Brawn GP on their way to 1 and 2 in qualifying at the Australian Grand Prix
The Mercedes-Benz powered BGP 001 of Team Brawn hitting turn 11 at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix in it’s very distinctive colour scheme! Can’t miss those wheels!!
Another from the Dump Truck Series / Globe, Arizona / (actually I think it’s Miami, AZ) This one I ran through ReDynaMix. / Olympus 720SW Auto
Jenson Button during practice at the Australian GP09
Martin Brundle, unknown person, Ross Brawn, and Michael Schumacher on the pit wall, Portugal 1992.
This was created for my birthday on 13/June,lol / Gemini / The Twins / May 22 to June 21 / Third sign of the zodiac, mutable, air sign. ruled by / mercury….possible start of a series Traditional / Gemini traits Adaptable and versatile / Communicative and witty / Intellectual and eloquent / Youthful and lively On the dark side…. Nervous and tense / Superficial and inconsistent / Cunning and inquisitive Correspondences for Gemini : / Element – Air; Symbol – Twins; Metal – Quicksilver; Color – yellow/grey; Ruler – Mercury; Stones – Diamond, Agate, Topaz. / I hope all you Gemini’s enjoy. And all you others too of course. / / / Big thank you AnnaMarie for this truly awesome poem / Gemini by Anaisnais / With a fondness of life, / jest and pleasure / You’re a lover / of unmeasurable attention as ever / In the third sign of the zodiac / known for storytellers / Of elements Fire and Air, / masculine considered / Diurnal or day orientated, / Physically or mentally related / Primarily focusing / on spirituality and activity / Being adaptable, eloquent, / versatile and lively / Youthful, witty, logical, / spontaneous, communicative; / All thes bing positive traits / are held back by the negative / For you’re changeable, inconsisatent, / cunning, nervous and inquisitive / Restless, superficial,tense / and gossip – well you’re talkative / You hate to be stuck in a rut, / or being left alone / Love novelty, variety, / anything unusual or unknown / Working multiple projects at a time / you’re addicted / Disliking mental action, conventional learning,m / being restricted / Gemini’s inclined to direct energies / into the world around them / Anatomy – rules arms, shoulders, / lungs and nervous system / A strive to learn persevearance / and culture depth / Subjects are lovers of language, / poets, bard, or wordsmiths Thank you Anna-Marie for let to share this beautiful poem here. All Origional art work can be purchased through the artist. —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-——- Copyright notice: / All rights reserved. All images contained on these pages are © copyright protected by Mariska and any use of these images in any form without written permission will be considered an infringement of these copyrights.
Jenson Button & his Brawn GP Car that took the 2009 F1 Season by Storm.
Jenson Racing during the Spa-Francorchamps 2009 Race Canon 50D / 17-200mm EF-S / This work is featured in this Calendar /
Though perhaps not as well known as several other poems by John Keats, “Bright Star” is considered one of his loveliest and yet most paradoxical. Still only twenty-three, it now appears that Keats wrote this untitled Shakespearean sonnet in the Spring of 1819. He then revised it in 1820, most likely on his final trip to Italy, where his friends and his doctor had encouraged him to go to help the tuberculosis from which he was now suffering. From his own early medical training, however, and from the experience of losing several members of his immediate family to the disease, he almost certainly already understood he had not long to live. In the poem he implies his frustration at his own mortality, unlike the eternal and unchanging star, and expresses his wish to be with his lover for ever, or else die in her arms. The lover in question was Fanny Brawne. In 1818 Keats’s friend Charles Brown had let part of his Hampstead house to Fanny’s mother, and when Keats met the daughter a passionate romance developed, despite early misgivings on his part, and a surprising lack of self-confidence in the company of women. Not only ill, he was also painfully aware that he could not offer her financial security on the basis of the little he had earned so far from his published work. Not surprising that when Mrs Brawne and Charles Brown found out about the relationship, they were thoroughly perturbed. For all these reasons, despite being completely in love, Keats realised that he and Fanny would probably never be married, and this seems to be what he means when in the poem he wishes he could be more steadfast. The imagery was probably inspired by the memory of seeing Venus, the so-called Evening Star: he watched it as it rose while in the middle of composing one of his letters to Fanny. He wrote ”. . .I love you; all I can bring you is a swooning admiration of your Beauty. . . . You absorb me in spite of myself ― you alone: for I look not forward with any pleasure to what is call’d being settled in the world; I tremble at domestic cares ― yet for you I would meet them, though if it would leave you the happier I would rather die than do so. I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. I hate the world: it batters too much the wings of my self-will, and would I could take a sweet poison from your lips to send me out of it. From no others would I take it. I am indeed astonish’d to find myself so careless of all charms but yours ― remembering as I do the time when even a bit of ribband was a matter of interest with me. What softer words can I find for you after this ― what it is I will not read. Nor will I say more here, but in a Postscript answer any thing else you may have mentioned in your Letter in so many words ― for I am distracted with a thousand thoughts. I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Hethen.” The capitalisation, spelling and punctuation in this setting may surprise some, but they are taken from the original manuscript of the poem. There are variations of each of these features to be found in different printed versions of this poem. None of these variations, however, affects the sound of the piece. On the other hand, the manuscript has ”... swell and fall”, a word order that is reversed in many published versions and which does affect the sound materially!
“Now the time is beautiful. I take a walk every day for an hour before dinner and this is generally my walk – I go out at the back gate across one street, into the Cathedral yard, which is always interesting; then I pass under the trees along a paved path, pass the beautiful front of the Cathedral, turn to the left under a stone door way – then I am on the other side of the building – which leaving behind me I pass on through two college-like squares seemingly built for the dwelling place of Deans and Prebendaries – garnished with grass and shaded with trees. Then I pass through one of the old city gates and then you are in one College-Street through which I pass and at the end thereof crossing some meadows and at last a country alley of gardens I arrive, that is, my worship arrives at the foundation of Saint Cross, which is a very interesting old place, both for its gothic tower and alms-square and for the appropriation of its rich rents to a relation of the Bishop of Winchester – Then I pass across St Cross meadows till you come to the most beautifully clear river – now this is only one mile of my walk I will spare you the other two till after supper when they would do you more good.” John Keats, Winchester, Tuesday 21 September, 1819 For a brief time in the later part of September 1819, the twenty-three year old John Keats was able to forget his troubles as he enjoyed Winchester’s old streets in the shadow of its great Cathedral, took his walks past its ancient College and out across the Water Meadows. One of the results is the Ode to Autumn, probably his best-loved poem and twice voted one of Britain’s top ten. In it he celebrates the gentle, contented way that Autumn slips into Winter, catching perfectly the sense of accomplishment at the end of Summer. Born on the outskirts of London on 31 October 1795, John was the eldest of five. A sister and two brothers survived into adulthood, but Edward died in infancy. When he was eight, his father was killed in an accident: so began the financial uncertainty that was to plague him for the rest of his days. Tuberculosis, the disease that would eventually kill him too, claimed first an uncle and then, when he was fourteen, his mother. All this made the Keats children unusually close. John was left first in the charge of his maternal grandmother and then of two guardians. Fortunately by then his love of literature had been kindled at Clarke’s, the good local school in Enfield, and although he was subsequently apprenticed to an apothecary-surgeon, a passion for poetry gradually took over from his hopes of a medical career. He eventually gave up medicine for the literary life, but not before qualifying at Guy’s. Friendship with leading figures like Leigh Hunt and Shelley helped get a volume of his early works into print by 1816, but they met with a poor critical response. In May 1818 his brother George married and emigrated to America, leaving in John’s care their other surviving brother Tom who was already ill, also with tuberculosis. Keats loved to travel when he could afford it, and that Summer he went on a walking tour of Scotland with his friend Charles Brown. A severe chill and tonsillitis, however, forced him to cut the trip short, only to find on his return to London that his brother was gravely ill. By December 1818 the much-loved Tom was gone too. Brown had rented part of his Hampstead house to a Mrs Brawne and her attractive daughter Fanny for the time they were away. When Keats met Fanny he fell hopelessly in love with her, but he probably suspected he was ill, and certainly realised that he could not offer her financial security on the basis of the little he had earned so far from his published work. Perhaps because he knew he had little time left, or perhaps as a means of escape, he threw himself into the writing of poetry and produced the majority of his greatest works. By the Autumn of 1819, however, he was emotionally and creatively exhausted and his financial anxieties had returned. London could not provide the peace and quiet he needed and it was expensive, so he decided to get away, first to the relative calm of the Isle of Wight and from there to Hampshire. Is it supposing too much to suggest that his masterly poem encapsulates a feeling of resigned premonition? Within only another eighteen months, not yet twenty-six, John Keats would himself be dead in a foreign land. This collage follows the poet’s own description of the daily walks in Winchester that gave him such respite and inspiration. It is taken from a letter to his brother George which is printed below the images. All the buildings seen here were standing in 1819 and are grade listed by English Heritage.
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Rubens Barrichello flings the car around Silverstone’s Luffield corner and powers on to the main straight!
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