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Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war, after US bishops offer him support after Vance remarks
Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen as another sharp escalation in his almost week-long feud with the White House over the US-Israel war on Iran.
The first American-born pontiff did not mention Donald Trump by name, but used his speech in Cameroon on Thursday to denounce world leaders that invoke religion to justify violence against other nations.
Continue reading...As she approaches her 44th birthday, we celebrate an actor who can move from dreamy psychodrama for Sofia Coppola to gritty angst for Jane Campion
An elegant, sun-soaked Patricia Highsmith adaptation with fine work from Viggo Mortensen as a con man and Dunst as his wife, holidaying in early 1960s Athens when they meet an American tour guide (Oscar Isaac). It seems tantalisingly unclear at first whether his designs are on the chirpy young bride or her shady older husband.
Continue reading...Austrian was capped 33 times for his national team
Manninger won Premier League during Arsenal spell
The former Arsenal goalkeeper Alex Manninger has been killed in a road accident, his first club Red Bull Salzburg have announced.
The Austrian Bundesliga club said on Thursday that the 48-year-old had died, in a post on its official X account. It said: “We mourn our former goalkeeper Alexander Manninger, who tragically lost his life in a traffic accident. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. Rest in peace, Alexander.”
Continue reading...DirtyGlassEye has added a photo to the pool:
Throughout the entire evening at Sagamiko the weather became increasingly unfavorable for photos rain was going off and on and my consistent wiping of my lens and attempt to keep it under an umbrella began to get to wet (before the God-like rainfall I experienced at the top of peak later) It's possible that some of my shots had humidity from my breath as I continued wiping my lens every 5 minutes, including this one.
There were multiple switchbacks on the south side of the slopes. As the nearly the entire natural light of the sky diminished I was around halfway down. I grew frustrated because of how I needed to constantly readjust and clean my camera, a lot of my shots after that AMAZIN tunnel shot were not turning out as well as I hoped. Then I got this one. Multicolored spires on a curve where I could get both paths, no matter what I ended up doing in editing the boundaries would remain soft because of the level of humidity.
I did one more ambitious edit, I had some ambient lighting cutting through the mist in the night, nothing new, but instead of just making hte sky darker like normal I wanted to try something new. I recolored it instead of getting rid of it, making any excess light you could see violet. figured it would compliment these small displays well. I'm wondering if I should upload my other tunnel shots from Sagamiko because nearly all of them are 10/10s already but the problem is they're all the exact frame, so it'll be a challenge to pull out other shots from this location like this. I'm conflicted.
As part of his Real Time series, artist Maarten Baas has created The People’s Clock, a timepiece that lives in Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. To create the clock’s “workings”, Baas recorded more than 1000 volunteers moving as the clock’s hands over a 12-hour period. If you look carefully, you can see a single individual dressed in orange at the edge of the circle acting as the second hand:
Each of the installed clock’s faces is a looped video of that recording, synced to the current time. Here’s a quick behind-the-scenes video of how the clock was made:
See also Baas’s Sweeper’s Clock and Schiphol Clock.
Tags: amsterdam · art · clocks · Maarten Baas · time · video
