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"Risograph Reverie" is an enchanting series of risograph graphics by Duncan Rawlinson. This collection engages the viewer with its distinctive blend of form and color, representing a compelling dialogue between the abstract and the photorealistic, the expected and the surprising.
Rawlinson's approach is a testament to the transformative capacity of art, where photography meets artificial intelligence to create something entirely unique. Each piece begins its journey as a photograph, a frozen moment in time, which is then fed into an AI tool that reshapes it into a vibrant dance of neon-colored geometric forms. The light magenta and azure hues act as commanding players on this visual stage, setting the tone for the playful motifs and mismatched patterns to unfold within a uniquely compelling 6:17 aspect ratio.
What's even more mesmerizing about this series is its perfect symmetry, creating a harmonious continuity when placed side by side. Each graphic functions as a tile, seamlessly connecting with its neighbors to form a larger, interconnected canvas that amplifies the visual impact. The result is a dynamic, infinite spectacle where each piece, while powerful as a standalone, is part of a greater, mesmerizing whole.
In "Risograph Reverie," Rawlinson bridges the tactile world of risograph printmaking with the endless possibilities of the digital realm. The collection, tactile and tangible, vibrates with the unique energy of risograph art, while the individual graphics, designed under the algorithmic direction of an AI, add a modern and innovative twist.
Navigating through this series is an invitation to lose oneself in a world where neon-colored geometric forms come to life, where patterns blend flawlessly, and where every piece is an integral part of a captivating, cohesive narrative. This is Rawlinson's celebration of contemporary art - a space where color and form, reality and imagination, and technology and traditional printmaking coexist in a fun and harmonious dance of creativity.
Everything is interconnected. A collection of beads from my travels in some parts of the Philippines and China. Can you guess which color is my fave?
Studio 12 Architecture transformed a small footprint of undeveloped property near Precita Park into two tall, gracefully interconnected single family homes.
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A conceptual map of interconnected causes, effects and measures
Creator: Bartz/Stockmar (License terms: www.boell.de/en/2018/04/24/energy-atlas-graphics-and-lice...)
All civilizations collapse.
In the past, very few have collapsed catastrophically over a few decades unless they were overwhelmed by a rival society; most civilizations have taken a century or two to disintegrate as various successive and interconnected crises brought an end to one unsustainable version of the society after another.
Our civilization is global, and will collapse – or is already collapsing – piecemeal across the planet.
From what little we know, most people are dismayed and frightened by the experience of living at a time that their civilization is collapsing.
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The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes lying parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast) of Kerala state in southern India. The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extending virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range.
The Kerala Backwaters are a network of interconnected canals, rivers, lakes and inlets, a labyrinthine system formed by more than 900 km of waterways, and sometimes compared to the American Bayou. In the midst of this landscape there are a number of towns and cities, which serve as the starting and end points of backwater cruises. National Waterway No. 3 from Kollam to Kottapuram, covers a distance of 205 km and runs almost parallel to the coast line of southern Kerala facilitating both cargo movement and backwater tourism.
The backwaters have a unique ecosystem - freshwater from the rivers meets the seawater from the Arabian Sea. In certain areas, such as the Vembanad Kayal, where a barrage has been built near Kumarakom, salt water from the sea is prevented from entering the deep inside, keeping the fresh water intact. Such fresh water is extensively used for irrigation purposes.
Many unique species of aquatic life including crabs, frogs and mudskippers, water birds such as terns, kingfishers, darters and cormorants, and animals such as otters and turtles live in and alongside the backwaters. Palm trees, pandanus shrubs, various leafy plants and bushes grow alongside the backwaters, providing a green hue to the surrounding landscape.
Vembanad Kayal is the largest of the lakes, covering an area of 200 km², and bordered by Alappuzha (Alleppey), Kottayam, and Ernakulam districts. The port of Kochi (Cochin) is located at the lake's outlet to the Arabian Sea. Alleppey, "Venice of the East", has a large network of canals that meander through the town. Vembanad is India’s longest lake.
HOUSE BOATS
The kettuvallams (Kerala houseboats) in the backwaters are one of the prominent tourist attractions in Kerala. More than 2000 kettuvallams ply the backwaters, 120 of them in Alappuzha. Kerala government has classified the tourist houseboats as Platinum, Gold and silver.
The kettuvallams were traditionally used as grain barges, to transport the rice harvested in the fertile fields alongside the backwaters. Thatched roof covers over wooden hulls, 30 m in length, provided protection from the elements. At some point in time the boats were used as living quarters by the royalty. Converted to accommodate tourists, the houseboats have become floating cottages having a sleeping area, with western-style toilets, a dining area and a sit out on the deck. Most tourists spend the night on a house boat. Food is cooked on board by the accompanying staff – mostly having a flavour of Kerala. The houseboats are of various patterns and can be hired as per the size of the family or visiting group. The living-dining room is usually open on at least three sides providing a grand view of the surroundings, including other boats, throughout the day when it is on the move. It is brought to a standstill at times of taking food and at night. After sunset, the boat crew provide burning coils to drive away mosquitoes. Ketuvallams are motorised but generally proceed at a slow speed for smooth travel. All ketuvallams have a generator and most bedrooms are air-conditioned. At times, as per demand of customers, electricity is switched off and lanterns are provided to create a rural setting.
While many ketuvalloms take tourists from a particular point and bring them back to around the same point next morning there are some specific cruises mostly in the Alappuzha area, such as the one night cruise from Alappuzha to Thotapally via Punnamada Lake two nights cruise from Alappuzha to Alumkavadi, one night cruise from Alappuzha to Kidangara, and one night cruise from Alappuzha to Mankotta. There are numerous such cruises.
Beypore, located 10 km south of Kozhikode at the mouth of the Chaliyar River, is a famous fishing harbour, port and boat building centre. Beypore has a 1,500 year-tradition of boatbuilding. The skill of the local shipwrights and boat builders are widely sought after. There is a houseboat-building yard at Alumkadavu, in Ashtamudi Kayal near Kollam.
FERRY SERVICES
Regular ferry services connect most locations on both banks of the backwaters. The Kerala State Water Transport Department operates ferries for passengers as well as tourists. It is the cheapest mode of transport through the backwaters.
ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE
Connected by artificial canals, the backwaters form an economical means of transport, and a large local trade is carried on by inland navigation. Fishing, along with fish curing is an important industry.
Kerala backwaters have been used for centuries by the local people for transportation, fishing and agriculture. It has supported the efforts of the local people to earn a livelihood. In more recent times, agricultural efforts have been strengthened with reclamation of some backwater lands for rice growing, particularly in the Kuttanad area. Boat making has been a traditional craft, so has been the coir industry.
Kuttanad is crisscrossed with waterways that run alongside extensive paddy fields, as well as fields of cassava, banana and yam. A unique feature of Kuttanad is that many of these fields are below sea level and are surrounded by earthen embankments. The crops are grown on the low-lying ground and irrigated with fresh water from canal and waterways connected to Vembanad lake. The area is similar to the dikes of the Netherlands where land has been reclaimed from the sea and crops are grown.
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This forlorn and overgrown structure in Cleveland’s Gordon Park is the former Cleveland Aquarium, which once occupied this complex of two interconnected buildings. Opened in 1953, the aquarium was an outgrowth of the Cleveland Natural History Museum, and included 50 exhibits of freshwater and marine species. However, the building’s story goes back to 1937, when it was built by the City of Cleveland with support from the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration as a bath house for the park, which at the time included a beach. However, the inconvenient location far from the beach led to the facility becoming disused, leading to its use as a trail side museum before becoming the Cleveland Aquarium. In 1967, an addition twice the size of the original building was added to the facility, which included the iconic Octagonal rotunda with its wavy roof, and an entrance with aqua-colored panels that mimicked waves on the surface of the lake. The aquarium, however, ran into financial trouble during the 1970s, and though it was popular, the attendance and higher cost of admission were not enough to save it from bankruptcy, and the aquarium closed in 1985, with all animals being transferred to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo after the aquarium ceased operating in 1986. The aquarium was used for a brief time as a dog training facility and K9 kennel for the Cleveland Police Department for a few years, until deteriorating conditions in the 1930s wing led to the facility becoming abandoned. Today, the aquarium is in very rough shape, and stands forlorn as a bleak reminder of the city’s decline overlooking the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway in the midst of a park and neighborhood that has seen better days.
Prompt:
a close up of a close up of a person's eye, in bladerunner city, in the center of the frame, cosmos in the background, in a future city, sharpe focus, nebula in the sky, interconnected human lifeforms, yellow and cyan color palette, scene from a 1 9 7 3 film, 2050
In the dunes of the former estate of Prince Karel, a unique historical site of modern fortification has been preserved: sixty constructions dating from both World Wars, interconnected by two kilometers of trenches and galleries. This remarkable site has been extremely well preserved , as prince Karel systematically prevented every demolition attempt.
Two different tours are possible in the Open-air museum, each taking approximately 90 minutes. The first tour, focusing on the First World War, shows the Aachen battery (built in 1915). Most elements of this battery (the only surviving of its kind) have been preserved: two observation posts, four gun emplacements and a bombproof shelter.
Furthermore, tourists also can visit the Stützpunkt Bensberg, consisting of several men’s quarters and the necessary facilities dating from the Second World War. These constructions were used by a unit of military engineers (Pionierstab) who were in charge of the construction of bunkers.
The second tour brings the visitors along the well-preserved emplacements of the Saltzwedel neu battery (1941), which was originally built to protect the Ostend harbor and was later incorporated in the Atlantic Wall.
This site is one of the best preserved remnants of the Atlantic Wall in Europe. Many constructions in the open-air museum are still in their original condition and have been refurbished with authentic objects and furniture. The reconstruction can be seen as an example. Light and heavy artillery and searchlights can be seen in their original locations. The every day life of the soldiers is evoked in true-to-life dioramas. In this open-air museum you still can smell the atmosphere of the “Longest Day” as if it were yesterday
Studio 12 Architecture transformed a small footprint of undeveloped property near Precita Park into two tall, gracefully interconnected single family homes.
Indra's net is a Buddhist concept used to illustrate the nature of emptiness, interconnectedness and the cosmos.
Indra's net can be visualized through the metaphor of a spider's web covered in dew drops. Every dewdrop on the web contains the reflection of every other dewdrop and within each of the reflected dewdrops, the reflections of every other dewdrop and progressing as such to the infinite in finite.
The hyperbolic paraboloid structures used in this installation are algorithmic mathematical modules depicting the pathological entirety of the infinite. The finite portion appears as a fractal, complete in itself and yet illustrating the infinite. This phenomenon is called minimal surface or Gaussian Curvature, where at any amount of distortion down to the minimalist point or degree, is an unbounded resemblance of the entirety.
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Interconnected small-worlds darknets. Threats of surveillance close global darknets. Darknets form around social groups, but use high bandwidth, low latency communications (the internet) and are supported by search engines. Custom applications, Instant-Messenger-style applications or simple shared file-systems host the darknet. People's social groups overlap so objects available in one darknet diffuse to others: in the terminonlogy used in this paper, each peer that is a member than one darknet is an introduction host for objects obtained from other darknets.
BIDDLE Peter; ENGLAND Paul; PEINADO Marcus et al. : The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution. - URL: Quelle (15. August 2006)
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States federal government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks.[1] The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1980s. The funding of the National Science Foundation Network as a new backbone in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial extensions, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks.[2] The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s marks the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet,[3] and generated a sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to the network. Although the Internet was widely used by academia since the 1980s, the commercialization incorporated its services and technologies into virtually every aspect of modern life. Internet use grew rapidly in the West from the mid-1990s and from the late 1990s in the developing world.[4] In the two decades since then, Internet use has grown 100-times, measured for the period of one year, to over one third of the world population.[5][6] Most traditional communications media, including telephony, radio, television, paper mail and newspapers are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as email, Internet telephony, Internet television, online music, digital newspapers, and video streaming websites. Newspaper, book, and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging, web feeds and online news aggregators. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Online shopping has grown exponentially both for major retailers and small businesses and entrepreneurs, as it enables firms to extend their "brick and mortar" presence to serve a larger market or even sell goods and services entirely online. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries. The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own policies.[7] Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System (DNS), are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.[8]The term Internet, when used to refer to the specific global system of interconnected Internet Protocol (IP) networks, is a proper noun[9] and may be written with an initial capital letter. In common use and the media, it is often not capitalized, viz. the internet. Some guides specify that the word should be capitalized when used as a noun, but not capitalized when used as an adjective.[10] The Internet is also often referred to as the Net, as a short form of network. Historically, as early as 1849, the word internetted was used uncapitalized as an adjective, meaning interconnected or interwoven.[11] The designers of early computer networks used internet both as a noun and as a verb in shorthand form of internetwork or internetworking, meaning interconnecting computer networks.[12] The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used interchangeably in everyday speech; it is common to speak of "going on the Internet" when invoking a web browser to view web pages. However, the World Wide Web or the Web is only one of a large number of Internet services. The Web is a collection of interconnected documents (web pages) and other web resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.[13] As another point of comparison, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the language used on the Web for information transfer, yet it is just one of many languages or protocols that can be used for communication on the Internet. youtu.be/pBoCnJcbckY
An ever-changing, complex, and interconnected world demands excellence from those in public service. What does a career dedicated to serving others look like in the 21st century? What new skills are needed? How do you get your foot in the door, and then build such a career?
Please join a panel of Henry M. Jackson Leadership Fellows and public service leaders at the Wilson Center on June 6 as we explore these questions and highlight insights for the next generation of public servants.
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Wikipedia:
Masuleh architecture is unique. The buildings have been built into the mountain and are interconnected. Courtyards and roofs both serve as pedestrian areas similar to streets. Masuleh does not allow any motor vehicles to enter, due to its unique layout. It is the only city in Iran with such a prohibition. However, the small streets and many stairs simply wouldn't make it possible for vehicles to enter.
The spectacular architecture of Masuleh is popularly known as "The yard of the building above is the roof of the building below".
Yellow clay coats the exterior of most buildings in Masuleh. This allows for better visibility in the fog.
Source: Masule on Wikipedia. Text above is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
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Borromean padlocks (Borromean rings really): These padlocks are arranged like 'Borromean rings', i e although they are interlocked there is not one pair of locks that are interlocked. Every pair of locks are unconnected but the three of them are locked together. All three locks will come free if any one of them, regardless which one, is removed.
Wikipedia has (of course) an article on borromean rings:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings
Strangely enough, the only other picture of three padlocks interconnected in a borromean configuration that I could find on the entire Internet is this one:
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A veterinary student from Tirana gains new knowledge, skills and ambitions – and a cat – by participating in the ERASMUS+ programme.
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