We all know that FIAT is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, millions of its products have spread all over the world. There have been many types of FIAT cars that are excellent for millions of car enthusiasts around the world. FIAT one product that could attract the attention of the world is a FIAT Flatout.
Flatout FIAT famous not because the model is sophisticated, but because the size of a very shallow height. Flatout FIAT car has even been named as a common car in the worlds shortest, tall car is only about 40 centimeters, or the equivalent of a lawn mower.
High overall body of the car is even almost the same height tires. while the distance between the lower body to the soil surface only about 6 cm. No wonder the car was crowned as the shortest car in the world. even so short, this car could break through the bottom of the truck.
To be able to drive this car, the driver should stretch his legs when menegmudi (like driving a go-kart). For speed, FIAT Flatout no doubt, because although the size, flat, speed remains the same premises most other normal car.
Over winter break I took my dog Dexter, out for a walk to Petrovitsky Park because it is only 15 minutes away from my house and I had nothing else better to do. I am sure that Dexter was aware of his surroundings because we have gone to Petrovitsky park numerous times. Today I did something different which was taking Dexter down to the baseball field at Petrovitsky Park even though I know I am not supposed to. I wanted to test out to see what he would do on the field and thankfully he didnt go to the bathroom on it. My experience with Dexter exploring new grounds was that I can tell he was having fun by wagging his tail and rolling in the dirt because every thing was so new and exciting to him. Author Val Mallinson, an author and dog lover quotes, " They ( dogs) know the big wide world out there holds more wonder than they can possibly fit into their short dog lifetime....They (dogs) are right, there are marvels out there" (Mallinson 2). What I learned from that quote by listening to Val Mallinson is that she is correct and that I should take Dexter out to many "wonders" to him to explore because before I know it his life will end eventually.
Petrovitsky Park
Overall my experience taking Dexter to the local park and doing something new has taught me, that I should take Dexter onto different grounds once in a while so he can have fun instead of being cooped up inside.
My question to any pet owners is, do you believe that your pet will live linger just by taking them out for a walk once in a while?
Citation: Mallinson, Val. The Dog Lovers Campanion to the Pacific Northwest. Emeryville: Avalon Travel, 2005. Print.
Our face is one of the first things a person sees when they look at us. Our face is a big part of what makes ourselves "us". Different details in our face is what differentiates ourselves from others. This is why drawing faces can be very difficult. In Mark Kistlers book You Can Draw in 30 Days, Kistler shows how to capture emotions through drawing a face.
To start, Kistler says to "trace the beautiful face, forehead, cheek, and chin
with an S-curving line" (218).
Next, I drew an outline of the nose and the eyebrow.
Then I drew the eyes. As said in a previous post of mine, the eyes are what show the emotion and tone of the drawing. For my drawing, I decided to send out a sad and tired tone.
Kistler then says to outline the drawings hair with s-shaped wisps of hair (219).
I then drew the lips. Lip thickness and size depends on your preferences. To continue the tone of sadness, I pointed the lips slightly downward.
Lastly, I shaded in shadows that are cast on her face.
Drawing this wasnt as hard as I expected it to be. I learned that by drawing details of the face differently, for example, drawing the lips slightly upward or downward, the artist can portray different emotions through the drawing. Do you think that drawing can reveal different emotions? Do you think there is a better way to reveal different tones through a piece of art?
Kistler, Mark. You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2011. Print.
The first post I did was passing the ball and their were some hand technique for that. But Im going to be doing the same thing, but instead of passing, Im shooting! this Book made me see how shooting is really easy if you follow the steps that Im going to be telling and showing you.
step 1 is basically like step one in my previous post, but you need to have the right hand placement to be able to shoot really good. "When preparing to shoot, your hand should be spread comfortably on the ball"(35) and also "the shooting hand should be in the middle of the ball" (35). This will let you have a better grip on the ball. Like i said in my previous post."If you let the ball sit in your palm, you lose the sensitivity needed to shoot well"(34).
Step 2, is you bring the other hand to the ball. " Your off hand (the one youre not shooting with) directly on the side of the ball, making it easier to control and shoot straight"(35).
Step 3, is releasing the ball. " you release the ball by lifting or extending your elbow to the goal, springing your forearm forward, and snapping the wrist" (35). When you do it this way, it will help the ball go in way better then you normally shoot the ball. Also " as the ball leaves your hand, it should roll off your fingertips with a smooth, even backspin.
Question: How do you shoot the ball, with a high arch or a low arch?
citation: Miller, Faye Young., and Wayne R. Coffey. Winning Basketball for Girls. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1984. Print.
The last Saturday of March I have been honoured by one of my best friends with an invitation to the National Dance Competition held in Krakow. You already know that from my posts from the weekend, but today I wanted to show you something special from that day. And I have saved the best for the last! In the evening, in one of the breaks when they were giving the prizes for the classical dancing, there was also a performance of traditional Polish dances - as far as I understood they were typical for the Krakow region. Before they went on stage I had the honour to snap a few shots of the lovely ladies and gents who were about to perform. As an expat and a person who loves to travel, I am very open when it comes to traditional dances / food /customs and tell you the truth, I always thought that the Romanian and Polish dances / food / customs have a similar ground. They made me feel always like home so I never miss an ocasion to see the ladies twirl and the men play with their swords ;)
“Here (Poland), we have more winter than summer, more ice than sunshine; and Vodka is nothing but melted ice. Every nation drinks in this way: the Italians and the French drink the gold of melted sunshine, we the ice. That’s why a Pole glides through life as if on skates, and that is why he often staggers, for he finds it slippery. The Pole’s sorrow is so hot that he finds in necessary to cool it with vodka, the sorrow of other nations, the sorrow of other nations is so cold so they have to fuel it with wine” Karol Makuszynski
"It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph" Henryk Sienkiewicz
"My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force"
Lech Walesa
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge"
Copernicus
"All the common people kissed my hands, my feet, my clothes; others only touched me, saying, Ah, let us kiss so valiant a hand!"
King John III Sobieski (an excerpt from a letter written to his wife, after victory in the Battle of Vienna)
"The Pole listening to Chopin listens to the voice of his whole race"
Ignace Paderewski
"I am the master! I stretch forth my hands, even to the skies! I lay my hands upon the stars, as on the crystal wheels of the harmonica. Now fast, now slow, as my soul wills, I turn the stars. I weave them into rainbows, harmonies. I feel immortality! I create immortality!"
Adam Mickiewicz
“Im lazy. But its the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didnt like walking or carrying things.” Lech Walesa
I am seriously thinking of buying one of those dresses/skirts! ;)))
Dont they look dashing?!
I think the young lasses looked marvelous in their thick braids, red bows and with beautiful flower crowns in their hair - made me somehow think of Florence And The Machines... Not to mention the white blouses and their green overcoats and green flower-full skirts. And the men were also top notch with their peacock feathered red-black hats and their blue with red overcoats combined with white pants and adorable leather boots. I was mesmerised/fascinated by them the moment they appeared, and when they went onstage I could not help but smiling wide, like a child. Then the miracle of dancing happened and the pairs started twisting and turning on the stage leaving the audience breathless when they lifted the ladies up... up... in the air :)
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Have you ever experienced Polish dances? How about Romanian traditional dancing? I have also attached a small video of the dances. Now please kill me not if the camera was not stable enough or if at a certain point you can definetely hear me cheering up the lads! :) I did this for you, lovely people, so I can share with you yet another expat experience - an experience where I felt home away from home and where I could feel a connection between Poland and Romania. I believe that the soul of a country and the soul of its people can be reflected via its traditions and part of the traditions is also the dancing - and dancing is always good for the body and soul ;)
Yours truly, The LadyBug In Love With Polish Customs
You need to go see "The Human Body Expo" :) I know it is touring around the world and it stopped for the longest time right here in Krakow (lucky us!) but you MUST catch it. I went to see it in April this year, with some of my new work colleagues and I must admit I was quite impressed.
The publicity in Krakow around the event is quite huge and each weekend we went to the city center we received flyers from multiple people dispersed around the city center and Kazimierz area. Also magazines and papers host ads on the topic + there are huge billboards and posters spread through the city (not only the center and the most populated areas) + there is a huge WOM on the area...
I must urge you to go and check this Expo out. Especially the ones who are interested in the Human Body. I wanted to work in Genetics but in order to specialize you need to study 1000 of other things that you will not use - I was not afraid of that! I was though afraid of blood... Let me face the truth: blood makes me weak and makes me want to faint... it is a struggle even to give the occasional blood for the regular tests that I do each year... so... Medical Studies went out of question, although to this day I love Genetics.
Well... story laid aside it is fascinating to see real human bodies exposed like that. Imagine that real people agreed to be exposed like that in front of people all over the world. Way to go! Well do not worry, when they will no longer be able to expose the bodies, they will be cremated ;) All good - got that covered!
Here is what they say on their site:
"All of the specimens in The Human Body Exhibition are legally donated through an organized government process and designated to be used only for education purposes in public exhibitions and institutions of higher learning. The individual identities and ages are unknown. All have died of natural causes. This Exhibition is dedicated to treating these specimens with the utmost dignity and respect. When no longer used for education, they will be cremated. "
Do not worry if you are with kids you can still visit it and you can even suggest a school field trip there ;) I believe that it is very educational as the children would see the human body not on a book - in pictures - but in real life.
"The full body specimens in The Human Body Exhibition are posed specifically to illustrate their physiological features and how they function during common activities. In the Muscular Gallery, for example, you will notice the intricacies of how your body works while playing sports.
Each of the nine galleries in The Human Body Exhibition focuses on a specific system of the body, starting with your Skeletal System, progressing through Muscular, Nervous, Circulatory, Digestive, Reproductive and Urinary, and ending with a look at the human body of the future. There is also an optional gallery highlighting the chronological development of embryos to fetuses. You move through the Exhibition on an unforgettable walking journey of your own body.
The Human Body Exhibition features over 200 full body and individual organs from each system of the body.
Plastination is a scientific process that has been developed and refined over the past 30 years. This innovative technique permanently preserves human tissue using liquid silicone rubber, halting the natural process of decay and allowing these specimens to be studied for an indefinite period of time.
Skilled, experienced anatomists first treat each specimen with chemicals to stop further decay. Then they carefully dissect it to highlight a specific system or organ of the body. Next, all of the water is removed from the specimen and replaced with acetone. Placing the specimen in a liquid silicone mixture, known as polymer, and then sealing it inside of a vacuum chamber allows the acetone to become a gas. The acetone gas is replaced with the polymer to a cellular level. The silicone polymer hardens and the result is a dry, odorless, permanently preserved specimen that doesnt contain any toxic chemicals. Preparation time can take from one week for a small, individual organ to a full year for a whole body specimen."
I highly recommend you to visit all the galeries, including the one embrione room that will "blow your mind!" be prepared to see the human body in its early stages - from a few days old till a full grown baby taken out of the mothers wom, stillborn... (Not good for the weak hearted, though! I did not fall under that cathegory so I spent most of the Expo time there and in the Nervous (you get to see the brain!!!) and the Circulatory Room (you get to see the circulatory system in the hand, in the heart area and the lungs... just the blood vesels... AMAZING!!!)...
You can buy the tickets online via Eventim.pl or you can buy them at the place ;)
Individual ticket
Mon-Fri
Sat-Sun
Adults
50 zł
60 zł
Students / Seniors over 65 years
40 zł
50 zł
Children (6-15 years)
35 zł
40 zł
Family ticket (2 adults and 3 children)
125 zł
145 zł
People with disabilities
35 zł
40 zł
Group tickets
School - a minimum of 10 participants (Teacher free)
30 zł
40 zł
Adults - a minimum of 10 participants
40 zł
50 zł
To ensure a pleasant visit in the exhibition, please pre-book a tour time. All organized groups booking in advance are entitled to a discount.
OPENING HOURS
Monday - Sunday
9 am - 7 pm
Last admission at 6:30 pm
EXHIBITION VISITING RULES
There is no photo-taking and video-recording inside the exhibition.
Visitors are obliged to leave their outer clothing, handbags (maximum 20x20 cm), rucksacks and other luggage in a cloakroom.
Food and drink are not permitted inside the exhibition.
There is no smoking policy inside the exhibition.
Pets are not allowed in the exhibition area.
Strollers are not permitted inside the exhibition (Visitors can leave it at security place).
Visitors under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or similar substances will not be permitted in the exhibition.
Children under 10 must by accompanied by an adult.
All exhibition rooms are monitored by the security camera system. By purchasing an admission ticket, visitors automatically agree with monitoring system. Video recording falls within a Protection of personal data.
Organizers reserve the right to intervene and/or remove any visitor who refuses to comply with the exhibition rules and regulations. Compensation for a ticket is not required.
OPENING HOURS
Monday - Sunday
9 am - 7 pm
Last admission at 6:30 pm
DO GO! :) I urge you to go! You will not regret it ;) And you still have time as it will be there until November so grab your husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend, fiancee, brother/sister, colleague... cat?! and go there and have a blast of information about your body! It is well worth it!
** Dear Friends, I was not payed for this review but I did it with all my heart as I loved the Expo and I believe everyone should see it!**
Show me a person in love with photography and that owns a photo camera that does not know about the fisheye lens. I had a crush on them ever since I heard about them the first time almost 3 years ago. I found them extremely interesting and capable of creating lovely landscape pictures. The artists using them would capture much more than a normal camera could and it would help you see the big picture, not just a few shots broken and glued together to make a whole. Now for some technical specifications I will appeal to lovely uncle Wikipedia so... here they are.
The first time I managed to get all 3 on camera in the same picture! :)
A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view by forgoing producing images with straight lines of perspective (rectilinear images), opting instead for a special mapping (for example: equisolid angle), which gives images a characteristic convex non-rectilinear appearance.
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The term fisheye was coined in 1906 by American physicist and inventor Robert W. Wood based on how a fish would see an ultra-wide hemispherical view from beneath the water (a phenomenon known as Snells window). Their first practical use was in the 1920s for use in meteorology to study cloud formation giving them the name "whole-sky lenses". The angle of view of a fisheye lens is usually between 100 and 180 degrees while the focal lengths depend on the film format they are designed for.
Main Market Square
Mass-produced fisheye lenses for photography first appeared in the early 1960s and are generally used for their unique, distorted appearance. For the popular 35 mm film format, typical focal lengths of fisheye lenses are between 8 mm and 10 mm for circular images, and 15–16 mm for full-frame images. For digital cameras using smaller electronic imagers such as 1/4" and 1/3" format CCD or CMOS sensors, the focal length of "miniature" fisheye lenses can be as short as 1 to 2mm.
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These types of lenses also have other applications such as re-projecting images filmed through a fisheye lens, or created via computer generated graphics, onto hemispherical screens. Fisheye lenses are also used for scientific photography such as recording of aurora and meteors, and to study plant canopy geometry and to calculate near-ground solar radiation. They are also used as peephole door viewers to give the user a wide field of view.
One of the first pictures I took that day - on our balcony :)
In a circular fisheye lens, the image circle is inscribed in the film or sensor area; in a full-frame fisheye lens the image circle is circumscribed around the film or sensor area. Further, different fisheye lenses distort images differently, and the manner of distortion is referred to as their mapping function. A common type for consumer use is equisolid angle. Although there are digital fisheye effects available both in-camera and as computer software they cant extend the angle of view of the original images to the very large one of a true fisheye lens.
Our New Baby :)
As fisheye lenses gained popularity in general photography, camera companies began manufacturing fisheye lenses that enlarged the image circle to cover the entire rectangular frame, called a "full-frame fisheye" (which is precisely the type of lens we now own :) ).The picture angle produced by these lenses only measures 180 degrees when measured from corner to corner: these have a 180° diagonal angle of view, while the horizontal and vertical angles of view will be smaller; for an equisolid angle-type 15 mm full-frame fisheye, the horizontal FOV will be 147°, and the vertical FOV will be 94°. The first full-frame fisheye lens to be mass-produced was a 16 mm lens made by Nikon in the early 1970s. Digital cameras with APS-C sized sensors require a 10.5 mm lens (or, for Canon APS-C cameras, a 10 mm lens) to get the same effect as a 16 mm lens on a camera with full-frame sensor.
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Now as you can see in the picture above my awesome husband surprised me on April 1st - Fools Day - with the most amazing gift I have received: a brand new Samyang 8mm f3.5 fisheye. You may not know this but this lens is notable for its stereographic projection. I fell in love with it the instant I layed my eyes on if and I jumped in immediately to my lovely Canon to change the lens and give it a go. I must admit I am still working on it as everything here must be done manually and my ISO setup always somehow fails. I must admit I have very much to learn!
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As it covers 180 degrees you will be amazed of the pictures it can take. Tell you the truth the first times we took it out for a spin I had this feeling of jumping in the frame and trying to come closer and closer to the object I was trying to take a picture of. Everything around you will seem to come in your way and if you are next to someone for sure that person will enter the camera range and you will constantly try to find an empty space... to no avail! where you would be able to have the perfect shot. The human eye cannot cover the range the lens will give you so you will become fascinated by it - it uses the geometrical deforming and distorsions in an extremely creative way! No worries if you have different bodies - it works for Canon EOS or Nikon or Pentax/Samsung and Minolta Maxxum/Sony mounts. As I said everything is manually from ISO to focus setup so all you need is to play and learn :) And trust me this is a whole lot of fun! I recommend it!
** I have not been payed to do this review, I did it out of love :) I really like this lens and you will be seeing more and more of it. In case you have any questions about it please feel free to contact me! **
P.S. Did I mention how much I love my husband and how much I like this present?! :)
I do not know how you feel about books - if you think they are overrated, if you think they are boring or you think they are necessary - but they have been my friends ever since I was a wee lass. They would always come in handy as time passed by, even in the most extraordinary circumstances - I might have hit a boy or two in the head with the book, but, hey! they deserved it! They helped time pass by quickly and they would take me to kingdoms and places far far far away - places that I first dreamt of and then even managed to visit them as I grew up... one place like that was Paris!
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village. - Roald Dahl, Matilda
I have thought about it and I believe I have the right to say I am a bibliophile. I feel the best when I have a book next to me and I never stopped reading since my grannytaught me how to do that. At first I would read random words on the page, from one corner to another... then granny told me I should read them in straight line, well that did the trick! :) That is when books became my best friends and a year or 2 later on, I have even managed to raise money enough to buy my very own book - which was a Star Wars Episode 4-6 Romanian translation that I loved with all my heart! I remember being in kindergarden and as I was able to read before that time - as granny taught me - the leader of the kindergarden would put me up to read while she would have a small break... after a while, as a child, you get bored of it so I ran away from kindergarden and said to my granny I aint coming back! I want to go to school! Apparently I wanted to grow up fast as now I wish to be a child again, in my grandparents arms...
I bumped last year into this wonderful site called GoodReads. You can add your friends there as well ;) but fear not, this is no Facebook. The user can be a reader or it can be a writer. You can follow writers and you can see the latest books appearing, according to the categories you have selected. You can also choose to set your personal challenge for each year, when it comes to how many books you will read. As the year has 12 months I thought I would take it easy and say that I would read 1 book per month. That is decent number and I am sure I will overcome it as by this time I have already finished reading 8 books out of 12 - that is 67% challenge done and I am 6 books ahead of schedule ;)
Printscreen done Friday 28.03.2014 - today I am on my way on reading the 9th book ;)
The latest book I have finished was "The Book Thief" - Lovely book! Story told by Death itself - about a little girl who get a second chance and a second family. Timing: before and and during Second World War. A must read! It will make you cry and it will tear your heart out at the end but it is totally worth it! I wanted to finish the book before watching the movie so while at the Frankfurt Airport I managed to buy this gem. Now the movie is on my To Do List and maybe you will see my review Book VS. Movie ;) Would you like to see that? What am I reading now, you ask? Well I bought Eragon by Christopher Paolini last year so it is about time I started it :) It is part of The Inheritance Cycle (4 books) so that will take me a while and it would complete my challenge for this year ;) Fear not! I promised I would not stop there :) Yours truly, A LadyBug In Love With Books
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