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From the Warring States period, all unearthed near Guanghan, Sichuan, between 1976 (left) and 1995 (right).
Last week’s photo shoots were of Tianfu Square (at night) and a day trip to Huanglongxi Ancient Town southeast of Chengdu. This week, I changed it up a little and went to a museum that I’d been wanting to visit for quite some time (but, honestly, was just too lazy to go to until now).
Sanxingdui (literally, “three star mound(s)”) is an archaeological site/museum. To give you perspective, I’ll make a few comparisons. The easiest (and less impressive) comparison is to the Jinsha Archaeological Site within the Chengdu city limits.
Jinsha is a very nice site in its own right, and has a lot of source material that dates from around 2,500-3,000 years ago. The Jinsha site was more recently discovered (2001) than the Sanxingdui site (early 20th century; excavations began in earnest in 1986). At Jinsha, things just feel like “leftovers.” I mean to say…there doesn’t feel like anything that the world at large necessarily needed to know about – though some of the art there, the skeletal remains, etc. are incredibly interesting if you have an interest in human history. However, I digress. The main point I should make regarding Jinsha and Sanxingdui is that it’s believed that the sites are from a related culture, though the timing is off by about 500 years (if I remember right from the signage at Jinsha).
The other comparison I will make is to China’s most famous archaeological site: the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an. Those are more important from a nationalistic point of view, I suppose, in that they were made (or ordered to be made, to be more precise) by China’s first emperor circa 200 BC. Aside from that, the terracotta army is quite impressive.
I feel Sanxingdui is much more important to human history, though, and I say this for a few reasons. First, it predates China (as a “nation-state”) by about 1,000 years. Almost everything that has been unearthed here is from roughly the 12th or 13th century BC (per carbon dating). Finding this site was (rightfully so) a huge shock in the archaeological record. It wasn’t known that people were in this area, if I’m not mistaken, and that they were as advanced as they were.
As you can see from the collection, this is a people who were highly advanced, had a monetary system (based on the knowledge of cowry shells, etc.), religious practices, and a high technical skill with bronze and other alloys. The masks from Sanxingdui are the most famous part of this collection and are still in such good shape 3,000 years later that they could honestly be placed in any museum in the world. They’re truly quite impressive.
Another reason I say so little is known of the people who lived here is that, while this museum is of exceptional quality – architecturally, in presentation, in every aspect – there is so little background information provided about the people’s origins. We can see how they lived, what was important to them, and other things, but the one thing that is missing is…where they came from. I continually found myself saying, “Wow,” over and again throughout the afternoon here.
Getting here is relatively easy now. A bus goes from Xinnanmen long distance bus station in downtown Chengdu (leaving at 9:30 a.m.) and takes you directly to the Sanxingdui parking lot, about 50 km (at most) towards the northeast on the Mianyang freeway. The closest town is Guanghan, and the cost of the ticket, for a round trip ride, is 50 RMB. (The bus returns at 2:40 p.m., which gives about 4 hours to see the entire museum and grounds.)
Upon getting to the visitor center, you have to pass through security scanners (in each of the three other buildings, too, for that matter). After paying the very reasonable 80 RMB admission, you pass through security yet again and are finally in the museum/site proper. I don’t recall much information available at the visitor center, but I may have just missed it. In retrospect, it would be very nice to have some informational videos – even if they were just to say much isn’t known about the history of the people. It could have given suppositions of life in video format, or even focused on the discovery of the site. (Again, maybe they’re already there, and I missed them…but, I don’t think so.)
Upon leaving the video center, the first of the three buildings you arrive at is the Comprehensive Gallery. This gallery is wonderful in that it has actually been built into one of the three mounds. (I’m not 100% sure that this is one of the three original mounds; perhaps it’s a replica of the mound. Either way, it was a good use of the land.) The comprehensive gallery consists of five areas that, for the most part, focus on earthenware and stone ware artefacts that were unearthed in the pits. The relics are well-presented, well-labeled, and well-maintained. Besides earthenware and stoneware, there are also plenty of artefacts made of jade, some of bronze, some of gold foil, and so on. The comprehensive gallery ends with a display of bronze money trees that were (are?) important in Chinese culture.
After finishing in the Comprehensive Gallery, my second stop was to go to the Cultural Relics & Restoration Gallery. This is the smallest of the three, and most comprehensive (in terms of presenting artwork from all of Chinese history) of the three galleries. There are plenty of pieces here from the Song, Tang, Ming, and Qing Dynasties. I went through here in a bit of a hurry, so am not certain whether or not the relics in this hall are local to the Chengdu plain or not. I think they are.
Hurrying along, I found my way outside and passed the Echo Altar (sacrificial stage) and quickly wandered around the Bronze Hall before going in. I was enjoying the landscape at the site as it’s spring and magnolias are in bloom all around the grounds, along with rapeseed (a little), and a lot of landscaped flowers along the way.
The Bronze Hall is the highlight of the Sanxingdui site. It almost exclusively contains nothing but masks. You would think it gets a little redundant after a while, as most of the masks are similar (exaggerated pupils, though two or three have protruding pupils), mostly of bronze, and all with the sparse signage that they were excavated from either pit #1, #2, or #3 in the 13th-12th century BC. However, like the Comprehensive Gallery, the Bronze Hall is an architecturally pleasing building that presents the masks in six different sections, also ending with a large (3.5 times the original size) replica of a bronze money tree.
Feeling completely satisfied with Sanxingdui, and fresh out of galleries to visit, I left the Bronze Hall and walked the grounds towards the main exit. There is a restaurant and shopping area on the way out (though I didn’t stop to eat or buy anything). I did take a very quick glance into the gift shop, but wasn’t really excited by anything I saw offhand.
After a little more photographing, I made it back to the bus with about 45 minutes to spare. All in all, it was a perfect day out of town at a museum, and I was also thrilled that there weren’t too many people out here. I couldn’t have asked for much more from this experience.
I finished the day off at Tai Koo Li, eating Thai food at Lian (in a very early preparation for an upcoming holiday in May). Before the May holiday, though, the goal of getting out to shoot every weekend continues. Monday (today), March 14th was spent in Pingle, another ancient town, which was completely underwhelming…especially after last week’s shoot at Huanglongxi and yesterday’s shoot at Sanxingdui. Fortunately, there is plenty more to photograph between now and May.
One limit to Ron Kaufman's ground penetrating radar is the soil's conductivity: higher conductivity increases the "noise" the equipment picks up and makes the picture of below-ground sediments harder to understand.
Citando como ejemplo el canto de Danilo Montero: "Dulce Refugio", el pastor Mario Vega desarrolló el segundo día de conferencia celular en Iglesia Elim de San Salvador; explicando como un líder debe tener sabias palabras para poder ser de apoyo a las personas que están atravesando diferentes momentos de dificultad. Como dice la canción: "El me alienta y alimenta con su palabra y su amor".
O plano de extermínio foi ativado
O que até então já começara, agora consagrado
Enfiado goela abaixo, numa mistura de insensatez com agrotóxico
A putrefação das mentes condenadas ao egoísmo
Legitimando o extermínio das abelhas
E anulando um futuro aos recém-chegados
Controle de sementes quimicamente lavadas,
Em solo sagrado lançadas.
Armas descarregadas
Em balas de ouro reluzente, aqui plantadas
Neste solo de concreto preconceituoso, machista, homofóbico e racista.
Onde se sente na pele os muros impostos,
Muros farpados, cortantes, em sede de sangue
Com fome de limitação
Na determinação pela regressão.
Phish at the Austin City Limits Music Festival 2010, Austin Texas, October 8, 2010. The Austin City Limits Music Festival is an annual three-day music festival in Austin, Texas's Zilker Park.
Photo Copyright 2010, Steve Hopson.
Please, no use without license.
Citando como ejemplo el canto de Danilo Montero: "Dulce Refugio", el pastor Mario Vega desarrolló el segundo día de conferencia celular en Iglesia Elim de San Salvador; explicando como un líder debe tener sabias palabras para poder ser de apoyo a las personas que están atravesando diferentes momentos de dificultad. Como dice la canción: "El me alienta y alimenta con su palabra y su amor".
d97480a. Recommended 50kmh speed limit on the Island Point road, heading out. This seems highly problematic to me.
Firstly, the speed limit is 100 on a road in a non-built-up area like this where there is no sign to say otherwise. Secondly, it is easy to do 80kmh or more, safely, on this road, and you can legally do it as the yellow speed signs are only recommendations. Thirdly, is this sign supposed to only apply when pedestrians are present? It could be interpreted as applying for the whole road back to the main road, whether or not pedestrians are present.
It is too vague and open to very different interpretations. There is too much scope for strong conflict between drivers who observe it at face value and those who (can legally) just completely ignore it and drive at almost twice the speed.
It is supposed to improve road safety, but it could potentially work strongly against it.
Citando como ejemplo el canto de Danilo Montero: "Dulce Refugio", el pastor Mario Vega desarrolló el segundo día de conferencia celular en Iglesia Elim de San Salvador; explicando como un líder debe tener sabias palabras para poder ser de apoyo a las personas que están atravesando diferentes momentos de dificultad. Como dice la canción: "El me alienta y alimenta con su palabra y su amor".
Desafiando Limites 2013. Cicloviagem entre Santo Antonio do Descoberto e Pirenopolis, Goias. Foto: WWF-Brasil / Eduardo Aigner
MP 148 on UP's Shoreline Subdivision in Sheboygan, WI. used to have a yellow "V" attached to it, designating yard limits. I believe that nowadays all track north of MP 146.5 is considered "Yard Limit" as the yellow sign has now been removed.
4 minutes from my house by car - the Kenneth Hahn State Park's Gwen Moore Lake announces "Limit 5 Catfish per Fisherman."
Poser un cadre, explorer/repousser les contours, dépasser /franchir les limites. Workshop de Géraldine Husson.
8th Oct. 2012, 8pm
Ravindra Bhavan, Margao
Christ Silva's film LIMITS
Chief Guest Rajendra Talak
Guest of Honour Damodar College of Science Principal Uday Ballikar and Special Invitee Sharmad Raiturkar ESG, Chairman (not in this pic)
with Nishad Shevde; Ridhi Haldankar, Supraj Kerkar, Christ Silva
Citando como ejemplo el canto de Danilo Montero: "Dulce Refugio", el pastor Mario Vega desarrolló el segundo día de conferencia celular en Iglesia Elim de San Salvador; explicando como un líder debe tener sabias palabras para poder ser de apoyo a las personas que están atravesando diferentes momentos de dificultad. Como dice la canción: "El me alienta y alimenta con su palabra y su amor".
A strange area in the middle of the Austin Greenbelt. The signs say "entry strictly forbidden". The area is being monitored remotely using ground sensors (seen just inside the fence). It appears to be an abandoned military facility. The only inhabitants that can be seen are a large community of mutated cats (no tail and curled up ears).
Citando como ejemplo el canto de Danilo Montero: "Dulce Refugio", el pastor Mario Vega desarrolló el segundo día de conferencia celular en Iglesia Elim de San Salvador; explicando como un líder debe tener sabias palabras para poder ser de apoyo a las personas que están atravesando diferentes momentos de dificultad. Como dice la canción: "El me alienta y alimenta con su palabra y su amor".
Da sabato 6 al 28 febbraio 2010, tutti i venerdì, sabato e domenica, dalle ore 17,00 alle ore 20,00, lo Spazio Multimediale San Francesco, in Civitanova Marche Alta, sarà aperto al pubblico per la mostra artistico-poetica "Risorgente Luna" organizzata dalla Pinacoteca Comunale "Marco Moretti" in collaborazione con l'Associazione Culturale La Luna.
L'Associazione nata nel 1997 dalla volontà di un gruppo di amici, artisti e letterati marchigiani uniti dall'idea di far dialogare arte e letteratura e dare valore al linguaggio calcografico ha in questi anni portato alla ribalta, con grandissimo successo, l'espressione poetica di autori italiani e stranieri e i segni magici dell'incisione in tutte le sue diverse tecniche.
In questa mostra, patrocinata dal Comune di Civitanova Marche e dall'Azienda Speciale Teatri di Civitanova, si potranno godere opere originali, edizioni d'arte, monografie, incisioni, tirature limitate, prove di artisti prestigiosi che dal 1997 al 2009 hanno lavorato in sintonia sposando la parola con il segno, l'espressione poetica con la poetica dell'incisione.
Il poeta Eugenio De Signoribus con il Nobel Yves Bonnefoy, Sandro Trotti con Alfredo Bartolomeoli e ancora Sandro Pazzi, Bruno Ceci, Tonino Guerra, Riccardo Piccardoni, Andrea Zanzotto e tanti altri artisti, incisori e poeti di calibro, dialogano, interpretano, concorrono alla creazione di un'unica opera d'arte. Così poesia e linea si congiungono, fanno corpo, raggiungendo valori assoluti e come scrisse Paolo Volponi lottano "contro il nero con il filo sottile di un bianco difficile"
Inaugurazione sabato 6 febbraio 2010 ore 18,00, Spazio Multimediale San Francesco- Civitanova Marche Alta.
Apertura al pubblico nei giorni 7,12,13,14,19,20,21,26,27,28 febbraio 2010, dalle ore 17:00 alle 20:00.
Ingresso libero.
Contemporaneamente, negli stessi giorni e con lo stesso orario, sarà eccezionalmente aperta al pubblico la Pinacoteca Comunale "Marco Moretti".
Ai visitatori sarà dato in omaggio un catalogo del Museo.
Visite guidate per le Scuole di ogni Ordine e Grado dietro appuntamento: 0733-891019.
Info: telefono e fax 0733-891019
"Limit" is painted in a few places around this neighborhood, but it seems especially strange here on the backside of 4905 Stockton Blvd in Sacramento.
This speed-limit sign on my street stands proud and tall, its pale, reflective face firmly (but kindly) reminding passers-by to be mindful of the happy children playing nearby. All hail the Magnificent 50!
[Red Rabbit] eye mod for the Utilizator M3 Mesh Anime Head [Now on Second life marketplace 50 sale limit]
Citando como ejemplo el canto de Danilo Montero: "Dulce Refugio", el pastor Mario Vega desarrolló el segundo día de conferencia celular en Iglesia Elim de San Salvador; explicando como un líder debe tener sabias palabras para poder ser de apoyo a las personas que están atravesando diferentes momentos de dificultad. Como dice la canción: "El me alienta y alimenta con su palabra y su amor".
Taken with an Olympus E-PL5 and Holga HL(W)-OP lens.
Some minor processing in GIMP for windows
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Citando como ejemplo el canto de Danilo Montero: "Dulce Refugio", el pastor Mario Vega desarrolló el segundo día de conferencia celular en Iglesia Elim de San Salvador; explicando como un líder debe tener sabias palabras para poder ser de apoyo a las personas que están atravesando diferentes momentos de dificultad. Como dice la canción: "El me alienta y alimenta con su palabra y su amor".
La ciudad de Cafayate se encuentra al sur de Salta. Limitando con la provincia de Tucumán. Ubicada a 1683 mts sobre el nivel del mar posee un microclima que la convierte en una región ideal para el cultivo de viñedos. Al ser un clima seco y de suelo arenoso, la calidad de las uvas que se obtienen es muy buena. Los vinos de Cafayate tienen una excelente reputación y en los alrededores de la ciudad se pueden visitar una gran cantidad de bodegas, donde se pueden hacer recorridos y degustaciones.
Cafayate es una ciudad tipicamente colonial, como la mayoría de las ciudades del norte. Muy bien cuidada y con una buena oferta turística, tanto en hospedaje como en gastronomía y paseos.
Hackleburg, Alabama
The town was hit by an F5 tornado on April 27, 2011 and destroyed. The city limit sign, proclaiming Hackleburg's 2007 State Championship Baseball team at least in still in the general area. The same sign on the south end of town is nowhere to be found. There was a second sign proclaiming Hackleburg as the hometown of country music hall of famer, Sonny James--it is nowhere to be found also.
Turn to your left and look south along the Pacific shore at California's Border Field State Park, and this is what you'll see. This is a panorama of the border fence--the same border fence I'd seen back in the Algodones Dunes--where it finally comes to an end and winds up trying to fence off water. This is as far as they could draw their imaginary line. This is the corner where America ends.
Beyond that fence is Tijuana, the large city of 1.6 million people in the Mexican state of Baja California. At the top of the hill on the left, there's the Plaza de Toros Monumental de Tijuana, a bull fighting ring built in 1960 that still holds bull fights. A lighthouse stands next to that. From there lining the beach south as far as a person could see if there wasn't that fence is a seemingly endless series of beach condo houses.
Akrotiri is located on the Southern Peninsula of Cyprus, 20 km from Limassol. RAF Akrotiri originated on 1st July 1955, when the first 30 personnel were posted into the dry rocky scrubland. By the end of August 1956 the station strength had reached 260 Officers and 2864 other ranks. Today there are approximately 850 service personnel. RAF Akrotiri is one of the few full-scale RAF bases left outside the UK. The base attracts many visiting aircraft including the Red Arrows who use it as their Winter training ground.
The unit has many amenities including a gymnasium, a swimming pool with a removable roof, various sport and recreational clubs, including football, rugby, netball, hockey, high ropes, low ropes, horse riding and a multitude of water-sports that take place on base.