Boob Job = It works for Bottom as well !
This wire-mesh sculpture is called Nike after the Nike of Samothraki hence she got no
head, and the wings which are going to be mounted on its vertical shafts (and flaps !),
haven’t been finished yet. As this figure has been hanged from the ceiling nearly
10 years, visitors include the builders who came to fit the windows, wondered how
I made this. —– I always made a joke it was done by Shiatsu = just push by fingers = the
more I push, her boob grow larger and larger. 😀
Wire mesh is not a soft iron. Rather hard to shape by the finger alone though, as this flat
is just for ordinary residents, I can’t make a noise by hammering.
So that, what I invented was [Boob Enhancer] = place a wire-mesh between the caps or
small bowl and give a strong pressure to form a cup. It worked amazingly well. 😀
For this purpose, I bought many different size of cups — large one can be used to shape
the bottoms as well. (I haven’t figured out which one is human equivalent of D-cup yet. :-))
Original tool was a kind of DIY cramp, but it was used reverse direction = instead to push,
the bar is pulling, hence pulling the wire-mesh inward or to see from out-side, a boob was
pulled out from the flat chest. = Therefore it is literally Boob Enhancer. 😀
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As I wrote in the post Supponpon (Aluminum panel sculpture), to design and to have
appropriate tool is essential, especially if it was for a totally new kind of technique.
And to conceive the idea to design, open-eyed free thinking is the must.
Cramp was already there and most of the work has been done by the manufacturer, hence
a small modification was what all I needed.
—– without this tool, my wire-mesh sculpture couldn’t be the same.
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ZEN Practice ?
Following the discovery of my old climbing boots, I found something amazing (to you)
out of packed up boxes I’ve stashed, may be 25 years ago. 🙂
Some of readers, even a keen Zen practitioner may be horrified to see this 😀
Then, some might ask, What this to do with Zen. Or, to be a Zennist, does it necessary to do it
in this extent ? —– There is no rules or requirement. All up to the person. —– Some might
be taking easy to sitting or could be walking, even cutting a lemon. Why not stitching. 🙂
But, I didn’t do this thinking of Zen. (It was long before I even become aware of
the meaning and the effects of repeating practice in the Buddhism) = I just did it
as I got too much time in a winter mountain shelter or in a tent while imprisoned by the snow
blizzard. What else to do then ? (Other than this, I curved fire log into such as a spoon.)
Still, it was only me doing like this and I never seen anybody else
did the same, then and ever since.
(And many years later, I realized that it WAS effectively a Zen practice.)
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Mountain woolly socks couldn’t last for ever, of cause. Soon or later, thread would be getting
thinner and break. But if we threading it with another woolen thread to reinforce
the part, it extend the life = pretty obvious = So, I did. 😀
(The socks photographed here had been worn, I think more than 8 years or more while using
it about 100 days a year. The heel part seemed to have 3rd ~ 4th generation of the
thread, and 40 years later, it is still usable !)
—– If you don’t know how to do the same, just look at how knitted thread runs.
Then just follow the existing thread, go through the loop alongside. And keep doing it to cover
all the part necessary to reinforce. (Use the thread partly doubled to make it even stronger.)
(My mother was very good making Kimono (of cause by hand stitching) hence by watching
her to do the work, I learned some sewing technique though, when my mother and sister saw
my re-threaded socks, it frightened them = so, it was not a common practice, and out of
imagination even to the Zen monk’s family. 🙂 )
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If this is a practice for Zen, provably this is the most humble yet easy to do
practice you ever heard of, still not such a labour than to sweep the street.
And on top of it, it would save some expense on your pocket too.
= You must be very grateful. So, have a try, when you are not too busy. 😀
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The kernel of the Buddhism is to do and to live unconditionally.
(So, if there is a thinning hole appeared on a heel of socks, just mend it.
= simple and straight. No need to think at all. 🙂 )
Therefore, Buddhism is not to search or ask something but just live.
Anyway there isn’t any answer. —– Hence,
Lord Buddha ignored the question, on this reason.
Since living and doing unconditionally in the first place, there couldn’t be
any hindrance or doubt. (Doubt was CREATED in the mind)
Hence, even going through the sufferings, it will be passing away without
causing any mind to buckle, even without taking notice. Therefore, even
when the death is arriving, there couldn’t be any stir in the mind.
This is the Nirvana. And this is what
Lord Buddha has taught.
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Perpetual Cherry Flowers / Ultra Close-up by Fisheye Lens
—————- (In fact, this photo is the same one = last in this post, only cropped a bit.
—————- And in here, the flower petals were actuary touching the lens surface.
————— Fish-eye Lens isn’t too bad for Close-up. We only need to extend the Lens for
————— 2~3 mm though, there is no way to do it but to loose it from the mount 🙂 )
If you’ve been reading this blog, you may rightly say “Oh no, yet again Cherry flower ?”
I know, in fact I was rather bemused. This Cherry tree is the same tree appeared here before,
and again in a post in the last Autumn as it showed the flower utterly out of season.
Since when I’ve put a post last November when the tree had orange colored Autumn leaves,
I’ve been visiting her time to time as she always having flowers. = Hence, I came to a
conclusion that it was not caused by a confusing weather pattern but this tree is a new
variety who has the character, flowering all year round (well, half-year round at least 🙂 )
— (Photo by Canon 5D MkIII / Zoom Fish-eye 8~15mm at 15mm / Lens held off the Mount)
Without having macro lens with me, to take
close-up pictures, I resorted to use my Fish-eye
Lens lifted up from the body (not fully mounted
= Lens was held not fully inserted to the body
leaving about 2mm gap ! 😀 ) —– As the lens has
no connection to the camera’s electronics,
aperture is fully open and no focus indicator —– seeing the focus and using
the same shutter speed (only + 1/3) still, picture can be taken. (as you can see the result 😀 )
But, when the eye was concentrating the focus, the finger holding the lens couldn’t keep
the lens exactly in the center, the edge of the image-circle got into the picture =
I needed to click few times 😀
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Photography is a very critical operation though, in the same time, it is a very loose
flexible funny art, such as even pinhole photos are also the photos.
When I was young, before I got Macro-lens , lifting the lens, even the lens was held
in an angle (hence giving pan-focus effect) or held reversed, such technique was my
favorite improvisation. (No close-up lens or extension ring = hence, cost nothing,
still able to create more or less the same, or even better results. 😀 )
The matter is not the equipment but the Mind = Just try, just DO it.
It could be successful —— if not = keep mouth shut 😀 )
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My old and last Mountain Boots
The building where I live in a flat having renovation work and to vacate the space,
I’ve been sorting my possessions in the boxes of which some of them I haven’t
opened it more than 20 years. — In one of the box, I found my old mountain boots.
The reason why I didn’t throw this away straight and put it into a box was, I thought
I should take picture of this before let it go. —– was that because of its
sentimental value ? —– I guess not.
But because of it got rather funny history.
(Without a photo, nobody would believe the story. 😀 😀 )
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I bought this boots from charity shop priced £5. In order to make the bots fit to my
foot, I soaked it in the warm water then put it on and had a long walk —– as I did all
of my previous boots. —– unfortunately, this looks decent mountain boots was a
fraud. = Despite it having looks proper construction and the good leather with
Vibram Sole, the sole was not been stitched = simply glued to the upper.
Hence, while walking, the boots was disintegrated. (It was a hell) 😀 😀
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Then a crazy story began. = After it was completely dry, I’ve stitched and
glued the sole using the shoe making thread from shoe repair shop and a thick
nylon thread for industrial use. —– As a sort of experiment, I did to the Right
boot using a shoe repair glue and the thread. And to the Left, I used a tie-up
thread for electric construction and glued the sole with Araldite epoxy.
—– If one method found to be better, apply it to the both side.
(You may think, if a shoes disintegrating, it is THE END though, as a
shoe-maker is making a shoes step by step, a sole can be attached in a
way they are doing. If somebody a same human can do, why not to try.
= It is an opportunity to try and learn.
(And save a money £5 ! 😀 — If it is to save £1,000 it is a greed )
And the stitch by stitch kind of work is a good Zen Practice.
————- (Left is the Mid-Sole with yellowish industrial thread I used for stitching )
Since when I have repaired, the boots lasted over 3 years while used
everyday, without showing any difference between Left and Right.
Then one day, when I went to a hill walking and had a heavy rain, when I slipped
and tumbled, the water drenched boots was split open outside-toe. While later,
a gap opened to the other boot as well, and the foot were swimming inside.
—– days later I found, it happened because of the upper leather itself was tear-off
not by the broken stitch = leather was aged and rotten inside.
(I remember, somewhere I got a film photo of the boots under stitching work )
—– After that, I’ve been forced to buy a kind of shoes I hate. (though, I didn’t buy
another mountain boots, or so far, I haven’t found another £5 boots yet) 😀
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Nothing last for ever still, second-hand £5 boots lasted over 3 years
wasn’t too bad.
Believe or not, I was wearing this boots even in a club and dancing.
People judges others with its looks = hence the best of all, nobody seek a trouble
with a man wearing heavy boots. And may be because of this, the cloud in the
Fridge Club has mistook me as a kind of special security man with martial art. =
nobody want to be kicked by this kind of boots. 😀
—– (during 5 and half years, while I was a regular, there wasn’t a single violence
ever occurred in the Club. = it might be the another reason why the manager
gave me free entry :-))
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People may not like to ware heavy boots, still once it was well fitted,
it is surprisingly comfortable and give a feeling of quite solid stance
especially on a slippery ground. One day you may try 🙂
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Folded Bag
I got notoriously bad (or very good = depend on how you see it) habit to picking-up something
interesting on the street or from a rubbish-dump. It could be a discarded electric device or a
part of machine of which I’ve been looking for years, or something useful in my future projects.
(Sculpture featured in this blog, [Buddha 2009] was made by the discarded aluminum pipes,
kinetic piece [Cupidon] in my Youtube (kinetorori) is powered by a motor from a cooling-fan
I found road side and the motors rotating [Virtual Woman] came from Micro-wave Cooker, not
to mention a nude figure [Suppon-pon] 😀 😀
Virtually everything, but few exceptions were such as Chinese Toys I bought for £1 :-))
In order to carry it back, I always have some spare bag stashed in my pocket or
in my back-pack. —– may be three bags in the back-pack, one or two in my jacket’s pocket.
It’s the same idea to a motto of the Boy Scout “ Be Prepared” 😀
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To stash a plastic bag, they got to be neatly folded like the one in the photo.
In one occasion, when we Japanese friends went to a park and try sitting there, we noticed that
the ground was a bit wet. So I handed my bags to those friends to sit on it.
Among those friends there were young women and one of them screamed
“Oh dear, it’s folded”.
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—– Now-a-day, statistics showed that about 20% of male population in Japan chooses not to
marry. —– Everything become very easy to carry-out the daily life without having a wife.
Just heat-up a pack of pre-cooked meal using a microwave-cooker in a Convenient-store.
—– Even a convenient Sex is available everywhere whether it was paid or not.
Those kind of conveniences may be more expensive though, on the end, the total cost would
be less than to have a wife, not mention able to avoid the troubles comes with marriage, hence
in average, the number of kids is less than two = reducing the population further. (Of cause,
the life is not just a matter of cost. —– but this is the situation there. Which caused the
other is a point of argument though, I don’t think Packed food was the cause of single man :-D)
= in obvious consequence, the counter-part, women had to face this situation.
—– So that, there are lots of Magazine articles, Net advices, how to find a man to get marry
and what point to look at. = Good sign and the sign of the man, better avoid.
—– A kind of Psychological profile said, better not to chose a man who fuss about principles,
tidiness, cleanness etc. = “He would make your life in Hell while complaining your laziness”.
—– So that, a young woman cried (implying, I can’t take care of this sort) 😀
(So does, some can fold an umbrella neatly but others not, saying “Anyway it has to be open on
the next rain, why bother” = If this is the rhetoric, we don’t need to bother the life
or happiness because anyhow we will die soon or later. = it’s a choice)
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To folding a bag may not takes more than a minute and not much skill is needed
though, it need to have a certain mind-set.
It’s a mind-set aiming it better or ultimately a perfection.
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A bag photographed here came from a Chinese Food-shop when I bought a bag of rice, may
be 6 months ago. It’s mean this bag has been used to carry a shopping repeatedly 6 months
(and folded again.) And it is an essential item needed to do a shopping such as in the Lidl who
doesn’t give a free bag. —– Financially, I may not be much rewarded to have own bag
though, the matter is not to save a couple of pounds in total but, I don’t like to carry their bag
which is showing too conspicuous logo 😀 Anyhow, we are getting too many bags on shopping
such as when we buy loose vegetables etc. Too much already, and the situation is bad enough.
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To fold a bag is a way of Zen. Whether it has any merit or not, leave a bag in a
messy state is messy. Why not to make it a bit tidy.
Why spend a minutes ? —– if not, could we ever utilize that minute for
anything more productive in the life ? —– I quite doubt it.
A person, even wouldn’t bother to fold a bag couldn’t pay enough attention to the life.
(But, don’t ask me, “By folding the bag, why I didn’t become a millionaire or Prim-minister ?”
= it’s a matter of another mind-set. Aiming to become millionaire need to take care of million
more factors, not just for one bag. Folding a bag is only a start. 😀 )
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Zen only deals with its moment. = When see an empty bag => Do something = the best
is to fold and put it in a pocket. — When a moment which need to use a bag comes, just use it.
But not to walk on a street expecting to find something to pick-up. When it comes, it has come.
—– though, no fixed obligation to pick it up.
(But if you interested in, pick up at once = When you go back next day, it’s gone already 🙂 )
= Zen decision has to be made on its each moment. (On its moment, the existence of
spare-bag was known to subconscious, hence to conceive [pick it up] was a viable choice.
And why you were interested in was, because your subconscious knew that you need it.
= no need to dither like “I want to pick it up, but how to carry this back or not to pick up ?”
= ( having a bag increased the flexibility of this decision making 😀 )
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After awhile, the accumulated “Folded bags” became bag-full, and got to go for recycle =
recycling people might think “What a waste of the time. Why this guy didn’t just put them
straight to the bag ? Otherwise, he could have used the time more productively” 😀
—– It comes down to a mind-set of the Life. = To live tidy life is a life, still
live in a mess is also a life. = We can chose as we like. The matter is,
to know, which ever we chose, the consequence do comes accordingly.
(The troubled consequence of my habit is, the junk I’ve picked-up became a mountain =
“one day I’ll create something out of this junk” might be a wish-full thinking or
delusion = a curse to live as a kinetic sculptor. Ha ha ha 😀 )
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Growing Ideas Exhibition
There is a small exhibition titled [Growing Ideas] at 272 High Holborn WC1V , LONDON
(it’s UAL building) which will run until 4th April.
It is a nice place to pop in and take a rest 🙂 And PV will be 14th Feb’ evening = to have a
drink or two served in a edible sugar Glass (or Cup ?)
(I guess, the slower you drink, it’s taste becoming the sweeter 🙂 )
Exhibited works are mostly salable Product Designs and “Make things” video, ETC and
“Interactive Communicative Telephone” (I think this was what Telephone designed for 🙂 )
(I modified the Phone to work with computer system for the artist Francesco Pastori )
(I suppose to download their flier and post here but what was copied was only those two lines)
“The evening includes free cocktails served in Sugar Glasses by exhibitor Fernando Laposse
and music by exhibitor BeatWoven.”
—– So, come and have a fun on their party. 🙂
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Happy New Year 2013
Happy New Year to all those who is visiting and supported my blog.
I hope it would inspire and cause more active and fulfilling life
on the 2013 and ahead for you. 🙂
Yoshizen aka Kinetorori
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Video Geeks in Wireless Workshop
Wireless Workshop (SPC.org) is in the Greenwich former Town Hall. The members (?) are
meeting every week, generally for a talk shop. (some time to save broken computer !)
To create Video images, there are many approaches, from purely shooting real scene, or use real
image as a trigger or source of secondly image —– to Computer Graphics or Graphical animation
or Clay model animation etc etc ! —– Strangely you might think, there are many different kind
of Artists are visiting Wireless Workshop (some said Wireless Wednesday) —- So, last Wednesday
as video artists came, the meeting was held in their “Video lounge” = top of the building which
was the lighting and the Projector’s room of the former Greenwich theater. 🙂
Photo left is a Thermin (Electronic musical sound generator) and the right, there might be old
Super-8 Cine fanatics. = the trace of how this group is related to such as Exploding Cinema.
And as the Electronic Geeks network, it extends to continent too, and also overlapping with
Linux users groups (and Huckers as well 😀 )
Video lab, and the sound mixer —– even hand knitted small pouch (photo right) said to be a
” Testicle Warmer” and its rainbow color suggest “the Gay power movement” though, I have no
idea how it came here 😀
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Exploding Cinema at Goldsmith
Last Saturday evening, the Films and Art event / Exploding Cinema was held in a big church
building ( now it was converted to an art-space for the Goldsmith college / London University
of Art ) It seemed, it was one of the most successful evening of the Exploding Cinema’s history.
Impressive massive space though, as it has been converted = not purposely built = make use of
the space needed a lots of work especially running all together 100m of the electric extension
cables etc. —– while having time count ” One hour left” ” Another 15 minuets” — then over load
power cut etc. The DON / Facilitator of many art events / James Stevens had to work hard 🙂
( Photo right = Brian Steel’s sculpture / Dummy)
( Photo right = I brought my kinetic sculpture Virtual Woman with 3W LED light to project
a shadow of moving image on the wall. )
( Photo left = Jini Rawlings installing her video projection system with water reflection.
Photo middle = Matt Lloyd was setting up the AV system in the performance Room.
Photo right = I brought yet another piece / Hell Fire —– color changing
rotating LED with reflection ! )
Then the door open —– loads of audiences has come and enjoyed the evening with massive
amount of all sorts of moving images —– save the coldness of a winter night in the massive
stone building 😦 = though, the advantage was, we didn’t need to use Cloak-room 🙂
Other than individual set-up of video projection by each artists, the main screen
showed nearly 30 short videos —– some were pretty experimental 🙂
And the Performances ! ( Photo left = Blanca Regina performed her amazing singing
with her video image ! ( And I intruded with my dancing — seemed they liked it :-D)
Photo middle = Pete Gomes played his impressive Flute accompanying his 8mm cine
images shot in India. Photo right = Vicky Smith draw tyre track with her bicycle. )
Celina Leiesegang’s group performed their movements. ( Dance ? )
And it is, another fixture = Mould Wine ! Good for chilly night 🙂
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PS : Any participated Artist who want to have more photos in a bit larger size,
Please put a request as a comment saying Photo number / left or right or so =
Comment has your URL which enable me to send it by Email.
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Dorkboat on Stubnitz
Last night, there was a gathering of the Dorkbot London on the Ship Stubnitz moored
in the dock. I went there with James and John-san of SPC.org (Wireless Workshop).
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Wednesday, this time aboard the amazing MS Stubnitz. One *important*
thing, if you want to come, just email invited@stubnitz.com for entry.
* Where: MS Stubnitz, Connaught Bridge Pier, London, E16 2BU
* Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=loc%3A+n+51+30.34+e+0+02.2
– Chrisantha Fernando and Ed Burton presenting Darwinian Neurodynamic
Cognitive Architectures for Playful Robot Kittens.
– Ben Garrod working around and through and away-from technology’s
relationship with humanity.
– Alias Cummins opendorking on Open Source C++ Development with
Cinderblock SpriteSheet.
Presentation of Newrodynamic control (photo left) and Shauna Concannon’s Hacked
Human Orchestra (photo right = which demonstrated an electronic system to play the
sounds by the switches mounted on the various part of the body.)
And Ben Garrod (photo left) and Alias Cummins (photo right) showed their creativities.
And it’s always the case, nature of the gatherings —– what ever the excuse, meet the
friends and chat over the drinks 😀 —– And it is a well known fact, electronic geeks
are not necessary only talking about technology but quite often very
trivial silly things as well 😀
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PS : They are going to DO the same in the STUBNITZ.
Avast!
Back due to popular demand It’s….
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People seemed to like it last time (http://bit.ly/Uct5Du) – so come!
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|*NB* email invited@stubnitz.com to inform the crew you’ll be coming.|
|If you would like the Stubnitz to stay in London, you can also chip |
|in to their campaign funds by paypalling: http://bit.ly/VEozwQ |
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dorkbotlondon #83When: 19:00-23:59, 19 December 2012
Where: MS Stubnitz, Connaught Bridge, E16 2BU (directions below)
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Featuring the bright and glittering…
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Liam Donovan: Two projects, maybe more
– a talking guitar and a barely working self-typing type-writer
Rachel Freire: Imogen Heap’s Musical Gloves
– think minority report for musicians brought to you by the DIY/maker
revolution.
Jokubas Dargis: Echo
– A game where you collect, recycle and destroy sounds on your way to
the king of space, and possibly other adventures.
And open dorks from:
Tim Monsees Stubnitz Projections
– the experience and challenges of a multi-projector setup on a ship
(work in progress)
Maybe you? If you have a 5-10 minute opendork/performance, bring it on
the night! Let us know if you want us to list you on the site:
dorkbotlondon@dorkbot.org
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Location
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MS Stubnitz,
Connaught Bridge
E16 2BU
map link: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=loc%3A+n+51+30.34+e+0+02.2
The Motorship Stubnitz is an 80 meters long ex East German fishing
vessel transformed in 1992 into a moving platform for cultural research
and exchange.
Nearest public transport Pontoon Dock DLR.
Turn right out of the station and walk to the next roundabout, take
first exit. Walk to second roundabout (with sculpture of giant woman)
first exit of that roundabout is the gates to the mooring.
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