of the four female-LED metal bands I know. Like with a female composer! Such wow!)

Knights of Heliopolis - Ferrum Fero Ferro Ferror (ditto about the hope thing. Also they have an operatic bass frontman and holyyyyy shiiiit that is the best thing ever! I keep fangirling about this band but they used to be called "Phoebus the Knight", so that's the tag that's in.)

Nostra Morte - Sin Retorno (A flicker of light from the NON-wasteland that symph was 12 years ago)

Silent Opera - Immortal Beauty (ditto. Oh how I wish for soothing rain and some fucking OPERA VOCALS in the fucking OPERA GENRE. Why is symph metal full of COWARDS and CASUALS? I know I sound like Holden Caulfield, but that's because he's right and my role model.)

Nanowar - Dislike to False Metal (Power Metal, Nanowar being awesome as usual. I link perhaps one of their less surprising songs bc I'm a sucker for that Rhapsody stuff but plz listen to the whole album, it also has tracks like this - great variety really, and greater wtf! I gently pat Gatto's head and wonder what he will do next, clearly he's called Cat for a reason.)

Elina Garanca - Habanera (These are just some famous arias, but her voice is really nice! Dark-voiced mezzo-sopranos rule the world!)

Snowy Shaw - White is the New Black (I have been listening to this so much lately. Somehow I always ignored his solo work after the Notre Dame stuff except for some of his singles, but this album is actually really really cool! I don't know which genre it is lol. Metal Archives says "Heavy Metal", but that doesn't really describe it so well. Snowy has a lot of personality, and so does his music. Just click! You may not even regret it!)

Wolfenmond - Can't pick an album... Galdra (EP!) I guess. Folk metal or medieval rock with a woman who doesn't get forced to sound cute.

Grendel's Sÿster - Myrtenkranz Heavy metal / folk metal with a woman who REALLY doesn't get forced to sound cute. As SATW said, women should be respected, but sister Germany should be feared. Damn straight. This is an EP, same music first in English, then in German.

Kornalyn - Intemporel (French acoustic folk, revolutionary communist and anarchist songs. This guy is a folk song recording MACHINE and I like almost everything he releases.)

Therion - Leviathan 3 (I still wrestle with this album. A lot! I also know from past experience that in retrospect I'm more likely to regret not including it than I am including it.)

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I also watched like 20 operas this year in an attempt to be a little less of a poser in the genre. I don't know which I would recommend the most. Wagner's "Die Walküre" touched me the most, both in terms of story and of pure epicness of the music. Kinda wiped the floor with everything else :/ It seems Wagner is the only one in opera who isn't shit at plots. Lohengrin also had a good story! Vivaldi's "Juditha Triumphans" (not technically an opera but an oratorio, but really I don't care, it's basically an opera) and Bizet's "Carmen" (I'm not linking that, there are 8945098340 good recordings, just find one that looks appealing to you) had the most pleasant music.

I also liked Alessandro nell‘Indie by Leonardo Vinci (no relation). I link my favourite scene. Don't worry about the lack of English subs, the plot is 4 hours of soap opera. They did a very traditional staging of this, like back in 1730, which means it's all countertenors and sopranists, half in drag. Thus it pairs nicely with the all-female Vivaldi one above. Back when women were real men who led armies and men had fake boobs or danced under falling rose petals singing about love, LIKE GOD INTENDED! TRADITIONAL VALUES!

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tangleweave · 6 months

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10 Fandoms / 10 Characters / 10 Tags

Tagged By: @kylo-wrecked

I have to admit I needed a few minutes to assemble ten fandoms, and a few minutes more for each one to think of ten characters for a couple of them! Fortunately, having an RP blog means I already interact with a few...

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Marvel Universe Eddie Brock / Venom Beta Ray Bill Peter Parker / Spider-Man Phil Coulson Groot Stephen Strange Vision {Seriously, did anybody expect the first seven to be any different?} Curt Connors / The Lizard Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler Henry McCoy / The Beast

DC Universe Clark Kent / Superman Barry Allen / The Flash James Gordon Alfred Pennyworth Dick Grayson / Nightwing Tim Drake / Red Robin Kyle Rayner / Green Lantern Jimmy Olsen J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter Victor Stone / Cyborg

Star Trek Universe Data Julian Bashir Saru Wesley Crusher Spock Miles O'Brien The Doctor Nog Worf Jadzia Dax

Star Wars Universe (yes, I count Legends, come at me) Corran Horn The Dark Woman Plo Koon Luke Skywalker Han Solo Anakin Skywalker Chewbacca Leia Organa Wedge Antilles Din Grogu

Trigun Nicholas D. Wolfwood Vash the Stampede Hoppered the Gauntlet Milly Thompson B.D.N. Rem Saverem Midvalley the Hornfreak Meryl Strife Dominique the Cyclops Legato Bluesummers

Yu-Gi-Oh! Joey Wheeler Tristan Taylor Yugi Muto Yami / Pharaoh Atem Rafael Mai Valentine Duke Devlin Mahad Odion Mako Tsunami

Power Rangers Universe Billy Cranston Zack Taylor Kimberly Hart Trini Kwan Jason Lee Scott Adam Park Robert James Anubis Cruger Lord Zedd Tommy Oliver

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Donatello Leonardo Michelangelo Splinter Raphael Casey Jones Bebop Rocksteady Mondo Gecko Muckman

Babylon 5 Stephen Franklin Zack Allan Vir Cotto Lennier G'Kar Lorien Marcus Cole Michael Garibaldi Jeffrey Sinclair John Sheridan

The West Wing Josiah Bartlet Charlie Young Toby Ziegler Sam Seaborn Dolores Landingham C.J. Cregg Margaret Hooper Leo McGarry Debbie Fiderer Josh Lyman

~*~*~*~

Tagging: @brooklynislandgirl @nightmarefuele @illbringthechaosmagic @itmeanspeace @morgansmornings @sokovianfortune @defectivexfragmented @yggdrasilushxrt @tabbyrp @corinnebaileyrp

#The Fourth Wall | out of character #Getting to Know Me | about the mun #{ when I can't write I'll at least respond to a tag or two }

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keanuquotes · 2 years

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Keanu Reeves will no longer star in the Hulu series adaptation of “The Devil in the White City,” Variety has learned exclusively from sources.

The show was first put into development at Hulu in 2019 and was officially ordered to series at the streamer in August 2022. It is based on the book of the same name by by Erik Larson.

Per the official logline, the show “tells the true story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding but visionary architect who races to make his mark on history with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, America’s first modern serial killer and the man behind the notorious ‘Murder Castle’ built in the Fair’s shadow.”

Reeves was cast as Burnham in what would have been his first major American television role, but the search is now on for a replacement. No one has been cast as Holmes at the time of this publishing.

Reps for Hulu declined to comment. Reps for Reeves did not immediately respond to Variety‘s request for comment.

Martin Scorsese, Rick Yorn, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson of Appian Way, Stacey Sher, Sam Shaw, and Mark Lafferty serve as executive producers on the series. Sam Shaw is adapting the book for the screen and will serve as showrunner and executive producer, with Lila Byock also executive producing. ABC Signature will produce in association with Paramount Television Studios.

This is the latest chapter in the long development history of the book. DiCaprio acquired the rights in 2010 with plans to adapt it as a film in which he would star as Holmes. Scorsese came onboard to direct in 2015 with Billy Ray set to write the script. It was first put in development in Hollywood by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner through their Cruise/Wagner banner via the shingle’s deal with Paramount, but the option lapsed in 2004. Paramount reacquired the film rights in 2007 and set it up with producers Michael Shamberg and Sher.

#Keanu Reeves #the devil in the white city

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pesquisabr · 1 year

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Já pode pedir um mw de fc brasileiro?

eu só vou responder esse mw específico porque eu tô aqui lutando pra escolher. vocês já viram quanto resource de fc brasileiro tem? é o paraíso. dito isso, alguns dos que nós amaríamos ver por aqui são: adriana lima, alanis guillen, alba baptista, anaju dorigon, barbie ferreira, chay suede, gabriel santana, giovanna grigio, irandhir santos, isis valverde, leonardo bittencourt, liniker, marco pigossi, marjorie estiano, mateus solano, rafa vitti, romulo estrela, sophie charlotte, triz pariz, wagner moura e yaya dacosta.

#respondidas #mw #adm fazuellen #esse apelido é provisório ok tamo pensando em algum decente

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stumblingoverchaos · 10 months

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Quotes for the Get Messy Season of Ease and Joy. Collage, acrylic paint, gel plate printing, Posca paint pens.

"Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease, and lightness in what I am doing? If there isn't, time is covering up the present moment, and life perceived as a burden or a struggle." -Eckhart Tolle

"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself." -Honore de Balzac

"Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear." -Ovid

"Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you." -Eckhart Tolle

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." -Greg Anderson

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life." -Richard Bach

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." -Leonardo da Vinci

"Doing one thing by yourself, for yourself, that creates joy is such as important habit." -Jay Shetty

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude." -Karl Barth

"Joy is not in things; it is in us." -Richard Wagner

"The only joy in the world is to begin." -Cesare Pavese

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eucanthos · 2 years

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The original Questionnaire filled by Proust in 1890

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The principal aspect of my personality: The need to be loved; more precisely, the need to be caressed and spoiled much more than the need to be admired.

The quality that I desire in a man: Manly virtues, and frankness in friendship.

The quality that I desire in a woman: Feminine charms.

Your chief characteristic: [Left Blank]

What I appreciate most about my friends: To have tenderness for me, if their personage is exquisite enough to render quite high the price of their tenderness.

My main fault: Not knowing, not being able to “want”.

My favorite occupation: Loving.

My dream of happiness: I am afraid it be not great enough, I dare not speak it, I am afraid of destroying it by speaking it.

What would be my greatest misfortune? Not to have known my mother or my grandmother.

What I should like to be: Myself, as the people whom I admire would like me to be.

The country where I should like to live: A country where certain things that I should like would come true as though by magic, and where tenderness would always be reciprocated.

My favorite color: The beauty is not in the colors, but in their harmony.

My favorite bird: The swallow.

My favorite prose authors: Currently, Anatole France and Pierre Loti.

My favorite poets: Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny.

My heroes in fiction: Hamlet.

My favorite heroines in fiction. Bérénice.

My favorite composers: Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann.

My favorite painters: Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt.

My heroes in real life: Mr. Darlu, Mr. Boutroux.

My heroines in history: Cleopatra.

My favorite names: I only have one at a time.

What I hate most of all: What is bad about me.

Historical figures that I despise the most: I am not educated enough.

The military event that I admire most: My military service!

The gift of nature that I would like to have: Will-power, and seductiveness.

How I want to die: Improved—and loved.

My present state of mind: Boredom from having thought about myself to answer all these questions.

Faults for which I have the most indulgence: Those that I understand.

My motto: I should be too afraid that it bring me misfortune.

Vanity Fair’s Archive of celebrities answering the questionnaire:

https://archive.vanityfair.com/sections/proust-questionnaire

https://www.openculture.com/2014/06/the-manuscript-of-the-proust-questionnaire.html

img: A Proust Questionnaire: Discover Your Truest Self in 30 Simple Questions by Joanna Neborsky

#Marcel Proust #Questionnaire #iconic #self portrait #psychology #test #celebrity #Vanity Fair #Archive

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blinday · 6 months

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I NEED SICKFICS HELP

Or any fic with whump but also hurt/comfort. Help me pls *cries*

#jim lake jr #jeremie belpois #finn the human #simon petrikov #leonardo hamato #tmnt leo #kurt wagner #damian wayne

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bothsidesofaquestion · 2 years

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* knowing your partner well can potentially make writing a lot easier, repost, do not reblog.

name: Armin

pronouns: he/him

preference of communication: yes, no matter the way -discord, dms, asks, smoke signals- you can always reach me

name of muse(s): I have a lot of muses but only Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler is active atm, Donatello may make a come back soon. Other muses I’ve had are: Hellboy, Lobo, Piccoro, Frieza, Abe Sapiens, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Jack Sparrow, Frodo Baggins, The Joker, Archangel Gabriel from Constantine, and my OC ( to mention a few, I’ve had more muses than them )

experience/how long (months / years?) : since 1996, you do the math 😁

best experience: so many, that’s why I keep doing it.

rp pet peeves / deal breakers: ignoring my rules, simple as that.

plots of memes: both! I work best with a plot however memes are fun and a great way to interact with your muse without turning it into threads all the time.

preferences fluff, angst, or smut: well, I love all of them but my favorite is smut ngl

best time to write: whenever I find time -please let me find the time!

Tagged: @hexsreality ( thank you! 💙)

Tagging: you! And please tag me so I can read yours

#::dash memes #::ooc meme #::about the mun #::mobile #::EDITED CAUSE I FORGOT TO Add my muses kflflflv

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thedeacanedous · 2 years

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REPASSANDO... REPASSE...Copie e cole para poder passar para 5 pessoas, pois estava limitado a 1.

O economista liberal, Rodrigo Constantino acaba de ser bloqueado 7 dias no FACEBOOK, porque publicou uma lista de Petistas, que fomentam um verdadeiro golpe comunista no país.

Já que ele não pode falar por 7 dias , segue aqui a lista:

Alcione

André Singer

Barbara Garcia

Camila Pitanga

Carlinhos Brown

Chico Buarque

Chico César

Chico Pinheiro

Delfim Netto

Dinho Ouro Preto

Emir Sader

Fábio Konder Comparato

Felipe Santa Cruz

Fernanda Torres

Fernando Morais

Frei Betto

Gilberto Gil

Gregorio Duvivier

Guilherme Boulos

Jô Soares

José de Abreu

Juca Kfouri

Kennedy Alencar

Laerte Coutinho

Leandro Karnal

Leonardo Attuch

Leonardo Boff

Leonardo Sakamoto

Letícia Sabatella

Luís Carlos Bresser-Pereira

Luis Fernando Verissimo

Luis Nassif

Luiz Carlos Barreto

Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo

Luiza Trajano (Magazine Luiza)

Marcelo Adnet

Marcio França

Maria Rita Kehl

Marieta Severo

Marilena Chaui

Mário Sérgio Cortella

Mino Carta

Miriam Leitão

Osmar Prado

Pablo Villaça

Paulo Betti

Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.

Pedro Bial

Preta Gil

Reinaldo Azevedo

Renato Janine Ribeiro

Serginho Groisman

Tico Santa Cruz

Tonico Pereira

Viviane Mosé

Vladimir Safatle

Xico Sá

Wagner Moura

Não comprem mais nada deles !!! Não assistam seus programas, não leiam suas colunas. Não comprem seus livros, não vão às suas peças de teatro, não comprem seus CDs !!!

Eles precisam saber que não será impune atentar contra a Democracia.

Viver as custas do Capitalismo e difundir Comunismo CT ex/Socialismo, é no mínimo falta de caráter.

NÃO ESQUEÇA DE COMPARTILHAR !!!

TEMOS QUE DENUCIAR SIM...*

Não podemos dar audiência a quem trai nosso país !!!

SABEM PORQUE AS FORÇAS ARMADAS BRASILEIRAS SÃO FRACAS ???

PORQUE ELAS TOLERARAM OS 40 ANOS DOS GOVERNOS COMUNISTAS DO SARNEY COLLOR ITAMAR FHC LULA DILMA TEMER E OS MEMBROS DO SUPREMO TRIBUNAL FEDERAL COMPRADO PELOS COMUNISTAS.

VERGONHA TEREM BATIDO CONTINÊNCIA PARA ESSES CANALHAS SEM PENSAR NO POVO BRASILEIRO NA MISÉRIA ISSO SEM CONTAR QUE ELES NÃO EXTERMINARAM TODOS OS TERRORISTAS E GUERRILHEIROS COMO ZÉ DIRCEU FRANKLIN MARTINS E TODO O RESTO

AS FORÇAS ARMADAS E OS MILITARES BRASILEIROS SÃO LADROĒS E INCOMPENTENTES SÃO NA FRACOS E INCOMPETÊNTES

E ENTÃO SÃO TODOS LADROĒS! MILITARES SÃO INÚTEIS E O POVO DEVE EXTERMINAR ESSES VERMES COMUNISTAS TRAÍDORES DA PÁTRIA TODOS

O BOLSONARO TAMBÉM ESTÁ AGUENTANDO ISSO SEM CUIDAR DO POVO !!!

POVO BRASILEIRO FAÇA UMA GUERRA PARA MATAR TODOS

O FACHIN O BARROSO BICHORRAS.

GENERAIS FRACOS FORÇAS ARMADAS FRACAS DR:DONALD SMITH JR.

É O NOSSO QUERIDO PRESIDENTE BOLSONARO! SIM FALA BEM E É MUITO COMPETENTE

O LULA E A DILMA SÃO GRANDES VERGONHA NACIONAL

QUE ESTÃO ATÉ HOJE VIVOS E A MÍDIA AS EMPREITEIRAS AS EMPRESAS AS TELEVISÕES COMO A CNN A BAND LIXO A GLOBOLIXO

TRUSTE AINDA É O PAÍS IMPORTANTÍSSIMO COMO TRAFICANTE DE DROGAS QUE INCLUI TODA A ROUBALHEIRA E FALTA DE CARÁTER Dr:DONAND SMITH JR.

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xtruss · 4 days

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Breaking Ice, and Helicopter Drops: Winning Photos of Working Scientists

Nature’s Annual Photography Competition Attracted Stunning Images From Around the World, Including Two Very Different Shots Featuring the Polarstern Research Vessel.

— By Jack Leeming | 23 April 2024

Glaciologist Richard Jones captured the moment a crew member on RV Polarstern prepared to rescue a measuring device trapped in ice.

Nature’s Annual Photography Competition Showcases Stunning Images From Around the World. By Jack Leeming. This image, taken on top of the ice breaker research vessel Polarstern, shows the delicate process of retriev ing an instrument called a CTD (short for conductivity, temperature, depth) that had become trapped under sea ice off the coast of northeastern Greenland. CTDs, which are anchored to the sea floor, measure how ocean properties such as salin ity and temperature vary with depth. At some point, the sea ice had closed over the top of this one, forcing the Polarstern to skirt carefully around the equipment, breaking the ice to rescue it from the freezing ocean.

“You’re crashing into ice and breaking through it. So it wasn’t particularly calm sail ing for the majority of the trip,” remembers Richard Jones, who took the image in Septem ber 2017 and is the winner of Nature’s 2024 Working Scientist photography competition. His research aims to improve estimates of the rate at which ice is being lost from the world’s glacial ice sheets. Jones, a glaciologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, highlights the photo graphic contrast between icebreaker and ice that he’d become used to in his five weeks aboard the Polarstern. “All you really see is

blue and white. And sometimes that might feel pretty monotonous, but the colours from the CTD instrument and the orange of the crane contrast the scene and also complement it quite nicely.” We received more than 200 entries this year from researchers working around the world. The winner and the four runnersup (highlighted on the following pages) were selected by a jury of Nature staff, including three of the journal’s picture editors. All will receive a prize of £500 (US$620), in the form of Amazon vouchers or a donation to charity, as well as a year’s subscription to Nature.

Work/Careers! Library Ofleaves! PhD student Kim Castro took this photo of her colleague, postdoctoral researcher Luiz Leonardo Saldanha, in a herbarium that they both work in regularly. It's shared between the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Both Castro and Saldanha investigate the medicinal plants of the Amazon at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany at the University of Zurich, although the two have very different approaches: whereas Saldanha investigates their chemical diversity, Castro looks at how the plants are perceived by Indigenous communities in the Amazon, specializing in how the plants smell. A herbarium, Saldanha says, is "like a library - but instead of books, there are plants here". Saldanha posed with this particular sample (Palicourea corymbifera, collected in 1977) because it comes from his home country, Brazil, but is used by the Indigenous Desano people in Colombia as a medicinal herb. "So it creates a commonality between South American countries," he says.

“Only 130 of These Birds 🦅 Remain On Earth. A Single Mosquito Bite Can Kill a Kiwikiu." Reaching the beak Conservation biologist Ryan Wagner snapped this photo of field biologist Sonia Vallocchia feeding a recently caught kiwikiu (Pseudonestor xanthophrys), in January this year. It was taken on Haleakala volcano on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Wagner, a PhD student at Washington State University Vancouver, was on an expedition to the island as a science communicator, hoping to raise awareness of the plight of the endangered birds. "Only 130 of these birds remain on Earth," explains Wagner. "Their numbers have crashed due to avian malaria, which is spread by invasive mosquitoes. As climate change warms the island, mosquitoes have advanced upslope into the high-elevation refuges where native birds survive. A single mosquito bite can kill a kiwikiu." He hopes that ornithologists such as Vallocchia, who works for the Maui Forest Birds Recovery Project in Makawao, will help to save these birds by bringing some of them (by helicopter) to the Maui Bird Conservation Center, also in Makawao. There, they will be treated for malaria and join a captive breeding programme, he says.

Mountain Drop-off! In this dramatic image, taken from below the still-spinning, deafening blades of a military helicopter, scientists shelter with their equipment after being dropped off at the top of a remote mountain in northern Amazonia. They are taking part in a biodiversity-research expedition to Serra Imeri, an isolated mountain range that rises through the forest canopy near the border of Brazil and Venezuela, in November 2022. "A total of 14 scientists and dozens of military support personnel took part in the expedition, which lasted for 11 days and resulted in the discovery of several new species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and plants," says photographer Herton Escobar, a science journalist who works with the scientists pictured, at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

Go With The Floe! Emiliano Cimoli, a remote-sensing scientist at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia, took the second photograph featuring the research vessel Polarstern in this year's collection of winning images. Here, Carolin Mehlmann and Thomas Richter, mathematicians at the University of Magdeburg, Germany, are measuring the depth of snow across a giant ice floe drifting in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. The image was taken during a two-month voyage organized by the Alfred Wegener Institute, based in Bremerhaven, Germany, in August 2023. The goal of the expedition was to evaluate interactions between the ice physics, biology, hydrography, biogeochemistry and biodiversity of the Arctic ecosystem, from the sea ice to the sea floor.

#Nature.Com #Nature’s Annual | Photography | Competition #Stunning Images | Around the World 🌎#Polarstern Research Vessel 🚢#Winning Photos #Working Scientists

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elmartillosinmetre · 14 days

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"Renacer es una reflexión sobre el proceso creativo"

[El compositor sevillano Alberto Carretero / JUAN CARLOS VÁZQUEZ]

Alberto Carretero publica en disco su segunda ópera, ‘Renacer’, que contiene un enlace a la grabación en vídeo de su estreno en Viena

Acaba de ser el primer compositor que estrena una ópera en la sala principal del Teatro de la Maestranza. Fue el pasado 13 de marzo cuando subió a las tablas La bella Susona, que, aunque sólo fuera por eso, ocupa ya un lugar principal en la historia musical de la ciudad, su ciudad natal, pero aquella misma semana de marzo Alberto Carretero (Sevilla, 1985) estaba presentando a los medios la grabación en disco de su segunda ópera (primera en ser estrenada), Renacer. Todo ello mientras trabaja ya en la tercera...

–De repente se ha convertido en un autor dramático.

–Para mí, todo es música. Disfruto igual haciendo una obra de tres minutos para flauta que una obra de dos horas. Aunque no le negaré que estos proyectos grandes son estimulantes.

–¿El estreno de La bella Susona cumplió sus expectativas?

–Ha sido un sueño. Me he sentido en casa en el teatro en todo momento. El elenco ha sido extraordinario y la orquesta ha estado a un nivel magnífico. He quedado muy contento. Ha tenido mucha repercusión. Ha venido gente de fuera, de Madrid, pero también de Zúrich o de Alemania. Vinieron del Canal Arte. Estamos en conversaciones porque les ha gustado el proyecto. Ha sido muy especial. Después de que tuviera que retrasarse por la pandemia, la espera ha servido para que el proyecto madurase. Hemos aprendido mucho. Creo que en Tenerife [donde la ópera recalará el próximo mes de diciembre] vamos a hilar aún más fino.

–¿Qué le ha parecido lo que se ha escrito de su obra?

–En general, en lo que a mí respecta ha sido todo muy efusivo. La parte musical ha sido en general alabada. La mayoría de críticos la han considerado atractiva. Puedo estar más o menos de acuerdo con algunas cosas, pero eso forma parte también de nuestro trabajo.

[La bella Susona en el Maestranza / JUAN CARLOS MUÑOZ]

–Renacer se estrenó antes pero fue compuesta después de La bella Susona.

–En efecto. Renacer es en parte la consecuencia de Susona. Es verdad que en Susona tuve que intervenir después, pero estaba realmente escrita ya. Al final cortamos cinco minutos de música, porque me lo pidió Carlos Wagner por razones dramatúrgicas.

–Cómo surge el proyecto de Renacer…

–Hace años que Juan Lacomba, Paco Deco y yo hablábamos de que teníamos que hacer algo, pero no terminábamos de concretar. Paco hablaba de que estaba con un libro sobre la germinación. Juan que estaba haciendo una serie de gouaches enormes sobre las marismas, los florecimientos… Y yo me movía en el mundo de la inteligencia artificial, todo lo que tiene que ver con lo celular, los procesos de la vida, proliferación, ramificación. Así que decíamos que teníamos que hacer algún tipo de proyecto interdisciplinar, no sabíamos si una ópera o qué, pero hacer algo… Iban pasando los años hasta que en 2021 salió la convocatoria de las Becas Leonardo del BBVA. No me había presentado nunca. Acababa de terminar Susona y se me ocurrió que podía ser una vídeo-ópera con formato más pequeño y usando las pinturas de Juan. Necesitábamos alguien que animase eso; Juan conocía a Miguel Alonso, de Cyan Animática, que nos enseñó las cosas que estaba haciendo para Dubái y la casa Batlló en Barcelona. Habíamos tenido conversaciones con el Maestranza para la Susona. El teatro quería un director español, y yo les propuse a Nacho de Paz. Nos conocemos desde hace años pero nunca habíamos trabajado juntos. Al poco tiempo era la Beca Leonardo. Le ofrecimos Renacer y él estaba encantado y ofreció el Ensemble Phace, que es el que él dirige en Viena y son como los cachorros del Klangforum, la generación más joven. Y lo propusimos para hacerlo en el Festival Wien Modern, que fue el que en su día creó Abbado. Lo presentamos así, me concedieron la beca y empezamos a trabajar. Fernando Rodríguez Campomanes nos ofreció el Turina, un espacio con opciones algo limitadas para lo que queríamos, pero lo agradecimos mucho. El estreno lo hicimos en el Teatro Odeón de Viena en condiciones ideales, y luego lo hicimos en Sevilla. En Viena salió mejor. En Sevilla tuvimos algunos problemas, entre otras cosas porque nuestra soprano Johanna Vargas, que es maravillosa, tiene una capacidad camaleónica extraordinaria, estaba enferma. No se dijo, pero no estaba al 100%. De todas formas, la acústica del Turina es una joya y sonó maravillosamente.

–¿Alguna nueva posibilidad de hacerlo?

–Estamos en conversaciones. Espero que salga, porque tampoco es un espectáculo tan caro.

–El tratamiento vocal es algo distinto a la Susona...

–La obra es distinta y estaba pensada para ofrecerla en condiciones distintas. En primer lugar no era para un teatro tradicional de ópera, con lo que el público es diferente. En Susona intenté armonizarlo un poco todo: ser yo –y en este sentido estoy muy contento con la obra–, pero también quise trazar una complicidad con el público más tradicional de la ópera, construyendo con lo que pueda haber de común entre mi parte y la parte de ese público. Caer bien a todo el mundo es imposible, pero al menos intenté ocupar un espacio común.

–¿En el proyecto estaba incluido el disco?

–No, estaba prevista la grabación. El disco es autoproducción mía con apoyo de la Fundación SGAE. Creo que era importante tenerlo en formato físico.

–¿Qué retorno espera de la edición física y de las plataformas?

–Está en plataformas de pago ahora mismo, como Bandcamp. Pero en poco tiempo llegará a todas. Lo que espero es que el gran público pueda conocer el proyecto y que haya festivales que puedan interesarse por esa propuesta y programarla.

–¿De qué va Renacer?

–Es conjugar las cuatro disciplinas (pintura, música, poesía, vídeo) en torno a una reflexión sobre el proceso creativo, como una especie de trance o de camino de lo que significa crear y cómo se refleja eso en la generación de cosas, incluida la naturaleza. Es un poco una mirada sobre lo fácil que resulta destruir y lo difícil que es construir algo. Además estábamos saliendo de una pandemia, así que la idea de renacimiento era atractiva.

–Hay precedentes de ópera con vídeo, pero generados a partir de obra plástica, ¿conocía alguna?

–No. Está el An Index of Metals de Romitelli, que sin duda me ha influido, pero es algo distinto. A lo mejor hay alguna cosa más concreta, pero yo no la conozco.

[Johanna Vargas en el estreno vienés de Renacer. / MARKUS SEPPERER (WIEN MODERN)]

–¿Y a quien se le ocurrió la idea del vídeo?

–Salió un poco de los tres. Me fascina el trabajo de Juan Lacomba. Creo que es un gran artista, y muy auténtico. Y en cuanto al trabajo poético de Paco Deco, si se ha dicho que el libreto de Rafa Puerto para Susona es muy complejo, lo de Deco para Renacer es mucho más, porque el de Puerto al fin y al cabo es complejo por barroco, pero no deja de ser figurativo, pero el de Deco es de una abstracción surrealista, creado muchas veces en la búsqueda de la pura sonoridad de las palabras, o en el juego con los ritmos… Son poemas largos, pero muy estimulantes para el músico.

–¿Qué han supuesto estas dos óperas para su carrera?

–Son trabajos de consolidación de años desde que terminé los estudios de composición. Hay elementos que se han ido decantando y aquí se empiezan a solidificar cosas, que me abren otras puertas. Todas mis búsquedas empiezan a hacerse concretas en proyectos de envergadura. Y de hecho, estoy con la tercera ópera, Poeta en Nueva York.

–¿Cómo va ese trabajo?

–Es también en un formato de cámara. Será con el Trío Arbós, y tendremos a Laura García Lorca, sobrina de Federico, haciendo una voz en off. Del resto prefiero no contar nada todavía, no me gustaría hacer spoilers, pero habrá sorpresas.

–¿El libreto?

–Lo he hecho yo a partir de Poeta en Nueva York, pero todo está sacado de Lorca, no hay una sola palabra que no sea suya. Lo he reducido a un formato parecido a estas otras dos óperas, entre hora y veinte y hora y media. Me encanta el libro de Lorca completo, pero ponerle música a todo daría una obra de varios días. Así que he hecho una selección, y en el fondo eso es también un proceso creativo, porque eliges dónde cortas. Me queda mucho todavía por hacer.

–¿La producción está colocada en alguna parte?

–Se presentará en el Turina de Sevilla. Espero que a finales del curso 24-25, y luego, después de ese verano, ya en la temporada siguiente saldremos de gira: estamos viendo la posibilidad de que se haga en Granada, Nueva York, Viena…

[Diario de Sevilla. 14-04-2024]

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