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An action shot of a Eurasian Jay (Garrulus glandarius) perched alertly at the water's edge, while a second jay lands directly behind it with wings fully spread. Captured from a photo hide in Utrecht during late spring.
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We onderbreken het feest in het StamCafé voor militair geweld van een andere orde: Amerika heeft nieuwe, 'krachtige' aanvallen uitgevoerd op Iran. De aanvallen zijn volgens CENTCOM een reactie op de Iraanse aanvallen op drie commerciële schepen die door de Straat van Hormuz voeren. "Iran’s demonstrated aggression was unwarranted, dangerous, and a clear violation of the ceasefire", oftewel: "De door Iran getoonde agressie was ongegrond, gevaarlijk en een duidelijke schending van het staakt-het-vuren." Op beelden op internet is te zien dat er fik is in Bandar Abbas. Ook waren er explosies te horen in Sirik. En die andere explosie ziet u binnenkort weer op de teller bij de pomp, als u 'm volgooit.
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Dr.Seuss At the Mountains of Madness read-along on YouTube [22m]. Unearthly horror for children. BONUS: H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu for Beginner Readers [14m].
CARACAS (ANP) - Het dodental van de dubbele aardbeving die Venezuela op 24 juni trof, is opgelopen tot 3685. "Officiële cijfers per 7 juli: 3685 doden, 16.740 gewonden", aldus een verklaring van de regering, waarin geen melding werd gemaakt van het aantal vermisten. Zondag stond het aantal doden nog op 3535.
De Venezolaanse interim-president Delcy Rodriguez zei dinsdag dat de internationale luchthaven, die vorige maand beschadigd raakte door twee aardbevingen, "zo snel mogelijk weer opengaat" voor commerciële vluchten. De luchthaven ligt in La Guaira, de kuststreek ten noorden van Caracas die het zwaarst getroffen werd door de dubbele beving.
De luchthaven is wel al gedeeltelijk opengesteld voor humanitaire vluchten.
LONDEN (ANP) - Tennisser Novak Djokovic heeft voor de vijftiende keer in zijn carrière de halve finale van Wimbledon bereikt. Dat deed de Servische 24-voudig grandslamwinnaar dinsdagavond in een vijfsetter tegen de Canadese nummer 4 van de wereld Félix Auger-Aliassime: 7-6 (10) 3-6 6-3 6-7 (4) 7-6 (4).
In de halve finale treft Djokovic de Italiaanse titelverdediger en nummer 1 van de wereld Jannik Sinner. Auger-Aliassime kwam op Wimbledon nooit verder dan de kwartfinale.
In de eerste set gaven beide tennissers niets weg en moest een tiebreak de doorslag geven. Daarin kregen beide mannen drie setpoints, en ging de winst met 12-10 naar Djokovic. De tweede set ging dankzij een break in de achtste game naar Auger-Aliassime. In set 3 had Djokovic aan een break genoeg.
In de vierde set leek de Serviër door te pakken met een vroege break, maar opnieuw kwam het aan op een tiebreak. Die ging naar de Canadees. Ook in de vijfde set gaven beide tennissers niets weg waardoor een supertiebreak nodig was. Daarin wist Djokovic zijn eerste van vijf matchpoints te benutten om een plaats in de halve finale veilig te stellen.
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Het Amerikaanse leger heeft een reeks "krachtige" luchtaanvallen op Iran uitgevoerd, meldt het Amerikaanse centrale commando CENTCOM op X.
De aanvallen waren een reactie op wat volgens het commando Iraanse aanvallen waren op drie commerciële schepen die door de Straat van Hormuz voeren. "De door Iran getoonde agressie was ongerechtvaardigd, gevaarlijk en een duidelijke schending van het staakt-het-vuren", aldus CENTCOM.
Iraanse staatsmedia melden dat er diverse explosies te horen waren in en rondom de Zuid-Iraanse kustplaats Sirik, die aan de Straat van Hormuz ligt.
Iran houdt de Amerikaanse regering verantwoordelijk voor de gevolgen van de "schending van het memorandum van Islamabad" over het beëindigen van de oorlog, laat het Iraanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken weten via staatsmedia.
From The Public Domain Review, The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man, a diagram found in many medical texts beginning in the early 1400s.
Living on today in libraries from Copenhagen to Munich, the strange figure of the Wound Man gives modern viewers a glimpse of the worrying injuries that the medieval body could receive through war, accident, and epidemic. But at the same time, it shows that medieval people did not think of themselves as helpless victims in the face of these assaults. Far from reinforcing the common perception of the European Middle Ages as a backwards and bloody period of human history, the Wound Man reminds us that it was in fact a period busy with innovative medical treatments, a vital link between the long-standing cures of the classical world and developments that were to follow in early Renaissance medicine.
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If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn’t Make a Good Senator. “Marion Ravenwood said he trapped her in a room and physically assaulted her. But I decided to keep supporting Toht anyway.”
This marks the first known US military strikes against Iran since late last month
Iran’s foreign ministry has accused the U.S of “major violations” of the Islamabad Understanding which had been signed by the two sides last month.
In a statement, the ministry vowed to “take whatever measures it deems necessary to safeguard its national interests and security”.
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banzainetsurfer has added a photo to the pool:
The famous red torii gate (Heiwa-no-Torii) of Hakone Shrine in the waters of Lake Ashi.
In this picture, I exposed for the sky to avoid blowing out the bright parts of the clouds and preserving a lot of the details.
Joy Machine and Vertical Gallery are excited to share their first collaborative exhibition, Wanderland by Collin van der Sluijs. This marks the artist’s sixth solo exhibition in Chicago and more than a decade in partnership with Vertical Gallery. It’s his first presentation at Joy Machine.
Wanderland comprises a new body of work developed during a two-year period. Spanning enormous mixed-media paintings, intimate drawings, and skate decks bearing the artist’s signature birds, the exhibition reflects both the momentous and mundane, particularly loss, grief, and the therapeutic powers of nature.
A portmanteau of wander and wonderland, the title evokes van der Sluijs’ continued devotion to imagining a vast, dreamlike ecosystem. For the past decade, he’s produced various bodies of work as a sort of world-building exercise, intuitively selecting a blend of oil paint, acrylic, watercolor, and more to render dynamic still lifes and portraits of figures subsumed by chaos. Wanderland continues in this vein, once again presenting hazy bouquets that allude to the artist’s Dutch heritage and a melange of symbols and markings referencing his background in street art. “Collin works in such a wide range of styles—like a modern twist on classical painting, with graffiti and illustration mixed in,” Patrick Hull, Vertical’s owner and curator, shares.
Each collection emerges through a lengthy process of trial and error, and often, van der Sluijs will work on a piece for years, even turning it around to face the wall periodically to provide a brief respite while in his studio. “I really need to make big mistakes and fight my way out of it,” he adds. In this way, cultivating wonder and an unceasing desire to explore his inner emotional and external landscapes is an essential part of the process. Wanderland is about “a walk to the visual world that you create around yourself, like wandering around. But it’s also like diving into the unknown.”
Following a collection of darker pieces made in the early years of the pandemic, Wanderland emerges with more levity and hope, albeit not without difficulty and grief. While working toward the exhibition, the artist broke his ankle, rendering it impossible for him to stand while painting larger canvases hanging on the wall. Instead, he had to sit, stretching himself across the horizontal surfaces and contending with a novel, challenging mode of making.
And despite his physical limitations, van der Sluijs also spent more time venturing outdoors during the last two years. Making small works on paper amid natural settings was a sort of balm in processing the recent death of a friend. “All those personal stories, they make the context of a show,” he adds.
To celebrate more than a decade of collaborations, Vertical Gallery published a book commemorating the occasions, titled Wanderland: 1991-2026. Its pages juxtapose the artist’s exploits as a painter, muralist, and graffiti writer with the more personal moments that define his roles as husband, son, father, and friend.
Wanderland runs from July 10 to August 22. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on July 10. The artist will be present.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Collin van der Sluijs’ ‘Wanderland’ Imagines a Vast Ecosystem Encompass the Momentous and Mundane appeared first on Colossal.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, according to three people familiar with the matter, a push that could reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips, which it has depended on to train and run its globally popular models. The chip is designed for inference -- the stage of AI computing in which a trained model generates responses for users -- rather than for training new models, the sources said. If successful, DeepSeek's expansion into semiconductor development would mark a major strategic shift for a company widely hailed in China as the country's AI champion, potentially adding to challenges faced by Chinese tech giant Huawei.
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