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Next up on the slowly growing Top 1000 songs in the history of humankind -- Elvis Costello, "Pump It Up":
I've been on tenterhooks
ending in dirty looks,
list'ning to the Muzak,
thinking 'bout this 'n' that.
She said that's that.
I don't wanna chitter-chat.
Turn it down a little bit
or turn it down flat.
Pump it up when you don't really need it.
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Down in the pleasure centre,
hell bent or heaven sent,
listen to the propaganda,
listen to the latest slander.
There's nothing underhand
that she wouldn't understand
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Pump it up when you don't really need it.
She's been a bad girl.
She's like a chemical.
Though you try to stop it,
she's like a narcotic.
You wanna torture her.
You wanna talk to her.
All the things you bought for her,
putting up your temp'rature.
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Pump it up when you don't really need it.
Out in the fashion show,
down in the bargain bin,
you put your passion out
under the pressure pin.
Fall into submission,
hit-and-run transmission.
No use wishing now for any other sin.
Pump it up until you can feel it.
Pump it up when you don't really need it.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Toni Waller, Phoebe Yang and Chris Lowney attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
Julien de Salaberry, Founder and CEO, Galen Growth Asia
Christopher Hall, Head of Health Solutions (APAC), Fitbit
Lihan Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO, MiRXES
Jeremy Cao, General Manager, BGI-Asia Pacific, BGI Genomics
Joseph Wong, Managing Partner, AID Health Tech Fund, AID Partners
Jeannette Ickovics, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Social Sciences, Yale-National University of Singapore
PROF. DOUG KING URGES CONSTRUCTION PARADIGM CHANGE
Brandon 3 October 2013: At the Lignacite Lecture 2013 Professor Doug King spoke about Building on Evolution, and called for the need to change the construction paradigm to ensure high performance, low impact buildings, which are essential to the future of humankind.
The Lecture, which was this year held at The Royal Society in London, was attended by architects, specifiers, designers, environmentalists and representatives from construction and local authorities, who came to hear Professor Doug King speak about the need to learn from the evolved wisdom of historic builders.
He said: “In the next 40 years, to accommodate the rapid growth in urban population, humankind will likely have to build as much new urban fabric as already exists today. We will not have time to correct mistakes. We need to ensure that the buildings we put up are genuinely sustainable: appropriate for their cultural and climatic locations, as well as minimising use of resources.
“Everywhere I look, I find evidence of underlying physical properties that have influenced the choices of generations of builders. From structure to roof tiles to paint, the properties of certain materials and methods have brought benefits to buildings, despite these rarely being overtly recognised. We need to examine these with a view to identifying new opportunities for creating high performance, low impact buildings that have not yet even been imagined.”
Chairman of leading masonry products manufacturer, Lignacite, Giles de Lotbiniere, was delighted Professor King accepted his invitation to address this year’s Lecture: “He is a building physicist and one of the most influential figures on sustainable construction in the world. He raised some important points, and at Lignacite we are already working to address his challenge of developing high performance, low impact buildings and conserving resources by using up to 50% of recycled materials in our products.
“Recently we also launched The Carbon Buster, which is the world’s first carbon negative building block, and incorporates recycled materials and carbonated aggregates, which are derived from by-products from waste to energy plants. We believe this block has an important role to play in helping to meet the UK’s zero carbon homes targets and build a more sustainable future,” he said.
The Lignacite Lecture is an annual event, which dates back to year 2000. Since then, a variety of topics ranging from The Relationship between Art & Architecture to Biomimicry and the Ecological Age have been covered by high profile speakers, including Sir Terry Farrell, Anthony Gormley OBE, Ken Shuttleworth and Professor David Mach.
ENDS
More information:
An edited version of Professor King’s Lignacite Lecture is available here: www.dougking.co.uk/building-on-evolution/
For more information, please contact marit@meyerbell.co.uk
Lignacite:
Lignacite is a leading UK manufacturer of masonry products designed for internal or external use. Founded in 1947, it remains a family owned company managed by Allan Eastwood. The Lignacite masonry range incorporates a range of recycled and waste materials, including glass, wood particles, Furnace Ash, Recycled concrete, china clay and shells. The company also provides products to encourage biodiversity in construction. The company uses aggregates from its own local quarry in Brandon, and has supplied many high profile buildings in the UK, including the Shard, the Gherkin, Olympic Village, Heathrow Airport, Stanstead Airport, Canary Warf and the Olympic Stadium. For more information, visit www.lignacite.co.uk
Professor Doug King:
Doug King FREng CEng CPhys CEnv FInstP FEI FCIBSE HonFRIBA is, according to Building Design, one of the most influential figures in UK sustainable construction. He has been the environmental engineer behind numerous ground-breaking, critically acclaimed, buildings including; the Stirling Prize shortlisted Weald & Downland Gridshell, The Innovate Office Leeds, which triggered the introduction of BREEAM Outstanding, The Genzyme Centre in Cambridge Massachusetts, at the time the largest LEED Platinum building in the world, and Sainsbury’s original Eco-Superstore at Greenwich. Doug King now works as a freelance consultant, helping construction clients, designers and supply chains to realise genuinely high performance, low impact buildings. He teaches environmental design widely, to both engineers and architects and is a visiting professor at universities in the UK, China and Russia.
For more information please visit: www.dougking.co.uk
For video highlights of the lecture please see: www.dougking.co.uk/building-on-evolution
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Tomas Riegas and Akolade Coker attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
UNIQLO Ginza / ユニクロ銀座店
I was asked by UNIQLO to create six designs for their Nippon-Omiyage T-shirt lineup, the second three in the series were Onsen, Sakana and Animal Onomatopoeia. All using handmade typography and a connection to the subject itself.
ユニクロの「日本のお土産シリーズ」のデザインに参加させて頂きました。ハンドメイドのタイポグラフィーを使って、イメージを表現するという内容です。2013年の春夏に発売されたのは「東京」「銀座」「神戸」の三都市のお土産でした。2013年の秋冬シーズンは、日本の好きなところを何でもデザインしてもいいという内容でしたので、僕も日本人に負けないぐらい大好きな「温泉」「さかな」をモチーフにデザインしました。「温泉」のデザインでは、日本で大流行している"ゆるキャラ" もつくってみました。３つめのデザインは、音を表現する擬音語が英語と違うところ面白くて、動物の鳴き声をタイポグラフィーにしてデザインしてみました。
Onsen Daisuki 温泉大好き
There are few nations that have a love for bathing in natural hot springs more than the Japanese. Some outsiders are embarrassed to try while others fall in love this amazing experience. I took the commonly recognised symbol for hot spring (Onsen in Japanese), adapting it in to a kind of "yuru kyara" to illustrate the experience with the addition of hand drawn typography declaring a love for hot springs ‘Onsen Daisuki’.
温泉をこよなく愛するのは日本人だけではありません。しかし外国人の中には、日本の温泉の公衆浴場に抵抗を感じて、その素晴らしさを体験するところまで行けない人も少なくはありません。日本人なら誰もが知っている温泉のロゴを、温泉でゆっくりしているキャラクターにしてみました。温泉大好きという手書きの文字と共に、その素晴らしさが伝わればと思います。
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Olivia Baxter and Sean Baxter attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
The pigeons have a message for humankind: "Humankind, how will you spend the terminal phase of humankind's existence? If you need any prophecy regarding humankind's future just consult a history book. All of humankind's crimes of the past are humankind's crimes of the future. Certainly the last two humans who happen to live at the end of time will spend their final day in hatred & violence before the extinction of humankind brings an end to the most horrendously evil animal to ever exist in the Universe."
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Lloyd Dean, Wright Lassiter, Jed York and Remi Kajogbola attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
PROF. DOUG KING URGES CONSTRUCTION PARADIGM CHANGE
Brandon 3 October 2013: At the Lignacite Lecture 2013 Professor Doug King spoke about Building on Evolution, and called for the need to change the construction paradigm to ensure high performance, low impact buildings, which are essential to the future of humankind.
The Lecture, which was this year held at The Royal Society in London, was attended by architects, specifiers, designers, environmentalists and representatives from construction and local authorities, who came to hear Professor Doug King speak about the need to learn from the evolved wisdom of historic builders.
He said: “In the next 40 years, to accommodate the rapid growth in urban population, humankind will likely have to build as much new urban fabric as already exists today. We will not have time to correct mistakes. We need to ensure that the buildings we put up are genuinely sustainable: appropriate for their cultural and climatic locations, as well as minimising use of resources.
“Everywhere I look, I find evidence of underlying physical properties that have influenced the choices of generations of builders. From structure to roof tiles to paint, the properties of certain materials and methods have brought benefits to buildings, despite these rarely being overtly recognised. We need to examine these with a view to identifying new opportunities for creating high performance, low impact buildings that have not yet even been imagined.”
Chairman of leading masonry products manufacturer, Lignacite, Giles de Lotbiniere, was delighted Professor King accepted his invitation to address this year’s Lecture: “He is a building physicist and one of the most influential figures on sustainable construction in the world. He raised some important points, and at Lignacite we are already working to address his challenge of developing high performance, low impact buildings and conserving resources by using up to 50% of recycled materials in our products.
“Recently we also launched The Carbon Buster, which is the world’s first carbon negative building block, and incorporates recycled materials and carbonated aggregates, which are derived from by-products from waste to energy plants. We believe this block has an important role to play in helping to meet the UK’s zero carbon homes targets and build a more sustainable future,” he said.
The Lignacite Lecture is an annual event, which dates back to year 2000. Since then, a variety of topics ranging from The Relationship between Art & Architecture to Biomimicry and the Ecological Age have been covered by high profile speakers, including Sir Terry Farrell, Anthony Gormley OBE, Ken Shuttleworth and Professor David Mach.
ENDS
More information:
An edited version of Professor King’s Lignacite Lecture is available here: www.dougking.co.uk/building-on-evolution/
For more information, please contact marit@meyerbell.co.uk
Lignacite:
Lignacite is a leading UK manufacturer of masonry products designed for internal or external use. Founded in 1947, it remains a family owned company managed by Allan Eastwood. The Lignacite masonry range incorporates a range of recycled and waste materials, including glass, wood particles, Furnace Ash, Recycled concrete, china clay and shells. The company also provides products to encourage biodiversity in construction. The company uses aggregates from its own local quarry in Brandon, and has supplied many high profile buildings in the UK, including the Shard, the Gherkin, Olympic Village, Heathrow Airport, Stanstead Airport, Canary Warf and the Olympic Stadium. For more information, visit www.lignacite.co.uk
Professor Doug King:
Doug King FREng CEng CPhys CEnv FInstP FEI FCIBSE HonFRIBA is, according to Building Design, one of the most influential figures in UK sustainable construction. He has been the environmental engineer behind numerous ground-breaking, critically acclaimed, buildings including; the Stirling Prize shortlisted Weald & Downland Gridshell, The Innovate Office Leeds, which triggered the introduction of BREEAM Outstanding, The Genzyme Centre in Cambridge Massachusetts, at the time the largest LEED Platinum building in the world, and Sainsbury’s original Eco-Superstore at Greenwich. Doug King now works as a freelance consultant, helping construction clients, designers and supply chains to realise genuinely high performance, low impact buildings. He teaches environmental design widely, to both engineers and architects and is a visiting professor at universities in the UK, China and Russia.
For more information please visit: www.dougking.co.uk
For video highlights of the lecture please see: www.dougking.co.uk/building-on-evolution
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
A bleary-eyed Neil Armstrong beams, safely inside Lunar Module Eagle after his and humankind’s first steps on another world.
Per the ALSJ:
"Buzz took this picture of Neil in the cabin after the completion of the EVA. Neil has his helmet off but has not yet doffed his "Snoopy" cap. The circuit breaker panels are illuminated, and a small floodlight is on at the lower right. A circuit breaker chart has been fixed up on the wall with gray tape, below the rendezvous window in the cabin roof."
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-37-5528HR.jpg
UGH. This following abomination -at a now defunct site - was then propagated to Flickr (see comments section below), and who knows where else. Fortunately, some independent folks out there have taken it upon themselves to "do justice" to the image AND moment.
The write-up is at least passable this time:
"This photograph of astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, was taken inside the Lunar Module (LM) while the LM rested on the lunar surface. Astronauts Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, had already completed their historic extravehicular activity (EVA) when this picture was made. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the moon's surface."
It's really painful to look at:
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/html/...
And, untouched, also now available at the new(er) high-speed NASA image library. Wow:
images.nasa.gov/details-as11-37-5528
Some of the better versions, thankfully:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/images/print/AS11/37/55...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Jed York, Wright Lassiter, Lloyd Dean, Kristi Yamaguchi and Fred Najjar attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Jed York, Kristi Yamaguchi, Fred Najjar, Wright Lassiter, Remi Kajogbola and Lloyd Dean attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Eric Bishop and Kayle Braums attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Lloyd Dean and Wright Lassiter attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
UNIQLO Ginza / ユニクロ銀座店
I was asked by UNIQLO to create six designs for their Nippon-Omiyage T-shirt lineup, the second three in the series were Onsen, Sakana and Animal Onomatopoeia. All using handmade typography and a connection to the subject itself.
ユニクロの「日本のお土産シリーズ」のデザインに参加させて頂きました。ハンドメイドのタイポグラフィーを使って、イメージを表現するという内容です。2013年の春夏に発売されたのは「東京」「銀座」「神戸」の三都市のお土産でした。2013年の秋冬シーズンは、日本の好きなところを何でもデザインしてもいいという内容でしたので、僕も日本人に負けないぐらい大好きな「温泉」「さかな」をモチーフにデザインしました。「温泉」のデザインでは、日本で大流行している"ゆるキャラ" もつくってみました。３つめのデザインは、音を表現する擬音語が英語と違うところ面白くて、動物の鳴き声をタイポグラフィーにしてデザインしてみました。
Sakana 魚屋
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One of the things I’ve noticed as a foreigner is that the Japanese absolutely love fish, the only Japanese people I know that don’t eat fish are those with an allergy to it. I wanted to create a t-shirt that celebrated this extreme love of fish, both as a food but also a sport, something more subtle than the obvious and overused fish imagery commonly used. Using hand printed shapes and typography I created a simple design that everyone can understand even if they can’t read Japanese.
日本人の魚の消費量の多さは、類を見ないと思います。アレルギー体質という以外の理由で、魚を食べない日本人に出会ったことがありません。魚を食べる事だけでなく、釣りをこよなく愛する方々も多くいます。そんな魚を愛する大勢の日本人の方々に敬意を評して、ハンドメイドの版画の様なイメージと文字で、日本語が読めなくても、魚を愛する想いが伝わるイメージを作ってみました。
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Ola Jamo and Jackie Ejuwa attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. "
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Atmosphere at CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Dr. Narinder and Remi Kajogbola attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
The Muses are a sisterhood of Greek Goddesses. Together they inspire humankind to make music, to sing and dance, to write and act, to let their creativity flow.
I consider nature my muse. For my MCP Project 52: muse
En la mitología griega las musas (en griego antiguo μοῦσαι mousai) eran, según los escritores más antiguos, las diosas inspiradoras de la música y, según las nociones posteriores, divinidades que presidían los diferentes tipos de poesía, así como las artes y las ciencias. Yo me inspiro en la naturaleza. Para mi grupo MCP Project 52: musas
Sliders Sunday and 112 pictures in 2012: feminine
AFD Project 52 #7: romance
MCP Project 52: Muse
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Sally Miller and Remi Kajogbola attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Natalie Shrik for Drew Altizer Photography)
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Life is a giant puzzle full of suspense and mystery
Many a question has gone unanswered since time began and throughout history
Thoughts of how life began and how it might end fill the minds of humankind
The ageless question about our existence in life is asked by the seeing the deaf and the blind
Why are we alive what purpose do we serve
To whom do we owe our existence to and why is he not visible
Can He be one of us or is he some higher being
We think and we ponder we start to let our imaginations wander
We lay awake sometimes at night discussing with ourselves our many doubts
Sometimes many sleepless nights go by and our health begins to plunder
There are many religions and beliefs many faiths and many ideas
So many gods there are so many lords and so many ladies
Whom should I choose and whom should I follow
So many are they that following just one is an idea that is sometimes hard to swallow
They all have their definitions of life they have guidelines and they have moral codes
Their leaders and scholars come from many classes in life
While some prefer the beggar's life others prefer a mighty abode
All seem to be so logical all have their own philosophies
They talk about everything from who to worship to how to appreciate a gentle breeze
The more you think the more you are confused and the more you wait or try to avoid it the more you are accused
Wars have come and gone and come again all in the name of faith
All came from good intentions but as wars go their outcomes were the same
A lot of innocent lives were lost and many historical treasures were damaged or stolen again as wars go people never stopped to think about the costs
I dream of a peaceful world one free of violence and of fear
Sadly that is much more of a foolish dream than one which might come true
For in spite of all our differences on one thing we all agree
For all the good in our world there is also a dark side which is seen
For all the angels there are devils that are full of hate that enjoy cruelty and being mean
Yet we still choose to live our lives we still choose to go on
We all have different answers some of which we search for others we stumble upon
Unless you choose a path by which to go by this mystery might remain unsolved
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Elizabeth Shih and Joan Beach attend CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - May 18 - Denise Bradley Tyson attends CommonSpirit's Humankindness Gala 2023 on May 18th 2023 at San Francisco in San Francisco, CA (Photo - Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography)
One Giant Leap for Humankind - Birmingham 2022 Festival.
Spotted this from Grand Central Square, heading into Birmingham New Street Station on a hot morning, going to Birmingham International for a visit to BBC Gardeners World Live at The NEC.
One Giant Leap for Humankind by Jacob Chandler.
Probably a summer trail during the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The term stalactite comes from the Greek word stalaktos, which means “dripping”, because these other-worldly formations are produced by “drips” from the ceilings of limestone caves. Water reacts with chemical elements in the ground and rock, and seeps slowly through the roof of the cave, depositing calcium carbonate, which hardens and builds up over time to form a stalactite.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all that I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne'er express, yet cannot conceal.
~ Lord George Byron, "Childe Harold," Canto IV, Verse 178