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Does the banana peel feel existential Emptiness?

but which side

"Fearfully" means that we are so exquisitely fragile and delicate and vulnerable that if you really thought about it, you'd quake with existential anxiety. It can all be taken from us--our babies, our dogs, our books and imaginations, our ability to see whatever shards of Light we might notice today amidst the noise and the haste...

 

And WONDERFULLY made, perfect, all evidence and bad self esteem to the contrary, gorgeous as children and poems in the eyes of God. Not made to starve ourselves. Made for radical self-care, so that we can fill up and give from a place of crazy generosity because we have been so freely given delicious food and outrageous friendships.

 

So yeah, I just started out to share this one possible insight--that this will be my body the whole time I am here! This one! Yikes, how awful. No, wait wait, this exact one, that is STILL HERE, against all odds. Thank you thank you thank you God. We have lost so many precious friends who would have done anything do have some more time in this joint, with our Mother outdoors, with those they love most. Anything!

 

So that is how I am going to spend today, pretty much-sort of more-or-less believing that this is it. This body, this biography, this exact family, this everything. And it is wonderfully made, of love and energy, for love and energy, for giving, forgiving, for--as Wiiliam Blake said--learning to endure the beams of love. And joy will always be the best make up."

[With thanks to Annie Lamott]

sooooooooo...after a rough time of artistics and existential crises i've finally finished this piece...

this is part of my college conclusion project...i'm trying to use this world of mine to pass on my ideas of the humans mistakes...and i'm also trying to pass it like if i've actually been there and have come back like a Charles Darwin / War journalism expediction...

i know...it doesn't makes much sense...but i'm still working on it!...hope it'll turne out alright!!!

please do leave me your critic or comment if you can!i really need some feed back to if is going fine!

i'm not the most confident guy...sooo it would really help me out!

ow!just one last thing!is this picture to dark???in the optical meaning!i'm having some trouble with calibrating my monitor!dammit!!!!

 

that's all!

see ya!

Today Prime Minister Mark Carney asked Governor-General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament. As a result, Canada is now in a general election. An election had to be called sometime before October 20 of this year. Carney chose sooner than later.

 

For Canada, this is an existential election, centring partly on the ridiculous tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, but even more, this is an organic movement against Trump's continued threats to annex our country. To try to take over Canada would be a very large mistake. Clearly Trump doesn't know one of the main reasons the Geneva Convention was written. He would be advised to look it up.

 

The election called today takes place in 38 days on April 28. This is only one day longer than the minimum election campaign time allowed. Most Canadian general election campaigns run between 5-7 weeks in length. At the dissolution of Parliament, there were 338 seats in the House of Commons. For this election, because of population shifts, there will be elections for 343 seats.

 

Above me in the picture are the leaders of the six main national political parties, all running for election and the right to be Prime Minister. I have arranged the pictures according to their position on the political spectrum as I see it, from left to right.

At left is Jagmeet Singh of the New Democratic Party; Prime Minister Mark Carney of the Liberal Party; Elizabeth May of the Green Party; Yves-François Blanchet of the Bloc Québécois; Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party; and Maxime Bernier of the People's Party.

There are also numerous smaller, more regional parties with more limited slates that rarely get any candidates elected.

 

For those that believe, think or even hope that Canada will become the 51st state of the United States (ludicrous as that sounds simply because Canada is the second largest country in the world), be advised that authoritarians do not take over other countries to broaden their voter base. They take over other countries to exploit their resources and use the population as cheap, often slave, labour. And if you doubt that, see the history of Germany 1938-45 after their "liberations" of other countries began.

Trip to Chicago History Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo with dad, armed with cameras. Absolutely beautiful day.

O'Henry pondering on serious existential matters, or just chilling by the window.

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Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.

 

There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.

 

'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.

 

Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.

― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)

by Werner Herzog

 

Source: Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests ―A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence. (Noah Isenberg)

A book that I bought from the discarded stack of the library. Someone had torn out several pages and I got it for a euro.

 

= = = = =

 

Who am land where do I come from? And how

do people construct and transform their identity.

Igor Sevcuk's films try to answer these and similar

existential questions. Ten years ago he fled to the

Netherlands from Bosnia. He may be a stranger

here, but even in his homeland, Sevcuk feit alien.

His forebears we re from the Ukraine. Sevcuk's

grandmother was imbued in the culture of her

parents and although none of his family has even

been to the Ukraine, everyone knew what it

means to be Ukrainian.

During the period spent working for the Prix de

Rome, Sevcuk returned to his birthplace in Bosnia.

He filmed his parents' house and the environment

he grew up in. In the film, we meet his grandmother,

singing a song in an unknown language in the living

room. "Language is all to do with identity", says

Sevcuk. "My film is about a language that is almost

never used and that symbolises a distant, elusive

originality. The film shows how the language

gradually loses its meaning."

Igor Sevcuk's films are typified by an al most

documentary style. He lets the camera glide

through the interior of the flat, pausing at

interesting details. Dialogues are interspersed

with atmospheric impressions of the landscape.

His rough filming style leaves room for viewers'

own interpretations. Sevcuk takes you into his

world but deliberately avoids telling finished

stories. "Someone's memories have no clear

beginning or end. This film is about more than just

my own family history. I've also tried to touch on

universal issues surrounding identity."

In many ways, Igor Sevcuk is a painter. He only

started experimenting with moving images a few

years ago. But he never completely forgets his

background as apainter. Sevcuk has an eye for

balanced compositions and unusual perspectives.

Both in his films and his paintings, there is little

use of colour. Sevcuk: "I love the dramatic con-

trasts and raw aesthetic of black and white

images. Colours are anecdotal and, in my opinion,

unnecessary because they don't play an important

role in memories."

The probing and personal way in which Igor

Sevcuk portraits his family's everyday life is

reminiscent of the work of the English artist

Richard Billingham. His rudimentary filming style

closely parallels he style of Dogma films like Festen

and The ldiots. Sometimes the images are jolting

or poorly lit. "I deliberately choose a primitive

filming and editing style", explains Sevcuk. 'Tm

not interesting in making glossy images. The most

important thing is to communicate a feeling."

The poetic visuallanguage af Sevcuks' film is

much appreeiated by the jury. The ertist preîers bis

own pure, personet filming style io editing and

shooiinç conventlans. The members af the jury are

impressed by his exptoreiion af the theme af

identity in layered images. His work is sensiiive,

weil thouçht-oui, and demands etiention: the [ilm's

rich symbolism is camplex and nat easily deciphered.

The jury awards Igor Sevcuk the [irst prize af twenty

thausand euros.

this was my attempt to map out my life in november of 2004; it turned out a hectic, rhizomic flow chart.

"what should i be?" - story of my life...

 

i don't know what to do with him! a brooch would be kinda cool but i don't have any brooch backs and it would show through to the front (through the holes). a necklace would work but it's kinda big (the squares are cm sized for scale). some kind of dangly tag thing on a chain might be cool but i don't know - anyone any ideas?

 

points if you can guess where he's from :) (this one should be easy!)

 

I'm not sure if i've ever suffered an existential crisis on the level that this man is currently having to deal with. Sure, I've had some strange notions from time to time but this guy's desperation at his inability to tell his lovely lady that they aren't really lovers and are, in fact, just stencils is somewhat heartbreaking. Life can be tough, can't it?

 

It's a very different experience painting outside in winter compared to summer. It's freezing cold, wet and windy and you have to finish by 4pm as it's pitch black.

 

No sooner had we got our stencil up and begun applying the very expensive UV reactive white paint to the boards that the rain sweeps in and washes it all straight off. What fun.

 

Our idea was to paint the boards up so they'd look good in normal light but would really kick when you put UV light on them. Despite the inclement conditions we eventually prevailed. Albeit a day later than planned...

 

Cheers

 

id-iom

Existential temporality

Light of possible objects

Productive imagination

 

Existential intent

Conjunction maneuver

Action brought about

I’ve started the project “Twelve months of film” in 2024, after a few years of inactivity due to stuff like existential dread, the ever-looming-over-our-heads capitalist hellscape, sheer laziness, and the biggest offender of all - imposter syndrome.

I decided to (at the very least try) to master two of my cameras during this year - the Olympus OM10 and Zenit 12XP, so here are both of them, accompanied with the lenses that will be used with them - Olympus Zuiko 50mm f1.8, Sigma super-wide II 24mm f2.8 and Olympus Zuiko MC auto-zoom 35-70mm f4 for the Olympus, and Helios 44M-4 58mm f2 and Focal 28mm f2.8 for the Zenit.

The plan is to document the process in as many places as possible, for the sake (and hope) of accountability.

 

Here's the link for the first blogpost:

iso3200.org/blog/2024/01/twelve-months-of-film/

 

and please be patient with this scared beginner

ahh the weather has been so beautiful lately. seriously, 70 degrees and sunny....its perfect. i cant wait for summer.

 

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A blue Fence demarcates the limits of a house with additional shafts of a reedy shoot crisscrossing the fence.

 

A paraiah dog makes its existence felt beyond the iron fence.

  

Every whisper, of every waking hour

I'm choosing my confessions

Trying to keep an eye on you

Like a hurt, lost and blinded fool, fool

Oh no I've said too much

I set it up

 

Consider this

Consider this, the hint of the century

Consider this the slip

That brought me to my knees, failed

What if all these fantasies come

Flailing aground

Now I've said too much

 

I thought that I heard you laughing

I thought that I heard you sing

I think I thought I saw you try

 

But that was just a dream

That was just a dream

 

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion, Performed by Anouk

  

View On Black

   

The slipperiness of our kin for the evening only made us feel at home. All running from an exitable existence, worth trading for a night of existential excitement made for broad conversations of philosophy and the human programing powers of the stars.

Some images are locked in your head the first time you see them. They appear in dreams again. Then when you visit the actual place, you wonder are you still in a dream.

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century literature. His work, which fused elements of realism and the fantastic, typically featured isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Process (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle). The term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe situations like those in his writing.

Kafka was born into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education he obtained employment with an insurance company while writing in his spare time; for the rest of his life would complain about the little time he had to devote to his passion due to the demands of his Brotberuf ("day job", literally "bread job"). Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formative relationship. He died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.

Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections Betrachtung (Contemplation) and Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor), and individual stories (such as "Die Verwandlung") were published in literary magazines but received little public attention. Kafka's unfinished works, including his novels Der Process, Das Schloss and Amerika (also known as Der Verschollene, The Man Who Disappeared), were ordered by Kafka to be destroyed by his friend Max Brod, who nonetheless ignored his friend's direction and published them after Kafka's death.

All of Kafka's published works, except some letters he wrote in Czech to Milena Jesenská, were written in German. What little was published during his lifetime attracted scant public attention.

Kafka finished none of his full-length novels and burned around 90 percent of his work, much of it during the period he lived in Berlin with Diamant, who helped him burn the drafts. In his early years as a writer, he was influenced by von Kleist, whose work he described in a letter to Bauer as frightening, and whom he considered closer than his own family.

Kafka's writing has inspired the term "Kafkaesque", used to describe concepts and situations reminiscent of his work, particularly Der Process (The Trial) and "Die Verwandlung". Examples include instances in which bureaucracies overpower people, often in a surreal, nightmarish milieu which evokes feelings of senselessness, disorientation, and helplessness. Characters in a Kafkaesque setting often lack a clear course of action to escape a labyrinthine situation. Kafkaesque elements often appear in existential works, but the term has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.

Numerous films and television works have been described as Kafkaesque, and the style is particularly prominent in dystopian science fiction. Works in this genre that have been thus described include Patrick Bokanowski's 1982 film The Angel, Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil, and the 1998 science fiction film noir, Dark City. Films from other genres which have been similarly described include The Tenant (1976) and Barton Fink (1991). The television series The Prisoner is also frequently described as Kafkaesque.

 

ESPAÑOL

Franz Kafka (Praga, Imperio austrohúngaro, 3 de julio de 1883 – Kierling, Austria, 3 de junio de 1924) fue un escritor de origen judío nacido en Bohemia que escribió en alemán. Su obra está considerada una de las más influyentes de la literatura universal y está llena de temas y arquetipos sobre la alienación, la brutalidad física y psicológica, los conflictos entre padres e hijos, personajes en aventuras terroríficas, laberintos de burocracia, y transformaciones místicas.

Fue autor de tres novelas, El proceso (Der Prozeß), El castillo (Das Schloß) y El desaparecido (Amerika o Der Verschollene), la novela corta La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung) y un gran número de relatos cortos. Además, dejó una abundante correspondencia y escritos autobiográficos. Su peculiar estilo literario ha sido comúnmente asociado con la filosofía artística del existencialismo —al que influenció— y el expresionismo. Estudiosos de Kafka discuten sobre cómo interpretar al autor, algunos hablan de la posible influencia de alguna ideología política anti burocrática, de una religiosidad mística o de una reivindicación de su minoría etno-cultural, mientras otros se fijan en el contenido psicológico de sus obras. Sus relaciones personales también tuvieron gran impacto en su escritura, particularmente su padre (Carta al padre), su prometida Felice Bauer (Cartas a Felice) y su hermana (Cartas a Ottla).

Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jorge Luis Borges y Gabriel García Márquez se encuentran entre los escritores influenciados por los escritos de Kafka.

El término kafkiano se usa en el idioma español para describir situaciones insólitas, por lo absurdas y angustiosas, como las que se encuentran en sus libros y tiene sus equivalentes en otros idiomas. Solo unas pocas de sus obras fueron publicadas durante su vida.

Kafka sólo publicó algunas historias cortas durante toda su vida, una pequeña parte de su trabajo, por lo que su obra pasó prácticamente inadvertida hasta después de su muerte. Poco antes de su muerte, le dijo a su amigo y albacea Max Brod que destruyera todos sus manuscritos. Brod no le hizo caso y supervisó la publicación de la mayor parte de los escritos que obraban en su poder. La compañera final de Kafka, Dora Diamant, cumplió sus deseos pero solo en parte: guardó en secreto la mayoría de sus últimos escritos, entre ellos 20 cuadernos y 35 cartas, hasta que la Gestapo los confiscó en 1933. La búsqueda de los papeles desaparecidos de Kafka aún continúa a escala internacional.

Los escritos de Kafka pronto comenzaron a despertar el interés del público y a recibir elogios por parte de la crítica, lo que posibilitó su pronta divulgación. Su obra marcó la literatura de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Todas sus páginas publicadas, excepto varias cartas en checo dirigidas a Milena, se encuentran escritas en alemán.

En efecto, su fama creció sin cesar ya en la década de los años 1920, en Austria y en Alemania; ese eco traspasó pronto las fronteras, y durante los años 1930 fue admirado en Inglaterra y Estados Unidos, lo mismo que en Francia durante los años treinta, aunque con interpretaciones muy dispares. Un documento excepcional sobre el día a día de Kafka lo proporcionó G. Janouch, en un libro de Conversaciones, publicado mucho después de la muerte del escritor.

Tras la Segunda guerra mundial, hubo una apreciación más amplia de su obra. Poco a poco, en Francia, se logró –gracias a Marthe Robert– tener ediciones fiables, en un proceso que duró lustros. En Buenos Aires fue traducido y difundido en español, y hubo que esperar hasta los estertores del franquismo para que se editase en España.

En su obra, a menudo el protagonista se enfrenta a un mundo complejo, que se basa en reglas desconocidas, paradójicas o inescrutables.

Canary Wharf is an area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Canary Wharf is defined by the Greater London Authority as being part of London's central business district, alongside Central London. With the City of London, it constitutes one of the main financial centres in the United Kingdom and the world, containing many high-rise buildings including the third-tallest in the UK, One Canada Square, which opened on 26 August 1991.

 

Developed on the site of the former West India Docks, Canary Wharf contains around 16,000,000 sq ft (1,500,000 m2) of office and retail space. It has many open areas, including Canada Square, Cabot Square and Westferry Circus. Together with Heron Quays and Wood Wharf, it forms the Canary Wharf Estate, around 97 acres (39 ha) in area.

 

Canary Wharf is located on the West India Docks on the Isle of Dogs.

 

From 1802 to the late 1980s, what would become the Canary Wharf Estate was a part of the Isle of Dogs (Millwall), Limehouse, and Poplar and was one of the busiest docks in the world. West India Docks was primarily developed by Robert Milligan (c. 1746–1809) who set up the West India Dock Company.

 

The Port of London Authority was established in 1909 and took control of West India Dock. Canary Wharf itself takes its name from No. 32 berth of the West Wood Quay of the Import Dock. This was built in 1936 for Fruit Lines Ltd, a subsidiary of Fred Olsen Lines for the Mediterranean and Canary Islands fruit trade. It is located on the Isle of Dogs, the quay and warehouse were given the name Canary Wharf.

 

After the 1960s, when cargo became containerized, port industry began to decline, leading to all the docks being closed by 1980. After the docks closed in 1980, the British Government adopted policies to stimulate redevelopment of the area, including the creation of the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) in 1981 and the granting of Urban Enterprise Zone status to the Isle of Dogs in 1982.

 

The Canary Wharf of today began when Michael von Clemm, former chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), came up with the idea to convert Canary Wharf into a back office. Further discussions with G Ware Travelstead led to proposals for a new business district and included the LDDC developing an inexpensive light metro scheme, the Docklands Light Railway, to make use of a large amount of redundant railway infrastructure and to improve access.

 

The project was sold to the Canadian company Olympia & York and construction began in 1988, master-planned by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill with Yorke Rosenberg Mardall as their UK advisors, and subsequently by Koetter Kim. The first buildings were completed in 1991, including One Canada Square, which became the UK's tallest building at the time and a symbol of the regeneration of Docklands. By the time it opened, the London commercial property market had collapsed, and Olympia and York Canary Wharf Limited filed for bankruptcy in May 1992.

 

Initially, the City of London saw Canary Wharf as an existential threat. It modified its planning laws to expand the provision of new offices in the City of London, for example, creating offices above railway stations (Blackfriars) and roads (Alban Gate). The resulting oversupply of office space contributed to the failure of the Canary Wharf project.

 

In October 1995, an international consortium that included investors such as Alwaleed, bought control for $1.2 billion. Paul Reichmann, of Olympia & York, was named chairman, and Canary Wharf went public in 1999. The new company was called Canary Wharf Limited, and later became Canary Wharf Group.

 

In 1997, some residents living on the Isle of Dogs launched a lawsuit against Canary Wharf Ltd for private nuisance because the tower interfered with TV signals. The residents lost the case.

 

Recovery in the property market generally, coupled with continuing demand for large floorplate Grade A office space, slowly improved the level of interest. A critical event in the recovery was the much-delayed start of work on the Jubilee Line Extension, which the government wanted ready for the Millennium celebrations.

 

In March 2004, Canary Wharf Group plc. was taken over by a consortium of investors, backed by its largest shareholder Glick Family Investments and led by Morgan Stanley using a vehicle named Songbird Estates plc.

 

In addition to being a leading global financial district in the United Kingdom, Canary Wharf is famous for a cluster of the tallest modern commercial complexes and residential high-rise buildings. Building from scratch in early 1990s, the district is home to the first tallest iconic skyscraper, One Canada Square, in the United Kingdom. In twenty years, Charf Wharf’s new rapid grown skyscraper cluster has dramatically transformed the skyline of London with modern architectures.

 

As of 2023, Canary Wharf has five out of the top ten tallest buildings in the United Kingdom.

One Canada Square (235 m) and Landmark Pinnacle (233 m) are the third and fourth tallest buildings in the United Kingdom. The seventh to ninth tallest buildings in the United Kingdom are: Newfoundland (220 m), South Quay Plaza (215 m), and One Park Drive (205 m).

The 75-storey Landmark Pinnacle is the tallest residential tower in the United Kingdom and the whole of western Europe.

Newfoundland is the tallest build-to-rent building in the United Kingdom.

Novotel London Canary Wharf is the tallest all-hotel building in the United Kingdom, and the tallest Novotel in the world.

One Canada Square, at 235 metres (771 ft), achieved a 21-year record of the tallest building in the United Kingdom from 1991 to 2012. With its distinctive pyramid pinnacle, the building is recognised as a London landmark, and has been featured in many films and television shows.

As at 12 February 2023, there are 16 listed buildings in Canary Wharf of which 2 are Grade I and 14 in Grade II.

 

Grade I Listed Buildings

Quay Walls, Copings and Buttresses to Import Dock and Export Dock: The original West India Docks consists of three docks. The Import Dock, the earliest, was opened in 1800–02, and followed to south by the Export Dock of 1803–06.

Warehouses and General Offices at Western End of North Quay: originally a range of nine warehouses was built 1800–04 at the western end of North Quay, West India Dock Road. Only two warehouses survived the bombing raid in World War II.

These docks with Nos 1 and 2 warehouses are now the only surviving examples of the first intensive period of London Docklands construction: 1800–10.

 

Grade II Listed Buildings

Most of the Grade II Listed buildings in Canary Wharf sit to the north-west of West India Dock North, and are located within the West India Dock Conservation Area. In addition to architectural values, “these buildings and structures are of significance due to their association with the development of the docks and the community that grew up around them”.

 

Corporations and agencies

Canary Wharf contains around 16,000,000 sq ft (1,500,000 m2) of office and retail space, of which around 7,900,000 sq ft (730,000 m2) (about 49%) is owned by Canary Wharf Group. Around 105,000 people work in Canary Wharf, and it is home to the world or European headquarters of numerous major banks, professional services firms, and media organisations, including Barclays, Citigroup, Clifford Chance, Credit Suisse, Ernst & Young, Fitch Ratings, HSBC, Infosys, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, MetLife, Moody's, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Canada, Deutsche Bank, S&P Global, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, State Street, The Economist Group and Thomson Reuters. Until 2018, Canary Wharf also hosted two European Union agencies, European Medicines Agency and European Banking Authority, that moved to Amsterdam and Paris respectively due to Brexit.

 

Leisure

Marina

West India Quays and Poplar Dock are two marinas that are used as moorings for barges and private leisure river craft and is owned by the Canal & River Trust.

 

Library

A local public library, called Idea Store Canary Wharf, is in Churchill Place shopping mall and run by Tower Hamlets Council which opened on Thursday 16 March 2006 as part of the Idea Store project and is the borough fourth Idea Store.

 

Cinema

Canary Wharf hosts two multiplexes (cinemas), one on West India Quay run by Cineworld. and another at Crossrail Place called Everyman Cinema.

 

Squares and Public Areas

Canada Square is one of the central squares at Canary Wharf. It is a large open space with grass, except during the winter when it is converted into an ice rink. The square is named after Canada, because the original developers of modern Canary Wharf, Olympia & York, wanted to reflect their heritage. Underneath the square is Canada Place shopping mall.

 

Westferry Circus

Westferry Circus is on the west side of Canary Wharf. It is a garden at ground level, and below is a roundabout allowing traffic to flow through. The garden is enclosed by bespoke hand-crafted ornamental railings and entrance gates by artist Giuseppe Lund. The area has a long history, dating back to 1812, when the Poplar and Greenwich Roads Company operated a horse ferry between Greenwich and the Isle of Dogs. It operated on the West Ferry and East Ferry Roads, which the names survived. Westferry Circus was chosen as the name for the roundabout and park by virtue of its proximity to Westferry Road.

 

Cabot Square

Cabot Square is one of the biggest squares at Canary Wharf, with a large fountain at the centre. The inner perimeter has additional fountains covered by trees. The square has large circular glass ventilation holes to allow gases to escape from the underground car park. The square is named after John Cabot and his son Sebastian, who were Italian explorers who settled in England in 1484.

 

Churchill Place

Churchill Place is an area on the east side of Canary Wharf. It is named after Winston Churchill.

 

Columbus Courtyard

A small square on the west side of Canary Wharf named after Christopher Columbus. The first phase of Canary Wharf was completed in 1992, 500 years after Columbus arrived in America.

 

Chancellor Passage

A passageway south of Cabot Square. Named after Richard Chancellor who sailed with Sir John Willoughby from Greenwich on their voyage through the White Sea to Moscow.

 

Wren Landing

Small area north of Cabot Square. Leads to North Dock footbridge towards Port East. Named after British architect Christopher Wren.

 

Montgomery Square

Located at the east end of Jubilee Park, Montgomery Square is a buzzy outdoor spot that’s made for socialising. With a regular roster of events from street food markets, beach volleyball tournaments, padel tennis competition, to free minigolf course, there’s always something happening in this convivial open space.

 

Parks and Green Spaces

Canary Wharf Group is enthusiastic about adding more green spaces and gardens to the dense urban environment. A total of 20 acres of landscaped parks, gardens and verdant squares complete with 1,000 trees, 4,000 shrubs and 70,000 seasonal plants are added each year. Visitors are welcome to explore these parks and green spaces, which are ideal places for relaxation, social gatherings, performances, viewing outdoor public art, as well as hosting outdoor events and festivities.

 

Jubilee Park

Jubilee Park is a 10,000m² roof garden located above Jubilee Place, a shopping mall, and Canary Wharf Jubilee Station, an underground railway station. The park, opened in 2002 and was named in honour of the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II. Jubilee Park is located in the financial district of Canary Wharf. The park’s central feature is a raised serpentine water channel with rough stone walls. The curvilinear design of the water channel is intended to contrast to the scale and straightness of the surrounding buildings. In 2023, Jubilee Park won the Green Flag Award, recognising Jubilee Park as one of the United Kingdom's best parks

 

Crossrail Place Roof Garden

A 4,160m² roof garden, one of London's largest, houses on the top of seven-storey Crossrail Place structure, which contains the Elizabeth line Canary Wharf station. Opened to public in 2015, it lies almost exactly on the Meridian line splitting eastern and western hemispheres. The plants originating from the eastern hemisphere are planted to the East of the Meridian line in the garden, with those from the Western hemisphere on the opposite side. The design and development of Crossrail Place Roof Garden was honored by winning numerous prestigious international and United Kingdom awards. Selected notable awards include: “Best Urban Regeneration Project” at 2016 MIPIM awards in France, the first prize for the best “Innovative Design of a Contemporary Garden” at the 2017 European Garden Awards in Berlin, and a Highly Commended accolade at the 2016 Landscape Institute Awards in the category ‘Design for a Small-Scale Development’.

 

Harbour Quay Garden

A newly opened garden, located at the strand of Wood Wharf, features a boardwalk for waterside wandering. The garden also offers family-friendly picnic spots and outdoor fitness equipment on the green lawn, where visitors can relax, view outdoor public art, and watch the water. Just around the corner, it has access to a new garden square, Harbord Square Park.

 

Harbord Square Park

Harbord Square Park, the newest garden square in Wood Wharf, continues the great London tradition of garden squares. It is open 24/7 and offers green space available for mindfulness activities and to support nearby residents’ general wellbeing.

 

Shopping Center

Canary Wharf shopping center, ranked as one of the best in London, has five interconnected shopping malls: Canada Place, Cabot Place, Jubilee Place, Crossrail Place and Churchill Place. The malls provide over 102,193m² (1.1 million sq ft) of retail space, more than 310 shops from beauty, fashion, lifestyle, luxurious brands, health, and homeware, as well as 70 cafés, bars, and restaurants, 8 grocery stores, 5 health clubs and 1 cinema. There are also numerous bars, restaurants, and food halls at street level, alongside plenty of outdoor seating enabling visitors to see the stunning wharf and riverside views.

 

Culture

Opened in a Grade I listed Georgian warehouse by Queen Elizabeth II in June 2003, the Museum of London Docklands is one of the main attractions in the area. It is dedicated to the history of London’s river, port, and people from Roman settlement to the present day. The museum offers a range of activities for children and families, including interactive displays and immersive activities.

 

Canary Wharf has been reported since 2017 as part of the Pokémon Go augmented reality game to being the home for the most wanted Pokémon gyms in London including Canary Wharf DLR station and Montgomery Square.

 

Canary Wharf Group published an official Pokémon map for PokéStop's and Pokémon Gyms, the managing director for retail Camille Waxer said in 2016 that Pokémon Go has serious potential to attract new audiences to the area, particularly food and drink outlets are seeing an increase in footfall.

 

Canary Wharf features in both the Doctor Who and Torchwood franchises as the fictional base of the Torchwood Institute, an organisation created by Queen Victoria to combat extraterrestrial threats. Canary Wharf features heavily as the staging post for the 2007 Cyberman invasion of Earth and is heavily damaged during a resulting battle between the Cybermen and the Daleks.

 

Thom Yorke of Radiohead, during their concert Live at the Astoria in May 1994, explained their song Fake Plastic Trees is about Canary Wharf.

 

Events and Festivals

Incepted in 2014, the Canary Wharf Winter Lights Festival turns on January of the year. Public are free to visit a range of outdoor light art and interactive installations created by artists from around the world. The festival has awarded the Best Creative Lighting Event award by the [d]arc awards in 2017 and 2019. The 2023 Canary Wharf Winter Lights Festival is described as the largest light art festival in London.

 

WaterAid Dragon Boat Race

It is an annual fundraising event organized by WaterAid, an international charity, in collaboration with the Canary Wharf Group. The funds raised through this event are used to combat the escalating water crisis that leaves people globally unable to access clean water and without a basic toilet. The Dragon Boat Race, based on a Chinese tradition dating back over 2,000 years, takes place in South Dock of Canary Wharf on summer, and is open to corporate teams of between 11 and 17 participants. In 2022, 15 teams participated the race, and the event raised £26,000. With 19 teams taking place in the 2023 race, the raised funds was increased to £31,744.

 

Festival14

Hosted by the Canary Wharf Group, the festival was a four-day event from Thursday 21st to Sunday 24 July 2022. It hosted over 60 live acts including music, theatre, dance, poetry, comedy, family funs and children’s activities throughout the estate. The majority of acts were free to attend, and the event transformed the Estate’s numerous parks, plazas, and open spaces as they hosted a stunning line-up of artists and performers from across the world. The second year of Festival14 is extended to a five day event from Wednesday 26th to Sunday 30 July 2023.

 

Open Water Swimming

Canary Wharf has partnered with Love Open Water to launch its first outdoor swimming since summer 2022. The venue, located in the 220-year-old Middle Dock, offers 600 square meters of open water swimming. Residents, workers and visitors can enjoy a unique experience of outdoor swimming in the heart of the London commercial district whilst taking in the stunning views of the iconic One Canada Square and Newfoundland residential skycrapper.

 

Outdoor Public Art

The Canary Wharf Art Trail is the largest outdoor public art collection in London. People are free to visit more than 100 pieces of stand-alone sculptures, integrated architectural works, and outdoor art exhibiting outside buildings around the Canary Wharf area. Two printed maps are regularly updated by the Canary Wharf Group for visitors to discover and identify artworks permanently on display all over the estate.

 

Canary Wharf Art Map: over 100 pieces of artworks, with a brief description, are numbered sequentially as to their exhibition locations at Canary Wharf.

Children's Art Trail: a smaller trail of 12 sculptures and artworks for children.

The Canary Wharf website provides information about Raise Your Art Rate, an ongoing event that allows visitors to explore the outdoor public art collection while exercising. The event offers 1, 3, and 5 km walking, jogging or running routes that traverse the artworks. The routes are tailored to showcase the over 100 artworks on display throughout the estate. The event is free and open to all visitors.

 

London Docklands is the riverfront and former docks in London. It is located in inner east and southeast London, in the boroughs of Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Newham and Greenwich. The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world's largest port. After the docks closed, the area had become derelict and poverty-ridden by the 1980s. The Docklands' regeneration began later that decade; it has been redeveloped principally for commercial and residential use. The name "London Docklands" was used for the first time in a government report on redevelopment plans in 1971 and has since been almost universally adopted. The redevelopment created wealth, but also led to some conflict between the new and old communities in the area.

 

Establishment

In Roman and medieval times, ships arriving in the River Thames tended to dock at small quays in the present-day City of London or Southwark, an area known as the Pool of London. However, these gave no protection against the elements, were vulnerable to thieves and suffered from a lack of space at the quayside. The Howland Great Dock in Rotherhithe (built in 1696, and later to form the core of the Surrey Commercial Docks) was designed to address these problems, providing a large, secure and sheltered anchorage with room for 120 large vessels. It was a major commercial success, and provided for two phases of expansion during the Georgian and Victorian eras.

 

The first of the Georgian docks was the West India (opened in 1802), followed by the London (1805), the East India (also 1805), the Surrey (1807), the Regent's Canal Dock (1820), St Katharine (1828) and the West India South (1829). The Victorian docks were mostly further east, comprising the Royal Victoria (1855), Millwall (1868) and Royal Albert (1880). The King George V Dock (1921) was a late addition.

 

Development

Three principal kinds of docks existed. Wet docks were where ships were laid up at anchor and loaded or unloaded. Dry docks, which were far smaller, took individual ships for repairing. Ships were built at dockyards along the riverside. In addition, the river was lined with innumerable warehouses, piers, jetties and dolphins (mooring points). The various docks tended to specialise in different forms of produce. The Surrey Docks concentrated on timber, for instance; Millwall took grain; St Katharine took wool, sugar and rubber; and so on.

 

The docks required an army of workers, chiefly lightermen (who carried loads between ships and quays aboard small barges called lighters) and quayside workers, who dealt with the goods once they were ashore. Some of the workers were highly skilled: the lightermen had their own livery company or guild, while the deal porters (workers who carried timber) were famous for their acrobatic skills. Most were unskilled and worked as casual labourers. They assembled at certain points, such as pubs, each morning, where they were selected more or less at random by foremen. For these workers, it was effectively a lottery whether they would get work on any particular day. This arrangement continued until as late as 1965, although it was somewhat regularised after the creation of the National Dock Labour Scheme in 1947.

 

The main dockland areas were originally low-lying marshes, mostly unsuitable for agriculture and lightly populated. With the establishment of the docks, the dock workers formed a number of tight-knit local communities with their own distinctive cultures and slang. Due to poor communications with other parts of London, they tended to develop in some isolation. Road access to the Isle of Dogs, for example, was only via two swing bridges. Local sentiment there was so strong that Ted Johns, a local community campaigner, and his supporters, in protest at the lack of social provision from the state, unilaterally declared independence for the area, set up a so-called "Island Council" with Johns himself as its elected leader, and blocked off the two access roads.

 

20th century

The docks were originally built and managed by a number of competing private companies. From 1909, they were managed by the Port of London Authority (PLA) which amalgamated the companies in a bid to make the docks more efficient and improve labour relations. The PLA constructed the last of the docks, the King George V, in 1921, as well as greatly expanding the Tilbury docks.

 

German bombing during the Second World War caused massive damage to the docks, with 380,000 tons of timber destroyed in the Surrey Docks in a single night. Nonetheless, following post-war rebuilding they experienced a resurgence of prosperity in the 1950s. The end came suddenly, between approximately 1960 and 1970, when the shipping industry adopted the newly invented container system of cargo transportation. London's docks were unable to accommodate the much larger vessels needed by containerization, and the shipping industry moved to deep-water ports such as Tilbury and Felixstowe. Between 1960 and 1980, all of London's docks were closed, leaving around eight square miles (21 km2) of derelict land in East London.

 

Redevelopment

Efforts to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect. The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council (GLC), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.

 

To address this problem, in 1981 the Secretary of State for the Environment, Michael Heseltine, formed the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) to redevelop the area. This was a statutory body appointed and funded by central government (a quango), with wide powers to acquire and dispose of land in the Docklands. It also served as the development planning authority for the area.

 

Another important government intervention was the designation in 1982 of an enterprise zone, an area in which businesses were exempt from property taxes and had other incentives, including simplified planning and capital allowances. This made investing in the Docklands a significantly more attractive proposition and was instrumental in starting a property boom in the area.

 

The LDDC was controversial; it was accused of favouring elitist luxury developments rather than affordable housing, and it was unpopular with the local communities, who felt that their needs were not being addressed. Nonetheless, the LDDC was central to a remarkable transformation in the area, although how far it was in control of events is debatable. It was wound up in 1998 when control of the Docklands area was handed back to the respective local authorities.

 

The massive development programme managed by the LDDC during the 1980s and 1990s saw a huge area of the Docklands converted into a mixture of residential, commercial and light industrial space. The clearest symbol of the whole effort was the ambitious Canary Wharf project that constructed Britain's tallest building at the time and established a second business district (CBD) in London. However, there is no evidence that the LDDC foresaw this scale of development; nearby Heron Quays had already been developed as low-density offices when Canary Wharf was proposed, and similar development was already underway on Canary Wharf itself, Limehouse Studios being the most famous occupant.

 

Canary Wharf was far from trouble-free; the property slump of the early 1990s halted further development for several years. Developers found themselves, for a time, saddled with property that they were unable to sell or let.

 

Transport

The Docklands historically had poor transport connections. This was addressed by the LDDC with the construction of the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), which connected the Docklands with the city. According to Transport for London, the owner of the project, it was a remarkably inexpensive development, costing only £77 million in its first phase, as it relied on reusing disused railway infrastructure and derelict land for much of its length. The LDDC originally requested a full London Underground line, but the Government refused to fund it.

 

The LDDC also built the Limehouse Link tunnel, a cut and cover road tunnel linking the Isle of Dogs to The Highway (the A1203 road) at a cost of over £150 million per kilometre, one of the most expensive stretches of road ever built.

 

The LDDC also contributed to the development of London City Airport (IATA airport code LCY), opened in October 1987 on the spine of the Royal Docks.

 

The London Underground's Jubilee line was extended eastwards in 1999; it now serves Rotherhithe/Surrey Quays at Canada Water station, the Isle of Dogs at Canary Wharf tube station, Greenwich at North Greenwich tube station and the nearby Royal Docks at Canning Town station. The DLR was extended in 1994 to serve much of the Royal Docks area when the Beckton branch was opened. The Isle of Dogs branch was extended further south, and in 1999 it began serving Greenwich town centre—including the Cutty Sark museum—Deptford and finally Lewisham. In 2005, a new branch of the DLR opened from Canning Town to serve what used to be the eastern terminus of the North London Line, including a station at London City Airport. It was then further extended to Woolwich Arsenal in 2009.

 

Future developments

Further development projects are being proposed and put into practice within the London Dockland area, such as:

 

Extensions of the DLR, possibly to Dagenham.

Further development of Canada Water.

Redevelopment of Blackwall Basin and Wood Wharf, east of Canary Wharf.

New skyscrapers to be built at Canary Wharf, including the Riverside South towers, the Heron Quays West double-skyscraper development and the North Quay project, consisting of three towers.

In the early 21st century, redevelopment is spreading into the more suburban parts of east and southeast London, and into the parts of the counties of Kent and Essex that abut the Thames Estuary. See Thames Gateway and Lower Lea Valley for further information on this trend.

 

History

The numbers of several London Buses routes are prefixed D for Docklands; all run on the north bank of the River Thames as part of the London bus network, and act as feeder buses to the DLR. The D network was developed in the early stages of Docklands redevelopment; it was originally much larger, but as transport rapidly improved across east London, the need for the D routes reduced. Today only four remain, running primarily in Tower Hamlets and briefly into Newham and Hackney. Stagecoach London operate routes D6, D7 and D8, and Blue Triangle operate route D3.

 

21st century

The population of the Docklands has more than doubled during the last 30 years, and the area has become a major business centre. Canary Wharf has emerged as one of Europe's biggest clusters of skyscrapers and a major extension to the financial services district of the City of London.

 

Although most of the old wharfs and warehouses have been demolished, some have been restored and converted into flats. Many of the docks themselves have survived and are now used as marinas or watersports centres; a major exception is the Surrey Commercial Docks, which are now largely filled in. Although large ships can—and occasionally still do—visit the old docks, all of the commercial traffic has moved downriver further east.

 

The revival of the Docklands has had major effects in other run-down surrounding areas. Greenwich and Deptford are undergoing large-scale redevelopment, chiefly as a result of the improved transport links making them more attractive to commuters.

 

The Docklands' redevelopment has, however, had some less beneficial aspects. The massive property boom and consequent rise in house prices has led to friction between the new arrivals and the old Docklands communities, who have complained of being squeezed out. It has also made for some of the most striking disparities to be seen anywhere in Britain: luxury executive flats constructed alongside run-down public housing estates.

 

The Docklands' status as a symbol of Margaret Thatcher's Britain has also made it a target for terrorists. After a failed attempt to bomb Canary Wharf in 1992, a large IRA bomb exploded at South Quay on 9 February 1996. Two people died in the explosion, forty people were injured and an estimated £150 million of damage was caused. This bombing ended an IRA ceasefire. James McArdle was sentenced to 25 years of jail time but released in 2000 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and royal prerogative of mercy officially signed by Queen Elizabeth II.

 

In a further sign of regeneration in the area, the Docklands now has its own symphony orchestra, Docklands Sinfonia; which was formed in January 2009 and is based at St Anne's Limehouse.

 

Economy

The offices of The Independent group of publications were at one time situated in the Docklands. In 2008, Independent News & Media announced that The Independent would be moving its offices to Northcliffe House in Kensington.

 

London's Docklands has become one of the world's leading global internet hubs since the opening in 1990 of the carrier-neutral Telehouse campus, which hosts the vast majority of LINX's internet peering traffic, occupying over 73,000 square metres. In August 2016, Telehouse Europe opened the $177 million North Two data centre of 24,000 square metres that became the only UK data centre to own a 132 kV on-campus grid substation that is directly connected to the National Grid, reducing transmission losses and improving power density and service continuity.

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Adventure; 1. An exciting or very unusual experience; 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.

 

We met each other when we were looking for adventure, in the middle of the month in which nothing use to happen. At some point of our lifes, the circumstances gave us the need of a turnaround. And so we did. Me, wounded, pursuing the solo activity as always. He, wounded too, hunting for fresh air. And there you had the two of us, melt in a kind symbiosis without any further or preconceived interest.

 

One of the most significant facts about our wonderful encounter it is how our first serious conversation was indeed about the moment in when we better found ourselves in the past, respectively. Irish grass and swedish pines came together creating a world full of pure essences, inspiring nature and a bit of nostalgia.

 

Since that very first day, the best impression I got from you was your extraordinary way of listening to my words, sometimes wise, sometimes young, but equally important for your breathtaking eyes. At the same time, you were talkative, even after you had said you were apparently not. I felt, and feel, lucky for being the one able to listen to your feelings and thoughts. And, of course, for the learning.

 

I remember how did you talk about the concept of Sharing. How did you felt like you had the necesity of giving, and you have been surprised about how good you feel when you are given too. Honestly, I haven’t been reflecting about it until you started, and it has take me some time until I have understood the full meaning of such a beautiful word. For me, it feels somehow as if a single person could duplicate itself in other to imbibe life in it maximum exponent for becoming one again at the end of the day.

 

Because being solitary does not mean to need, want or even like to live life alone. It is much more than that. It is the inteligent exercise of doing things separately in order to gain double experiences to enjoy together. Because the key is about the most sincere, generous and equitable way of sharing. Wolf, we are reinventing the concept of true Love in the century we are here to live, and I can not even put into words how fortunate and happy makes me the sensation of being in the best of the paths ever.

  

Listening to: Magic, Coldplay.

 

👑 Senses : 👀 Vision 👆 To Touch 💃 Proprioception 👂 Hearing Equilibrioception 👃 Smell ♨️ Thermoception 👅 Taste

⚡ Intelligences : ️ Spatial Intelligence

⛹️ Kinesthetic Body Intelligence

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Interpersonal Intelligence

🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence

️ Verbal-linguistic

🔭 Existential Intelligence

 

📋 WHAT :

️ eXploration / Corsica - Corse (South)

🌟 Corsica - Corse (South)

💫 United States of America/America World

🌌 City/Nature Galaxy

✨ eXploration Universe (️)

📝 Type : Ground eXploration

🎨 Style : eXploration Corsica - Corse (South)

🔊 Language : International (🇬🇧 description in English, but comprehensible by the whole world)

 

️ You can use your playlists as filters, to find what you're looking for exactly : www.youtube.com/channel/UCpvj7oecmX3AsJT6R0JP2pQ/playlists?

 

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📏 HOW MUCH :

👑 8 Senses

⚡ 6 Intelligences

 

WHO :

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📼 Video made by LG (Windows Movie Maker 2017)

© Etoile Copyright

 

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❓ WHY : eXplore South Corsica (Le sud de la Corse)

 

📍 WHERE : South Corsica (Le sud de la Corse) (🇫🇷France)

 

🕓 WHEN : July 2017

 

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Now for the existential question. I sort mine by part type. Not color.

 

And I'm not at all sure where the Palace Cinema's gonna land.

As it says on the Photographer's Gallery site:

 

In the period following World War I, a curious attraction appeared at fairgrounds: the photographic shooting gallery. If the punter’s bullet hit the centre of the target, this triggered a camera. Instead of winning a balloon or toy, the participant would win a snapshot of him or herself in the act of shooting.

 

The exhibition included a replica of this fairground setup where - for an additional fiver - you got a print inserted into the target you'd shot at (if you hit the bull's eye with one of your four pellets). Took me two goes, one lunchtime in December. A worryingly satisfying thing to be able to do.

 

(Not sure why I've had a hiatus in posting stuff, but I hope to start wading through the backlog any day now.)

👑 Senses : 👀 Vision 👆 To Touch 💃 Proprioception 👂 Hearing Equilibrioception 👃 Smell ♨️ Thermoception 👅 Taste

⚡ Intelligences : ️ Spatial Intelligence

⛹️ Kinesthetic Body Intelligence

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Interpersonal Intelligence

🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence

️ Verbal-linguistic

🔭 Existential Intelligence

 

📋 WHAT :

️ eXploration / Corsica - Corse (South)

🌟 Corsica - Corse (South)

💫 United States of America/America World

🌌 City/Nature Galaxy

✨ eXploration Universe (️)

📝 Type : Ground eXploration

🎨 Style : eXploration Corsica - Corse (South)

🔊 Language : International (🇬🇧 description in English, but comprehensible by the whole world)

 

️ You can use your playlists as filters, to find what you're looking for exactly : www.youtube.com/channel/UCpvj7oecmX3AsJT6R0JP2pQ/playlists?

 

⚠ The items are sorted by the most appropriate categories. But can not be completely exhaustive on social networks. You can use our site or our application. If you want total exhaustiveness and much more.

 

📏 HOW MUCH :

👑 8 Senses

⚡ 6 Intelligences

 

WHO :

️ Picture by LG

📡 Posted by LG

📼 Video made by LG (Windows Movie Maker 2017)

© Etoile Copyright

 

⚠ The description may no longer be up to date. Due to human discoveries and improvements. Pay attention to the date of publication and creation. Even works of art suffer the outrages of time

 

❓ WHY : eXplore South Corsica (Le sud de la Corse)

 

📍 WHERE : South Corsica (Le sud de la Corse) (🇫🇷France)

 

🕓 WHEN : July 2017

 

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👑 Senses : 👀 Vision 👆 To Touch 💃 Proprioception 👂 Hearing Equilibrioception 👃 Smell ♨️ Thermoception 👅 Taste

⚡ Intelligences : ️ Spatial Intelligence

⛹️ Kinesthetic Body Intelligence

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Interpersonal Intelligence

🌲 Ecologicalist Naturalist Intelligence

️ Verbal-linguistic

🔭 Existential Intelligence

 

📋 WHAT :

️ eXploration / Corsica - Corse (South)

🌟 Corsica - Corse (South)

💫 United States of America/America World

🌌 City/Nature Galaxy

✨ eXploration Universe (️)

📝 Type : Ground eXploration

🎨 Style : eXploration Corsica - Corse (South)

🔊 Language : International (🇬🇧 description in English, but comprehensible by the whole world)

 

️ You can use your playlists as filters, to find what you're looking for exactly : www.youtube.com/channel/UCpvj7oecmX3AsJT6R0JP2pQ/playlists?

 

⚠ The items are sorted by the most appropriate categories. But can not be completely exhaustive on social networks. You can use our site or our application. If you want total exhaustiveness and much more.

 

📏 HOW MUCH :

👑 8 Senses

⚡ 6 Intelligences

 

WHO :

️ Picture by LG

📡 Posted by LG

📼 Video made by LG (Windows Movie Maker 2017)

© Etoile Copyright

 

⚠ The description may no longer be up to date. Due to human discoveries and improvements. Pay attention to the date of publication and creation. Even works of art suffer the outrages of time

 

❓ WHY : eXplore South Corsica (Le sud de la Corse)

 

📍 WHERE : South Corsica (Le sud de la Corse) (🇫🇷France)

 

🕓 WHEN : July 2017

 

👉 Follow us :

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💥 Instagram : www.instagram.com/explorationetoile/

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Existential Dilemma - Blackberry Z10 - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.