#2018-04

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Meoto Iwa - the married rocks of Futami

We noted the presence of "married camphor trees" at Meiji-jingû last time, so I guess we can talk about other sacred things linked by rope.

One of the most famous of these is the couple of "married rocks" on the coast of Mie, on the premises of Okitama-jinja at Futami, near Ise. The Meoto Iwa represent the founding couple of Japan according to Shinto, Izanagi and Izanami.

The shimenawa ropes are more heavy-duty than what we saw on the camphor trees: 5 strands, 40 kg each. Still, as they are exposed to the seawater spray from crashing waves, they need to be changed several times a year, which involves quite a few people as you'd expect, as shown on the poster below. Ceremonies occur in May, September and December.

The ropes certainly look heavy on the smaller rock in particular, they look like they could slip off, but instead they cling on rather gracefully.

Dotted around the shrine are statues of the messengers of the gods: frogs.

While Futami's Meoto Iwa is the most important example of "paired rocks" in Japan, owing to how far the tradition dates back and its proximity to Ise Grand Shrine, there are quite a few others across the country. Below is another Meoto Iwa in Mihonoseki, Shimane.

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04 NOV 2019 | Patrick Stump • "Deep Blue Love" MV (From the Motion Picture Spell)

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Roma (película de 2018)  colonia de la  Ciudad de México (1471)

Roma es una película mexicana dramática de 2018. Escrita, dirigida, fotografiada y coproducida por Alfonso Cuarón. La pelicula esta ambientada a principios de la d��cada de 1970, ficción a partir de los recuerdos de la infancia de Cuarón en la colonia Roma de la Ciudad de México, y narra la vida de una familia de clase media y Cleo, su trabajadora doméstica. Cuarón basó el guion en sus propios recuerdos de la infancia y en Liboria Libo Rodríguez, la trabajadora doméstica de su propia casa, que realizó su crianza y a quien dedicó la película. Wikipedia

La 91.ª edición de los Óscar premió a las mejores películas de 2018. Organizada por la Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, tuvo lugar en el Dolby Theatre de Los Ángeles (Estados Unidos) el 24 de febrero de 2019. Wikipedia,

Roma (2018) - IMDb 7'7

Un año en la vida de una familia de clase media en la Ciudad de mexico durante los años 70's.

VER LA PELICULA A CONTINUACIÓN:

enlace https://ok.ru/video/7263190059522

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well i got little to no sleep before my appointment and i've already taken my adderall today SO i went back to looking through random undertale tierlists bc it was fun and almost immediately got jumpscared by an au that i haven't encountered since i was on fucking amino

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bat form problems

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Just the Fax

Apr. 8, 2015:

I only respond to requests submitted to me via fax printout. All other modes of communication are uncouth. J. "Telefax" Fredman Captain of Industry "I fear not someone who sends out one thousand faxes. I fear someone who sends one fax a thousand times." ~ Bruce Lee

Apr. 8, 2018:

I have been too lax about this. "Accept no facsimile but a telefacsimile!" J. "Telefax" Fredman Captain of Industry

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Movie #4 of 2024: Mission: Impossible - Fallout

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The Tower of the Sun

With another World Expo underway at Osaka this year, a massive park to the North of the city (actually in the neighbouring city of Suita) sits on the site of the first Japanese World Expo in 1970. There's usually some form of centrepiece: in 1889 it was the Eiffel Tower, and at Osaka Expo '70, it was the Tower of the Sun.

It is a massive sculpture by Taro Okamoto, which it was possible to climb into to view another work called the Tree of Life. As it was going to have people inside, it needed a lightning rod - that's what the top face (officially a mask, but I tend to call it the "bird face" - whose eyes light up at night apparently) is sporting. The three faces on the back, front and top represent humanity's past, present and future respectively, though some art critics and historians have a more bleak interpretation due to Okamoto's larger body of work and stance against technological progress, something the Expo would put emphasis on.

Similarly to the Eiffel Tower, the Tower of the Sun was supposed to be a relatively ephemeral structure, and nearly all the Expo pavilions around it have been demolished. Like the Eiffel Tower, it was avant-garde and no doubt not everyone liked it. But this building is one of the few to be preserved, and requires regular attention - again, like the Eiffel Tower which needs periodic repainting. In any case, the Tower of the Sun is one of Osaka's most iconic landmarks.

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Past perfect

The past perfect tense is used to describe an action that was completed before another action in the past. It is formed using "had" followed by the past participle of the main verb, such as in the sentence "She had finished her homework before dinner."

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