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On the island of Santa Cruz, dividing the dry forests of Palo Santo from the humid agricultural land on the windward side, are a pair of volcanic sinkholes called Los Gemelos, or the twins. They are often referred to as craters but their formation was caused by a collapse of the land beneath rather than an eruption of a volcano. These geologic structures are impressive to see; the lush green of the surrounding Scalesian forest contrast greatly with the immense gray and black volcanic rock walls.
Most visitors do not walk the entire trail at Los Gemelos but only the short distance between the two sinkholes. They lie on opposite sides of the main road that divides the island, making this a convenient stopping point for many tour groups. You could also hire a taxi in Puerto Ayora to make the visit. If you are a biologist, a naturalist, or a birdwatcher, you may want to ask about spending more time than the general 30 minutes or so. The biodiverse forest is comprised mainly of a species of tree unique to the Galapagos, the Scalesia pedunculata. Our guide called it the Broccoli Tree because the branches and leaves look like huge stalks of broccoli. Our short visit was rich with bird sounds, especially the soft twittering of finches. We also saw several varieties of flowering plants very close to the trail. In short, this place deserves a visit of a couple of hours for those that truly want to explore. For those with a checklist of places to visit, a short stop should suffice.
The GIANTS
Ocean Cement Silos, Est. 1917, Granville Island
Ocean Cement is the oldest and largest tenant on Granville Island. Established on the Island in 1917.
Painted by OSGEMEOS, which means "the twins," Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo. They're known for their public art, transforming buildings and walls into colourful spray-painted characters.
The Vancouver project is the duo's biggest to date.
Granville Island, BC CA
Sunny day's perspectives......
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Artists, Osgemeos (Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo) used 1400 spray paint cans to create this mural.
Granville Island, Vancouver, BC Canada 🇨🇦
The GIANTS
( Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum)
Ocean Cement Silos, Est. 1917, Granville Island
Artistic Impression - HDR Fun
Ocean Cement is the oldest and largest tenant on Granville Island. Established on the Island in 1917.
Painted by OSGEMEOS, which means "the twins," Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo. They're known for their public art, transforming buildings and walls into colourful spray-painted characters.
The Vancouver project is the duo's biggest to date.
Granville Island,
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
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Part of the highlands that can be visited from the road are these twin sinkholes (not volcanic craters), surrounded by scalesia forest.
Vermilion flycatchers are often seen here, as are short-eared owls on occasion. Los Gemelos are about 2km beyond Santa Rosa on the trans-island road. Although the sinkholes lie only 25m and 125m from either side of the road, they are hidden by vegetation, so ask your driver to stop at the short trailhead.
Ocean Concrete plant is operational since 1920 on this island, which is fast changing from industrial to leisure island with ever increasing number of pubs and restaurants. The painting was done in 2014 by Brazilian twins Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo. They used 1400 spray paints in addition to 90 gal undercoating. I was looking at the silos every day, as I was staying in a condo just at the bridge over the island.
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Em Lisboa, Portugal.
Os autores da pintura são os artistas brasileiros Otávio Pandolfo e Gustavo Pandolfo, conhecidos como "Os Gêmeos".
Agradeço a informação ao nosso companheiro do Flickr Murilo Sergio Romeiro.
www.visitportugal.com/pt-pt/content/os-gemeos
Abaixo, o link do site dos autores dessa trabalho.
Scalesia pedunculata Hook.f. is a member of the Daisy family or Asteraceae, growing to a slender tree (20m tall, DBH 20 cm), and found in dense stands on the humid windward coasts of the islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, Santiago and Floreana in the Galapagos Islands.
The Galapagos archipelago lies in the southeast trade wind zone, so that climate and weather are dominated by the moisture-bearing trade winds and the topography of the islands. In general, the windward sides of the islands have a much higher precipitation than the leeward sides.
Part of the highlands that can be visited from the road are these twin sinkholes (not volcanic craters), surrounded by scalesia forest.
Vermilion flycatchers are often seen here, as are short-eared owls on occasion. Los Gemelos are about 2km beyond Santa Rosa on the trans-island road. Although the sinkholes lie only 25m and 125m from either side of the road, they are hidden by vegetation, so ask your driver to stop at the short trailhead.
This island is a large extinct volcano. It is estimated that the last eruptions occurred around a million and a half years ago. There is a gigantic lava tunnel that is over 2000 meters long on the island that many tourists visit and walk through.
As a testimony to its volcanic history there are two big holes formed by the collapse of a magma chamber: Los Gemelos, or "The Twins".
Le plus gros le meilleur! Ces géants sont impossibles à manquer. Les frères jumeaux brésiliens Gustavo et Otávio Pandolfo ont transformé six énormes silos sur Granville Island en une fresque vibrante que vous ne pouvez pas vous empêcher de sourire quand vous regardez. À 70 pieds de haut, ce 23 500 pieds carrés. La murale est le projet le plus massif d'OSGEMEOS à ce jour.
The bigger, the better! These giants are impossible to miss. Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo transformed six massive silos on Granville Island into a vibrant mural you can’t help but smile when you look at. At 70 feet tall, this 23,500-sq.-ft. The mural is OSGEMEOS most massive project to-date.
OSGEMEOS, which literally means "the twins," is made up of Brazilian twin brothers . They're known for their public art, transforming buildings and walls into colourful spray-painted characters. The giants were created in 2014.
Scalesia pedunculata Hook.f. is a member of the Daisy family or Asteraceae, growing to a slender tree (20m tall, DBH 20 cm), and found in dense stands on the humid windward coasts of the islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, Santiago and Floreana in the Galapagos Islands.
The Galapagos archipelago lies in the southeast trade wind zone, so that climate and weather are dominated by the moisture-bearing trade winds and the topography of the islands. In general, the windward sides of the islands have a much higher precipitation than the leeward sides.
I promised y'all more Os Gemeos when I posted this one from the Lisbon Cronos Project:
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Here are front & back views of their contribution to the Vancouver Biennale. See the previous/following post for the other side.
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Scalesia pedunculata Hook.f. is a member of the Daisy family or Asteraceae, growing to a slender tree (20m tall, DBH 20 cm), and found in dense stands on the humid windward coasts of the islands of Santa Cruz, San Cristobal, Santiago and Floreana in the Galapagos Islands.
The Galapagos archipelago lies in the southeast trade wind zone, so that climate and weather are dominated by the moisture-bearing trade winds and the topography of the islands. In general, the windward sides of the islands have a much higher precipitation than the leeward sides.
Happy New Year to all of you !
Granville Island
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Six industrial concrete silos are being transformed into a vibrant mural, thanks to internationally acclaimed street artists, OSGEMEOS.
The 70-foot tall mural is part of the Vancouver Biennale, an event that celebrates public art.
OSGEMEOS, which literally means "the twins," is made up of Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo. They're known for their public art, transforming buildings and walls into colourful spray-painted characters.
The Vancouver project is the duo's biggest to date.
Lisboa - Portugal
2013
Os autores da pintura são os artistas brasileiros Otávio Pandolfo e Gustavo Pandolfo, conhecidos como "OSGEMEOS".
According to the Ecocem website their concrete gives increased strength and durability and gives a whiter, brighter, smoother finish. And here I thought all concrete was the same, lol.
The mural on the silos is by the twin Brazilian brothers known as OSGEMEOS.
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Ocean Cement Silos, Est. 1917, Granville Island
**The third giant from the left - currently being filled (see crane above )
Ocean Cement is the oldest and largest tenant on Granville Island. Established on the Island in 1917.
Painted by OSGEMEOS, which means "the twins," Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo. They're known for their public art, transforming buildings and walls into colourful spray-painted characters.
The Vancouver project is the duo's biggest to date.
Granville Island, BC CA
© All Rights Reserved
The GIANTS
Ocean Cement Silos, Est. 1917, Granville Island
**The third giant from the left - currently being filled (see crane above )
Ocean Cement is the oldest and largest tenant on Granville Island. Established on the Island in 1917.
Painted by OSGEMEOS, which means "the twins," Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo. They're known for their public art, transforming buildings and walls into colourful spray-painted characters.
The Vancouver project is the duo's biggest to date.
Granville Island, BC CA
Concrete Silo, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
OSGEMEOS (also known as Os Gemeos or Os Gêmeos, Portuguese for The Twins) are identical twin street artists Otavio Pandolfo and Gustavo Pandolfo (born 1974). They started painting graffiti in 1987 and their work appears on streets and in galleries across the world.
The last of this series on Lisbon's 2010-2011 Crono Project: murals by Os Gêmeos (left) and BLU on Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo 26, part
I'll document more colossal art by OSGEMEOS from Vancouver, later in the year.
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It's amazing that in Vilnius you can find artwork by the world's most famous street artists. For example, the Brazilian brothers Os Gemeos. That's Portuguese for "The Twins". And to top it off, these two world travellers have Lithuanian roots. It was those roots that sparked the creation of a mural dedicated to their grandfather and their childhood, which was embedded with Lithuanian traditions. The Brazilian artists put their Lithuanian grandfather in the palm of their signature character.
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On the island of Santa Cruz, dividing the dry forests of Palo Santo from the humid agricultural land on the windward side, are a pair of volcanic sinkholes called Los Gemelos, or the twins. They are often referred to as craters but their formation was caused by a collapse of the land beneath rather than an eruption of a volcano. These geologic structures are impressive to see; the lush green of the surrounding Scalesian forest contrast greatly with the immense gray and black volcanic rock walls.
Most visitors do not walk the entire trail at Los Gemelos but only the short distance between the two sinkholes. They lie on opposite sides of the main road that divides the island, making this a convenient stopping point for many tour groups. You could also hire a taxi in Puerto Ayora to make the visit. If you are a biologist, a naturalist, or a birdwatcher, you may want to ask about spending more time than the general 30 minutes or so. The biodiverse forest is comprised mainly of a species of tree unique to the Galapagos, the Scalesia pedunculata. Our guide called it the Broccoli Tree because the branches and leaves look like huge stalks of broccoli. Our short visit was rich with bird sounds, especially the soft twittering of finches. We also saw several varieties of flowering plants very close to the trail. In short, this place deserves a visit of a couple of hours for those that truly want to explore. For those with a checklist of places to visit, a short stop should suffice.
Spanning six cylindrical cement silos, the larger-than-life graffiti mural may be the most ambitious project yet by the Brazilian twin brothers known as OSGEMEOS.
Ocean Cement Silos, Est. 1917, Granville Island
Ocean Cement is the oldest and largest tenant on Granville Island. Established on the Island in 1917.
Painted by OSGEMEOS, which means "the twins," Brazilian twin brothers Gustavo and Otávio Pandolfo. They're known for their public art, transforming buildings and walls into colourful spray-painted characters.
The Vancouver project is the duo's biggest to date.
Granville Island,
Vancouver, BC CA
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf ,
Ehrenhof 2,
40479 Düsseldorf
Besuch der Ausstellung "Wonderwalls - Art & Toys"
Verwirklicht wird die Ausstellung mit Unterstützung des Düsseldorfers Selim Varol, der die wohl umfangreichste Sammlung
von urbaner Kunst und Designer Toys zusammengetragen hat. Graffitis, Schablonen, Mosaike, Aufkleber und Collagen, Skulpturen, Performances, Formen der Kommunikationsguerilla und des „Culture Jammings“, mit Arbeiten unter anderem von JR, Banksy, KAWS, Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Osgemeos, Herakut oder Prune Nourry umfasst die Ausstellung jede erdenkliche Kunstdisziplin im öffentlichen Raum. Die von Gesellschafts- und Konsumkritik geprägten Arbeiten, die ihren Ursprung in der Pop- und Skateboardkultur der 90er Jahre haben, sind heute genauso relevant wie zum Zeitpunkt ihrer Entstehung und verdeutlichen in ihrer Zusammenstellung das unerschöpfliche kreative, spielerische und politische Potenzial von Street Art, Designer Toys und urbaner Kunst. (Quelle: NRW-Forum)
NRW Forum Düsseldorf ,
Ehrenhof 2,
40479 Dusseldorf
Visit to the exhibition "Wonderwalls - Art & Toys"
The exhibition is realized with the support of Selim Varol from Düsseldorf, who probably has the most extensive collection
of urban art and designer toys. Graffiti, stencils, mosaics, stickers and collages, sculptures, performances, forms of communication guerrilla and "culture jamming", with works by JR, Banksy, KAWS, Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Osgemeos, Herakut or Prune Nourry, among others, the exhibition includes every imaginable art discipline in public space. The works, which are shaped by social and consumer criticism and have their origins in the pop and skateboard culture of the 90s, are just as relevant today as they were when they were created and, in their compilation, illustrate the inexhaustible creative, playful and political potential of street art, designers toys and urban art. (Source: NRW Forum)
OSGEMEOS, translated as “The Twins”, Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo, have worked together since birth. Born in 1974 in São Paulo, Brazil, the twins developed a distinct way of playing and communicating through artistic language as children growing up in the streets of the traditional district of Cambuci (SP). With the encouragement of their family, and the introduction of hiphop culture in Brazil in the 1980s, OSGEMEOS found a direct connection to their dynamic and magical world and a way to communicate with the public. Guided mainly by their willpower, together they explored with dedication and care the various techniques of painting, drawing and sculpture, and had the streets as their place of study.
They never stopped doing graffiti, but over the years, this universe created by the duo, with which they dream and get inspiration from, overtook the streets, becoming a language of its own with so many other influences and cultures, and it is constantly evolving. They believe in the encounters and experiences that life offers are natural and delicate. Today, recognized and admired both nationally and internationally, the artists utilize this combined visual language, improvisation and a sense of playfulness to intuitively create a variety of projects worldwide.
They have held numerous solo and group shows in museums and galleries in several countries such as Cuba, Chile, the United States of America, Italy, Spain, England, Germany, Lithuania, and Japan. To understand the work of OSGEMEOS, it is necessary to allow reason to be replaced by the imaginary – walk through the doors, allowing ourselves to realize the subtleties in the world around us and to embark on an experience that exceeds the visual: to feel first and to understand later. The twins still live and work primarily in São Paolo.
For the Vancouver Biennale, OSGEMEOS created a monumental, 360-degree, 21-metre- (70-foot-) tall mural, the biggest public mural of their career to date and their public artwork debut in Canada. The mural, which measures a colourful 2,183 square meters (23,500 square feet), was created on the six gigantic silos that are part of the Ocean Concrete manufacturing and distribution plant on Vancouver’s Granville Island, alongside the world-famous Public Market, Emily Carr University, and boat docks that attract 10.5 million visitors per year.