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*Have a safe and wonderful weekend..........Be well.

*Have a great weekend.......Stay safe

?️ Multi-Award Winning 3D-CG Animated Short Film.....................★ Garden Party
*An abandoned mansion and its frog inhabitants...Garden Party, which has a more sinister human plot happening parallel to its animal tale, allowed the two worlds of animals and humans to come together, and in a humorous way.

Run-time: 7:16min...➤ vimeo.com/239295615

?️ 3D-CG Animated Short Film.............................★ Maestro
*Best known for their 2018 Oscar-nominated short *Garden Party, which features impressive amphibian animation, Illogic expands their animal exploration with Maestro to include birds, squirrels, hedgehogs, and deer. As in their previous work, the collective continues to explore the question of what animals do when humans aren’t watching, and the animations continue to be surprising.
... Run-time: 1:54min➤.... vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/35...

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The 1960 Porsche 356 RSR From *Emory Motorsports
◆ Rod Emory is a legend in the Porsche game, so when he's got a new build, you know it's going to be worthy of an in-depth look. His 356 RSR is no exception to the rule

◆ Combining a 1960 Porsche 356B T5 with a 1990 Porsche 964 C2 is no easy task. For one, the wheelbases are different. But for Emory Motorsports, the challenge was minimal considering the team has experience imitating Dr. Frankenstein. Together, the two are now the 1960 Porsche 356 RSR, a hot rod Porsche with menacing looks and insane performance.

◆ The car is an exquisite example of craftsmanship. The nose and tail bodywork, aluminum deck lid, and one-piece aluminum hood are all hand-formed with the deck lid featuring custom stainless hinges. Added features include the added louvers, stainless steel mesh grille, and intercooler inserts in the steel section of the rear fenders. The rocker panels are modified Porsche 911 pieces while the side and quarter windows are Plexiglass.
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The Wiesmann MF5 Roadster *The Black Bat - *Hand-Crafted Sports Car.
Wiesmann is a luxury sports car maker based in Germany...The exterior work done on the car underscores the name it was given - Black Bat. It is highlighted by a matte black finish with foil covers on the door panels, inner hood, engine room, and trunk. The stealthy finish on the exterior of the MF5 V10 is further complimented by a new set of 20 inch forged wheels painted in black wrapped in high performannce tires with 6-piston calipers and discs on the front and 4-piston calipers and discs on the rear from Brembo.

With a top speed of 310 km/h and completing the sprint from standstill to 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds the Wiesmann Roadster is strength, elegance and speed. Equipped with a V10 engine, 507 HP and 520 Nm torque, it’s a car that appeals to all the senses.
... The Wiesmann Roadster MF5 costs from 189.500 Euro and is the most exciting combination of power and an open-air experience that has ever been built by Wiesmann.


Wiesmann new car teaser.....The New 2020 and yet-unnamed model Wiesmann With BMW M5 Engine.......We last heard about the Wiesmann brand, which announced a new partnership with BMW back in October 2017. The cooperation between the two companies is finally materializing into a new model, which will be revealed during the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show in mid-September
They released a photo of the car under covers, taken at the brand’s factory in the city of Dulmen, in Germany. It shows what appears to be a two-door coupe with a muscular side profile and a front fascia incorporating Wiesmann’s corporate design of the radiator grille.

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🔹The 65′ Center Console 30000+ Horsepower HCB Yacht...........*Estrella
The world’s first ever Mega Center Console Yacht.This vessel has all the comfort and styling of any sportfishing or cruising yacht in its class, but far surpasses them in versatile use and performance. Among the major highlights of the design is its massive and luxurious interior that includes a spacious cabin, a mezzanine seating area overlooks the cockpit.

🔹The 5 Seven Mercury Marine 627 horse power outboard engines on its transom offer a combined total of 3,135 horsepower for unbeatable performance.For the mechanically inclined there is a walk-in machine room where everything is within reach and out of the elements.

🔹The five-person forward facing helm seats overlook three large Garmin screens and have great line-of-site over the bow, they also can be rotated 180 degrees to form a 10-person express dining area.
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★ The Lost Art of the Manly Weep............ -Stories to fuel your mind-
..It’s time to open the floodgates. Time for men to give up emulating the stone-faced heroes of action movies........*As the Old Testament has it - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
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...1932 Indian Chief
✴The Chief was introduced as Indian’s heavyweight competitor to Harley-Davidson and lasted for 31 years. In 1922, 21 years after the company began building bikes, Indian launched the Chief with a 61 cubic inch flathead V-twin. Although a larger 74 cubic inch bike, called the Big Chief, was an option.

✴Indian remained faithful to the principle of a flathead, and in doing so escaped some of the pitfalls that Harley-Davidson encountered in their efforts with overhead valve designs.

✴The Indian was actually rather unconventional, with its left-hand twist grip (apparently so that policemen would be able to use their pistols with their right hand), a foot clutch, hand shift and the ignition advance controlled by the right handlebar grip. A 3-speed gearbox was standard, but a *Police Package 4-speed gearbox and a reverse gear were options.
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1946 Orange Idiot Boss, IQ 78 Fast Alzheimer
The Orange Idiot IQ 78 also known as the "hairpiece" by enthusiasts is arguably one of the rarest and most appreciated egocentric narcissist from the era. In total there is only one build in this enbarassing mode. For a 4 year run,2016 to 2020 he endangered the US. The origin of the Orange Idiot IQ 78 came about as hill billy voters were seeking to elect a president that could destroy mexicans, homosexuals and science and could compete with famed other despots from all over the world.He didnt deliver anything.

1969 Ford Mustang Boss 429 Fastback
*The Boss 429 also known as the "Boss" by enthusiasts is arguably one of the rarest and most valued muscle cars from the era. In total there were 1358 original Boss 429s made. For a two year run,1969 & 1970. The origin of the Boss 429 came about as Ford was seeking to develop a Hemi engine that could compete with the famed 426 Hemi from Chrysler..Boss Delivered Well Over 500 Horsepower.

🔹The Boss 429 engine was derived from the Ford 385 engine. It used four-bolt mains, a forged steel crank and forged steel connecting rods. The engine featured aluminum cylinder heads, with a modified Hemi type combustion chamber which Ford called "crescent". These heads used the "dry-deck" method, meaning no head gaskets were used. Each cylinder, oil passage and water passage had an individual "O" ring style seal to seal it tight. The Boss 429 engine used a single Holley 4-barrel carburetor rated at 735 CFM mounted on an aluminum intake manifold that flowed well for its time.
... 🔹 Though not originally offered as an option, it is common to add a spoiler and window louvers commonly seen on 1969–1970 Mach 1's and Boss 302's.
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Rancher John
★Old ranch owner John farmed a small ranch in Montana. The Montana Wage and Hour Department claimed he was not paying proper wages to his workers and sent an agent out to interview him....I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,'demanded the agent. Well, replied old John, 'There's my ranch hand who's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $600 a week plus free room and board. The cook has been here for 18 months, and I pay her $500 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the half-wit who works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here. He makes about $25 per week, pays his own room and board and I buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night.That's the guy I want to talk to, the half-wit, says the agent. That would be me, replied old rancher John.
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Farmer's Names
★George, the farmer, had so many children that he ran out of names. So he started calling his kids after something around his farm. It was the first day of school and the teacher asked each child their name. When he got to one of the farmer George's sons, the boy replied, 'Wagon Wheel.The teacher said, I need your real name boy, to which the lad replied, It's Wagon Wheel, sir....Really. The teacher, rather annoyed rejoined, All right young man, take yourself right down to the Principal's office this minute. The youngster pushed himself out of his chair, turned to his sister and said, 'C'mon, Chicken Feed, he ain't gonna believe you, either.

How To Grow Strawberries
★Farmer Evans was driving his John Deere tractor along the road with a trailer load of fertilizer. Tim a little boy of eight was playing in his yard when he saw the farmer and asked, What've you got in your trailer? Manure, Farmer Evans replied. What are you going to do with it? asked Tim. Put it on my strawberries,answered the farmer. Tim replied, You ought to come and eat with us, we put ice-cream on our strawberries.

★Stand-Up Comic..*George Wallace...Montreal Just For Laughs Festival.
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Famous & Inspiring Photography.............*Austrian Boy and his Shoes
The picture moves you to happy tears the moment you see it. The gentle curve of the child’s cheeks make you think that the innocence of infancy remains a permanent guest. The happiness is palpable, a pair of chubby little fingers clutch a pair of shoes to the chest of the little boy. Six-year-old Austrian boy, Werfel, was photographed when he got a new pair of shoes at the Am Himmel orphanage, donated to him.The photograph was first published in LIFE magazine on December 30, 1946 and later, again, on September 24, 1951 and was titled “New Shoes”.

The picture is a beautiful effort in capturing the quintessence of childlike happiness. The abandon that children feel and profess, enjoying happiness in the littlest of things, in a life that an adult might otherwise be quick to profess as being filled with misery. The child’s ability to enjoy and cherish what has just been given to him, notwithstanding the fact that he lives in an orphanage, notwithstanding the historical events that had just unfolded snatching his comfortable life away from him, notwithstanding the fact that, that he doesn't understand were his parents are ...Reminds you how flawed our thinking is, to look at the negatives and focus on them. The expression of absolute purity in happiness is reminiscent of how beautiful life is – and wakes you up to straighten your own thinking when life strikes you down on occasion.
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📽️ Short Film...........................................★ WE WIN
★ There’s a great party game called “Mafia.” Some call it “Werewolf.” Have you played it?
This game has a unique ability to bring out interesting and sometimes nasty sides of people.The film, follows a couple hosting a dinner party. When the evening’s activities turn from casual conversation to a game of “Mafia,” they’re pitted against one another, and their once happy and supportive relationship begins to unravel.

★ I certainly relate to how hard it can be to be stuck in one’s career, while cheering on someone else’s success. Your happiness for them is authentic but it’s tinged with your own resentment.....Can a game kill a relationship?....RunTime:12min ➤ vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/32...
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📽️ Award Winning Short Film.........................................★ Caroline
★ Inspired by a trio of real-life stories, Caroline follows a single mother as she desperately prepares for a second interview for a job she clearly needs. Unfortunately, her childcare fell through and she is forced to leave her six year-old daughter in the car outside, looking after her two younger siblings, on an extremely hot summer day....*A film looking to provoke a little internal conflict, by making you question the situation, and the system, it’s a powerful and resonating watch driven on by the incredibly touching performances.
★ Leaving kids on a hot summer day in a car is indisputably wrong, but the way the situation is introduced in the first minutes can’t help but make us sympathize with the mother. The directorial duo really focus on making the mother’s desperation, exhaustion and the blazing temperature transpire through the screen, which makes her albeit wrong decision, more understandable. She is getting no help, definitely not from the government, and we all know that having our backs against the wall does not trigger the best decision making. .... RunTime:12min➤ vimeo.com/295591903

★ Enjoy.....Have a great week.......Be well my friend.
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.. The 1927 Duesenberg Model X Dual-Cowl Phaeton
★The Model X was introduced in 1926 as a comprehensively reengineered and improved model based on the Model A. It featured a new chassis, a redesigned engine, and a new front suspension arrangement to lower the center of gravity.

★The Duesenberg Model X offered a significant step up in performance over the outgoing Model A, the comprehensively reworked 260 cu. in., overhead cam, straight-8 engine was fitted with a new crankshaft, a new valve train, different pistons, and a revised intake. Power climbed from 88 hp to 100 hp, and the car was capable of topping out at 100 mph.

★The Great Depression killed Duesenberg in 1937 along with many other automakers in the US and Europe. The surviving Duesenbergs are now individually known to collectors and enthusiasts. Every now and then a new Duesenberg “barn find” is uncovered, sending a tsunami of excitement across the classic car world – like in the early 2000s when Jay Leno discovered and bought a remarkably well preserved Model X.
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★ Happy May...........*Have a great week......Stay safe