Hear ye, hear ye!
Should the Knight's Helmet not satisfy your appetite, there is a heavier trophy to be won: a crown helmet and two crossed swords on a stand ready to be displayed in your throne room.
In order to be eligible to claim this item however, you must enter no less than three categories of this year's Summer Joust and be the overall champion.
Read more on the link. There are more custom-built trophies and other prizes!
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My latest creation is a tribute to Hayao Miyazaki, Japan's greatest animation director and co-founder of Studio Ghibli, best-loved of all the Japanese animation studios.
I had already written in the past how his films and his stories often inspired my creations, especially in terms of atmosphere and environments.
Back in 1998, Hayao Miyazaki designed and built a house for his production company, called Nibariki. This house is located nearby Studio Ghibli's main building. Nibariki means 2 horsepower in Japanese and the name is a clear tribute to the beloved Citroën 2CV that the artist has been driving for more than forty years.
Above you can see both Mr. Miyazaki's new office and his Citroën 2CV. And of course our beloved masterful storyteller too.
Miyazaki bought his first 2CV as a university student in the early 1960s. It was a right-hand-drive model, imported from the U.K. and painted bright yellow.
A 2CV first appeared in Miyazaki's first feature-length film, 1979's The Castle of Cagliostro. An action-adventure tale involving a mischievous gentlemen thief, the well known Lupin III, and featuring multiple car chases, including the heroine, Clarisse, escaping in her 2CV.
Miyazaki's current Citroën is a 1987 2CV 6 painted in light gray and is exactly like the one you see in my latest creation.
References to the Citroën 2CV: Misterzumbi and Jonathan Elliott.
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This latest jump has brought our hero Pinky to another strange world. He disembarks his rover and surveys the vista of the blue topography and violet-tinged sky. As he gazes in wonder, he is approached by a party of strange humanoid beings and a small but weighty rover. The cloaked figures have huge, unblinking eyes and an unflinchingly serene demeanor. The one carrying a staff, who seems to be their leader, speaks:
Welcome, traveller! We are the Sages of Sapientia. I am Guile, this is Prudence and Acumen. Your coming to us has been foretold. We are glad to meet you, Pinky the Space Alpaca. We know of your adventures and we are glad to play a part in your enlightenment.
We know you have been through many trials.
"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it".1
The other Sages nod solemnly in agreement. The one called Acumen speaks next:
We know you have met many strange beings...one may even say that a talking pink alpaca is unusual...but carry the kindness of those you meet to all of the places you travel.
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." 2
The sages once again show their agreement. Pinky doesn't quite know what to say.
Thank you for your wise words, and your kind greetings. I am honored to be a guest on your planet...
Pinky passes some time with the wise old ones of Sapientia and is almost reluctant to leave when his Quantum Drive is recharged. He misses his friends, though. He climbs once again behind the controls and initiates the jump sequence.
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2 Maya Angelou
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"We meet here to commemorate the death of a species. We grieve because no living man will see again the onrushing phalanx of victorious birds, sweeping a path for spring across the March skies, chasing the defeated winter from all the woods and prairies.
The pigeon lived by his desire for clustered grape and bursting beechnut, and by his contempt of miles and seasons. Things that Wisconsin did not offer him today he sought and found tomorrow in Michigan, or Labrador, or Tennessee; to find them required only the free sky, and the will to ply his wings.
But there are fruits in this land unknown to pigeons, and as yet to most men. Perhaps we too can live by our desires to find them, and by a contempt for miles and seasons, a love of free sky, and a will to ply our wings."
— Aldo Leopold, On a Monument to the Pigeon
Build for round one of the Bio-Cup 2020.
Theme: The Natural World
Subtheme: Extinct Species
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