Archive for November, 2008
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Sewing Table with concealed fortepiano, J Lier 1846
49 notes: F-f”’
Signature in lead on the inside bottom of the instrument. Case with rosewood veneer with marquetry lid exterior, resting on a pedestal base with castors. Hinged fallboard with mother of pearl escutcheon drops down level to play. Viennese action. Keyboard with ivory naturals. Removable unit with central pincushion and storage boxes with rosewood lids and ivory handles fits over soundboard area, and a simpler smaller unit sits over the keyboard. Lid is held open by a swing mirror with original glass. A very similar, although less elaborately decorated instrument, is in the Smithsonian Institution (1992.0192.01). It featured in the “Piano 300″ exhibition in 2001 and is illustrated on page 39 of the catalog. AUD20000.
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They are the real life coneheads. In 2004, on a remote island in the South Pacific, exclusive footage was shot of ‘headbinding’ or skull elongation which the Lonely Planet said had “.. long since died out”. On what became an impromptu, largely unplanned adventure-filled ‘expedition’ the filmmakers found that not only were these ‘longfala hed’ Small Nambas tribe members alive and well, but contrary to Lonely Planet’s assertion they were binding the heads of new-born babies - in time-honoured fashion. Led by their ‘progressive’ chief, they had moved out of the dense jungle to the shoreline just weeks earlier. In this clip “longfala heds’ listen to an island string band …
Where big heels are beaten by a long head
By Sunanda Creagh - Sydney Morning Herald
Posted Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Concepts of beauty are relative.
If you want to pay a Vanuatuan a compliment, call them a Longfala Hed. The pidgin English term for intelligent has its roots in an incredible form of body modification: head elongation.And according to Kirk Huffman, an expert in head elongation, those who practise it wonder why others do not.
“From the point of view of the cultures that practised head elongation, it’s best to describe it as head beautification,” says Huffman, a research associate at the Australian Museum.
Huffman, an anthropologist, has studied the practice for more than 20 years on Malakula, Vanuatu’s second largest island, which boasts a proud tradition of binding babies’ skulls to produce a cone-shaped head.
“Some cultures are into pyramids; these cultures are into cones,” says Huffman.
The process is simple but laborious. About a month after birth, the baby’s head is smeared with oil to soften the skin. A soft bandage made from the inner bark of a banana tree is then wound tightly round the head, and covered by a woven basket. To keep the cap in place, the head is bound again with fibre. The process is repeated daily until the child can walk, producing a conical head.
The technique was carried out on both men and women and can still be found in parts of Vanuatu. It was considered aesthetically desirable, but Huffman says Vanuatuan head elongation also has cultural significance.
“In southern Malakula many cultures have a belief in a spiritual hero called Ambat, who had a very long head. There’s also a belief that head beautification increases your memory,” he says.
Huffman says head binding does not mean squashed brains. “If it’s done properly, there are no side effects,” he says.
Head elongation has been practised in many places. One South American culture specialised in “bi-lobal modification”, tying a string around the head so that it would grow into two bulbs.
“There’s an Indian tribe in Columbia who are nicknamed plate-heads because up until 1947 they were binding the skull in a way that flattens but makes it round,” says Huffman.
Europe has also embraced head modification. One 17th century French text recommended midwives bind the skulls of babies to increase memory storage space.
Huffman says it continued into the 19th century in parts of France, Germany and Eastern Europe. The last known instance was recorded by a doctor in a French mountain village in 1925.
For Huffman, head binding has to be put into a cultural context.
“It’s considered beautiful and why not? Humans throughout the world have done all sorts of things to their bodies. Look at white women today - they wear high heels and get Botox …
“I remember sitting in the capital of Vanuatu looking through a modern fashion magazine. People from the outer islands who had come in with me picked up one of the magazines and said, ‘I feel sorry for them.’ I said, ‘Why?’ and he said, ‘Look, they’re all starving. They are not being fed enough.’
“I just laughed and said, ‘They think that’s beautiful.”‘
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HIII
This is my first youtube upload so please be nice.
I was ripstiking through the city (sydney) and decided to go down this 5 or so story car park a couple of times and on the last run i recorded it. its alot faster in real life than it looks on the vid… in real life its about twice as fast. please enjoy
appreciate it if u rate, comment and maybe even subscribe for later videos to come =D
Thankyou
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Footage showing an automated car parking system in operation underneath a hotel in Sydney, Australia.
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The video describes the services that National Products deliver to the clients
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Locked Matt in Club O2’s storage room. =]
weekly drift meet held at roselands car park in sydney nsw.
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YA BOY ZIGGY
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Lyrics
Ay John
You Know All Them Lame Sugga Daddies Be Saying
You Can Have Whatever You Like
I Said You Can Have Whatever You Like
[Hook]
Hot Pink Beamer
Pancakes On The Rocks
I Withdraw Some Money Out My Commonwealth
So That You Can Have Whatever You Like
I Said You Can Have Whatever You Like
Yeeaaa
Late Night Shopping
Westfeilds Thursday Nights
Parramatta Bondi Burwood
Baby You Can Go Wherever You Like
Said You Can Go Wherever You Like
Yeeaa
[Verse 1]
Anytime You Want To
Pick Up The Telephone You
Aint Gotta Worry Bout Freetime Nomore
Vodafone, Optus All That Silly Nonsense
Dont Worry Bout It Coz I Got It
[Pre Chorus]
Yea I Want Your Body
Need Your Body
Long As You Got Me You Wont Need Nobody
You Want It, I Got It
Go Get It, I Buy It
Tell Them Other Lame Suckers Be Quiet
[Hook]
Hot Pink Beamer
Pancakes On The Rocks
I Withdraw Some Money Out My Commonwealth
So That You Can Have Whatever You Like
I Said You Can Have Whatever You Like
Yeeaaa
Late Night Shopping
Westfeilds Thursday Nights
Parramatta Bondi Burwood
Baby You Can Go Wherever You Like
Said You Can Go Wherever You Like
Yeeaa
[Verse 2]
Shawty You The Hottest
Love The Way You Drop It
Cruise Down To Brghton
Pull Up In The Car Park
Do What We Do Then
Jet Down To Liverpool
Rashays Get Us A Fully Hectic Meal
Ye Aint Never Ever Gotta Go In Your Wallet
I Buy You A Channel Purse, But You Aint Gotta Use It
I Take Care Of It Just As Fast As A Zertech
You Aint Gotta Down Grade, Coz You Can Get What I Get
My Chick Can Have What She Wants
Go To Myer And Get The Bag That She Wants
I Know She Aint Never Had A Man Like That
To Buy Her Anything Her Heart Desire Like That
[Pre Chorus]
Yea I Want Your Body
Need Your Body
Long As You Got Me You Wont Need Nobody
You Want It, I Got It
Go Get It, I Buy It
Tell Them Other Lame Suckers Be Quiet
[Hook]
Hot Pink Beamer
Pancakes On The Rocks
I Withdraw Some Money Out My Commonwealth
So That You Can Have Whatever You Like
I Said You Can Have Whatever You Like
Yeeaaa
Late Night Shopping
Westfeilds Thursday Nights
Parramatta Bondi Burwood
Baby You Can Go Wherever You Like
Said You Can Go Wherever You Like
Yeeaa
[Verse 3]
Im Talking Looking For A House On Bondi Beach
Make Sure At Least 2 Big Lounge Rooms Each
Give L.J Hooker Breif Case Full Of Money
Let Me Put This Big Boy In Your Life
[Pre Chorus]
Yea I Want Your Body
Need Your Body
Long As You Got Me You Wont Need Nobody
You Want It, I Got It
Go Get It, I Buy It
Tell Them Other Lame Suckers Be Quiet
[Hook]
Hot Pink Beamer
Pancakes On The Rocks
I Withdraw Some Money Out My Commonwealth
So That You Can Have Whatever You Like
I Said You Can Have Whatever You Like
Yeeaaa
Late Night Shopping
Westfeilds Thursday Nights
Parramatta Bondi Burwood
Baby You Can Go Wherever You Like
Said You Can Go Wherever You Like
Yeeaa
Ay John……
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