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A lot of speculations have been around the last days and weeks. Here it is now. The real cloverfield. At the Picnic '07 in Amsterdam. www.patmo.de/2007/07/16/1-18-08-cloverfield-was-kommt-da-...
Portrack Garden, Scotland.
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland.
The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as Black Holes and Fractals. The garden is not abundant with plants, but sets mathematical formulae and scientific phenomenae in a setting which elegantly combines natural features and artificial symmetry and curves. It is probably unique among gardens, drawing comparisons with a similarly abstract garden in Scotland, Little Sparta.
The garden is private but usually opens on one day each year through Scotland's Gardens Scheme and raises money for Maggie's Centres, a cancer care charity named for Maggie Keswick Jencks, the late wife of Charles Jencks.
The garden is the subject of an orchestral composition by American composer, Michael Gandolfi, which he composed for a joint commission from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center. The piece was subsequently recorded by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano, and nominated for "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" at the 2009 Grammy Awards (Wikipedia).
JENCKS, Charles A. (2003). The Garden of Cosmic Speculation. Frances Lincoln Ltd., London. ISBN 0 7112 2216 9
Conspiracy Theory Poster Billboard stating that on 9/11 the World Trade Center was destroyed by explosive demolition - Crazy People looking into paranoid speculation 8th Ave and 40th Street NYC 2015 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Nutjobs Nutjob Wacko theories Free Speech Crazy Talk etc
Speculation says this may or may not be coming back this year. Heres to hoping it does, because one thing i've always wanted to do since i was a little boy is to drive a Routemaster. One ultimate goal in life. Again, ive driven it in the garage. But not on the road!
HN 54 K36 2009
This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then tallest building in the United States—the Exchange Coffee House, a 153-room, seven-story colossus in downtown Boston. The story of Dexter’s rise and eventual collapse offered an object lesson to the rising young nation, and presents striking parallels to the subprime mortgage meltdown and looming economic collapse of today.
Can't photograph inside the Maestro's house. This Washington Irving's cottage that he built along the Hudson in the later part of his life when he was more well-off and established. It is an eclectic, romantic era cottage that was carefully designed to be seen and evoke different feelings at different angles. The landscape is a rustic, sculpted landscape in which the trees are placed and worn rock walls containing ponds and "rustic streams" tumbling forth evoke some Shakespearean vision of ancient Rome or Greece.
He was a gentleman-farmer, so common for the time, but found it more expensive to raise his own food than to simply buy it from the vast and numerous local farms.
Irving loved whimsy and storytelling and was less formal than his political contemporaries. He turned-down political positions and wanted little to do with the rough and tumble of politics. I suspect he didn't want to deal with the hypocrisy and nonsense. His writing shows a disdain for people of authority. He was not a particularly distinguished student - and his disdain for teachers is loud and clear in his description of the pedantic Ichabod Crane, Or Dame Van Winkle or Tom Walker's Termagant Wife. The description of Tom Walker's descent into financial malfeasance, corruption and abuse of the meekest people is some of the most masterful writing I've ever read. Its description of the market overheating from the greed of flimsy land speculation and oppressive fees and interest rates on poor people is so apropo to today. The only honest and likable character in the story is the Devil. He makes no bones about his role and what you get into if you deal with him, while Tom Walker makes people in financial hardship feel he is their best friend and savior while extracting every penny he can from them.It is magnificent writing and commentary on greed that is as true today as it was then.
The cottage is small and intimate. I could imagine long evenings of talking and laughing and story telling, eating and drinking, overlooking the Hudson. Much like the feast in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He certainly embraced the Christmas festivities (mistletoe) he described in his Sketchbook.
I was surprised because I expected a mansion of the type of the Nation's early powerbrokers and the later Robber Barons. Irving, like all good artists lived a less lavish lifestyle. Although he is the first truly early American writer his life was not like the Vanderbilts, Jays, Goulds etc... He had a staff of mainly Irish immigrants that were paid for their work. He never owned nor wanted enslaved people. He was clearly against this. In his political writings he says that southern politicians couldn't get anything done because they had to get back to whoop their Negros.
His dining room is small and intimate overlooking the Hudson. The chandeliers and candles all had crystals hanging from them. I can imagine a fall night with the candles all flickering around the room, everyone eating and drinking and talking around the fireplace. When I visit Guilded-Age mansions they are so large and sterile (albeit beautiful) but they do not look like they were fun and inviting like Irving's cottage is.
I recommend reading his works before touring, although not a requirement, but if you've read my favorite (The Devil and Tom Walker) you can feel his presence in that place.
In his stories he could be loose with the facts. Major John Andre was hung in Tappan not Tarrytown! And in this vein there are the metal numbers "1656" on his cottage fireplace. What they refer to is unknown. The house was built in the 1830s. Perhaps it is to give the place an authenticity of an Old-New York Dutch House (by then long gone), or perhaps to imbue the place with spirit or who knows. Only Irving does.
This project is my speculation about presumable existence of parallel universes. The universe is infinite, but there is only limited amount of particles everything is made of. That means, that any combination of limited amount of participles will repeat again. Theory of hyperspace says, that our universe is just one small bubble in the foam full of bubbles.What if somewhere there, in the depth of infinite universe, exists exactly the same version of me?
Or you?
Beijing Planetarium. As the world moves closer to December 12th 2012, the final date of a 5,125 year long ancient Mayan calendar. So China’s media has been increasing its coverage of UFO sightings around the country. Although scholars agree the date has no association with cataclysmic events occurring in 2012, rumors have claimed we are approaching the end of the world and with this, speculation of an Alien invasion. In this video D J Clark sets out to investigate whether these UFO sightings have any credibility. 19/08/2012, Beijing, China.
See the video at vimeo.com/48353110
While global food prices are rising, pushing the world's poorest people into hunger, bankers are betting on food prices and once again look set to push them even higher.
We're campaigning hard for new laws to regulate food speculation - and the next few weeks will be crucial.
Euro MPs and finance ministers are both about to decide their position on the new rules. The UK government, represented by Chancellor George Osborne, is opposed to strong rules to tackle food speculation.
So we are going to present him with a photo petition to show him just how many people are concerned about the issue.
'Landscapes of speculation' explores the role of unbuilt sites as ephemeral landscapes conceived by real estate market. Santiago de Chile, as many latin-american countries, is a fast-paced growing city under a free market economy. The transformation of land into a commodity has imposed the logic of speculation onto traditional city developing processes, leaving purposedly undeveloped lots in between highly demanded areas.
These somewhat invisible spaces are closed to the eyes of the passerby; they are not meant to be experienced in their actual conditions, and as such they exist in a liminal situation between nature and currency, space and metaphor. Under this threshold state, space is subject to - or defended from - social practices that are themselves outcasted from contemporary cities. This has led me to wonder about the value this landscapes have to contemporary culture, as they range from 'archeological registries' of economic pressures over land to highly representational and personal spaces.
The speculation surrounding Edison Cavani's future at Paris Saint Germain is still running around as the player circles around a transfer.
The Uruguayan who scored the winner against PSG's Champions League game against Chelsea on Tuesday has not been able to find himself playing in his ...
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In April 2009, amidst speculation about the cause of the shortage of young people going to sea, the ITF, along with industry partner INTERTANKO, brought together a small focus group of young seafarers. www.itfseafarers.org/YSF-focus-group.cfm
Modeled after the garden of cosmic speculation in Scotland. This particular feature of the garden is called the snake mound.
The model was for my final project in history of landscape architecture. Most of the modeling credit goes to Wes but it was a combined effort. It's constructed of blue foam that we shaped and coated with plaster. The black is epoxy that we mixed in black pigment... it's supposed to represent water. Actually turned out to be rather tricky, getting the epoxy to set up properly requires LOTS of mixing before hand... it took two attempts to get the stuff to harden as it is now.
I'm not sure if the bookseller is making assumptions here but it's a pretty cool thought that this book was presented to Timothy Leary by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Jessa Duggar
Jessa duggar sparks pregnancy speculation in new photo by alyssa norwin, march 23, 2015. with jill duggar’s baby due any day now, is another duggar.This is a photo of michelle and jim bob duggar kissing -- and it's a recreation of their daughter's jessa seewald's k...
Amid intense speculation over his future, MS Dhoni is not travelling with the India squad to the West Indies. Chief selector MSK Prasad has said the wicketkeeper-batsman has “expressed his unavailability” for the tour. Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya have b…
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When science fiction films envisage credible futures, is there a bigger role that design studios can play in converting creative speculation to technological innovation? This talk looks at the challenges and real…
fitc.ca/presentation/fantasy-fact-journey-speculation-inn...
This project is my speculation about presumable existence of parallel universes. The universe is infinite, but there is only limited amount of particles everything is made of. That means, that any combination of limited amount of participles will repeat again. Theory of hyperspace says, that our universe is just one small bubble in the foam full of bubbles.What if somewhere there, in the depth of infinite universe, exists exactly the same version of me?
Or you?
Along US 20 (Fall Street) in Seneca Falls, NY
*There is much local speculation that Capra's "Bedford Falls" was drawn from, in part, the director's visit to Seneca Falls in 1945 (he stopped and got a haircut) while visiting an aunt who lived in nearby Auburn.
www.senecafalls.com/wonderful-life-weekend.php
www.offbeattravel.com/Seneca-Falls-Christmas.html
www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/02/seneca_falls_hote...
'Landscapes of speculation' explores the role of unbuilt sites as ephemeral landscapes conceived by real estate market. Santiago de Chile, as many latin-american countries, is a fast-paced growing city under a free market economy. The transformation of land into a commodity has imposed the logic of speculation onto traditional city developing processes, leaving purposedly undeveloped lots in between highly demanded areas.
These somewhat invisible spaces are closed to the eyes of the passerby; they are not meant to be experienced in their actual conditions, and as such they exist in a liminal situation between nature and currency, space and metaphor. Under this threshold state, space is subject to - or defended from - social practices that are themselves outcasted from contemporary cities. This has led me to wonder about the value this landscapes have to contemporary culture, as they range from 'archeological registries' of economic pressures over land to highly representational and personal spaces.
These days any major shift in weather conditions starts speculations about the effects of global warming. This winter has been colder and the snow cover thicker than for ages here in southern Finland. Although this is nothing unusual - I have experienced many similar winters during my life - the speculations run wild.
Walking home in the dark tonight, this movie poster, aptly decorated with snow and icicles, made me think about all this. I shouldn't joke about the serious global threat, but I couldn't help seeing the funny connection here. Have we entered the new Ice Age already?
Turku, Finland
An excellent, low-budget depiction of official contact with the 'Galactic Barrier', as it were, by Commander Roswell, only later to be reclassified an 'intergalactic' barrier, due to story line enhancements and more thorough evaluation of subsequent events in the 'Coliseum'.
'Commander Minus Roswell' being played by Wes Washington, current Brooklyn resident and aspiring make-up artist.
Scholars argue that due to Washington's Apache/Cherokee roots, and being raised primarily by a single mother, he'd naturally gravitate toward the Star Trek® Voyager series versus a character that ever ascends to the rank of captain aboard his own vessel.
"Nosey bastards!" he'd surely call them behind their backs, you see.
When science fiction films envisage credible futures, is there a bigger role that design studios can play in converting creative speculation to technological innovation? This talk looks at the challenges and real…
fitc.ca/presentation/fantasy-fact-journey-speculation-inn...
"Hannah Courtoy (1784 - 26 January 1849), born Hannah Peters, was a London society woman who inherited a fortune from the merchant John Courtoy in 1815. Her distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum in London's Brompton Cemetery has been the subject of considerable curiosity and speculation ever since a report by Reuters in 1998 repeated claims that it contained a working time machine.
"Hannah Courtoy was born Hannah Peters in 1784. She never married but had three daughters, Mary Ann (1801), Elizabeth (1804-1876), and Susannah (1807-1895). In 1830, Susannah married Septimus Holmes Godson, a barrister of Gray's Inn.
"In 1815, Courtoy inherited a fortune from the elderly merchant John Courtoy (born Nicholas Jacquinet in France, 1709) through a Will that was disputed in court.
"Courtoy's distinctive Egyptian-style mausoleum of 1854[9] in Brompton Cemetery, where her unmarried daughters Elizabeth and Mary Ann are also interred, has been the subject of considerable curiosity ever since a report by Reuters in 1998[10] reported on rumours that it might be or contain a working time machine, a speculation that has been fuelled by various articles written by the musician Stephen Coates of the band The Real Tuesday Weld."
Source: Wikipedia
More on the story of Hannah Courtoy's mausoleum
Independent article on the time machine theory
"Brompton Cemetery is a London cemetery in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is managed by The Royal Parks, and is one of the Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Established by Act of Parliament and erected in 1839, it opened in 1840 and was originally known as the West of London and Westminster Cemetery.
"Consecrated by Charles James Blomfield, the Bishop of London in June 1840, it is one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished garden cemeteries. Some 35,000 monuments, from simple headstones to substantial mausolea, mark the resting place of more than 205,000 burials. The site includes large plots for family mausolea, and common graves where coffins are piled deep into the earth, as well as a small columbarium. There is also a secluded Garden of Remembrance at the northern end, for cremated remains. It is also an urban haven for nature.
"By the early years of the 19th century, inner city burial grounds, mostly churchyards, had long been unable to cope with the number of burials and were seen as a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. In 1837 a decision was made to lay out a new burial ground in Brompton, London. The moving spirit behind the project was the engineer, Stephen Geary, and it was necessary to form a company in order to get parliamentary permission to raise capital for the purpose. Securing the land – some 40 acres – from local landowner, Lord Kensington and the Equitable Gas Light Company, as well as raising the money proved an extended challenge. The cemetery became one of seven large, new cemeteries founded by private companies in the mid-19th century (sometimes called the 'Magnificent Seven') forming a ring around the edge of London."
Source: Wikipedia
When science fiction films envisage credible futures, is there a bigger role that design studios can play in converting creative speculation to technological innovation? This talk looks at the challenges and real…
fitc.ca/presentation/fantasy-fact-journey-speculation-inn...
Jessa Duggar
Jessa duggar sparks pregnancy speculation in new photo by alyssa norwin, march 23, 2015. with jill duggar’s baby due any day now, is another duggar.This is a photo of michelle and jim bob duggar kissing -- and it's a recreation of their daughter's jessa seewald's k...
in hours of objective speculation
i ponder our destiny, silently despairing
where is the limit of human arrogance?
when will we realize the abysmal depths
of our ignorance?
while hyperbolic curves now succinctly measure
the rapidly approaching cataclysm,
society totters on the precipice, while
human-lemmings drive themselves even faster,
desperately plunging into the chasm