We all can differentiate between a painting and a photo. But there is an artist who challenges the horizon of the painting by super realistic oil paintings.
Alex Roulette is a New York-based artist having an extraordinary portfolio of incredibly detailed oil paintings. I have seen a lot of hyper realistic pencil drawings and 3d painting, but it’s the first time i saw such a painting with photographic details.
Alex prepares for painting by collection of found images and going thoroughly through photographic environment and carefully gathering large collection source material.
Artist explains, “In constructing the painting, I use combinations of these reference images, to fabricate an open-ended narrative with the emotion of a memory. Drawing collages of image fragments onto panels before painting them in oil. The resulting paintings are both realistic and subtly uncanny, recalling some idealized vacation and a deeply personal longing for past experiences.”. None other than thorough preparation, abundance of references and great talent make these paintings “alive”.
You can see all of his works on his website alexroulette.com.
When the so called matured Head masters crib about the pitfalls in the system, Babbar Ali created a system of his own for the world to see and explore.
This young boy has fought against all odds with a fire in his belly and a deep desire in his heart to educate the children in his neighborhood. Babbar is a 12th standard student of ”Cossimbazar Raj Govinda Sundari Vidyapeeth”, Murshidabad, West Bengal.
He attends school like any normal children from morning till late afternoon. But what he does after his school hours is to be watched, learned and adopted.
Babbar Ali is the Headmaster of an afternoon school called “Anand Shiksha Niketan” where there are 800 students, at present. It all started 9 years back with just 8 students. The school is being run in temporary concrete structure without any major infrastructure. At his Gurukula, Babbar provides free education to all the kids who come from far away places to learn the basic lessons of life.
When we blame the system, our family circumstances, financial instabilities and many other things to take action, Babbar Ali is doing all this with just 3 things – “Sheer Dedication, Passion and Will”.
In 2009, Babar Ali won a prize from the programme Real Heroes Award of the Indian English news channel CNN-IBN for his work.
"Hugo Strange: How does it feel Wayne? To stand on the very stone that ran with your parents' blood? Do you feel sad? Full of rage? Or does that outfit help bury your feelings? Hiding your true self.
Batman: Bruce Wayne is the mask I wear. I've been wearing it since I was a child..."
Batman is the greatest superhero, because he is believable. He does not have any superpowers, is not an alien and was not a result of some freaky lab experiment gone wrong. He is just a man. And yet he stands along with some of the strongest beings in the universe-The Justice League. There is an animated film called 'Justice League Doom' in which Batman has a contingency plan for every superhero in the Justice League, based on their weaknesses.
Batman, at a very young age, lost the only thing he truly loved (his parents). A tragedy that has given him the gift of rational and emotionless clarity of thought throughout the rest of his life. This is by far a very superhuman trait, and because of it, he is literally able to dismantle gods. This is also why Superman refers to him as the most dangerous man on the planet.
Everything about Batman stories points to this ability. His justified paranoia of anything powerful, his meticulous planning, the contingency plans, the reclusive introverted nature of his personality, and so on.
Because of this ability/trait that has arisen from the childhood tragedy, Batman has become truly incorruptible. Writers often have an easy time writing stories about the other heroes become evil. Why? Because these heroes are controlled by their emotions (ironically, a very human trait). They have love interests, they have families, they make emotional decisions. There has been an instance in the DC superhero realm where every superhero has had an evil version of him or herself (mostly in multi-dimensional stories).However, Batman is always the one that remains incorruptible in every single one of those stories, in every dimension that those writers dream up, nobody can write a convincing story of an evil Batman.
Look at Injustice: Gods Among Us. There are two dimensions, one dimension hosts the world where Superman becomes the dictator and most JLA members support him, while the other dimension's JLA members are trying to stop them. In BOTH dimensions, Batman is the beacon of what is right with the world.
Look at the Justice League episodes "A Better World" pt 1, and 2. Again, we have the theme of a dimension where JLA members go too far and the "good" JLA members need to put a stop to it. Well, in this one, there is a moment where one Batman contemplates the state of affairs, stating "this is a world where no 8 year old child has to worry about some punk with a gun murdering his parents". For a moment, this Batman is acting emotionally. This moment passes, and both batman's help defeat the 'evil' JLA members.
So for me, Batman is the greatest superhero because he has a story of someone so alone in this world because of unimaginable tragedy yet he is so morally incorruptible.
The events of Bruce Wayne's childhood could have been the origin story of any super villain. Yet, they led to arguably, the most incorruptible and principled character in our history.
May be I cherish the 1990s because I was grown up in this decade. I cherished this below given things and eventually became a memory that make me smile every now and then.
1) 10 o'clock was very late in the night.
2) The tape recorder was one of the greatest inventions for you as a kid.
3) You would go to your neighbour's house to watch TV and not to forget you would use their phone for both incoming and outgoing.
4) You would collect the stamps of all the letters that usually your NRI cousins wrote.
5) Cool drinks and ice creams were occasional.
6) Summer holidays meant visiting relatives. Either you visited them or they visited you.
7) You were really cool if you could talk in English.
8) You loved Tin-Tin.
9) Money was hard to come by.
10) Owning a cycle was a dream for you as a kid.
11) You loved playing games in the real world. Never had to worry about home work much.
12) Your teachers really taught you.
13) You would watch following cartoons on Star Plus after school. Duck Tales, Talespin, Chip and Dale, Goof Troop, Gummi Bears, The Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse and friends, Small wonder, aladdin and on saturdays and sundays usually it was Spiderman. All of that in hindi.
14) You never really bothered about time much.
15) You really respected and feared your elders.
16) You loved playing those 16 bit video games.
17) You loved flying kites.
18) Sundays usually meant having a hair cut and washing your hair with "Clinic Plus" Shampoo. Then watching rangoli, Mowgli back to back on Doordarshan.
19) Your granny would put you to sleep by telling you stories that really had a moral in them.
20) Knowledge was always with the old and wise you would learn a lot from them each time they told you something.
21) You rarely heard the word "tension."
22) This was one of your proud possessions
23) You loved your pencil box.
24) You probably sipped a cool drink with a straw more than once.
25) If somebody had a mobile phone with them you know they were really rich.
26) You have fond memories of Doordarshan news and Doordarshan.
27) You have had an endless struggle to maintain an ink pen correctly but you loved it.
28) The only way to book a railway ticket was by standing in queue.
29) You loved watching this show in hindi on Nickelodeon. The legends of the hidden temple.
30) We all saw a little bit of ourselves in Dennis.
31) And at the dawn of the new millennium the biggest superstar of Indian cinema hosted a T.V show which would go on to win the TRPs and hearts of innumerable Indians across the world and yea the roads were empty once it was 9 pm.
32) You also wanted to represent your school in the Bournvita quiz contest.
33) Owning a Maruti 800 was a luxury and a dream for the upper middle class.
34) You know the value of 25 paise and what you could once buy with it like aamkut.
35) You sometimes substituted your urge for a cola with this:
36) Hamara Bajaj. The ride for the middle class then.
37) This show was very funny and you loved it.
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38) Just recollect how may times have you watched this song on tv and tried to dance like him.
39) The iPod of the 90s
40) The moment you realized magic is all about the coat. You probably watched this song many times on TV.
41) You really know what a joint family means.
42) This was the only meaning of a tablet back then.
43) You know that there was something called as a black and white tv once.
44) You definitely operated a tv which didn't have a remote.
45) Siblings spoke to each other when they were in the house not with their respective boy friend or girl friend or for that matter even friends.
46) Pictures were memories and were in a private album not in a public space. Each picture then would tell a story of its own.
47) You waited for a particular time everyday to watch your favorite song on music channels. Some times you got lucky and didn't have to wait.
48) How about playing a video game for 5 minutes with 1 rupee?
49) How about some radium in your pencil box? A wrist watch with a radium dial?
50) A wristwatch was cool if it had light in it and of course showing it off your friends in the dark made it even cooler.
51) This was the baap of all dance shows then and the hosts made you laugh like hell.
52) For many of us this was one of the best animated movies ever growing up.
53) All of us love this Idgah (story) story from Premchand from the bottom of our hearts.
54) How about some Rasna?
55) You have listened to plays or dramas on radio at least once.
56) How about watching a movie with your whole family including your granny in the theater carrying your own bottle of water? Was only possible back then.
57) How about searching for your hall ticket number in a newspaper anxiously? If you haven't experienced this you have at least heard stories about this.
58) Most of your general knowledge was either gathered by reading a book for general knowledge or English newspapers.
59) Time for "Pepsi" everyone
60) Most of us first interacted with a computer in our school's computer lab.
61) How about a family dinner where all the members of the family ate at the same time at the dining table talking to each other instead of looking at their mobile phones despite repeatedly saying that one shouldn't talk while eating?
62) How about watching Mahabharat on DD nationalwith the whole family on a sunday morning from 9:00 am – 10:00 am? You can't get its title track out of your head.
63) We loved our sunday mornings. That was the day when people switched off everything else and got glued to their tv sets. The channels would put their best content up on this day. We miss it a lot now. The whole culture of sunday mornings has disappeared somewhere in the fog of modern television.
64) You can't stop your lips from singing these tracks every time you see or hear them
65) You usually met a lot of strangers while travelling and actually had a conversation with them without being lost in your smartphone or laptop or whatever.
66) Border was one of your favorite movies then and you love this song.
67) You have heard about the "Kargil" war but you were too young to understand what was really happening. But at the end of it you were very proud that India won the war.
68) This song redefined patriotic songs and patriotism for an entire generation and we were among the first ones to hear it. It is so awesome that even today there is no republic day or independence day without it. Pure A.R. Rahman magic.
69) This is most likely the first ball pen you ever wrote with.
70) This was a movie for the families, of the families and by the families. You may have watched this movie with your family.
71) The whole nation got obsessed with this Hollywood movie like no other back then.
72) This movie was a cult and you might have had to watch it; courtesy your cousins or sisters or bothers.
73) This song was a rage and the whole nation fell in love with it. Yea "Made in India."
74) You know that there's clothing brand for men called "Kumar's".
75) All the jobs except the watchman's were mostly from 9 to 5. People on these jobs were people not resources.
76) How about getting your favorite song recorded on a cassette?
77) This daily soap was hard to ignore given the sheer popularity of this show amongst the women in every house and yeah it had a very catchy title track too. At 10 right after KBC all the women in the house gathered to watch this:
78) Almost every house had a beautiful guest which would come uninvited. Today its difficult to even spot them. "The Sparrow"
79) The girls loved their iconic BSA Lady bird. Evenings meant cycling for a lot of kids back then and girls enjoyed their ride on the ladybird. Though the cycle has undergone a lot of transformation it is still edged in our hearts.
Neutron stars comprise one of the possible evolutionary end-points of high mass stars. Once the core of the star has completely fused out to iron which cannot fuse further,energy production stops and the core rapidly collapses, squeezing electrons and protons together to form neutrons and neutrinos. The neutrinos easily escape the contracting core but the neutrons pack closer together until their density is equivalent to that of an atomic nucleus. At this point, the neutrons occupy the smallest space possible (in a similar fashion to the electrons in a white dwarf) and, if the core is less than about 3 solar masses, they exert a pressure which is capable of supporting a star. For masses larger than this, even the pressure of neutrons cannot support the star against gravity and it collapses into a stellar black hole. A star supported by neutron degeneracy pressure is known as a ‘neutron star’, which may be seen as a pulsar if its magnetic field is favourably aligned with its spin axis.
Neutrons stars are extreme objects that measure between 10 and 20 km across. They have densities of 1017 kg/m 3(the Earth has a density of around 5×103 kg/m 3 and even white dwarfs have densities over a million times less) meaning that a teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh around a billion tonnes. The easiest way to picture this is to imagine squeezing twice the mass of the Sun into an object about the size of a small city! The result is that gravity at the surface of the neutron star is around 1011 stronger than what we experience here on Earth, and an object would have to travel at about half the speed of light to escape from the star.
Diamonds are crystals of pure carbon that form under crushing pressures and intense heat. They mostly form in the Earth's mantle, the layer beneath the crust or surface layer, at a depth of about 150km. From mantle to crust. Diamonds that were formed deep inside the earth can be mined close to the surface.
Thanks to Tracy Hall we can mimic the natural process in a lab cultivating a totally man-made or synthetic diamond. Since the diamond is an allotrope of pure carbon so it can be created with any carbon providing source even ashes of the passed one.
There are many ways to commemorate the passing away of the loved ones. This is a new technique where the ashes of the dead person is made into a diamond.
Our bodies are 18 % percent carbon so an average 80 kg man produce enough ashes to make a 0.2-gram diamond.To do this, the ashes are heated to over 2,760 degrees Celsius (5,000 degrees Fahrenheit) in a heat-proof crucible. This works to oxidise all of the elements within the ashes, other than the carbon. The carbon is then heated for a number of weeks to turn it into graphite, which is then pressed with a metal catalyst and a diamond-seed crystal. This step requires temperatures of around 1,371 degrees Celsius (2,500 degrees Fahrenheit), along with extremely high pressures, and needs several weeks to convert the graphite into a rough crystal. This crystal can then be cut to specifi cation and presented as desired. The finished diamond’s colour is typically yellow or orange, depending on the amount of other trace elements within the original ashes. This can be changed by further enhancement techniques.
We humans like to measure and measurement is the key of science. We tend to understand more about physical non-living things well by measurement we even measure sound, air pressure, frequency of light and nearly everything that nature has to offer. Yet we don't seem to have a measurement for Sharpness of a blade.
Of course blade is a physical object which has a capacity to cut. But again the capacity to cut also depends on many other factor angle at which blade is making contact, the force of cutting, type of material etc. The degree to which it has the capacity is called sharpness of the blade. Sharpness is more of a comparative term than measurement. We can only say which blade is sharp when compared to some other.
There are lots of things that contribute to a blade's sharpness, but no unit for "sharpness" itself. Part of the reason for this is that there are different "kinds" of sharpness, suitable for different purposes.
At its most basic level, a blade is an application of the simple machine known as the wedge. Any wedge's mechanical advantage is its length divided by its width. For knives, this is usually expressed as the grind angle. The lower the angle, the greater the mechanical advantage, so sharpness increases. Razors have angles of around 15 degrees, and are thus sharper than axes, which may have angles of 45 degrees or more.
So why don't we grind all tools with a very low edge angle? Just try chopping down a tree with a straight razor! The thinner the edge (lower edge angle, higher mechanical advantage), the more the blade is prone to deformation and chipping. These two actions account for dullness in most blades. Whether the blade deforms or chips is dependent on the hardness of the blade.
Hardness is usually measured on the Rockwell scale. Harder blades will deform less, and so keep their edge longer. Edge retention is an important measure of the sharpness of a blade, since most people do not want to sharpen their tool before every cut. Stainless steels are generally softer than carbon steels, and so have less edge retention and are more prone to deformation. Blades made from flint, obsidian, and ceramic are very hard, and retain a very sharp edge very well, but are brittle and prone to chipping. A chipped edge may still cut, due to micro serrations, but it will not be as "sharp" as a smooth edge. High carbon steels can also chip and deform, but generally strike a good balance between the two.
But still there is a machine which counts sharpness.
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