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One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
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ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
Times Square, New York City, New Years Eve Ball Drop, 2013 - 2014
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located atop the One Times Square building in New York City, primarily utilized as part of New Year's Eve celebrations held in Times Square. Yearly at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, the ball is lowered 77 feet (23 m) down a specially designed flagpole, resting on the midnight to signal the start of the new year. The first ball drop in Times Square took place on December 31, 1907, and has been held annually since (except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts). The ball's design has also been updated over the years to reflect new advances in technologies—its original design utilized 100 incandescent light bulbs, iron, and wood in its construction, while its current incarnation features a computerized LED lighting system and an outer surface consisting of triangle-shaped crystal panels. As of 2009, the ball is also displayed atop One Times Square year-round and is removed only for general maintenance.
The Times Square ball drop is one of the best-known New Year's celebrations internationally, attended by at least one million spectators yearly, with an estimated global audience of at least 1 billion. The prevalence of the Times Square ball drop has also inspired other similar "drops" held locally in other cities and towns around the world.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,”
Performers of the 2013 - 2014 celebration Miley Cyrus, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Blondie, Icona Pop, Jencarlos Canela, El Dasa, Rodney Atkins, Melissa Etheridge
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Times Square, New York City, USA, North America
12-31-2013
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
Hotel Lan Kwai Fong in Macau, China utilized a 90-foot dome with transparent cover for the grand opening in July 2009. Hotel Lan Kwai Fong (LKF) is the newest boutique hotel located in downtown Macau near SoHo, and close to hotspots such as Man Mo Temple, Times Square, Possession Street, the Repulse Bay and Stanley Market. LKF wanted a grand opening ceremony to foreshadow its unique features and elaborate furnishings, and has since been voted the best Asian boutique hotel by TravelWeekly. The 90-foot LKF dome will remain up for one year as an event space.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. Research team members aboard one of the watercraft being utilized to conduct underwater acoustic research in the Launch Complex 39 turn basin secure some of the project's equipment back into the vessel. Several government agencies, including NASA, NOAA, the Navy, the Coast Guard, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission are involved in the testing. The research involves demonstrations of passive and active sensor technologies, with applications in fields ranging from marine biological research to homeland security. The work is also serving as a pilot project to assess the cooperation between the agencies involved. Equipment under development includes a passive acoustic monitor developed by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and mobile robotic sensors from the Navys Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
While Leatherneck's team organizes their withdrawal, elsewhere the team led by Sergeant Slaughter have captured a HISS IV. Lady Gaga has used the alien key given to her by the last of the Time Lords to not only break into the tank, but utilize it as well. The Joes Sam, Mikaela and Recondo follow the Sarge into the personnel bay. It is a tight fit.
Mikaela: How did all those No-Vipers fit in here? The four of us can barely fit.
Redondo smiles.
Recondo: They didn't have to contend with the girth of a former WWF champion though.
Mikaela: And a Hall of Famer, class of 2004!
The Sarge smirks as Mikaela looks at Sam, her eyes open wide in the anticipation of Sam's glee at the accurate wrestling reference made by his girlfriend. What she finds is a look of complete distraction that borders on panic. The Sarge too notices Sam's removal from the moment. His eyes flicker to Mikaela and reassure her that Sam will be okay.
Outside of the hold, Clutch awkwardly walks alongside the slow moving tank. Rock n' Roll sits at the turret above, looking down at his struggling friend. Rock n' Roll cannot resist prodding.
Rock n' Roll: Hey Clutch, if you think you're hauling a heavy load, it ain't nothing next to the load Mik...
Clutch whips his head around and deliver eyes of death to his best friend.
Clutch: My niece has nothing to do with your loads, Rock n' Roll! Nothing to do with them!
Rock n' Roll laughs.
Rock n' Roll: Yeah but you look pretty sexy carryin' my load like that. Heh heh.
Clutch: Can we stop calling it a 'load', man? I'm carryin' your pack! Your pack!
Rock n' Roll: Haha! Call it whatever you want, Clutch. Heh heh.
The team moves forward for a few moments, then Rock n' Roll looks down at his friend again.
Rock n' Roll: Clutch, just haul that load up here man. We'd make a lot more ground if...
Clutch: There's no room man. If I was up there or I left your bag up there, I'd just interrupt the line of fire. I'm fine down here, carryin' your load... I mean bag! I'm carryin' your bag!
Rock n' Roll: Hahaha!
Clutch tilts his head and perks his ears.
Clutch: Hey man, shut up a minute... did you hear that?
Rock n' Roll listens, but shakes his head.
Rock n' Roll: All I hear is tank, dude.
Clutch: Nah man. It was something different. Something else...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture Research Service (ARS) geneticist Anson E. Thompson holds a vial of lesquerella oil processed and refined at the USDA ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, IL. USDA photo by Jack Dykinga.
The formerly Abandoned Gary Aquatorium has been slowly under renovation. Nick & Melanie of Homewood, IL utilized the unique Lake Michigan Setting for thier Wedding.
"Utilizing Cultural Diplomacy to Develop Economic and Cultural Bridges"
(Berlin; June 1st - 4th, 2017 - Held Parallel to the Berlin Carnival of Cultures)
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
Teacher Tamene Mengistu runs students through their lessons, who have more time to study now that they are spending less time fetching water thanks to wind powered water pumps provided through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
Virtually everybody today understands that the apple iphone has extraordinary abilities. If you are thinking about acquiring the apple iphone, or currently have one, this write-up will certainly educate you all the many things an apple iphone could do, so you could either acquire it or optimize its usage.
If you wish to surf the internet with simplicity on the apple iphone, attempt a bigger key-board. Place the apple iphone to the side and also in Safari, faucet on the address bar.
If you're surfing the internet with your apple iphone, you need to understand you do not have to kind ". Simply place the primary address - anything prior to the.com - to browse to the website you wish.
Are you fed up by all the notices you obtain on your apple iphone? There is a method to effortlessly transform off the notices. Inspect "In Notice Facility" to determine applications that are not presently of usage.
Did you understand that any sort of web site you see can be made right into an application? Once it is on your house web page, you could relabel it and also have your quite own application.
Utilize your apple iphone to download on your own an application that allows you to post any sort of data you wish into your phone, through this you could utilize your apple iphone as a data storage space gadget. Along with pictures and also short video, you could keep both songs and also post and also message data. The apple iphone will just have to be connecteded into the computer system to get to the data, or you could straight open them with the phone.
There is a calculator device in the apple iphone that effortlessly allows you include, increase or deduct something quite promptly. In the phone's upright position, you will certainly obtain a common calculator and also if you turn it right into straight position, you will certainly view a clinical calculator.
Attempt not to speak to your Siri feature as commonly as you do if you are a quite personal kind of individual. They do attempt to keep all data safe and secure, though occasionally this is difficult.
Like several various other mobile phones, apple iphone could give aesthetic info of inbound phone calls or messages. You could establish up the apple iphone's LED flash to blink when a phone call or message comes in.
You could catch a screenshot while utilizing your apple iphone. Just, discover the display you wish a go of and also hold back your "house" switch as you click your "rest" switch. When the photo is conserved to the memory of your phone, the display will certainly transform white.
The Safari on the apple iphone has a great deal of functions, comparable to that of a computer system's Web. The context food selection pops up and also allows you keep the picture straight to the photo application, if you have one.
Establish your very own AutoText expressions and also words to make messaging quicker. You need to utilize this function for expressions you utilize at all times, such as 'where are you' or for authorizing your e-mails. This faster way is in the apple iphone's key-board setups.
There is likewise an excellent time-based function on the apple iphone which enables you to establish time suggestions like when to prepare supper. There is no end to the kinds of suggestions you could establish on your apple iphone.
Make certain you are booked when it comes to the number of applications you are setting up. Some of them set you back cash, and also others are cost-free to utilize.
When you're taking photos, it's simple to utilize your apple iphone one-handed. All you need to do is goal and also press the quantity boost switch. Your photo will certainly be equally as clear and also concentrated.
With your apple iphone, you could take a screenshot whenever the need strikes you. You could achieve this by pushing the House and also Power switches at the exact same time.
There are a great deal of excellent functions that are on your apple iphone right out of the box, like a complete thesaurus. This device is unbelievably practical. You just have to touch and also hold any sort of provided word and also decide on "specify" from the offered choices.
A superb method to interact with your apple iphone is with FaceTime. Touch the switch and also you will certainly now view the individual while you are speaking.
As you could view from the suggestions in the above write-up, there is constantly something brand-new to discover one of the most efficient method to utilize an apple iphone. If this holds true for you, you just have to utilize the info to obtain the very best usage from your phone, or decide regarding whether the phone is a great option for you.
Utilize your apple iphone to download on your own an application that allows you to post any sort of data you wish into your phone, this method you could utilize your apple iphone as a data storage space gadget. The apple iphone will just require to be connected right into the computer system to obtain accessibility to the data, or you could straight open them with the phone.
You could establish up the apple iphone's LED flash to blink when a phone call or message comes in. You could catch a screenshot while utilizing your apple iphone. It's simple to utilize your apple iphone one-handed when you're taking photos. c2creviewer.typepad.com/blog/2012/09/espionnez-un-iphone-...
Times Square New Years Eve Ball Drop in New York City 2014 - 2015
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located atop the One Times Square building in New York City, primarily utilized as part of New Year's Eve celebrations held in Times Square. Yearly at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, the ball is lowered 77 feet (23 m) down a specially designed flagpole, resting on the midnight to signal the start of the new year. The first ball drop in Times Square took place on December 31, 1907, and has been held annually since (except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts). The ball's design has also been updated over the years to reflect new advances in technologies—its original design utilized 100 incandescent light bulbs, iron, and wood in its construction, while its current incarnation features a computerized LED lighting system and an outer surface consisting of triangle-shaped crystal panels. As of 2009, the ball is also displayed atop One Times Square year-round and is removed only for general maintenance.
The Times Square ball drop is one of the best-known New Year's celebrations internationally, attended by at least one million spectators yearly, with an estimated global audience of at least 1 billion. The prevalence of the Times Square ball drop has also inspired other similar "drops" held locally in other cities and towns around the world.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,”
Performers of the 2014 - 2015 celebration Jenny McCarthy, Anderson Cooper, O.A.R., Idina Menzel, American Authors, Magic!, Jencarlos Canela, Florida Georgia Line, Va Por ti including Yazaira López, - José Enrique Poyato -Virginia Stille - Fernando Corona - Ana Cristina Pagán, Alejandra Guzmán, Taylor Swift,
For more on New Years Eve in Times Square visit:
www.timessquarenyc.org/index.aspx
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Times Square, New York City, USA, North America
12-31-2014
Just in time for the perspective lesson! This was taken from a photo reference of this outdoor stairway at Raphael's Vineyard in Greenport. It is one of my favorite Vineyards and I have had this photo sitting around for a long time. So, here it is for the next quarter project! It was nice to at least get a taste of applying perspective into a work and it showed me how complicated and precise it has to be! But all of that work was worth while, in my opinion. Also, ink wash is a lot of fun and is quite good at making pieces with a lot of contrast. And I love working in black and white.
I would also like to say that this technique of using ink wash was inspired by Lumen Martin Winter, whose gallery I saw over the summer. Since I saw his work, this is a technique I've been wanting to utilize. So, thanks Mr. Winter!
8" x 10.5"
India Ink and Graphite on Mixed Media Paper
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
In addition to choosing cleaner, greener fuels, utilizing onshore power supply service (also known as "cold ironing", "alternative maritime power" and "shore-side electricity), is another solution to reduce air pollution and emissions from ships, as well as limiting local noise. IMO is addressing the need for global standards for the process of providing shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth, while its main and auxiliary engines are turned off. Draft guidelines on safe operation of on-shore power supply to ships are set to be finalized by the Sub-Committee on Ship Systems and Equipment (SSE), which meets this week (2-6 March).
urning to passenger and crew safety matters, the Sub-Committee is expected to finalize draft amendments to the Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code on ventilation requirements for survival craft and related draft amendments to the Revised recommendation on testing of life-saving appliances, to ensure a habitable environment is maintained in such survival craft.
The Sub-Committee is also working to prevent accidents related to lifting appliances and anchor handling winches, which have caused harm to operators and damage to ships, cargo, shore-based structures and subsea structures, as well as to the marine environment. The session is set to complete draft guidelines for lifting appliances, as well as draft guidelines for anchor handling winches. The guidelines will complement draft SOLAS regulations which are due to be submitted to the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) for approval and adoption.
On fire safety, the Sub-Committee will continue its work to minimize the incidence and consequences of fires on ro-ro passenger ships, following a number of serious accidents that occurred recently. The session is expected to further develop draft amendments to the SOLAS Convention and associated codes to enhance fire prevention, detection and extinction.
The SSE 7 meeting was opened by IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim and is being chaired by Mr. Umut Senturk (Turkey).
An Event for Wound Licking
February 6, 2-4pm (wound licking from 2-4pm, performance by Nonnsha at 3pm)
Baik Art
Utilizing the healing properties of dog saliva, An Event for Wound Licking will be a participatory event pairing wounds with dogs. Experimental in nature, participants will bring their wounds and participants will bring their dogs. Ideally, we can get the dogs to lick some of the wounds. Wounds of all types are requested (including wounds of the psychic variety), as well as dogs of all breeds (mutts especially).
In ancient Greece, the saliva of trained dogs and non-venomous snakes were utilized in Asclepieia (healing temples) to help treat the afflicted. Following in this tradition (and in a controlled manner), a kingsnake and albino cornsnake will be on-site. Due to the experimental nature of this event, liability waivers must be signed by all participants.
The event will culminate with a performance from Shannon Simbulan, aka Nonnsha, at 3pm.
Nonnsha is a Lo-Fi musician who enjoys grocery shopping. Chin up, chin up.
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EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion)
Matt Wardell
January 9 - February 13, 2016
Baik Art presents EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion), a solo installation and series of events by Los Angeles artist Matt Wardell.
For the exhibition, Wardell will present an immersive environment of images and objects by channeling ‘something like’ an ancient Greek temple of healing. Using Baik Art’s unique architecture, viewers experience a literal (and perhaps figurative) katabasis (‘to go down’ as in a descent of some type), but more importantly, and ideally, a catharsis (‘cleansing’ or ‘purification’).
Numerous objects, found and constructed, engage with the verticality of Baik Art’s shaft-like space, surrounded by an installation of wall works including drawings, collages, and repurposed images. Several fabric sculptures fill the gallery functioning as apotropaic totems. These Guardian Figures suggest a ‘presence’, ideally something beyond the object.
Daytime and evening events will further activate the gallery a space for healing. Practitioners from a variety of fields will be on hand for consultation. Music for Healing or What You Need will present a sonic cleansing. Incubation and Dream Analysis will be an overnight event of guided sleep followed by dream analysis with a professional. Utilizing the healing properties of dog saliva, An Event for Wound Licking will be a participatory event pairing wounds with dogs. For the date and time of each event, please contact the artist at shonufwardell@hotmail.com.
In ancient Greece and Rome, an asclepeion was a healing temple, sacred to Asclepius, the Greek God of Medicine. These temples were places in which patients would visit to receive either treatment or some sort of healing, whether it was spiritual or physical. Epidaurus was the first place to worship Asclepius as a god, beginning sometime in the 5th century BCE.
Starting around 350 BCE, the cult of Asclepius became increasingly popular. Pilgrims flocked to asclepieia to be healed. They slept overnight (“incubation”) and reported their dreams to a priest the following day. He prescribed a cure, often a visit to the baths or a gymnasium. Since snakes were sacred to Asclepius, they were often used in healing rituals. Non-venomous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.
Matt Wardell seeks to prolong a sense of wonder while placing the viewer in a lingering position of active assessment. He is interested in how we choose to live and in introducing work that facilitates these investigations. Wardell enjoys walking on fences, answering wrong numbers, and giving directions to places he does not know. Uncomfortable laughter, confusion, and irritation tend to be the byproducts of Wardell’s works.
Wardell has exhibited his work at venues throughout the United States and Mexico, including the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (SFMOMA), Claremont Museum of Art in Claremont, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), REDCAT, PØST, Human Resources, Black Dragon Society, Mark Moore Gallery, and Commonwealth and Council, all in Los Angeles. Wardell is a founding member of the artist collective 10lb Ape.
Baik Art
2600 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90034
310.842.3892
It was being utilized at the St. Paul,Lan MN bakery when it was American Bakeries Company. Most or all of theTaystee trucks had on the right side front windshield, that says NO RIDERS....??? Who's driving? The Merita, Langendorf trucks also had the sticker too! What is interesting about this truck is that is has NO clearance lamps. There are usually 5 orange clearance lamps way at the top(1 then 3 then 1) and the same for the rear, but they were colored red...I think the DOT was not so harsh about the minimum light profile on most trucks back then?
Solar panels in rural Ethiopia are using the sun to power water pumps to provide clean, consistent water to its people thanks to a program funded in part by the African Development Bank.
Jabo Seifu explains how he has started his own business of providing private showers to people in his village thanks to the reliable water now provided by the solar powered water pumps thanks to a loan from the African Development Bank
GOTEMBA, AICHI, Japan (June 19, 2020) - U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, currently assigned to 3rd Marine Division under the Unit Deployment Program, utilize an M240B during a mixed weapons range on Combined Arms Training Center Fuji, Japan, June 19, 2020. The Marines were participating in exercise Fuji Viper, an annual exercise focused on sustaining individual and small unit proficiency, independent platoon proficiency, and small unit decision making. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Savannah Mesimer) 200619-M-GB409-366
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The second piece of a 14-part series, utilizing the 14 statues featured on the two quarter-round colonnades of Millenium Monument at Hősök tere/Heroes' Square. Since all of them are major and significant figures in the history of Hungary, some Budapest streets are named after them here or there. The primary aim of this series is not to introduce the statues or characters (all are commonplaces frequently featured in touristic photoguides), but roads, squares and public spaces bearing their names.
Könyves Kálmán körút is also a section of what is generally (but mistakenly) known as Hungária Circular Road, the longest and outermost of Pest circulars so far. It lays between three major areas, Józsefváros, Kőbánya and Ferencváros, 8th, 10th and 9th districts of Budapest, respectively. Like Károly Róbert körút, it is also a 2x3 tracked city road, equipped with a tramway at the middle, leading towards and from Lágymányosi Bridge, always a busy, frequently a jammed spot of the city, conducting a heavy traffic of M5 and No. 4 highways, as well, towards Buda and the central parts of Pest. Its extension and refurbishment is rather a recent development, but sometimes it is not able to cope with the enormous transit traffic dumped into Budapest on daily basis.
Coloman (the Book Lover, or the Learned, as his name is also used) ruled between 1095 and 1116, had a very bad physique and appeareance according to chronicles written mostly by his enemies (however, he is the shortest in the Heroes' Square statue gallery), but since his father wanted him to be a bishop, on the other hand he was a well educated, smart monarch - that's why he got his epitheton ornans. His most important efforts (besides the connecting of Hungary, Croatia and Dalmatia) were his legislative deeds, e.g. he was the king who banned burning of "strigas", witches of the age.
The statue, the work of Richárd Füredi, was erected in 1906 at the same place.
These parts of this series are available now.
I utilized a 6 F-STOP ND filter to allow the use of strobes and keep the sync speed of the shutter under 1/200s.
Strobist:
2x vivitar 285, both at full power in a westcott apollo softbox.
Vorsteiner BMW M6 on Flow Forged V-FF 103 Wheels and Aero Program
This BMW M6 features the Carbon Graphite V-FF 103 Wheels in a staggered 21x9.5 front, and 21x11 rear fitment utilizing a concave profile in the front and a deep concave profile for the rear. Also fitted to this M6 is our Aero Side Blades, Rear Deck Lid Spoiler, Rear Diffuser and our newest GTS-V Front Spoiler.
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An Ethiopian villager Atsadu Tufa hired to manage the operation of a Solar powered water pump providing water to rural Ethiopians through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
By utilizing local commodities, Marjiati br Sembiring Meliala has risen from a disaster to a business woman. She cooks for success to support her family and to contribute to the welfare of her communities in the midst of disaster due to the eruption of Mt. Sinabung, Karo District, Indonesia.
For further information about the ILO's activities under the Sinabung Project, please visit: www.ilo.org/jakarta/whatwedo/projects/WCMS_347795/lang--e...
Copyright: ILO/G. Lingga (2017)
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 IGO License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/deed.en_US
Jabo Seifu explains how he has started his own business of providing private showers to people in his village thanks to the reliable water now provided by the solar powered water pumps thanks to a loan from the African Development Bank
Hotel Lan Kwai Fong in Macau, China utilized a 90-foot dome with transparent cover for the grand opening in July 2009. Hotel Lan Kwai Fong (LKF) is the newest boutique hotel located in downtown Macau near SoHo, and close to hotspots such as Man Mo Temple, Times Square, Possession Street, the Repulse Bay and Stanley Market. LKF wanted a grand opening ceremony to foreshadow its unique features and elaborate furnishings, and has since been voted the best Asian boutique hotel by TravelWeekly. The 90-foot LKF dome will remain up for one year as an event space.
The latest rage in mass transit is the use of BRT, i.e. using buses in dedicated routes similar to trains, but without the inflexibility or high cost. About half of the trip is on it's own right away, and the last half it merges with regular road traffic to drop people off and pick them up at the airport's terminals.
In the several times I have ridden the Silver Line, it has always been packed, so it is a very utilized public resource.
FORT IRWIN, Calif. -- The 2916th Aviation Battalion utilized an off-cycle window in their calendar March 20 - 23 to conduct brigade-level training in the National Training Center's "Box". The exercise culminated at the Fort Irwin Weed Army Community Hospital (WACH) March 23.
The goal of the training is to test readiness as well as hone emergency medical skills among the participating service members. One simulation presented the participants with an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack on a troop transport that resulted in 16 casualties. The role players required triage at the point of injury in the training area, then airlifted back to the WACH on Fort Irwin for treatment. This was a large-scale training module that involved complex planning.
To make the exercise as authentic as possible training units had no warning of what they would encounter throughout the course of the event and participants were alerted only as the scenario unfolded, just as if the casualties and events were real. Large casualty events of this kind take a special type of planning coordination, material and geography to execute, and even more consideration to undertake, which makes the NTC an ideal venue for such training.
The 2916th assumed the role of air medevac, requiring multiple airlifts to bring all casualties back to the WACH, where staff members prioritized, stabilized and treated the mock casualties, then prepared to fly any they determined needing specialized care beyond WACH capabilities to other nearby available medical facilities for more extensive treatment.
To learn more about the people and facilities of the National Training Center and the Weed Army Community Hospital visit their official websites at www.irwin.army.mil or www.irwin.amedd.army.mil
Photo by Captain Sean Donoghue for WACH Public Affairs (Released),
Farmer Megertu Seboka at her rural home in Mazoria district in Ethiopia where she enjoys clean and safe water whenever she needs it, thanks to wind powered water pumps provided by funding by the African Development
This photograph utilizes a shallow depth of field to capture the boy's face in detail. I wanted to encroach on the boy's personal space to witness his darkest, deepest, emotions. I titled this photo as "Acceptance" because I wanted to express the feeling when a person has truly accepted himself for who he is, and is content at last.
McDonalds utilized the escalator to advertise within a major shopping mall in England.
McDonalds advertised on the escalator handrails. The ads were installed on ADRail for the UK market. Patented by EHC (the worlds largest handrail manufacturer) , this product is safe for all escalator handrails and provides exceptionally high advertising recall rates. visit www.adrail.com for more information
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. Researchers utilize several types of watercraft to conduct underwater acoustic research in the Launch Complex 39 turn basin. Several government agencies, including NASA, NOAA, the Navy, the Coast Guard, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission are involved in the testing. The research involves demonstrations of passive and active sensor technologies, with applications in fields ranging from marine biological research to homeland security. The work is also serving as a pilot project to assess the cooperation between the agencies involved. Equipment under development includes a passive acoustic monitor developed by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and mobile robotic sensors from the Navys Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Fulton Center is a complex of buildings, entrances and pedestrian tunnels utilized as a transit center and retail complex at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan. It was designed by Grimshaw and James Carpenter Design Associates and opened in November 2014. At the heart of the center is the Sky Reflector-Net which bounces daylight four stories deep. The complex connects the Fulton Street station on the 2 3 trains on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, the Fulton Street station on the 4 5 trains on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, the Fulton Street station on the A C trains on the IND Eighth Avenue Line, the Fulton Street station on the J Z trains on the BMT Nassau Street Line, the Cortlandt Street station on the N R trains on the BMT Broadway Line, and in the future will also connect to the World Trade Center PATH station, as well as the Cortlandt Street station on the 1 train on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line, and the World Trade Center station on the E train on the IND Eighth Avenue Line through the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.
These hold-down pipe clamp assemblies are specially fabricated and include wedges with 25% glass-filled PTFE to absorb vibration and also serves as a buffer between the steel pipe and pipe support. Vibration can occur in Power, Solar, Biofuels, and Chemical plants because of flow-induced and/or acoustic-induced vibration due to the flow of fluids or gas/steam through the piping system. Similarly, vibration can occur in pipelines near rotating equipment such as reciprocating pumps and compressors resulting in pulsations or mechanical forces that can occur in both onshore or offshore production facilities. Vibration can be strong enough to cause premature failure or cracks resulting in unplanned shutdowns. These units shown in the photograph are custom-designed for pipe sizes up to 20" in diameter and temperatures up to 200°F and can be adjusted to accommodate a range of heights for the T.O.S to the B.O.P. They are 21" wide x 26" long x 23" high and are proven to greatly reduce vibration to acceptable levels. These hold-down pipe clamps are fabricated utilizing A 36 carbon steel plate and A 307 Gr. All-threaded rods. All components were hot-dipped galvanized and a quality control inspection was performed before shipment.
An Ethiopian villager Atsadu Tufa hired to manage the operation of a Solar powered water pump providing water to rural Ethiopians through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
All photos by Mathias Vejerslev.
Partnering with the Danish Museum of Science and Technology, InfinIT, a Danish network for innovative utilization of IT, Cotter (Laser Cutting Services) and VRKSTEDET (Underbroen) we created a Bits & Beers to kickstart our newest venture - a series of workshops called "From Old Patents to New Prototypes".
Our theme was 'crazy inventions that can change the world' and our speakers included some very special people who have contributed to our world!
Some of the people joining us included:
Jesper Vind, CEO at Future Electric
The company makes state-of-the-art electric motorcycles, with increased maneuverability and acceleration.
→ futureelectric.dk
→ facebook.com/futureelectric.dk
Christian Liljedahl: In collaboration with a small team of experts, Christian invented the Pulse Jet Concert, by playing with the pitch of the sound of the pulse jet by changing the length of the pipes. An incredible auditory experience!
→ christian.liljedahl.dk
Bent Stawski: Specialist in design and manufacturing of advanced scaled mechanical models such as steam trains, steam engines and other mechanical equipment.
Vincent Seremet: Aviation designer and military test pilot with a wide range of aeronautic designs and inventions: gyro-copters, rocketpropelled parachutes, jet packs, phantom wings, etc.
→ kristeligt-dagblad.dk/historier/vincent
→ flyvemuseum.dk/html/vincent_seremet.html
Christian Hansen & Steen Lærke: Specialists in miniature model building. Both scaling, engineering and electrical function associated with advanced model building.
Per Nielsen & Mikkel Posselt: Specialists in combustion engines and can get anything up and running, including the Hammelvogn, built in 1888 by Hans Urban Johansen at the Albert F. Hammels machine factory in Nørrebro.
Finn Helmer: Engineer and previous co-owner of the Electronic company Giga, Finn will talk about startups within inventions, and how to increase your chances of success.
Terje Lade: Manager at Ladeas and developer of the project Vindship, a hybrid merchant vessel for sustainable sea transport.
→ ladeas.no
And a F-16 Jet
The Danish Museum of Science and Technology has a F-16 Jet on loan, and Bits & Beers guests were welcome to get up close and personal, and even sit in the cockpit!
Photos by www.flickr.com/photos/mvejerslev (Credit required for use of photos).
Utilizing a Heiland rod bracket, and a Spiratone twin head.
The one advantage of this rig is it raises the flash two and a half inches from the level of the Heiland bracket mount. The disadvantages are bulkiness, and interference with the focusing dial.
McDonalds utilized the escalator to advertise within a major shopping mall in England.
McDonalds advertised on the escalator handrails. The ads were installed on ADRail for the UK market. Patented by EHC (the worlds largest handrail manufacturer) , this product is safe for all escalator handrails and provides exceptionally high advertising recall rates. visit www.adrail.com for more information
Times Square New Years Eve Ball Drop in New York City 2014 - 2015
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located atop the One Times Square building in New York City, primarily utilized as part of New Year's Eve celebrations held in Times Square. Yearly at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, the ball is lowered 77 feet (23 m) down a specially designed flagpole, resting on the midnight to signal the start of the new year. The first ball drop in Times Square took place on December 31, 1907, and has been held annually since (except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts). The ball's design has also been updated over the years to reflect new advances in technologies—its original design utilized 100 incandescent light bulbs, iron, and wood in its construction, while its current incarnation features a computerized LED lighting system and an outer surface consisting of triangle-shaped crystal panels. As of 2009, the ball is also displayed atop One Times Square year-round and is removed only for general maintenance.
The Times Square ball drop is one of the best-known New Year's celebrations internationally, attended by at least one million spectators yearly, with an estimated global audience of at least 1 billion. The prevalence of the Times Square ball drop has also inspired other similar "drops" held locally in other cities and towns around the world.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,”
Performers of the 2014 - 2015 celebration Jenny McCarthy, Anderson Cooper, O.A.R., Idina Menzel, American Authors, Magic!, Jencarlos Canela, Florida Georgia Line, Va Por ti including Yazaira López, - José Enrique Poyato -Virginia Stille - Fernando Corona - Ana Cristina Pagán, Alejandra Guzmán, Taylor Swift,
For more on New Years Eve in Times Square visit:
www.timessquarenyc.org/index.aspx
Photo
Times Square, New York City, USA, North America
12-31-2014
Teacher Tamene Mengistu runs students through their lessons, who have more time to study now that they are spending less time fetching water thanks to wind powered water pumps provided through a program funded by the African Development Bank.
Farmer Megertu Seboka has access to piped water right outside her doorstep this has reduced the amount of time she required to go fetch water from the river. Water is available whenever her family needs it, thanks to Solar powered water pumps provided by funding by the African Development Bank.
Times Square, New York City, New Years Eve Ball Drop, 2013 - 2014
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located atop the One Times Square building in New York City, primarily utilized as part of New Year's Eve celebrations held in Times Square. Yearly at 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31, the ball is lowered 77 feet (23 m) down a specially designed flagpole, resting on the midnight to signal the start of the new year. The first ball drop in Times Square took place on December 31, 1907, and has been held annually since (except in 1942 and 1943 in observance of wartime blackouts). The ball's design has also been updated over the years to reflect new advances in technologies—its original design utilized 100 incandescent light bulbs, iron, and wood in its construction, while its current incarnation features a computerized LED lighting system and an outer surface consisting of triangle-shaped crystal panels. As of 2009, the ball is also displayed atop One Times Square year-round and is removed only for general maintenance.
The Times Square ball drop is one of the best-known New Year's celebrations internationally, attended by at least one million spectators yearly, with an estimated global audience of at least 1 billion. The prevalence of the Times Square ball drop has also inspired other similar "drops" held locally in other cities and towns around the world.
“Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,”
Performers of the 2013 - 2014 celebration Miley Cyrus, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Blondie, Icona Pop, Jencarlos Canela, El Dasa, Rodney Atkins, Melissa Etheridge
For more on New Years Eve in Times Square visit:
Photo
Times Square, New York City, USA, North America
12-31-2013
This is the seventh piece of a 14-part series, utilizing the 14 statues featured on the two quarter-round colonnades of Hősök tere/Heroes' Square. Since all of the protagonists are major and significant figures in the history of Hungary, some Budapest streets are named after them here and there. The primary aim of this series is not to introduce the statues or characters (all are commonplaces frequently featured in touristic photoguides), but roads, squares and public spaces bearing their names.
Szent László tér is in the centre of Kőbánya, one of the largest districts of Budapest, having grown into a densely inhabited, yet primarily industrial area of the city already prior to WWI. This region also supplied basic services to the developing Budapest: one can find the largest cemetery and the main prisons of the capital here, as well. The population of the district was even growing after 1945, new housing estates were erected around. After 1989 the district’s industrial significance deteriorated, the number of the unemployed is relatively high. However, Szent László tér (known as Pataky István tér during the Communist regime) is a messenger of the old and classy Kőbánya: it houses the building of the local government office, some educational institutions, a community center and last but not least one of the nicest Roman Catholic churches of Budapest, designed by Ödön Lechner, constructed between 1894 and 1899, and ornamented by the works of the greatest artists of the age. The church, heavily injured during WWII and partially restored after then, was thoroughly reconstructed at the beginning of the 1990s, and has belonging to the national heritage again since then. - 9 further public places are named after this king, standing as second in the row of Heroes’ Square statues.
Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary is generally referred as the most beloved king of Hungary, a whole cycle of legends is associated with his name. He was canonized within one hundred years of his death, in 1192. His reign, as it was common in the age he lived, was beginning with complicated family affairs in 1077, and by the end of it, in 1095 he has reorganized and strengthened the institutions of Roman Catholicism throughout the country. As you can judge from his goldened glory (two further statues are provided with additions of this material, none of them has been mentioned yet) and his carreer, he is considered to be a key-figure in the history of Hungarian Catholicism.
This statue, a design of Ede Telcs, was completed and placed to its present spot in 1911.
These parts of this series are available now.