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Rapid strata formation in soft sand (field evidence).
Photo of strata formation in soft sand on a beach, created by tidal action of the sea.
Formed in a single, high tidal event. Stunning evidence which displays multiple strata/layers.
Why this is so important ....
It has long been assumed, ever since the 17th century, that layers/strata observed in sedimentary rocks were built up gradually, layer upon layer, over many years. It certainly seemed logical at the time, from just looking at rocks, that lower layers would always be older than the layers above them, i.e. that lower layers were always laid down first followed, in time, by successive layers on top.
This was assumed to be true and became known as the superposition principle.
It was also assumed that a layer comprising a different material from a previous layer, represented a change in environmental conditions/factors.
These changes in composition of layers or strata were considered to represent different, geological eras on a global scale, spanning millions of years. This formed the basis for the Geologic Column, which is used to date rocks and also fossils. The evolutionary, 'fossil record' was based on the vast ages and assumed geological eras of the Geologic Column.
There was also circular reasoning applied with the assumed age of 'index' fossils (based on evolutionary beliefs & preconceptions) used to date strata in the Geologic Column. Dating strata from the assumed age of (index) fossils is known as Biostratigraphy.
We now know that, although these assumptions seemed logical, they are not supported by the evidence.
At the time, the mechanics of stratification were not properly known or studied.
An additional factor was that this assumed superposition and uniformitarian model became essential, with the wide acceptance of Darwinism, for the long ages required for progressive microbes-to-human evolution. There was no incentive to question or challenge the superposition, uniformitarian model, because the presumed, fossil 'record' had become dependant on it, and any change in the accepted model would present devastating implications for Darwinism.
This had the unfortunate effect of linking the study of geology so closely to Darwinism, that any study independent of Darwinian considerations was effectively stymied. This link of geology with Darwinian preconceptions is known as biostratigraphy.
Some other field evidence, in various situations, can be observed here: www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/sets/72157635944904973/
and also in the links to stunning, experimental evidence, carried out by sedimentologists, given later.
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GEOLOGIC PRINCIPLES (established by Nicholas Steno in the 17th Century):
What Nicolas Steno believed about strata formation is the basis of the principle of Superposition and the principle of Original Horizontality.
dictionary.sensagent.com/Law_of_superposition/en-en/
“Assuming that all rocks and minerals had once been fluid, Nicolas Steno reasoned that rock strata were formed when particles in a fluid such as water fell to the bottom. This process would leave horizontal layers. Thus Steno's principle of original horizontality states that rock layers form in the horizontal position, and any deviations from this horizontal position are due to the rocks being disturbed later.”)
BEDDING PLANES.
'Bedding plane' describes the surface in between each stratum which are formed during sediment deposition.
science.jrank.org/pages/6533/Strata.html
“Strata form during sediment deposition, that is, the laying down of sediment. Meanwhile, if a change in current speed or sediment grain size occurs or perhaps the sediment supply is cut off, a bedding plane forms. Bedding planes are surfaces that separate one stratum from another. Bedding planes can also form when the upper part of a sediment layer is eroded away before the next episode of deposition. Strata separated by a bedding plane may have different grain sizes, grain compositions, or colours. Sometimes these other traits are better indicators of stratification as bedding planes may be very subtle.”
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Several catastrophic events, flash floods, volcanic eruptions etc. have forced Darwinian, influenced geologists to admit to rapid stratification in some instances. However they claim it is a rare phenomenon, which they have known about for many years, and which does nothing to invalidate the Geologic Column, the fossil record, evolutionary timescale, or any of the old assumptions regarding strata formation, sedimentation and the superposition principle. They fail to face up to the fact that rapid stratification is not an extraordinary phenonemon, but rather the prevailing and normal mechanism of sedimentary deposition whenever and wherever there is moving, sediment-laden water. The experimental evidence demonstrates the mechanism and a mass of field evidence in normal (non-catastrophic) conditions shows it is a normal everyday occurrence.
It is clear from the experimental evidence that the usual process of stratification is - that strata are not formed by horizontal layers being laid on top of each other in succession, as was assumed. But by sediment being sorted in the flowing water and laid down diagonally in the direction of flow. See diagram:
www.flickr.com/photos/truth-in-science/39821536092/in/dat...
The field evidence (in the image) presented here - of rapid, simultaneous stratification refutes the Superposition Principle and the Principle of Lateral Continuity.
We now know, the Superposition Principle only applies on a rare occasion where sedimentary deposits are laid down in still water.
Superposition is required for the long evolutionary timescale, but the evidence shows it is not the general rule, as was once believed. Most sediment is laid down in moving water, where particle segregation is the general rule, resulting in the simultaneous deposition of strata/layers as shown in the photo.
See many other examples of rapid stratification (with geological features): www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/sets/72157635944904973/
Rapid, simultaneous formation of layers/strata, through particle segregation in moving water, is so easily created it has even been described by sedimentologists (working on flume experiments) as a law ...
"Upon filling the tank with water and pouring in sediments, we immediately saw what was to become the rule: The sediments sorted themselves out in very clear layers. This became so common that by the end of two weeks, we jokingly referred to Andrew's law as "It's difficult not to make layers," and Clark's law as "It's easy to make layers." Later on, I proposed the "law" that liquefaction destroys layers, as much to my surprise as that was." Ian Juby, www.ianjuby.org/sedimentation/
The example in the photo is the result of normal, everyday tidal action in a single incident. Where the water current or movement is more turbulent, violent, or catastrophic, great depths (many metres) of stratified sediment can be laid down in a short time. Certainly not the many millions of years assumed by evolutionists.
The composition of strata formed in any deposition event. is related to whatever materials are in the sediment mix, not to any particular timescale. Whatever is in the mix will be automatically sorted into strata/layers. It could be sand, or other material added from mud slides, erosion of chalk deposits, coastal erosion, volcanic ash etc. Any organic material (potential fossils), alive or dead, engulfed by, or swept into, a turbulent sediment mix, will also be sorted and buried within the rapidly, forming layers.
See many other examples of rapid stratification with geological features: www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/sets/72157635944904973/
Stratified, soft sand deposit. demonstrates the rapid, stratification principle.
Important, field evidence which supports the work of the eminent, sedimentologist Dr Guy Berthault MIAS - Member of the International Association of Sedimentologists.
(Dr Berthault's experiments (www.sedimentology.fr/)
And also the experimental work of Dr M.E. Clark (Professor Emeritus, U of Illinois @ Urbana), Andrew Rodenbeck and Dr. Henry Voss, (www.ianjuby.org/sedimentation/)
Location: Sandown, Isle of Wight. Formed 18/01/2018 This field evidence demonstrates that multiple strata in sedimentary deposits do not need millions of years to form and can be formed rapidly. This natural example confirms the principle demonstrated by the sedimentation experiments carried out by Dr Guy Berthault and other sedimentologists. It calls into question the standard, multi-million year dating of sedimentary rocks, and the dating of fossils by depth of burial or position in the strata.
Mulltiple strata/layers are evident in this example.
Dr Berthault's experiments (www.sedimentology.fr/) and other experiments (www.ianjuby.org/sedimentation/) and field studies of floods and volcanic action show that, rather than being formed by gradual, slow deposition of sucessive layers superimposed upon previous layers, with the strata or layers representing a particular timescale, particle segregation in moving water or airborne particles can form strata or layers very quickly, frequently, in a single event.
And, most importantly, lower strata are not older than upper strata, they are the same age, having been created in the same sedimentary episode.
Such field studies confirm experiments which have shown that there is no longer any reason to conclude that strata/layers in sedimentary rocks relate to different geological eras and/or a multi-million year timescale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PVnBaqqQw8&feature=share&.... they also show that the relative position of fossils in rocks is not indicative of an order of evolutionary succession. Obviously, the uniformitarian principle, on which the geologic column is based, can no longer be considered valid. And the multi-million, year dating of sedimentary rocks and fossils needs to be reassessed. Rapid deposition of stratified sediments also explains the enigma of polystrate fossils, i.e. large fossils that intersect several strata. In some cases, tree trunk fossils are found which intersect the strata of sedimentary rock up to forty feet in depth. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Lycopsi... They must have been buried in stratified sediment in a short time (certainly not millions, thousands, or even hundreds of years), or they would have rotted away. youtu.be/vnzHU9VsliQ
In fact, the vast majority of fossils are found in good, intact condition, which is testament to their rapid burial. You don't get good fossils from gradual burial, because they would be damaged or destroyed by decay, predation or erosion. The existence of so many fossils in sedimentary rock on a global scale is stunning evidence for the rapid depostion of sedimentary rock as the general rule. It is obvious that all rock containing good intact fossils was formed from sediment laid down in a very short time, not millions, or even thousands of years.
See set of photos of other examples of rapid stratification: www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/sets/72157635944904973/
Carbon dating of coal should not be possible if it is millions of years old, yet significant amounts of Carbon 14 have been detected in coal and other fossil material, which indicates that it is less than 50,000 years old. www.ldolphin.org/sewell/c14dating.html
www.grisda.org/origins/51006.htm
Evolutionists confidently cite multi-million year ages for rocks and fossils, but what most people don't realise is that no one actually knows the age of sedimentary rocks or the fossils found within them. So how are evolutionists so sure of the ages they so confidently quote? The astonishing thing is they aren't. Sedimentary rocks cannot be dated by radiometric methods*, and fossils can only be dated to less than 50,000 years with Carbon 14 dating. The method evolutionists use is based entirely on assumptions. Unbelievably, fossils are dated by the assumed age of rocks, and rocks are dated by the assumed age of fossils, that's right ... it is known as circular reasoning.
* Regarding the radiometric dating of igneous rocks, which is claimed to be relevant to the dating of sedimentary rocks, in an occasional instance there is an igneous intrusion associated with a sedimentary deposit -
Prof. Aubouin says in his Précis de Géologie: "Each radioactive element disintegrates in a characteristic and constant manner, which depends neither on the physical state (no variation with pressure or temperature or any other external constraint) nor on the chemical state (identical for an oxide or a phosphate)."
"Rocks form when magma crystallizes. Crystallisation depends on pressure and temperature, from which radioactivity is independent. So, there is no relationship between radioactivity and crystallisation.
Consequently, radioactivity doesn't date the formation of rocks. Moreover, daughter elements contained in rocks result mainly from radioactivity in magma where gravity separates the heavier parent element, from the lighter daughter element. Thus radiometric dating has no chronological signification." Dr. Guy Berthault www.sciencevsevolution.org/Berthault.htm
Visit the fossil museum:
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Just how good are peer reviews of scientific papers?
www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
www.examiner.com/article/want-to-publish-science-paper-ju...
The neo-Darwinian idea that the human genome consists entirely of an accumulation of billions of mutations is, quite obviously, completely bonkers. Nevertheless, it is compulsorily taught in schools and universities as 'science'.
The Creating Balance exhibition opened today at Pitfield Pop-Up in Winchester.
The project has been over a year in the making and is the celebration of a collaboration between Anglepoise, The University of Portsmouth and Strong Island a community group from Portsmouth.
The strength and breadth of talent in Portsmouth has been showcased at the exhibition.
During the last year 10 artists and designers were twinned with 10 photographers and each given an Anglepoise lamp.
Final outcomes are on display along with 10 videos all made by students Massimo Mazullo and Jonas Jakunas on the BSc TV & Broadcasting course at The University of Portsmouth.
We launched the exhibition as part of The London Design Festival back in September and were also picked to be part of the Icon Design Trail and speak at the V&A gallery in London.
Everyone involved in the project has been overwhelmed by the support and reaction to the exhibition so far. Some lamps have been customised - artist My Dog Sighs used his lamp as a palette, design studio I Love Dust illustrated theirs, Paul Gonella and Tristan Savage submerged a lamp in the solent for 4 months and Russell Squires turned his lamp into an Anglebot.
Pitfield, Winchester is the perfect place to exhibit due to their incredible curation of the space. Pitfield Pop-Up by Pitfield of London (owned by Sean Clarkson an interior designer who appears on Channel 4;s Four Rooms) is a mixture of shop, cafe and gallery.
You can view the exhibition until 7th December, open Monday to Saturday 7.30am - 5.30pm and Sunday 10am - 4pm. Pitfield Pop-Up Winchester is located in the centre of the city right by the cathedral at The Brooks, Winchester. It will then open at aspex gallery, Portsmouth on 10th January 2014 until 16th February.
Feel free to grab a copy of the brochure and postcard pack when you visit.
See the website for further details - www.creatingbalanceproject.co.uk
Created by The Electric Canvas, Wonderland was celebrated feature of the inaugural Melbourne White Night Festival. The 2014 Wonderland consists of projections that transformed the buildings of Flinders Street once the sun set; turning the brick and concrete facades of early Twentieth Century buildings such as Flinders Street Station, the Metropolitan Gas Company building, the former Commercial Travellers Club building, the former Ball and Welch Department Store, the Masonic Club building and the former Forum and Rapallo Cinemas into brilliantly coloured canvases that showed off images of magic, carnivals, amusement parks and circuses.
The White Night Festival in Melbourne is a State Government of Victoria initiative created by the Victorian Major Events Company. Originally conceived in Paris in 2002, to make vibrant and dynamic art and culture accessible to large audiences in public spaces, Paris’ Nuit Blanche (White Night) has inspired an international network of similar programmes in over twenty cities globally, including Melbourne.
In 2013 Melbourne became the first Australian city to create its own White Night Festival, producing an all night event of light, colour and artistry. The White Night Festival, now in its second year, is a wonderful opportunity to showcase Melbourne as Australia’s international city of artistic innovation, and celebrate the city’s commitment to modern and interpretive art, music and culture.
The Forum and Rapallo Cinemas, formerly the State Theatre, were designed by the American cinema architect John Eberson in association with the prominent Melbourne architects Bohringer, Taylor and Johnson in 1928. It was built at the climax of the boom years in cinema construction, and was operated by Union Theatres. It had the largest capacity of any cinema in the country with 3371 seats. Unlike most picture palaces, this form of cinema design attempted to create the illusion of an exotic walled garden in the auditorium, complete with appropriate statuary, a blue ceiling, twinkling stars and projected clouds. The interior incorporates elements of Italian medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Spanish Mission styles combined with bold classical Roman and Renaissance architectural forms to create a lush, impossibly exotic atmosphere. Externally the building is a Moorish fantasy with a jewelled clock tower with a copper clad Saracenic dome, minarets and barley sugar columns and rich pressed cement decoration. Construction is steel frame and brick.
I read an interesting post by Chase Jarvis about creativity. He asked the community at large to finish the sentence "I'd be more creative if ....". I also watched the movie Perfume last night, in which one character asked to be left alone - he needed silence to learn how to create.
For me, silence is the best mechanism. Not silence in terms of sound, but the silence of the mind which in turns, creates a loud heart. One which yells with passion, creating an inspiring space because it's doing what it needs.
It's important to apply silence to our loud lives.
On the off-chance that people still leave comments on my photos - what do you think? Finish the sentence "I'd be more creative if...."
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Artisans from China adhere silk to steel with a special adhesive glue designed for lantern-making. A piece from The First Emperor's Quest for Immortality lantern set can be seen on the right.
Photo by Sonia Lalla, courtesy the Missouri Botanical Garden.
"Lantern Festival: Art by Day, Magic by Night" opens May 26-Aug. 19, 2012 at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Learn more at www.mobot.org/lanternfestival.
This widdle guy is my visually impaired explorer. He likes the kitchen because he can explore with his nose instead of his eyes. Hedeki likes to play in flour bowls and he uses spoons as his walking sticks. The only issue is keeping him OUT of the sugar container....Sugar doesn't eve have smell!!!!
Any who, Hedeki loves his open space in the kitchen and likes the feel of the warm sun light of a good evening sunset. He does this thing where he stares out the window longingly.....can he see?
www.create-learning.com - Photos of the Flip-Chart graphics and notes from a 2.5 day training for Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belts. The training covered Change Management, Project Management, and Training Techniques
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future: Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016 | New York City
Womensphere’s Annual Fall Summit brought together over 200 diverse leaders and emerging leaders across sectors, including executives, professionals, entrepreneurs, educators, scientists, artists, student leaders, and leaders from civil society. Convened on the day before the 2016 US national elections, we were thrilled to be able to come together in celebration and strength, to share, discuss, ideate, and collaborate on creating the future to accelerate the advancement of women in all fields.
We were excited to honor Morgan Stanley Vice Chairman Carla Harris with the Womensphere Global Leadership Award for her powerful and creative vision, her longstanding commitment to empowering women and youth of color, and more than a dozen other great reasons. We were happy to bring together ground-breaking innovators, executives, educators, artists, and leaders creating change for women around the world – to launch some very important initiatives. The event offered a forum for sharing and co-designing global and local programs that accelerate the advancement of women and girls in America and around the world.
Womensphere Fall Summit on Creating the Future
Agenda for November 7, 2016
1:00-1:30 PM
Registration, Connecting with Discussion Co-Hosts, and Roundtable Introductions
1:30-2:10 PM
Welcome, Introductions, Context-setting & Launch
• The Leadership Gender Gap: Overview of Global, US, Cross-Industry Contexts
• Women in Leadership & Innovation: Challenges, Opportunities
• Technology-powered Leadership
• NowIsTheTime.com: Celebrating Women’s Firsts
• New Models for Leadership in the World
• Launching NewChampions5050 + Womensphere Incubator Network global initiatives
Anna Ewing – Board Member, New York Hall of Science; Angel Investor; Past CIO & EVP, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX
Dr. Valerie Barr – President, ACM-Women (Association for Computing Machinery)
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS
Analisa Leonor Balares – CEO & Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere
Drue Kataoka – Global Artist & Creator, Now is The Time
2:10 – 3:00 PM
Womensphere Global Leadership Award 2016 & Keynote
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; President, National Women’s Business Council
Advancing Women in Leadership in Business & Insights on the Journey to Executive Leadership
Plenary Discussion Panel
Angela Sun – Head of Corporate Development & Strategy, Bloomberg; Young Global Leader
Carla Harris – Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Lili Gil Valetta – CEO, XL Alliance; Young Global Leader
Mary Graham Davis – Managing Partner, Davis Bateson Group; Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 – 3:10PM Networking Break
3:10 – 4:00 PM
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Building the Pipeline of Talent & Accelerating Leadership for Women
• Insights on Advancing Women in Business & Finance
• Insights on Advancing Women in Science & Technology
• Insights on Advancing Women in Academia & Academic Leadership
• Empowering Millennials to Change the World
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation for Global Initiatives 2017
Amy Dorn Kopelan –President & Founder, Bedlam Productions; Executive Producer, Corporate State CEO Summit
Laura Cantileno – Executive, Cisco; Co-Author, Internet of Women
Dr. Gilda Barabino – Dean, Grove School of Engineering, City College New York
Aria Finger – CEO, DoSomething.org; Young Global Leader
4:00 – 4:50
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Accelerating Impact & Advancing Women's Leadership in the World
• Principles in Accelerating Impact
• Women's Leadership in the World: Driving the Sustainability & Inclusion Agenda
• Women's Innovation in the World: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Leveraging Technology to Amplify & Accelerate Impact
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation: Strategies for Accelerating Women’s Impact & Advancing Women’s
Leadership (Across Fields/Industries)
Dr. Nada Anid – Dean, School of Engineering, New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Sana Odeh – Chair & Founder, Arab Women in Computing
Dina Shoman – CEO & Founder, InHerQuests financial education company; Young Global Leader
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS; Young Global Leader
4:50 – 5:40
Synthesis & Community Solutions from Roundtable Discussions & Ideation Sessions
• Synthesis of Insights & Learnings – Community Presentations & Reflections
• Introducing: Project American Dreams
• Introducing: The Internet of Women - book and leaders
• Looking Ahead to 2017: Global Initiatives, Global Movement, Next Steps
5:40 – 6:30
Closing Networking Reception
• Community Connections between Speakers, Discussion Co-Hosts, Participants
• Connect with the Book Authors - The Internet of Women
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future
Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016
Cary Hall @ The DiMenna Center, New York City
Organization: www.womensphere.org
Festival & Summits: www.womenspherefest.com
#Womensphere #CreatingTheFuture
Hessa Bint Eisa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development of the United Arab Emirates capture during the Session "Creating Inclusive Communities" at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 in Dalian, People's Republic of China, July 3, 2019. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Fon Thanachaiary
Last Saturday wasn’t the only time I’ve sketched at the Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. Several years ago I created a soft ground etching of two diverging pathways as they snake their way along the hillside. Creating etchings plein-air is surprisingly easy with some planning. I prepared all my materials before hand, including my metal plate and acid bath.
When I arrived at the cemetery, I spend a good half hour walking around admiring the beauty of the twisted oak trees and the paths that weave through them. After finding a good place to sketch, I sat at the path’s edge and sketched directly on a piece of paper covering a soft ground etching plate. With the pressure of my conté crayon on the paper, my sketch was transferred through the ground to the plate below. Once the drawing was finished, I removed the paper and put the plate directly into an acid bath I had prepared in a plastic container. After a few minutes, the acid etched my drawing into the plate, creating indentations into the metal that ink would stick to when printed.
The Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery is a beautiful and peaceful place, almost park-like. My etching, Diverging Paths, shows the afternoon sun casting lengthy shadows across the paths and grave sites. I feel as though I’ve adopted this area as a place to visit my mom who died a few years ago. Since her ashes were spread in the desert botanical gardens of Arizona, I don’t have a local place to visit her. My mom loved the morning sunshine and I like to think of her resting among the violet colored sweet-pea flowers that populate this hillside.
Listening music of Nidia Caro in the new disc player that Martita gave to her mother. #sharing #family #music #tocadiscos #vinil #familytime #b/w
Vestal, NY. May 2024.
If you would like to use THIS picture in any sort of media (such as newspaper or article) please send me a Flickr mail or an e-mail at natehenderson6@gmail.com.
Milica Zec, Director, Film and Mixed Reality, New Reality Co., USA; Cultural Leader speaking during the Session: “Creating Visions of Another World“ at the Annual Meeting 2019 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 24, 2018. Congress Centre – Aspen 2.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher
I came across a film making on King Street and Bay Street in Toronto.
Toronto is often referred to as Hollywood North, and is frequently used by movie crews to create scenes as New York City, Chicago or Boston.
The police offiers are real Toronto constables directing or diverting traffic. The steam behind them is from a machine to create a fake winter feel. The Bew York city yellow cab and the people over the other side of the taxicab are all background actors or extras for the film shooting.
So, these are the letters I created by printing text on a sticky A4 and cutting out the letters using the Cuttlebug machine. I copy-pasted the (French) text from a French website and altered the fonts.
By Stephen Waterhouse – Illustrator and Author.
Welcome to my first solo exhibition which shows some of my favourite artwork from the last 15 years.
When I was a boy I loved to draw and paint fun characters and landscapes and I still do now at 36 years old. At 6 years old I was inspired by Roald Dahl’s books and when I was 12 years old I saw Monet’s drawings, Van Gogh’s paintings and the Simpsons for the first time. That seems like an odd mix but they really inspired me to draw and paint even more. So much so, I painted the whole Simpsons family onto my younger sisters bedroom wall. Luckily she thought they were great!
After leaving school I went to Huddersfield College to do an Art and Design Foundation course for one year. From there I went on to Loughborough University to study Illustration for three years to learn to draw and paint properly, in my own way. Since graduating in 1998 I‘ve been lucky enough to be commissioned to create children’s books, posters, jigsaws and greetings cards.I also visit schools to talk about my work and to do character invention workshops, as well as teaching part-time at Loughborough University.
My latest work is for a book called ‘My Pop-Up World Atlas’. It’s funny because as I failed Geography at ‘A’ Level and this gave me a chance to learn about every continent and country in a very fun and colourful way!
The 35 pieces of artwork here show part of my journey over the last 15 years from 1996 as a student to my latest artwork for a book which came out this summer. This exhibition also shows my transition from painting with acrylics to working digitally on a computer. ‘London at Christmas Time’ (2002) was my very first digital Christmas card and after some experimentation my artwork has mostly all been painted digitally since then. I do however create all my rough drawings the old fashioned way, with a pencil! Some of which I have included here to show my process of development.
Thank you for coming to take a look around, I hope you enjoy the show!
Best Wishes
Stephen
stephen@stephenwaterhouse.com
All Rights Reserved. Copyright Stephen Waterhouse
Womensphere Fall Summit on Creating the Future
Agenda for November 7, 2016
1:00-1:30 PM
Registration, Connecting with Discussion Co-Hosts, and Roundtable Introductions
1:30-2:10 PM
Welcome, Introductions, Context-setting & Launch
• The Leadership Gender Gap: Overview of Global, US, Cross-Industry Contexts
• Women in Leadership & Innovation: Challenges, Opportunities
• Technology-powered Leadership
• NowIsTheTime.com: Celebrating Women’s Firsts
• New Models for Leadership in the World
• Launching NewChampions5050 + Womensphere Incubator Network global initiatives
Anna Ewing – Board Member, New York Hall of Science; Angel Investor; Past CIO & EVP, Global Technology Solutions, NASDAQ OMX
Dr. Valerie Barr – President, ACM-Women (Association for Computing Machinery)
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS
Analisa Leonor Balares – CEO & Chief Innovation Officer, Womensphere
Drue Kataoka – Global Artist & Creator, Now is The Time
2:10 – 3:00 PM
Womensphere Global Leadership Award 2016 & Keynote
Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley; President, National Women’s Business Council
Advancing Women in Leadership in Business & Insights on the Journey to Executive Leadership
Plenary Discussion Panel
Angela Sun – Head of Corporate Development & Strategy, Bloomberg; Young Global Leader
Carla Harris – Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Lili Gil Valetta – CEO, XL Alliance; Young Global Leader
Mary Graham Davis – Managing Partner, Davis Bateson Group; Former Chair, Board of Trustees, Mount Holyoke College
3:00 – 3:10PM Networking Break
3:10 – 4:00 PM
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Building the Pipeline of Talent & Accelerating Leadership for Women
• Insights on Advancing Women in Business & Finance
• Insights on Advancing Women in Science & Technology
• Insights on Advancing Women in Academia & Academic Leadership
• Empowering Millennials to Change the World
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation for Global Initiatives 2017
Amy Dorn Kopelan –President & Founder, Bedlam Productions; Executive Producer, Corporate State CEO Summit
Laura Cantileno – Executive, Cisco; Co-Author, Internet of Women
Dr. Gilda Barabino – Dean, Grove School of Engineering, City College New York
Aria Finger – CEO, DoSomething.org; Young Global Leader
4:00 – 4:50
Sharing Insights & Discussion: Accelerating Impact & Advancing Women's Leadership in the World
• Principles in Accelerating Impact
• Women's Leadership in the World: Driving the Sustainability & Inclusion Agenda
• Women's Innovation in the World: Driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Leveraging Technology to Amplify & Accelerate Impact
• Roundtable Discussion & Ideation: Strategies for Accelerating Women’s Impact & Advancing Women’s
Leadership (Across Fields/Industries)
Dr. Nada Anid – Dean, School of Engineering, New York Institute of Technology
Dr. Sana Odeh – Chair & Founder, Arab Women in Computing
Dina Shoman – CEO & Founder, InHerQuests financial education company; Young Global Leader
Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas – Managing Director & Global Head, Sustainable Investing, UBS; Young Global Leader
4:50 – 5:40
Synthesis & Community Solutions from Roundtable Discussions & Ideation Sessions
• Synthesis of Insights & Learnings – Community Presentations & Reflections
• Introducing: Project American Dreams
• Introducing: The Internet of Women - book and leaders
• Looking Ahead to 2017: Global Initiatives, Global Movement, Next Steps
5:40 – 6:30
Closing Networking Reception
• Community Connections between Speakers, Discussion Co-Hosts, Participants
• Connect with the Book Authors - The Internet of Women
Womensphere 2016 Summit on Creating the Future
Full Steam Ahead
November 7, 2016
Cary Hall @ The DiMenna Center, New York City
Organization: www.womensphere.org
Festival & Summits: www.womenspherefest.com
#Womensphere #CreatingTheFuture
“The poverty of modern architecture stems from the atrophy of sensuality. Everything is dominated by reason in order to create amazement without proper research. We must mistrust pictorial elements if they are not assimilated by instinct. It is not a matter of simply constructing beautiful ensembles of lines, but above all, dwellings for great people.”
- Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray was an influential Irish architect and designer whose iconic modernist work is among the most valuable and sought after in the world today.
Although Gray was not a trained architect, her contribution to design and architecture is incredibly significant. Her E1027 house, nestled within a rocky coastline in the south of France, was famously coveted by her contemporary Le Corbusier, while her ‘dragon’ armchair - made between 1917 and 1919 - sold at a Paris auction for almost 22 million euros in 2009, setting a record for 20th century decorative art.
Gray was born in 1878, near Enniscorthy, Wexford. Her father was a painter who encouraged her artistic interests and in 1898, she enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, to study painting.
In 1900 she made her first visit to Paris – the city in which she was to spend much of her life. Moving there shortly after the trip, Gray continued her studies at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi for around five years before returning to London and the Slade school in 1905.
It was while back in the English capital that Gray chanced upon a Soho lacquer repair shop where she asked to be trained in the art of lacquer work. In 1906 she returned to Paris and began working with a contact of the Soho shop owner, a Japanese artist called Seizo Sugawara, whom she worked with for four years, despite developing lacquer disease on her hands.
It was this training however, that paved the way for her future career. In 1913, at the age of 35, Gray first exhibited her lacquer work and recently a black lacquered screen, made by the designer between 1923 and 1925, sold for 1.3 million euro at auction.
Her first major foray into furniture and interior design came at the end of the first World War, when Gray was tasked with decorating the apartment of a successful female milliner in the rue de Lota. It was during this period that she designed her famous ‘Bibendum’ chair, as well as carpets with modern geometric patterns and lamps, including the ‘tube’ style lamp for which she is also known.
Several art critics at the time hailed the work as innovative and in light of this positive response, Gray opened what was to prove a hugely successful shop in Paris - Jean Desert - to exhibit and sell her work and that of her artist friends.
In 1924, with her then partner, the Romanian architectural critic Jean Badovici, Gray’s interests turned to house design. That year she began work on ‘E-1027’ (the name of the building being a code for the couple’s initials - E for Eileen, 10 for J, the tenth letter of the alphabet, 2 for B and 7 for G).
The sharp clean lines, flat roof and ribbon windows that featured throughout the Cote d’Azur house helped make it an icon of modernist architecture. As well as collaborating with Badovici on the structural elements of the house, Gray also designed the interior and furniture – creating another design classic in the circular glass and steel E-1027 table.
Her friend and professional contemporary, Le Corbusier was said to be greatly impressed by the house and built his own summer home nearby. However, in what is believed by some critics to have been an act of jealous vandalism, he covered large areas of the white painted walls with somewhat gaudy and explicit murals, much to Gray’s distaste (they were apparently created at Badovici's behest in her absence.) It is perhaps ironic that Le Corbusier died in 1965, while swimming in the sea directly in front of E-1027, a building thought to have stirred such professional envy in him.
The house itself has been tarred by misfortune over the years – it was looted in the evacuation of the French coast during World War II, and in 1996 the then owner was murdered in the building. For years E-1027 fell into a bad state of disrepair, but it is currently being restored as part of plans by the French government, who designated it a French National Cultural Monument. The national agency, Conservatoire du Littoral, bought the villa in 1999 to secure it provisionally and it is hoped the house will be ready and open to the public again by 2015.
After the war, Gray returned to Paris and led a reclusive life, almost forgotten by the design industry. Then, in 1968, she agreed to the further production of her Bibendum chair, E-1027 table and other works with renowned London based retailer Zeev Aram – leading to the pieces becoming the modern classics they are today.
In 1973, she was recognised by her home country in the Bank of Ireland exhibition: Eileen Gray, Pioneer of Design. The event was organised by the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) which later presented her with a honourary fellowship.
Eileen Gray died in her Paris apartment in 1976. In the following four decades her legacy lives on - her style still heavily influences modern design and the value and collectability of her work continues to grow.
History E1027, designed BY ARCHITECT EILEEN GRAY
1924: Villa is designed by Eileen Gray (with Jean Badovici)
1927: Building is completed
1932: Eileen Gray leaves the house
1937-39: Le Corbusier marks the walls with murals; Gray is displeased at his intervention
1951: Le Corbusier builds Le Cabanon next door
1960: A patron of Le Corbusier, Madame Marie-Louise Schelbert, buys E1027 at his behest
1956: Jean Badovici dies
1965: Le Corbusier has a heart attack and dies whilst swimming in the sea below
1976: Eileen Gray dies
1982: Madame Schelbert dies and a Swiss doctor (Dr. Kaegi) buys E1027
1996: Dr Kaegi is murdered in the villa by his gardeners
1999: Municipality of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and the French Government buy E1027
2008: Restoration begins on now dilapidated villa
2013: The restoration had cost €600,000
2015: It is hoped that the house will be open to the public
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