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life is made of magic moments
The ecomomic activity in ASIA'S LARGEST SLUM - Dharavi is said to be valued at 700 million dollars - tax free.
I did this life drawing at Fabrica on White Night, Brighton. Haven't done anything like this for ages, about 6 years. Really enjoyed it. The charcol was attached to the end of a piece of bamboo about 3 feet long. Never tried drawing in that way before, surprisingly easy… Well, I'll let you be the judge of whether I made easy work of it.
(I'd had two pints or lager with babybenji, which is why I've gone over the edges a bit – I'm such a light weight)
Green is life, welcome March 2013.
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El verde es vida, bienvenido seas Marzo de 2013.
Polychrome tile decoration inside Qavam House in Eram Garden, a historic Persian garden and now designated UNESCO World Heritage site, situated in Shiraz, the capital of Fars province of Iran.
Eram Garden (Bagh-e Eram), also known as Paradise Garden, located along the northern shore of the Khoshk River in Shiraz, is one of the most famous and beautiful Persian gardens in all of Iran. It should be noted that the word ‘Eram’ is the Persian version of the Arabic word ‘Iram’ which means heaven in Islam’s most holiest of books, the Qur’an. With its beautiful grounds, lush plant life and aesthetic attractions, it’s easy to see why Eram evokes such a description.
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Haor life is very challenging. This is a para (cluster of some families) of haor area in Sunamganj encircled by vast water of the haor.
Location: Derai, Sunamganj, Bangladesh.
This still life is lit only with a Maglite flashlight. Quite challenging to get the exposure right but after several tries I came up with this:-) About 6 images stacked with Photoshop Elements.
Just what a Sundat afternoon should be all about, while at Sissinghurst gardens I came across Peter & another photographer sitting in a meadow of wild flowers, cameras at the ready,,,,,,,,,,,,
We are on our hols for 2 weeks now & although not jetting off somewhere we will be out & about & up to all sorts...........On the go & relaxing at the same time.......;-))
Day 249
Press "L" :D
As hard as it may seem sometimes, we were put here on this earth for a reason. The good and the bad things are meant to mold and shape us into better people. I can't say my life is perfect. My life and I are far from perfect, but what matters is that I try my best to do what God wants me to do and be the best me I can be.
I love you, all of my flickr people. <3 Thank you so much for all of your support throughout my 365 <3 You know I only have 115 days left!
I'm currently working on a play called The Life of Paper. It's about the history of origami, and will open on May 23, 2008, at the Roundhouse Theatre in Vancouver. More information can be found at The Life of Paper website.
Here's the dragon, all rigged up.
Life springing from a lava flow. (Pahoehoe Lava formations from Mauna Loa lava flow near bottom of Mauna Kea access road.)
life is....
Tritone info: black, pantone warm grey 7 + 2
Lens: EF 70-200 1:2.8L
Camera: Canon Rebel XT/ 350D
View through window on walk to the top, Sagrada Familia temple, architect Antonio Gaudi, Barcelona, Spain © Linda Dawn Hammond/ IndyFoto 2007
Nativity façade, East Side, Sagrada Familia Temple , architect Antonio Gaudi . Barcelona, Spain
Passion façade, West Side
Walk to top, written Sacrifici Oracio Almoina, brilliant, perpetually unfinished building, Latin Catholic.
www.sagradafamilia.cat/sf-eng/
SYMBOLOGY
Christian symbology is to be found in all Gaudí's work, but the most evident example of its application is the church, which tells the life of Jesus and the history of the faith.
To that end the church has been built over the years according to Gaudí's original idea, which expresses the Catholic faith in the architecture: Jesus and the faithful, represented by Mary, the apostles and the saints. That can be seen in the eighteen bell towers, which symbolise Jesus, the Virgin, the four evangelists and the twelve apostles; on the three facades, which represent the human life of Jesus (from birth to death), and in the interior, which suggests the celestial Jerusalem, where a set of columns, dedicated to Christian cities and continents, represent the apostles.
BEGINNINGS: 1883-1913
After undertaking the project in 1883, Gaudí built the crypt, which was finished in 1889. As he started work on the apse (and the cloister), everything went at a good pace thanks to the donations. When he received a large anonymous one, he thought of doing a new, bigger work: he discarded the old neo-Gothic project and proposed a more monumental and innovatory one in terms of both forms and structures and the construction. Gaudí’s project consisted of a large church with a Latin cross ground plan and high towers; it carried a major symbolic load, in both architectural and sculptural form, with the ultimate aim of being a catechistic explanation of the teachings of the Gospels and the Church.
In 1892 he began work on the foundations of the Nativity façade because, as he said himself, “If, instead of making this decorated, ornamented and swollen façade I had begun with the Passion, hard, bare and as if made of bone, people would have stepped back.” In 1894 the apse façade was finished and in 1899 the Roser door, one of the entrances to the Nativity cloister.
PRESENT: 1986-2010
In 2000 the vaults of the central nave and the transept were built and work began on the foundations of the Glory façade. That year, on the occasion of the new millennium, a mass was held inside the church which provided an opportunity to grasp the grandiosity of the work.
In 2001 the central window of the Passion façade was completed with the installation of a stained glass window dedicated to the resurrection, the work of Joan Vila-Grau. The four columns of the centre of the crossing were also finished.
Wikipedia
Towers
Every part of the design of La Sagrada Família is replete with Christian symbolism, as Gaudí intended the church to be the "last great sanctuary of Christendom". Its most striking aspect is its spindle-shaped towers. A total of eighteen tall towers are called for, representing in ascending order of height the Twelve Apostles, the four Evangelists, the Virgin Mary and, tallest of all, Jesus Christ. (According to the 2005 "Works Report" of the temple's official website, drawings signed by Gaudí found recently in the Municipal Archives indicate that the tower of the Virgin was in fact intended by Gaudí to be shorter than those of the evangelists, and this is the design — which the Works Report states is more compatible with the existing foundations — that will be followed. The same source explains the symbolism in terms of Christ being known through the Evangelists.) The Evangelists' towers will be surmounted by sculptures of their traditional symbols: a bull (St Luke), a winged man (St Matthew), an eagle (St John), and a lion (St Mark). The central tower of Jesus Christ is to be surmounted by a giant cross; the tower's total height (170 m) will be one metre less than that of Montjuïc (a hill in Barcelona), as Gaudí believed that his work should not surpass that of God. Lower towers are surmounted by communion hosts with sheaves of wheat and chalices with bunches of grapes, representing the Eucharist.
Façades
The Church will have three grand façades: the Nativity façade to the East, the Glory façade to the South (yet to be completed) and the Passion façade to the West. The Nativity facade was built before work was interrupted in 1935 and bears the most direct Gaudí influence. The Passion façade is especially striking for its spare, gaunt, tormented characters, including emaciated figures of Christ being flogged and on the crucifix. These controversial designs are the work of Josep Maria Subirachs.
Interior
Tree-like supporting pillars of roof
The church plan is that of a Latin cross with five aisles. The central nave vaults reach forty-five metres while the side nave vaults reach thirty metres. The transept has three aisles. The columns are on a 7.5 metre grid. However, the columns of the apse, resting on del Villar's foundation, do not adhere to the grid, requiring a section of columns of the ambulatory to transition to the grid thus creating a horseshoe pattern to the layout of those columns. The crossing rests on the four central columns of porphyry supporting a great hyperboloid surrounded by two rings of twelve hyperboloids (currently under construction). The central vault reaches sixty metres. The apse will be capped by a hyperboloid vault reaching seventy-five metres. Gaudí intended that a visitor standing at the main entrance be able to see the vaults of the nave, crossing, and apse, thus the graduated increase in vault loftiness.
The columns of the interior are a unique Gaudí design. Besides branching to support their load, their ever-changing surfaces are the result of the intersection of various geometric forms. The simplest example is that of a square base evolving into an octagon as the column rises, then a sixteen-sided form, and eventually to a circle. This effect is the result of a three-dimensional intersection of helicoidal columns (for example a square cross-section column twisting clockwise and a similar one twisting counter-clockwise).
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Alpha and Omega carving at Sagrada Família entrance.
Key to the symbolism of the church.
The towers on the Nativity façade are crowned with geometrically shaped tops that are reminiscent of Cubism (they were finished around 1930), and the intricate decoration is contemporary to the style of Art Nouveau, but Gaudí's unique style drew primarily from nature, not other artists or architects, and resists categorization.
Gaudí used hyperboloid structures in later designs of the Sagrada Família (more obviously after 1914), however there are a few places on the nativity façade—a design not equated with Gaudí's ruled-surface design, where the hyperboloid crops up. For example, all around the scene with the pelican there are numerous examples (including the basket held by one of the figures). There is a hyperboloid adding structural stability to the cypress tree (by connecting it to the bridge). And finally, the "bishop's mitre" spires are capped with hyperboloid structures[3]. In his later designs, ruled surfaces are prominent in the nave's vaults and windows and the surfaces of the Passion facade.
Symbolism
Themes throughout the decoration include words from the liturgy. The towers are decorated with words such as "Hosanna", "Excelsis", and "Sanctus"; the great doors of the Passion façade reproduce words from the Bible in various languages including Catalan; and the Glory façade is to be decorated with the words from the Apostles' Creed.
Areas of the sanctuary will be designated to represent various concepts, such as saints, virtues and sins, and secular concepts such as regions, presumably with decoration to match.
Areas of the sanctuary will be designated to represent various concepts, such as saints, virtues and sins, and secular concepts such as regions, presumably with decoration to match.
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A while back, DesignCrush posted this quote from Federico Fellini, “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” I can get behind that.
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مـفـاتـيـح الـحـيـاة
المــــــــــاء مفتاح الحياة
العمــــــــــل مفتاح الرزق
الزيـــــارة مفتاح التواصل
حسن الخلق مفتاح الجمال
البحــــث مفتاح الإكتشاف
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مـفـاتـيـح العـبـادات
الله عز و جل فاتح الحياة
السلام مفتاح المــــــــؤمن
الشكر مفتاح الزيـــــــادة
الدعاء مفتاح التقـــــــرب
السجود مفتاح الخشـــوع
الوضوء مفتاح الصـــــلاة
الغسل مفتاح الطهـــــارة
الطاعة مفتاح الرضــــــــا
الرضا مفتاح الجنــــــــــة
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Life is about choices we make. Their will always be a point in our lives where we are shown two tracks, it could be right and it could be wrong as well. But remember you always have that choice. You may take the wrong one, thats what makes us human, but then, you also have the choice to come back on the right track, this is what makes us super human.
Live a good life friend!
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Edge of Perception
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgement difficult.
Do Not Expect
Do not expect that if your book falls open
to a certain page, that any phrase
you read will make a difference today,
or that the voices you might overhear
when the wind moves through the yellow-green
and golden tent of autumn, speak to you.
Things ripen or go dry. Light plays on the
dark surface of the lake. Each afternoon
your shadow walks beside you on the wall,
and the days stay long and heavy underneath
the distant rumor of the harvest. One
more summer gone,
and one way or another you survive,
dull or regretful, never learning that
nothing is hidden in the obvious
changes of the world, that even the dim
reflection of the sun on tall, dry grass
is more than you will ever understand.
And only briefly then
you touch, you see, you press against
the surface of impenetrable things.
Dana Gioia
Mamiya RB67 50mm Lens
Fujichrome 400 x processed
C-Prints scanned
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"...always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And suppose I never ever met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft..."
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