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In the rolling hills east of Aston, Idaho, a field is seen, plowed in an alternating linear pattern.
Cut the paper and copy the pattern on the piece of fabric. When I have darker fabrics I do something my grandmother taught me: I use a small soap leftover. Better than chalk.
The name of the brush used to make this pattern is "Eyeball." I have colorized this image to make it less jarring.
The Spanish Synagogue (Hebrew: בית הכנסת הספרדי, Czech: Španělská synagoga, German: die Spanische
Synagoge) is the newest synagogue in the area of the so-called Jewish Town, yet paradoxically, it was built at the place of the presumably oldest synagogue, Old School (also known as Altshul). The synagogue is built in Moorish Revival Style. Only a little park with a modern statue of famous Prague writer Franz Kafka (by Jaroslav Róna) lies between it and the church of Holy Spirit. Today, the Spanish Synagogue is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague.
The Spanish Synagogue is not the first synagogue at the site. Before it there stood probably the oldest synagogue in Prague Jewish Town, Altschule. In the second half of 19th century, the capacity of the Altschule did not suffice. The modernist faction in the community, which renovated it in 1837 for the purpose of moderately reformed services, therefore decided to demolish the synagogue in 1867 and one year later it was replaced by the new, Spanish Synagogue. Its name presumably refers to the style in which it was built, Moorish Revival style, which was inspired by the art of Arabic period of Spanish history (this name was not always prevalent, in the beginnings it was usually called by German-speaking Jews Geistgasse-Tempel, i.e. Temple in Holy Spirit Street). The architectural plans were designed by Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann and Josef Niklas (an imposing interior decoration).
In 1935, a functionalistic building, designed by Karel Pecánek, was added to the synagogue. Till the Second World War it served to the Jewish Community as a hospital. The synagogue used the space of the new building as well; there was a vestibule and a winter oratory in it. Since 1935, the appearance of the synagogue remained essentially unchanged.
During the Second World War, confiscated properties of Czech Jewish Communities were stored in the synagogue, e.g. the furniture from other synagogues. Ten years after the war, the synagogue was handed over to the Jewish Museum and in 1958–1959 it was completely restored inside. In the following year an exposition of synagogue textiles was opened there. In the 1970s the building was neglected and after 1982 it remained closed. The restoration started only after the Velvet revolution. Completely restored to its former beauty, the synagogue was re-opened with a ceremony in 1998.
I know it has a lot of stories...
Just noticed that this one was my 500th uploading on Flickr! :-) Cheers!
From Geyser Hill boardwalk, Yellowstone.
Silica is dissolved from the underlying Rhyolite by the hot, acidic water and precipitates out as it cools at the surface, forming siliceous sinter and making these intriguing patterns.
It was a cold morning, so the stark white around this hydro-thermal feature is hoar frost.
Folded from one sheet of elephant hide paper scored with a cutting plotter.
Based on a circle packing generated with the help of the great program CirclePack by Ken Stephenson.
The concept was previously explored by Daniel Kwan and Philip Chapman-Bell.
CPs for all the "Intersecting Cylinders" models can be found here.
From a visit at Recinte Modernista Sant Pau on our last day in Barcelona, Spain - September 12, 2017.
In 2003, British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a paper that proposed the universe we live in might in fact really be a numerical computer simulation. To give this a bizarre Twilight Zone twist, he suggested that our far-evolved distant descendants might construct such a program to simulate the past and recreate how their remote ancestors lived.
He felt that such an experiment was inevitable for a supercivilization. If it didn't happen by now, then in meant that humanity never evolved that far and we're doomed to a short lifespan as a species, he argued.
As off-the-wall as this sounds, a team of physicists at the University of Washington (UW) recently announced that there is a potential test to seen if we actually live in The Lattice.
-from news.discovery.com/space/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simu...
He also has an equation (see Wikipedia) to calculate how many people are actually living in a virtual reality simulation.
Some people just have too much time on their hands.
Explore 19 Dec, 2012. Beset position #234
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This is a close-up photo of the wood grain patterns in the root of a driftwood tree that suggest an impish pareidolia figure.