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Anonymous - Madeleine: An Autobiography
Pyramid Books R-1136, 1965
Cover Artist: Mort Engel
"A girl's own story of a life of vice."
The Pyramid of Khafre is one of the three ancient pyramids on the Giza Plateau, a neighbourhood that is just 25km from downtown Cairo.
Giza, Egypt, 2009
Deep within the Bent Pyramid, commissioned by the 4th Dynasty king Snefru, in the last set of passages leading to the main burial chamber. Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, late 27th/early 26th century BCE, Dashur.
Handheld shot, not bad ha?...
The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller ones, in the courtyard of the Musée du Louvre Museum in Paris, France. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the museum. Completed in 1989, it has become a landmark for the city of Paris.
Commissioned by the French president François Mitterrand in 1984, it was designed by the architect Leoh Ming Pei, who designed the Miho Museum in Japan among others. The structure, constructed entirely with glass segments, reaches a height of 20.6 meters (about 70 feet), its square base has sides of 35 meters (115 feet). It consists of 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass segments.
The pyramid and the underground lobby underneath were created because of a series of problems with the Louvre's original main entrance, which could no longer handle an enormous number of visitors on an everyday basis. Visitors entering through the pyramid descend into the spacious lobby then re-ascend into the main Louvre buildings. (Wikipedia).
1956; Let's go naked Anthology compiled by Donald A. Wollheim. Cover art by Ed Fisher. Authors: Thorne Smith, Erskine Calswell, Earl Wilson, Louis Charles Royer, H. Allen Smith, H.E. Bates.
View of the Great Range from Pyramid Peak. Tall enough to be a 46er but it doesn't qualify as one, as it is on the real estate of another 46er (Gothics).
Pyramid Lake is kidney-shaped lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It lies at the foot of Pyramid Mountain, a natural landmark that overlooks the town of Jasper. It has a total area of 1.2 km2 (0.46 sq mi) and discharges in Athabasca River through the 2 km (1.2 mi) long Pyramid Creek.
Pyramid Mountain can be seen in the distance. The mountain is in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, named for its pyramid-like shape. James Hector named the mountain in 1859 due to its appearance from the Athabasca River valley on the eastern side of the peak.
1953; The Big Fake by Murray Forbes. Cover art by Jim Bentley. original title Hollow Triumph. The Lady is Marilyn Monroe the man could be the painter himself Jim Bentley or could it be mr. Heffner?
The great pyramids at Giza. From left to right: The Pyramid of Cheops (or Khufu), The Pyramid of Chephren (or Khafre), and The Pyramid of Mykerinus (or Menkaure). The fourth small mound on the right is a mini-pyramid for the queen.
did we already reach that stage when I base my titles in songs I like?
This is one more of those moments when I realise: I like this lens so much! It's so sharp and nice, it's so light and it (almost) never disappoints me. I think I should shoot more with it instead of the 18-105mm, that usually disappoints me in terms of sharpness...
Le musée du Louvre, inauguré en 1793 sous l'appellation Muséum central des arts de la République dans le palais du Louvre, ancienne résidence royale située au centre de Paris, est aujourd'hui le plus grand musée d'art et d'antiquités au monde. Sa surface d'exposition est de 72 735 m.
Fin 2016, ses collections comprenaient 554 731 œuvres, dont 35 000 exposées et 264 486 œuvres graphiques. Celles-ci présentent l'art occidental du Moyen Âge à 1848, celui des civilisations antiques qui l'ont précédé et influencé (orientales, égyptienne, grecque, étrusque et romaine), les arts des premiers chrétiens et de l'Islam.
Situé dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris, sur la rive droite entre la Seine et la rue de Rivoli, le musée se signale par la pyramide de verre de son hall d'accueil, érigée en 1989 dans la cour Napoléon et qui en est devenue emblématique, tandis que la statue équestre de Louis XIV constitue le point de départ de l'axe historique parisien.
En 2017, avec environ 8,1 millions de visiteurs annuels, le Louvre est le musée le plus visité au monde. Il est le site culturel payant le plus visité de France. Parmi ses pièces les plus célèbres figurent La Joconde, la Vénus de Milo, Le Scribe accroupi, La Victoire de Samothrace et le Code de Hammurabi.
Le Louvre possède une longue histoire de conservation artistique et historique, depuis l'Ancien Régime jusqu'à nos jours. À la suite du départ de Louis XIV pour le château de Versailles à la fin du xviie siècle, on y entrepose une partie des collections royales de tableaux et de sculptures antiques. Après avoir durant un siècle hébergé plusieurs académies dont celle de peinture et de sculpture, ainsi que divers artistes logés par le roi, l'ancien palais royal est véritablement transformé sous la Révolution en « Muséum central des arts de la République ». Il ouvre en 1793 en exposant environ 660 œuvres, essentiellement issues des collections royales ou confisquées chez des nobles émigrés ou dans des églises. Par la suite les collections ne cesseront de s'enrichir par des prises de guerre, acquisitions, mécénats, legs, donations, et découvertes archéologiques.
Le musée compte pour sa gestion 2 091 employés (fonctionnaires, contractuels et vacataires), dont 1 232 agents de surveillance, un garde pour chacune des 403 salles d’exposition, que complètent les effectifs affectés aux 900 caméras du système de télésurveillance
Think I'll make another like this, only big enough to use as a sleeping bag ;) See the square of little apples? It matches the bias binding! Got the binding and fabric from merrigoroundandme on Etsy.
A straight-on view of the found sculpture pyramid I saw at the Icehouse in downtown Phoenix this week. The wall of the old brick building is painted with this mural that glows early morning and late afternoons. This structure is "temporary", an installation by a visiting artist from Japan. It is about 2 stories tall. The image was gotten by poking my camera zoom lens through a cyclone fence. It is mostly obscured from the street and one would have to have come upon the peek at it from the side street. I must have taken 30 photos near the fence, a crumbling brick wall, and graffiti on rusted metal fence panels before a small opening in the barricades revealed this wonder. It was such a surprise to see!
Pyramid Lake is a kidney-shaped lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It lies at the foot of Pyramid Mountain, a natural landmark that overlooks the town of Jasper.
Designer: Jun Maekawa
Diagram: Genuine Origami book by Jun Maekawa
Unit: 1 square (almost 12")
Paper: Kraft paper
This is my fourth attempt at this model. I had been trying to get a fourth "level" but it just was not possible for me. The paper got out of alignment once I tried to progress beyond the above version. I even tried with very very thin paper (Nicolas Terry's crumpling kraft) and I still made a mess out of the fourth "level".
Jun recommends 6" paper...I can't imagine it!
This is from my trip to Egypt. They truly are something to behold, you have to see them in person to really appreciate how much work went into them, and the mysteries behind their creation! It's incredible.
Bent Pyramid of Snefru in Dashur.
It is unique in having two internal structures, with entrances on the north and west sides. From the north side a long, sloping passage leads to a narrow antechamber with an impressive corbelled roof. The burial chamber, also corbelled, is above this antechamber.
The second passage runs from the west side of the pyramid, through portcullis blocking systems, to another burial chamber, again with corbelled roof. This is at a higher level than the first. Structural instability is evident as the chamber was completely shored up with balks and scaffolding of great cedar beams.
Some time after both chambers were constructed, a connecting passage was made between them.
(text from The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner)
4th dynasty, Dashur