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“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.” ―Slavoj Žižek
°To celebrate animal life in all its forms
°To celebrate humankind’s relationship with the animal kingdom
°To acknowledge the diverse roles that animals play in our lives – from being our companions, supporting and helping us, to bringing a sense of wonder into our lives
°To acknowledge and be thankful for the way in which animals enrich our lives
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The Sterkfontein Caves attracted miners because of the extensive deposits of calcium carbonate in the form of stalactites, stalagmites and flowstone. Calcium carbonate is a chemical combination of calcium, carbon and oxygen. When burned, it yields lime – what the miners were really after.
The Damanhur, Temples Of Humankind, a gorgeous series of underground temples in northern Italy.
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Event: M.A.D.E NYC Fashion Show
Location: Copia Lounge, New York, NY
Date: June 6, 2012
Three designers presented beautiful collections at M.A.D.E NYC's High Fashion event on June 6, 2012 at the Copia Lounge, New York, NY, in the following order:
1. Barras, by Eli Hue
2. Crown Soul Creations, by Carmen Carriker
3. House of YBA, by Yasawah Akuoku
A few mostly behind-the-scenes photographs from the event. Stay tuned for video from this event.
Make-up
* Jhenelle Neon
* Danielle Wood (Pfunk Modeling Agency)
Hair
* Danielle Ramos
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Subject: A walking work of art, Gregory Da Silva is more than an odd spectacle...
To Invite Gregory da silva,The Famous Egg man, to your Events or Festivals, please Contact : Cellphone: 0737507923
Email: eggman@galmail.co.za
A walking work of art, Gregory Da Silva is more than an odd spectacle - he is a symbol of Africa's many diverse cultures...
A Symbol of African Unity
In the first heady years of the African Union, the world's eyes are increasingly turned to the continent from which humankind first appeared. Beneath the seemingly impenetrable mask of violence portrayed in popular media, lies a living and thriving cultural climate which Des Warde finds well depicted by West African street artist Gregory Da Silva.
The outfit always turns heads, and each day it boasts a new feature, a new symbol of an African culture or practice.
His headdress weighs up to twenty five kilograms, his body is armoured with artifacts and his face painted with tribal patterns and an undying smile. Each day, Gregory Da Silva presents the city centre with a new display of his symbolic art.
Gregory's voice is lively and he repeatedly offers phrases and words in French. Born in Benin, West Africa, 1979, he was trained in computer science at university, but went on to found a theatre group in Benin called 'Voice of Spirit' or 'Voix de l'Esprit' which performed politically motivated as well as comic and poetic theatre at the Benin National Library.
After receiving an invitation to perform at the MASA - Market for African Performing Arts - Festival in the Ivory Coast in 2003, where he represented his country, Benin, for a week before flying to South Africa. He sold his creations at the V&A Waterfront and began to grace the streets of Cape Town with his unique form of art. It was so unique it initially led the bemused Cape Town police to put him in the back of their car and call their superiors for advice! Naturally they were advised them to let him go and Gregory now enjoys a good relationship with the city authorities...
My attention is soon turned to his artifact-laden tunic which Gregory says is about "all African tradition, all African culture[s]" and he goes on to explain some of the more prominent objects displayed.
"Everything must be life,
everything must shine, and be positive"
First, he points out the clusters of sea shells hanging around his neck, saying that in Africa these shells were "old money" and once used as currency. He explains the eggs on his head dress as being symbolic of life and says "everything must be life, everything must shine, [and] be positive". Next his hands grab the arcane black bottle near his waist to explain that in his culture, the Sangoma people would place "good spirits" in a bottle, with which they would "heal sick people [they] passed while walking on the roads".
The broken shards of mirror found on his chest bear similar spiritual significance, and are often worn by Voodoo people in Africa and are said to be a kind of window into the spiritual world, and a "way to talk to [their] ancestor[s]".
Gregory says his main inspiration or motivation is to "make people laugh" and "make people happy" and to represent different African cultures. He says he always thinks "how we can put all of Africa together to make [it] one", adding that "not one country can be forgotten".
When he is travelling in Africa, be it in Senegal, Cameroon, Mali or the Congo, the local people invariably look at him and say "ahh, that is our culture" as they see something of their own represented. "All Africa is in my clothes" he says, drawing attention again to his peerless suit.
When not walking St. Georges Mall or Green Market Square, Gregory features at the Grahamstown festival, the Hermanus Whale Festival, has been hired to receive guests at hotels and airports, and has also appeared on SABC 2 and E-TV News.
He is very popular with tourists, especially those from Italy, England, America and Germany, who frequently ask why he does not come over and do his thing in their own country. But he says his focus is on Africa. Pictures of him certainly do get back to their countries though, as Gregory says everyday "hundreds" of pictures are taken of himself, usually posing with the tourists.
Asked about his dreams and ambitions, Gregory (or the "Egg Man" or "Ei man" as he is also known) says that this year he is planning on starting an art school, which is part of his 'Project For Africa' for this year. He wants to impart creative knowledge to South African youth, giving them the power to create beautiful things and also to support themselves, all part of his ultimate venerable ambition to "[bring] Africa together to make one".
Indeed, and good luck to him.
Egg On His Face But He's Happy
Gregory da silva, A Symbol of African Unity
Who is that Guy with all the Eggs on his head that you see at all the bestest Festivals in South Africa ? His name is gregory da Silva - An Artist Comedian, Storyteller, dancer from Benin West Africa. Gregory da Silva ( Egg Man ) was born in Benin West Africa, Voodoo Country. He speaks French and English and is staying in Cape Town South Africa. Gregory da silva has appeared at many Festivals in Africa and is presently staying in Cape Town South Africa. Gregory has appeared at many Festivals in Africa :
The Masa Festival 2003 ( market for African Performing Arts) in Ivory coast West Africa,
The grahamstown Festival South African National Art Festival,
The Hermanus Whales festival,
The Darling festival, The Gariep Kimberley Festival, Innibos Film Festival Nelspruit Mpumanlanga,
Moorresberg farm Shows,
The Biltong Castle Larger Festival in Somerset East South africa,
The Stellenbosch Street Festival,
The Simonstown Penguin Festival South Africa. He performs every day in Market square Cape Town and adds an air of rio - style festivity wherever he performs. Many Tourrists from Germany, England, America, Italy, France, Belguim call Gregory : The Egg man, or Chicken Man. Very famous in Africa.
AFRICAN EXTRAVAGANZA : The National Arts Festival had its usual colourful start in Grahamstown South Africa. Here Gregory da Silva from Benin, West Africa, wears headgear adorned with African artifacts. Gregory da Silva has becomes an Institution at the National Art festival Grahamstown. Picture by ALAN EASON
A festival favourite for many years, the ubiquitous "Eggman" was back at the 2006 National Arts Festival, making an appearance at the Village Green (CuePix/daylin paul)
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The Damanhur, Temples Of Humankind, a gorgeous series of underground temples in northern Italy.
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Planet Earth Needs your Help. If you are interested in saving the planet for our feathered friends, wild flowers, wild animals and nature areas, as well as humankind follow the links below to articles I and my girlfriend have published. Each article explains in mostly layman terms what scientist are observing and forecasting about climate change as well as offering things an individual can do to help reduce global warming.
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“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Oil on canvas
Later in life, Homer increasingly edited his paintings. In 1895, when he first exhibited this epic scene of a winter storm at Prouts Neck, it included two figures crouching on the rocks in the lower left corner. Between 1896 and 1900, he eliminated the human presence and intensified the spreay from the crashing waves.
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Taken in the Exhibition
Winslow Homer: Force of Nature
(September 2022 – January 2023)
[A]n overview of Winslow Homer (1836–1910), the great American Realist painter who confronted the leading issues facing the United States, and its relationship with both Europe and the Caribbean world, in the final decades of the 19th century.
Homer’s career spanned a turning point in North American history. He lived through the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, so-called Reconstruction, and war with the last colonial European power in the Americas, Spain.
From his sketches of battle and camp life, to dazzling tropical views and darker restless seascapes, the works reflect Homer’s interest in the pressing issues of his time; conflict, race, and the relationship between humankind and the environment – issues still relevant for us today.
After the war, Homer’s subject became the lives of Americans in the wake of the war and abolition with a focus on the lives of formerly enslaved African Americans.
Homer travelled to France, England, the Bahamas, Cuba and Bermuda. In England, he painted scenes of heroism and resilience that he saw while staying in Cullercoats, a town on the North East coast. In the Caribbean, his paintings became more vivid as he painted the transparent turquoise waters and lush vegetation. His interest in conflict remained constant and he often explored the issue through painting the life and struggles of Black people.
With more than fifty paintings, covering over forty years of Homer’s career, 'Winslow Homer: Force of Nature' is part of a programme of exhibitions that introduce major American artists to a UK and European audience and follows on from our exhibitions about George Bellows and the Ashcan painters, Frederic Church and Thomas Cole.
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Maropeng is the ideal destination to go and learn about the evolution of humankind...our path to humanity
Energy Observer est un projet de navire à hydrogène autonome depuis 2013, et en chantier depuis janvier 2016. Développé en collaboration avec les ingénieurs du Liten le navire va tester et démontrer l’efficacité d’une chaîne de production énergétique complète reposant sur le couplage de différentes énergies renouvelables. Après sa mise à l'eau, prévue pour l'hiver 2017, le navire partira au printemps pour un tour du monde de six ans afin d'optimiser ses technologies et mener une expédition au service des solutions durables pour la transition énergétique.
Energy Observer est un projet de navire expérimental et d'expédition qui a pour ambition de trouver des solutions concrètes, innovantes et performantes, en faveur de la transition énergétique. De par ses technologies, il va être le premier navire au monde capable de produire de l'hydrogène à bord de manière décarbonnée grâce à la mixité énergétique. Les technologies développées lui valent d'être souvent surnommé Le Solar Impulse des mers, à l'image du projet solaire de Bertrand Piccard et André Borschberg, ou encore la Calypso des temps modernes compte tenu de la volonté affichée d'utiliser le bateau comme une plateforme de production de contenus audiovisuels autour de l'écologie, du développement durable et de la transition énergétique.
Energy Observer s'inscrit dans la lignée des grands projets à vocation technologique, sociétale et environnementale, avec pour vocation de contribuer à la recherche et développement et de porter un message en faveur de la protection de l'environnement. Peuvent être cités dans ce sens la goélette Tara, qui parcourt les océans depuis 2007 pour la science et pour la défense de l'environnement, Solar Impulse, le premier avion solaire, ou encore PlanetSolar, le premier catamaran à avoir fait un tour du monde uniquement à l'énergie solaire en 2012. En octobre 2016, la Fondation Race for Water Odyssey a annoncé avoir intégré la technologie hydrogène au catamaran MS PlanetSolar aujourd'hui rebaptisé Race For Water comme cela avait été annoncé, dès le lancement du navire PlanetSolar en mars 2006 à Yverdon-les-Bains en Suisse.
Le premier navire hydrogène autour du monde
Puiser notre énergie dans la nature, sans l’abîmer, et sans la gaspiller, telle est notre vision du futur, et telle est la vision que nous voulons partager à travers le monde.
Un défi à la fois humain et technologique, que s'est lancé l'équipe d'Energy Observer, le premier bateau autonome en énergie et sans émission de gaz à effet de serre ni particules fines, propulsé à l’hydrogène et aux énergies renouvelables, grâce à la mixité énergétique.
Il n’y a pas une solution miracle pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique : il y a des solutions, que nous devons apprendre à faire fonctionner entre elles. C’est ce que nous faisons avec Energy Observer : faire collaborer les énergies de la nature, mais aussi de notre société, en réunissant autour de ce bateau, les savoir-faire des entreprises, des laboratoires, des start-ups et des institutions.
Une odyssée pour le futur
Energy Observer, c'est une Odyssée de 6 ans autour du monde, pour partir à la recherche des solutions innovantes pour l'environnement. 6 ans, 50 pays et 101 escales, pour aller à la rencontre de tous ceux qui dessinent aujourd'hui, le monde de demain, pour prouver qu'un monde plus propre est possible.
Plus qu’un bateau, un véritable media au service d’une information positive et inspirante, au service des solutions.
Autrefois, l’Homme explorait pour conquérir les territoires et s’en approprier les richesses. Avec Energy Observer, nous voulons explorer pour découvrir et partager les solutions pour un futur plus propre.
Le bateau
Ancien bateau de course, ce compétiteur hors pair s'apprête à ouvrir une nouvelle voie: celle de la navigation autonome à l'hydrogène. Le défi des architectes, ingénieurs et navigateurs : viser l’autonomie grâce à la mixité énergétique et la production décarbonée d’hydrogène à partir de l’eau de mer.
Energy Observer, c’est une reconversion à double sens : recycler un catamaran de course, léger et fiable, recordman autour du monde et permettre ainsi d’investir dans la recherche et développement, plutôt que dans le composite.
Face à l’impérieuse nécessité de réduire les rejets de gaz à effet de serre, le développement des énergies renouvelables s’impose comme la voie à suivre. Cependant, celles-ci étant par essence variables et intermittentes, elles exigent de développer et d’optimiser les moyens de stockage de l’énergie.
Parmi eux, l’hydrogène (H), l'élément chimique le plus abondant dans l'univers, démontre chaque jour un peu plus son immense potentiel comme voie de stockage et de valorisation des énergies renouvelables.
L'enjeu du 21ème siècle : apprendre à la produire à moindre coût et de manière décarbonnée. C'est dans cette démarche de recherche et développement que s'inscrit le projet Energy Observer, pour prouver les performance de ce nouveau modèle énergétique, et ainsi servir d'exemple, partout dans le monde.
Les Malouins et les touristes vont avoir une sacrée surprise en découvrant. Energy Observer. Le bateau du futur, imaginé depuis des mois dans un hangar, est sorti du port. C'est aux pieds des remparts qu'on va le découvrir à partir d'aujourd'hui.
Ce jeudi 6 avril, c'était un grand jour pour toute l’équipe d’Energy Observer. Depuis des semaines, ils préparent une surprise d’envergure pour les Malouins : déposer le bateau, sur lequel ils travaillent depuis deux ans, sur l’esplanade Saint-Vincent, près des remparts.
La manoeuvre, plus que délicate a débuté à 17 h. Le bateau, qui sera le premier à être propulsé à l’hydrogène, a été déposé sur un plateau pour sortir du hangar. Centimètre par centimètre, heure par heure, le catamaran s’est avancé vers le bassin. La mise à l’eau n’était pas ouverte au public. L'événement officiel aura lieu le 14 avril.
Energy Observer, le premier navire hydrogène autour du monde, sera mis à l’eau le 14 avril 2017 à Saint-Malo, son port d’attache. Le catamaran géant aux énergies du futur entamera ensuite un tour du monde de 6 ans.
Vendredi 14 avril, à 12h30, Victorien Erussard, Capitaine, Jérôme Delafosse, Chef d’expédition et l’ensemble des équipes ayant contribué à ce chantier exceptionnel, retiendront leur souffle au moment de la mise à l’eau d’Energy Observer. Un moment fort qu’ils partageront avec Florence Lambert, la marraine, Nicolas Hulot, le parrain, ainsi que tous les partenaires de cette incroyable Odyssée pour le Futur à bord du premier navire capable de produire son hydrogène à bord, grâce à la mixité énergétique.
Faire fonctionner les énergies renouvelables entre elles, voilà la force d’innovation de ce bateau hors normes : de l’énergie solaire, éolienne et hydrolienne, pour transformer l’eau de mer en hydrogène, au cœur du projet Energy Observer.
30,5 mètres de long
12,80 mètres de large
29 tonnes
130 m² de panneaux photovoltaïques
2 éoliennes
1 aile de traction
2 moteurs électriques convertibles en hydrogénérateurs.
Energy Observer : un défi humain et technologique
Construit au Canada en 1983 et initialement baptisé du nom de Formule TAG, détenteur du record du Trophée Jules Verne aux mains de Sir Peter Blake sous le nom d’Enza New Zealand, ce qui constitue la base d’Energy Observer, est passé du statut de bête de course au large à celui de navire du futur, pionnier des solutions énergétiques de demain. Une reconversion spectaculaire engagée en 2015 et opérée par une équipe de près de 60 personnes menée par Victorien Erussard, coureur au large, réunissant navigateurs, architectes et ingénieurs entre Saint-Malo, Paris, Grenoble et Chambéry. Un budget de 5 millions d’euros a été alloué au volet recherche et développement et à la construction du navire de 30,5 mètres de long et 12,80 mètres de large, propulsé aux énergies renouvelables : 130 m² de panneaux photovoltaïques, 2 éoliennes à axe vertical, 1 aile de traction intelligente qui alimenteront 2 moteurs électriques convertibles en hydrogénérateurs. Energy Observer est le premier bateau au monde capable de produire son hydrogène à partir de l'eau de mer grâce aux énergies renouvelables.
Après presque trois années de chantier rythmées par le reconditionnement, l’installation du poste de pilotage et de l’ensemble des équipements énergétiques dont les panneaux solaires, les éoliennes ou encore la pile à combustible développée par le CEA-Liten, Energy Observer va d’ici peu, pointer ses étraves vers le large pour les premiers essais en mer. Mais avant cela, le navire du futur est présenté en avant-première aux malouins et au grand-public du 8 au 17 avril 2017.
The Energy Observer catamaran is poised to set sail around the world powered by renewable energy. It will spend six years on its historic journey on the high seas.
The craft will be powered by the sun and wind, backed up with a fuel cell system that converts sea water into hydrogen.
A team of around 50 sailors, engineers and architects are preparing the two hulled boat in St.Malo in France.
The ambitious project comes in the wake of the Solar Impulse plane which completed its flight around the world using just solar energy.
“Energy Observer is a technological challenge. We are a kind of Solar Impulse of the sea, made in France and the idea is to aim for energy sustainability of the vessel; to use nature, renewable energies and make a world tour completely autonomously,” explained Victorien Erussard, Energy Observer founder and captain.
The 30 metre long catamaran started life as a successful multi-hull ocean racer which itself had been recycled.
Solar panels, wind turbines and the hydrogen fuel cell system are being installed during the refurbishment which has taken more than three years.
The boat remains the same size but on completion will be twice as heavy.
When Energy Observer sets sail the crew will include a multimedia cameraman to document the journey. The expedition leader hopes it will record what can be done to reduce global emissions.
“Everybody will be able to see this boat, to know it better and then to follow it on social networks and live the adventure from the inside because we will offer very innovative content, like the virtual reality; so you would be able to follow Energy Observer almost daily,” enthused Jerome Delafosse, expedition leader.
It’s hoped Energy Observer will be ready to set sail in April.
The five million euro craft will depart from Saint Malo in Brittany and make the first of its 101 stops across 50 countries in Paris as part of its six-year global circumnavigation.
Forsee Power, a specialist in lithium-ion battery solutions, is proud to announce at the Electric & Hybrid Marine World Expo that the company will be providing the battery system that will be integrated aboard the Energy Observer – the first ever self-sufficient electric catamaran: Energy Observer
The Forsee Power battery system will be coupled with an energy system developed by the CEA Liten research institute. The system can store the energy produced by the solar panels on the boat, and will be combined with electricity generated by a fuel cell used to propel the vessel forward and supply the auxiliary systems.
The battery system will be made of the Flex EP7 modules, as well as the BMS and Master-BMS battery management systems.
Available on the market for the past four years, Forsee Power technology is extremely safe, reliable, and durable, and has proven experience in marine applications.
The project is sponsored by Florence Lambert and Nicolas Hulot, and supported by the Nicolas Hulot Foundation for Nature and Humankind.
The CEA will be attending the Electric & Hybrid Marine World Expo with a new model of the Energy Observer.
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The UNESCO-listed Cradle of Humankind site contains the largest collection hominid fossil finds spread over caves in 180 sq miles.fff
…after a long walk, with the threat of heavy rain, you get to spend a good hour or two slipping and sliding, crouching and crawling along one of the oldest tunnels dug by humankind. That mud is sticky…very sticky and I’ll defy anyone to go down there and not come out covered!
It’s normal to spend a good couple of hours cleaning your camera equipment once you have been down here!
Went with a good friend Jim who, as a postman, you would have thought a long walk would have been no bother…jeez…the moaning !
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The full history....
The idea of a fixed link across the English Channel was first put forward in the early part of the 19th Century but concerns over national security stalled attempts to progress it.
But an Anglo-French protocol was established in 1876 for a railway tunnel under the Channel. South Eastern Railway Chairman Sir Edward Watkin and French Suez Canal contractor Alexandre Lavalley conducted exploratory works on either side of the water, coming together in 1882 under the umbrella of the Submarine Railway Company.
In 1880, No.1 shaft was sunk and a 7-foot diameter pilot tunnel begun below Abbot's Cliff, between Dover and Folkestone, 10 feet above high water level. The driving force was Captain Thomas English's rotary boring machine - 33 feet in length and powered by compressed air - which was capable of cutting 5/16" for every rotation of its cutting head, at a rate of two revolutions per minute and almost half-a-mile per month. It was though hoped that this performance could be improved over time.
In February 1881, with about 800 feet driven and the machine proven, work was refocused at a site further along the coast, accessed via the 160-foot No.2 shaft at Shakespeare Cliff. Here another pilot tunnel was started under the foreshore, progressing through lower grey chalk towards a meeting with the French pilot tunnel - which was extending from Sangatte - 11 miles out to sea. This phase of the work was expected to be complete by 1886. Machinery was being developed which would then have enlarged the heading to 14 feet in diameter before a 2-foot thick concrete lining was inserted. The approach railways would fall on a gradient of 1:80 before reaching a depth of 150 feet below the sea bed. Operational ventilation would be provided by the compressed-air locomotives used to haul the trains.
But 1882 saw the government call a halt, worried about the military implications of a land-link to Europe. Sir Edward's well-reasoned reassurances fell on deaf ears with 2,040 yards of the Shakespeare Cliff heading driven, another 897 yards at Abbot's Cliff and 1,825 yards on the French side of the Channel. Both shafts were later backfilled.
When the idea of a tunnel was revisited in both 1974 and 1988, various remedial works were carried out on the 1880s workings as a result of the new alignments potentially intersecting with them. This work discovered a number of roof falls and broken timber supports. A concrete bulkhead was installed 890 yards into the No.2 heading, effectively entombing the boring machine.
Access to the original heading has been maintained as it meets one of the drainage adits driven from the base of the cliff under the coastal railway. This joins the 1880 tunnel 70 metres from the surface, after passing beneath Shakespeare Cliff Tunnel where it has been reinforced with concrete arches. Adjacent to the junction is a timber-lined passage leading to the base of the shaft where the boring machine would have been assembled.