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Montreal's iconic Olympic Stadium….designed by French architect Roger Taillibert and built for the 1976 Olympics, has had a troubled history…. construction was not completed before the games… it was finally completed in 1987… you can ride to the top of the tower on a funicular…. another feature is the retractable roof, which always struck me as useful, but this design as unnecessarily frivolous.
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There are Nine Nights of Worship of Female Power. Navratri it is called and is a very important period in the Hindu calendar of Gods and yes Goddesses now.
I was at a loss to figure out whether this lady enmeshed in decaying iron by a male Hindu priest in Bhoginandishwara temple near Bangalore was a symbol of fertility what with the two betel leaves lying on the plinth of the alcove where she balanced delicately atop the head of a big horned buffalo.
I thought of asking some friends, versed rather well in matters esoteric. Then I let that urge pass. I checked images of a Hindu deity who would be on the top of a buffalo and from there I could get the thread as to who this voluptuous lady was and what was her story in Hindusim, her physical form so near perfection.
Whether the wire mesh prevented theft or the greedy advances of the worshipers, I am in no position to tell. She stood smeared in yellow powder as is the custom in temples in South India.
Meet Durga as she is popularly known or Goddess Mahalakshmi, the ultimate embodiment of a female created by all the Hindu Gods many millennia ago who imbued her with their own qualities and their own choicest weapons with 18 arms to go along in fight mode. ( In popular iconography she is generally shown with 4 or 8 arms as 18 would be impossible to accommodate in an aesthetic sculpture)
All this to vanquish Mahishasur, a demon who had attained near immortality by seeking a boon which made him immune from being killed by any man or God. The demon laughed off the suggestion that a woman could ever defeat him and that they were mere chattels. After he got his boon of immortality from the Gods, Mahishasur went off on an all conquering spree till there was nothing left to conquer on Earth. He then marched to Heaven and conquered the very Gods themselves and ruled the Heavens. The vanquished Gods wandering in the wilderness of nothingness, plotted and schemed and got together in their intrigue to manufacture a female figure who would be able to fight and get rid of the demon so that they could get on with the job of ruling their very own Heaven and Universe.
They ( Shiva, Brahma, Indra, Vishnu and others ) all gathered for the unique process of creating an entity out of nothing. A physical and metaphysical impossibility. The laws of physics can however allow light energy to be condensed and create matter. This the Gods did and created Mahalakshmi or Durga who was the epitome of feminine form and figure but imbued with a fighting spirit and armed with 18 choicest weapons of war.
Now this is a great scientific breakthrough which I am sure my fundamentally strong right wing Hindu fanatics would call superior Vedic or Pre Vedic science that precedes anything that the current day particle physics can come up with. Mind you it is easy to create light and heat energy from fission or fusion of
matter but current day science is yet to master the principle of creating matter out of light energy. We in India or let us say Indian Gods did this more than 2000 years ago and shaped a female figure of exquisite and superlative celestial beauty.
I am waiting for a Hindu scientist to come up with such a thought process and present a paper in a scientific community to highlight the glories of the Hindu civilization. I will not be surprised to see that happen in this atmosphere of over zealous interpretation of Hinduism that is ruling the roost these days.
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Questo succedersi, mi sembra ormai chiaro, non lo afferriamo con la ripetizione di gambe, di braccia, di figure, come molti hanno stupidamente supposto, ma vi giungiamo attraverso la ricerca intuitiva della forma unica che dia la continuità nello spazio.
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I have always taken back by the grace and sense of drama that is displayed by dancers. This image of Merrique, a Parisian born art model who possesses a background in ballet, personifies the beauty and grace of form in motion.
Table Mountain (Khoekhoe: Huriǂoaxa, lit. 'sea-emerging'; Afrikaans: Tafelberg) is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa.
It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors either using the cableway or hiking to the top.[4] The mountain has 2,285 plant species,[5] of which around 80% are fynbos (Afrikaans for 'fine bush'). Table Mountain National Park is the most visited national park in South Africa, attracting 4.2 million people every year for various activities.[6] It forms part of the lands formerly inhabited by Khoe-speaking clans, such as the !Uriǁʼaes (the "High Clan").
Table Mountain is home to a large array of mostly endemic flora and fauna.[7] Its top rises about 1,000 m above the surrounding city, making the popular hike upwards on a large variety of different, often steep and rocky pathways a serious mountain tour which requires fitness, preparation and hiking equipment.
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Table Mountain as seen from Lion's Head, with low-lying cloud cover over Cape Town
Cape Town under the clouds
The main feature of Table Mountain is the level plateau approximately three kilometres (2 mi) from side to side, edged by steep cliffs. The plateau, flanked by Devil's Peak to the east and by Lion's Head to the west, forms a dramatic backdrop to Cape Town. This broad sweep of mountainous heights, together with Signal Hill, forms the natural amphitheatre of the City Bowl and Table Bay harbour. The highest point on Table Mountain is towards the eastern end of the plateau and is marked by Maclear's Beacon, a stone cairn built in 1865 by Sir Thomas Maclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1,086 metres (3,563 ft) above sea level, and about 19 metres (62 ft) higher than the cable station at the western end of the plateau.
The cliffs of the main plateau are split by Platteklip Gorge ("Flat Stone Gorge"), which provides an easy and direct ascent to the summit and was the route taken by António de Saldanha on the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1503.[8]
The flat top of the mountain is often covered by orographic clouds, formed when a southeasterly wind is directed up the mountain's slopes into colder air, where the moisture condenses to form the so-called "table cloth" of cloud. Legend attributes this phenomenon to a smoking contest between the Devil and a local pirate called Van Hunks.[9] When the table cloth is seen, it symbolises the contest.
Table Mountain is at the northern end of a sandstone mountain range that forms the spine of the Cape Peninsula that terminates approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) to the south at the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. Immediately to the south of Table Mountain is a rugged "plateau" at a somewhat lower elevation than the Table Mountain Plateau (at about 1,000 m or 3,300 ft), called the "Back Table". The "Back Table" extends southwards for approximately 6 km to the Constantia Nek-Hout Bay valley. The Atlantic side of the Back Table is known as the Twelve Apostles, which extends from Kloof Nek (the saddle between Table Mountain and Lion's Head) to Hout Bay. The eastern side of this portion of the Peninsula's mountain chain, extending from Devil's Peak, the eastern side of Table Mountain (Erica and Fernwood Buttresses), and the Back Table to Constantia Nek, does not have a single name, as on the western side. It is better known by the names of the conservation areas on its lower slopes: Groote Schuur Estate, Newlands Forest, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cecilia Park, and Constantia Nek. Wikipedia
Hume pipe-workers garden -Living Museum of the West- Maribyrnong. Wonderful mosaics form paths and/or ornament the garden..Hopefully soon to be restored..
Melbourne's Living Museum of the West Inc. is a community museum, with an ecomuseum focus, operating in the western region of Melbourne in the state of Victoria, Australia..
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The Living Museum, as it is more commonly known, was set up in 1984 to address what was then seen as a disadvantaged region, geographically flat and rocky, heavily industrialised with a high migrant population..
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The ecomuseum concept regards the area researched by a museum as part of the museum itself. The western region covers a large geographical area (see map) west of Melbourne which includes industrial suburbs merging into rural areas. Geologically it sits on an extensive basalt plain with low rainfall. Its population is approximately 500,000 people from approximately 70 different countries. More than 30 % of the population were born in another country..
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The mix has created a unique cultural context that might even seem surreal to those who live in a more homogenous culture. It has in fact given rise to a cultural dynamic that challenges more conventional forms of interpretation..
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The Living Museum is best known for its outreach programs and close involvement with the community it serves. Community participation can take the form of involvement as a volunteer, as a participant in the Museum's research and oral history programs or through more informal contact. For example, many local historical researchers regularly come to share information or talk avout their own research. By depositing copies of their research and publications in the Living Museum's Resource Centre they provide help for other people doing connected research. The Living Museum's Committee of Management is made up of community and museum industry representatives. .
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The Living Museum was set up with an experimental brief to use innovative techniques in involving the local community in researching, documenting and presenting the heritage and history of a previously overlooked patchwork of sub-cultures..
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The first projects looked at the history of work, the contribution of women in the region's history and the role of migrants in the culture and heritage of the local region. These first projects focussed on oral history in a bid to involve the local community in the research and presentation of their own history..
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The Museum has since explored the built heritage of the region, the environment, the Aboriginal Heritage and experimented with the involvement of artists in the presentation of culture and heritage. A book titled 'Your History Mate', describes the first decade of the Living Museum's program and outcomes..
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The Living Museum receives a grant from Arts Victoria for core funding and receives grants for other projects. It has also been earning about 30% of its income from a range of consultancies. It is an incorporated body with a Management Committee drawn from the local community..
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Historical Societies.
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Historical Societies are among the most valuable organisations in our society. It is mainly through historical societies that the community memory is maintained. Without historical societies most communities would lose track of their own history..
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These societies are usually made up of a handful of active members who spend days, weeks and years collecting, protecting and preserving local history. Without local history there would be no sense of national history. There is an inescapabe link with local history and all other levels and interpretations of a national history. .
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Where: Pipemakers Park, Van Ness Avenue (entrance opposite Warr's Road), Maribyrnong.
Brayford Pool in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Brayford Pool is a natural lake formed from a widening of the River Witham in the centre of the city of Lincoln. It was used as a port by the Romans who connected it to the River Trent by constructing the Foss Dyke Canal and the area has a long industrial heritage.
The Pool has been the focus of Lincoln's urban regeneration since the early 1990s. It is now overlooked by bars, restaurants, a cinema and, most significantly, the University of Lincoln. The only reminder of the past is the Royal William public house, a traditional pub housed inside a listed building. The Pool is used as a marina by houseboats and pleasure craft, as well as by anglers and kayakers.
It has long been a favourite place for mute swans. Mute swans are one of the UK's largest birds and they can grow up to about 1.5m high. Although the mute swans are usually silent, they do make a loud hissing noise when they are angry and young swans make a high-pitched whistling noise.
They breed upstream on the River Witham, away from the hustle and bustle of the city, but are attracted down to the Brayford Pool area by food provided by passers-by. The number of swans usually peaks in the autumn and can be anything up to 130 birds. In recent years the swans have moved out of the city along the River Witham.
Mallard ducks, Coots and Moor Hens can be found in the area as well as the less commonly known Muscovy ducks, native to Central and South America but brought to Europe by explorers in the 16th Century. The strange looking ducks have been immortalized to a degree with a ground floor suite named after them in the University’s Main Admin Building.
Other birds seen around the Brayford include the pied wagtail, kingfishers, mallards, moorhens, coots, and herons. There are at least five different types of dragonfly, whilst the fish in the Brayford include roach, common bream, tench and pike.
Plants that can be found along River Witham include common species such as reed sweet grass, branched bur-reed and red mace, the much rarer arrowhead and flowering rush along with great water dock, skull cap and wild celery. A common tree along the riverbank is the Alder.
Information Source:
www.visitlincoln.com/about-lincoln/areas-of-lincoln/brayf...
THE ULTIMATE FORM BY LINDER STERLING... one of the exhibits currently at the Hepworth... wonderful :-)
Northern & Mid river pylon's (Form Traveller now raised to the Hammerhead on northern pylon)...............Please note ALL pictures on this Photostream are Copyright Protected
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Green foliage in spring light.
There are two photographers in our household, and one specializes in close-up photography, especially featuring the plant world. I'm not that photographers. (She would be Patricia Emerson Mitchell, my wife.) Recently I've tagged along a few times when she went to photograph at a couple of botanical gardens, and the exercise stretching by "seeing" skills in interesting ways.
In person you might not have found this plant to be all that interesting. The light was tricky (I used a diffuser to control it) and only a small section of the plant seemed to produce a decent composition. But I moved in close, used a macro lens, and found something that focuses on the gestures of the plant's shape, and on a small, very green world.
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In 1883, when boundary rider Charles Rasp formed a small syndicate to mine a great ironstone outcrop in the far west of New South Wales, they thought they would find tin. Instead, they ended up having leases over some of the world's richest silver, lead, and zinc deposits. Unlike gold, these metals were not simply there for the taking. Broken Hill Proprietory Ltd. (BHP), formed in 1885, faced technical and logistical challenges in mining and processing ore bodies.
In 1888, Argent Street in Broken Hill caught fire on a hot blustery summer day. The resulting blaze in the then relatively young mining town was almost unstoppable, destroying the entire western side of the commercial centre. This was the first of many such outbreaks in the town.
Broken Hill grew quickly. A population of 17,000 in 1889 had more than doubled to 35,000 in 1914, putting it on the map as the then third-largest city in New South Wales. In today's terms, it could be described as Australia's most multicultural city of the time.
Trade Unions quickly formed around the mine and extraction processing industries. The Trades Hall, built between 1891 and 1905, became the first building in Australia owned by unions, who also purchased the local newspaper 'The Barrier Times' in 1908. This strong union tradition permeated all aspects of life in Broken Hill. The city's unionists won a 35-hour week in 1920, the first to do so in Australia.
The city is full of surprises, including a mosque, founded by Afghan cameleers in the early 1890s, and a synagogue built in 1910. The cameleers flourished in the later decades of the 19th century, transporting wool as well as construction materials for the Overland telegraph line from Darwin to Port Augusta. The Jewish population mainly came from Eastern Europe. While the synagogue closed in 1962, the mosque is still used for worship. BHP ceased operations in Broken Hill in the late 1930s, by which time other mining companies had formed, leaving behind an open-cut mine that writer George Farwell described in 1948 as, 'forlorn as a dead planet. It has the air of a crater on the moon... Massive boulders and abandoned machinery sprawl down its flanks as though flung down the sheer sides of a mountain gorge. Upon the crest old iron lies everywhere'.
Over the years, Broken Hill has attracted artists from across the country, drawn to the inspiring environment, the remote (and cheap) studio spaces, and the friendly community.
The Junction Mine was first pegged in 1884. The Broken Hill Silver Mining Co. was formed in 1886 and three shafts; Browne, King, and MacIntyre, were sunk. The company erected a smelter at Port Adelaide in 1890 and the mine prospered until low lead prices and treatment problems forced closure in 1901.
The mine reopened in 1906 using Browne Shaft as the main shaft but the company struggled until 1923, when the mine was sold to Sulphide Corporation. Ore to the value of £1.2million was produced between 1886 and 1923.
In 1929, the mine was sold to North Broken Hill Ltd, and, in 1940, Browne Shaft was overhauled and placed in working condition to No. 9 Level (291m). Between 1946 and 1962 ore was mined and trucked to the concentration mill at North Mine. The lease was acquired by Broken Hill South Ltd and mining continued until 1972.
Source: New South Wales Heritage Register & City of Broken Hill.
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forming a flower-carpet, they are out, for sale now, all waiting for the transplant in someone’s much loved garden.
It is still early in the year, and they tremble in the chilly wind. The flowers still quite hidden, frightened to come out.
The word primula is the Latin feminine diminutive of primus, meaning first (prime), applied to flowers that are among the first to open in Spring.
Hope this brings a bit of joy again, have a good day and thanx for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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Here is a little taster of a series I'm editing at the moment, went for a Sin City / Noir theme!
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Des physiciens britanniques ont récemment accouché d’une nouvelle théorie sur les interactions entre la matière et la lumière au niveau quantique, et ces travaux ont aussi fait émerger une très intéressante : pour la première fois, ces chercheurs ont réussi à définir la forme précise d’un photon isolé.
Les photons, ce sont les particules qui servent de vecteur à la force électromagnétique, et par extension, à la lumière visible grâce à laquelle nous sommes capables de visualiser notre environnement. Mais même s’ils sont incroyablement abondants, ce sont des objets qui, paradoxalement, sont encore loin d’être parfaitement compris par les physiciens.
La façon dont ils interagissent avec la matière, en particulier, est extrêmement complexe. Pour en appréhender toutes les nuances, il faut d’abord réussir à conceptualiser puis à associer une myriade de phénomènes souvent très difficiles à manipuler, notamment parce qu’une grande partie d’entre eux se déroulent dans le domaine quantique.
« La nature de ces interactions ouvre des possibilités infinies par rapport à l’existence et à la propagation de la lumière à travers son environnement. Ces possibilités illimitées rendent les interactions exceptionnellement difficiles à modéliser, et c’est un défi que les physiciens quantiques cherchent à relever depuis plusieurs décennies », expliquent les auteurs de l’étude dans un communiqué de l’Université de Birmingham.
Un nouveau cadre théorique sur le comportement des photons
Pour simplifier l’équation, ces chercheurs ont donc décidé de regrouper toutes ces possibilités dans quelques ensembles bien définis. Grâce à cette approche, ils ont réussi à établir un modèle certes simplifié par rapport à la réalité, mais tout de même cohérent et très complet : il décrit non seulement la relation entre le photon et l’objet qui l’émet, mais aussi le comportement de l’énergie qui résulte de ces interactions.
Il s’agit donc de travaux importants, car ils permettent de définir précisément comment ces particules exceptionnellement importantes interagissent avec les différents éléments de leur environnement.
« Ces travaux nous aident à approfondir notre compréhension de l’échange d’énergie entre la lumière et la matière », explique Benjamin Yuen, co-auteur de l’étude. « Il y a de nombreux signaux que l’on considérait auparavant comme du simple “bruit”, mais qui contiennent en fait énormément d’informations auxquelles nous pouvons désormais donner du sens », se réjouit-il.
Par extension, cette étude défriche donc de nouvelles pistes que les physiciens pourront emprunter pour faire progresser des disciplines comme la physique quantique ou la science des matériaux. Les auteurs citent notamment des « nouvelles technologies nanophotoniques » qui pourraient « changer notre manière de communiquer, de détecter des pathogènes, ou encore de contrôler des réactions chimiques à l’échelle moléculaire ».
Le premier portrait-robot d’un photon
En parallèle, ces travaux ont aussi fait émerger une autre nouveauté relativement anecdotique dans le contexte de ces travaux, mais néanmoins fascinante : pour la première fois, les auteurs ont réussi à modéliser la “forme” d’un photon. Dans leur papier de recherche, ils présentent en effet une forme vaguement circulaire qui fait un peu penser à une cellule vue au microscope, entourée d’un étrange halo en forme d’étoile.
Ce concept de “forme” d’un photon est assez perturbant au premier abord. À l’inverse des neutrons et des protons qui constituent les atomes, les photons ne sont typiquement pas décrits comme des objets physiques. Contrairement à ces derniers, il faut passer par plusieurs couches d’abstraction pas toujours très intuitives pour les étudier.
En effet, on considère généralement que les photons n’existent qu’à travers leurs interactions ; ils sont régulièrement décrits comme des ondes plutôt que comme des particules tangibles (voir la notion de dualité onde-corpuscule). Par extension, la plupart des modèles physiques leur attribuent une masse nulle, et considèrent qu’ils n’ont pas de taille ou de forme bien définie.
Physique : l’étau se resserre autour de la masse de la lumière
Comment les auteurs ont-ils donc réussi à visualiser une forme qui, selon ces interprétations, n’existe tout simplement pas ? Pour le comprendre, il faut reconsidérer la définition même de la forme. Car ici, nous ne parlons pas des frontières d’un objet matériel comme une sphère ou un cube ; il s’agit plutôt d’une question de répartition d’énergie.
Pour visualiser cette notion, on peut l’aborder en faisant un détour par le monde de la musique. Chaque note (Do, Ré, Mii…) est construite autour d’une fréquence fondamentale qui détermine sa hauteur. Mais elle est rarement seule : la fréquence fondamentale est presque toujours accompagnée d’autres fréquences plus discrètes que l’on appelle les partiels, et ce sont eux qui déterminent les autres paramètres d’un son — comme son timbre. C’est précisément à cause de ces partiels qu’un do joué par un piano est beaucoup plus riche que celui qui sort d’un diapason, par exemple ; la répartition de ces fréquences change la manière dont l’onde sonore interagit avec nos tympans.
De la même façon, l’énergie des photons est distribuée sur plusieurs modes de fréquences différents. Comme avec une note de musique, cette répartition joue un rôle crucial dans la manière dont le photon interagit avec son environnement, et notamment avec les champs électriques.
En d’autres termes, cette image ne représente pas une forme physique que l’on pourrait toucher ou observer au microscope. La « forme » en question est en fait une carte de la distribution de l’énergie véhiculée par le photon sur différentes fréquences du spectre électromagnétique ; c’est une manière de représenter visuellement le résultat des interactions entre le photon et la matière qui sont décrites dans le modèle des chercheurs (voir plus haut).
Quoi qu’il en soit, il s’agit tout de même du premier portrait d’un photon. Et même s’il ne s’agit que d’une représentation abstraite, il sera très intéressant de garder un œil sur les travaux ultérieurs qui se serviront de ce nouveau cadre théorique pour faire avancer des disciplines fascinantes telles que la physique quantique.