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The pagodas at Three Pagodas Pass on the Thai/Myanmar border, Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
The pass has been the main land route between India and South East Asia since ancient times. It is believed that Buddhism spread from India into Thailand this way. It was also the route through which Thai and Burmese forces attacked each other and the route through which the Japanese built the infamous "Death Railway" during World War 2. These days there is a simple border crossing but it is only open for local traders to reach the small markets on either side. It is closed to international travellers.
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Moodboard three.
New project on blog.minusthirty.com/, one moodboard and color pallet each monday.
Please note - some photos are mine but most are not, please see link for artist credits.
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning"
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
Temple of the Three Graces, 1820s , Valtice-Lednice. Sciences and Muses in the gallery behind.
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Memorials in the Snow - Washing DC Memorials
Mother Nature finally provided me an opportunity able to capture a different perspective with the Military War Memorials in the snow. Nothing like trying to photograph your subject when the snow is blowing sideways most of the time with some nippy wind chill just to keep it interesting! Fun! Fun! Enjoy!
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The festival honors Davao’s artistic, cultural and historical heritage, its past personified by the ancestral Lumad people, its people as they celebrate on the streets, and its floral industry as its representatives parade in full regalia in thanksgiving for the blessings granted on the city. A celebration that interfaces the three aspects: tribal; industrial and; arts and entertainment. The festivities are highlighted with floral floats, street-dancing competitions and exhibits that showcases the island's tourism products and services.
Roy Lichtenstein
American, 1984
Painted aluminum
121 1/2 x 43 x 26 1/2 in., 527 lb.
2005.111
[Description and information copied from Getty website]
In this sculpture, painting's basic building block, the brushstroke, has been playfully transformed into an oversized, three-dimensional form. Made from aluminum, three vertical "strokes" of pure color are frozen in space and rise to a height of more than ten feet. One edge of the yellow brushstroke cuts through the dominant stroke of black and blue; the yellow also curves into a diminutive stroke of red paint.
Each brushstroke is a fully realized three-dimensional form that, somewhat implausibly, allows the viewer to experience a stroke of paint from different vantage points. The sculpture humorously reminds us that paint is literally three-dimensional.
Roy Lichtenstein first explored brushstrokes as a subject in a series of paintings initiated in 1965. As with many of his works, he used a comic book source--a panel of an artist at work from Strange Suspense Stories --as the basis for his brushstrokes. The subject became one of the artist's most recognizable images and he would return regularly to the brushstroke motif for more than thirty years. In the early 1980s, Lichtenstein began creating sculptural brushstrokes.
These three crows sat, panting, in the Texas heat. It was 100+ degrees F. again today and the air is heavy.
Lo poco que me queda de las fotos que tomé en Inglaterra está en un álbum en picassa: picasaweb.google.com/114415121203941401907/Oxford2011#
By Andy Goldsworthy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
A walk on the high moors of the North Lancashire Pennines led us to this magnificent sculpture by the world renowned land artist Andy Goldsworthy. This sculpture was a commission by the Abbeystead estate. One pillar was constructed a year and was completed in 2001
It was quite a trek. I wasn't sure exactly where to find it and the moor is a pretty featureless place. A couple of hours of ankle-busting stumbling over pathless moorland while being buzzed by low flying grouse was a price worth paying
Three Colour Schemes shows DC 4853 (in Bumble Bee) & DCP 4559 (in KiwiRail) on 962 and DFT 7023( in Corncob) at Dunedin Railway yards
The Three Pagodas Pass links the town of Sangkhlaburi in the north of Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand, to the town of Payathonsu in the south of Kayin State, Myanmar.
This pass has been the main land route into western Thailand since ancient times, and is believed be the point at which Buddhist teachings reached the country from India in the 3rd century. During the Ayutthaya period in Thai history (14th-18th centuries), the pass was the main invasion route for the Burmese (the first of such was the Burmese invasion in 1548).
The pass is named for three small, crumbling pagodas (chedis) which were probably built at the end of this period as a symbol of peace. They are now on the Thai side of the border. Parts of the border are still disputed.
During World War II, Japan built the infamous Death Railway through the pass. There is a memorial to commemorate the thousands of Australian prisoners of war who (with other Allied prisoners and Asian civilians) died as forced labourers in the construction of the railway.
The region is home to several hill tribes, including Karens and Mons, who are unable or unwilling to obtain citizenship from either countries. Separatist armies have repeatedly tried to take seize of the pass from Burma, with the Mons in effective control until 1990, when Burmese troops regained it.
Disclaimer: content taken and adapted from wikipedia.org, public domain
Three vintage Arthur Wood piggy banks, probably from the '60s
5-shot HDR taken for the 52 Weeks of Pix 2011 group, this week's theme, three, and the Scavenge Challenge group, May #4 antiquities, and #18 use some of your mementos to create a nostalgic greeting-card photo