#semaphore cactus

[mothmiso]

Portugal 05/06 2024 (2) (3) (4) (5) by Angela Diana

[roselynvictoria]

Cacti and Semaphore (Kakteen und Semaphore) by Georg Scholz (1923)

[theatheistphotographer]

Day 154 — Aaron’s Beard

“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

Photo: Opuntia leucotricha is a species of cactus with the common names: arborescent pricklypear, Aaron's beard cactus, and semaphore cactus. It is a species of prickly pear that is endemic to Mexico. 

[indra-s-mann-blog]

Little Police Semaphore and Cipher Competition Part 2

This next one shows a mixed unit.  Ususally brownish in Indian related areas and blue or green is another area of Asia.  African Uniforms are also another color.  In this one people are using two different signalling methods:  semaphore flag and standard(related to telegraph and naval flag).  The actual movement starts at 2:13 so skip ahead.

Some of the items you see might also include African Gestures and gestures from Indian or Asian Dance.  They are also a signal language. Competitions beforehand will list their restrictions.  The video's below demonstrate these things.  Some competitions might require designs or Formations visible from the sky and those symbols often are African but may use some loan symbols.  Gestures are used sometimes when people make contact or know they are under observation and can't openly speak. Some of the modern military uses a variant of these in their regular units that never had "Little Police" or "Scouts"(military investigators).

Here are some Yoruba Gestures.   Their use might be supplemented by drawing symbols on the ground or wearing familiar symbols.  Some african gestures reverse meaning depending on which hand is used.  This also meanings something with drawn symbols or worn.

A Cactus on Your Palm: Gestures Popular in Poland, is a website with videos showing Polish Gestures.  Some of them are used by the Vatican's military police force.

There are 55 Gestures in the Indian group.  Some replace or augment semaphore.  Some of the meanings may not make sense to you but the symbols have a regular meaning.  One conveys types of flags, others communication or locational information and safety.  Lord Baden Powel had seen some of the gestures which is why the Boy and Girl Scouts use some.  However they didn't know the meanings of our gestures.  But were taught a general sign language useful to civilians.  A few things like "Shiva Linga" are included as meaning "Help" but also have a secondary meaning.  Most signs have 2-3 meanings based on contexts and possibly time of day/week/season.

Indian Dance(Odissi explained) also includes posture, direction, and pace gestures.

[placerdiario]

Gog Magog dance film 2020 from Jane Turner on Vimeo.

With the covid lockdown being announced in March 2020 just before the start of TURNINGWORLDS' new touring dance project Shapeshift was to go into rehearsal we were left to start creating the project completely anew. Stapleford Arts Centre whose commission initiated the project and specifically collaboration with artist-in-residence composer Kevin Flanagan, inspired by our previous Chalk dancefilm shot in a nearby quarry in N Herts is part of the same geology as the Gog Magog hill, an ancient British hill fort almost next to Stapleford. We explored the geology of the Gog Magog downs, their skylarks (for compositional pattern) and rich mythologies. The compositional underpinning for Shapeshift grows out of TURNING WORLDS' knowledge of self-organising systems&working within science-art contexts and with interactive technologies. Past explorations and new research into forms of long distance communication ('Quantum' 'Semaphore') in our current environment of high speed digital access found the Gog Magog hills were also called the "Telegraph clump" and functioned as one of the locations for the semaphore line, an optical telegraph system between London and Great Yarmouth 1820s to around 1850. We evoke the myths surrounding the term Gog Magog: the last of the giants who lived on this land and ancient land art such as the Cerne Abbas giant and the controversial research of Lethbridgewho claimed to have found land art in the downs region - of a central female figure Magog, the moon goddess and her horse, MagogEpona – of the Celts, proposing the celebration of matriarchal belief systems. The idea for a dance film that inspired/directed collaborators to explore personal and private spaces - indoor and outdoor - as a place to move, express, and ultimately 'frame performance, evolved. The motif of giant in land found significance in dancers' isolations (the recurring cactus shape seen in the film) and through previous iterations over time in TURNING WORLDS's work. Choreographer/Director: Jane Turner

Film: Chris Frazer Smith

Editing: Chris Frazer Smith

Music: Kevin Flanagan

Dancers: Natacha Bisarre, Gwen Jones, Grégoire A. Meyer, David Ogle, Ann Pidcock

Guest DanceFilm work by:

Deborah Baddoo MBE, Lexi Bradburn, Victoria Chiu, Kema T. Ekpei, Anna Golding, Josh Alan Michaux-Trask, Joan Mills, Caroline Schanche, Karen da Silva, Tim Taylor, Trevor Waldron

Costume consultant: Sam Dightam Supported by Arts Council England Thanks to the Magog Trust

[motioncollector]

DCN Video Pick: Gog Magog dance film 2020 by Jane Turner // With the covid lockdown being announced in March 2020 just before the start of TURNINGWORLDS' new touring dance project Shapeshift was to go into rehearsal we were left to start creating the project completely anew. Stapleford Arts Centre whose commission initiated the project and specifically collaboration with artist-in-residence composer Kevin Flanagan, inspired by our previous Chalk dancefilm shot in a nearby quarry in N Herts is part of the same geology as the Gog Magog hill, an ancient British hill fort almost next to Stapleford. We explored the geology of the Gog Magog downs, their skylarks (for compositional pattern) and rich mythologies. The compositional underpinning for Shapeshift grows out of TURNING WORLDS' knowledge of self-organising systems&working within science-art contexts and with interactive technologies. Past explorations and new research into forms of long distance communication ('Quantum' 'Semaphore') in our current environment of high speed digital access found the Gog Magog hills were also called the "Telegraph clump" and functioned as one of the locations for the semaphore line, an optical telegraph system between London and Great Yarmouth 1820s to around 1850. We evoke the myths surrounding the term Gog Magog: the last of the giants who lived on this land and ancient land art such as the Cerne Abbas giant and the controversial research of Lethbridgewho claimed to have found land art in the downs region - of a central female figure Magog, the moon goddess and her horse, MagogEpona – of the Celts, proposing the celebration of matriarchal belief systems. The idea for a dance film that inspired/directed collaborators to explore personal and private spaces - indoor and outdoor - as a place to move, express, and ultimately 'frame performance, evolved. The motif of giant in land found significance in dancers' isolations (the recurring cactus shape seen in the film) and through previous iterations over time in TURNING WORLDS's work. Choreographer/Director: Jane Turner Film: Chris Frazer Smith Editing: Chris Frazer Smith Music: Kevin Flanagan Dancers: Natacha Bisarre, Gwen Jones, Grégoire A. Meyer, David Ogle, Ann Pidcock Guest DanceFilm work by: Deborah Baddoo MBE, Lexi Bradburn, Victoria Chiu, Kema T. Ekpei, Anna Golding, Josh Alan Michaux-Trask, Joan Mills, Caroline Schanche, Karen da Silva, Tim Taylor, Trevor Waldron Costume consultant: Sam Dightam Supported by Arts Council England Thanks to the Magog Trust

[satxjoe]

(Photograph = Opuntia ammophila flower bud, Danny Green)

Introduction

Opuntia ammophila was once considered a variety of O. humifusa; however, it is a distinct species. The species was more commonly found 100 years ago and sometimes grew to the height of humans with thick woody trunks.

The Details

Today, plants are seldom 3-ft tall. Unlike other opuntias of Florida, it has gray-green cladodes. The flowers are light yellow and the stigma is cream colored. Tepals are distinctly recurved. It also has numerous long, thin spines that may be deflexed. Plants occur in lower Florida, and the type specimen was from Ft. Pierce in sand dunes.

Additional Reading: Florida Semaphore Cactus

Opuntia ammophila, Danny Green

Opuntia ammophila, Danny Green

Opuntia ammophila, Naturgucker.de

Opuntia ammophila, Paulzie32

Opuntia ammophila, Paulzie32

Opuntia ammophila (Photograph = Opuntia ammophila flower bud, Danny Green) Introduction Opuntia ammophila was once considered a variety of O.