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- Landscape Set 1 on the Behance Network
 Jul 4, 5:50am  (1 review) photography, landscapes, photos http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Landscape...
Ville Varumo
Landscape Set 1
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Behance Portfolio
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- The Design Files: Paris Match - The Australian Ballet
- Jun 29, 8:54am
 (2 reviews) ballet, arts, design, dance http://www.thedesignfiles.net/2009/06/pa...
Paris Match - The Australian Ballet
The Design Files
Top image - Olivia Bell in Suite en Blanc.
Bottom image - Rachel Rawlins and the cast of Suite en Blanc
Lucy Visits the Ballet
"It was AMAZING. Truly. I have never been to the ballet before (can you believe?)... but even knowing nothing about the intricacies of the choreography and history of the pieces performed, I was totally blown away.
Paris Match links two distinctly different performances. First, a mesmerising classical 'white ballet' entitled Suite en blanc. Think beautiful, jutting white tutus, traditional romantic themes, spirited, emotive performances... and of course, gravity-defying grace and movement.
After interval, the mood changed completely - Australian choreographer Stanton Welch's Divergence (1994) was sexy, provocative, at times humourous - and filled with electric energy. In stark contrast to the earlier piece, the dancers wore striking black costumes - including tutus recast in metal mesh (material usually reserved for air-conditioning ducts!) and breastplates structured from car upholstery! (Costumes designed by Vanessa Leyonhjelm). I wondered what the more old-fashioned audience members were thinking as the dancers punctuated the performance with the odd pelvic thrust or sassy shoulder twitch! Controversial!"
Robyn Hendricks in Divergence
Paris Match
Behind Ballet
Divergence
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- Telescopes - National Geographic Magazine
- Jun 23, 9:52am (2 reviews) astronomy, technology, telescopes http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/0...
Cosmic Vision
A new generation of giant telescopes will
carry the eye to the edge of the universe.
Hale adaptive optics laser shoots 56 miles up and produces sharper and more detailed views.
National Geographic Magazine, Timothy Ferris
"When you start stargazing with a telescope, two experiences typically ensue. First, you are astonished by the view--Saturn's golden rings, star clusters glittering like jewelry on black velvet, galaxies aglow with gentle starlight older than the human species--and by the realization that we and our world are part of this gigantic system. Second, you soon want a bigger telescope.
Galileo, who first trained a telescope on the night sky 400 years ago this fall, pioneered this two-step program. First, he marveled at what he could see. Galileo's telescope revealed so many previously invisible stars that when he tried to map all of them in just one constellation, Orion, he gave up, confessing that he was "overwhelmed by the vast quantity of stars." He saw mountains on the moon--in contradiction to the prevailing orthodoxy, which declared that all celestial objects were made of an unearthly "ether." He charted four bright satellites as they bustled around Jupiter like planets in a miniature solar system, something that critics of the Copernican sun-centered cosmology had dismissed as physically impossible. Evidently the Earth was a small part of a big universe, not a big part of a small one."
The Galileo Legacy:
Science and Religion are Not Compatible
Why Evolution is True
Vatican's Celestial Eye, Seeking Not Angels But Data
Vatican Observatory Research Group
The Vatican observatory at Castel Gandolfo, the pope's summer residence, in 1946.
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- Has New York Lost Its Great Chance With Frank Gehry? -- New York Magazine...
- Jun 22, 8:01am (1 review) architecture, new-york, arts, gehry http://nymag.com/arts/architecture/profi...
The Unbuilding of Frank Gehry
Gehry Speaks
New York Magazine, Justin Davidson
 "Starchitecture" is a glib neologism that reduces hard-won reputations and decadelong undertakings to little dabs of glitz. Gehry can hardly bring himself to utter the word, but the mere mention triggers a tirade revealing deep wells of grandiosity and resentment. "It suggests an egomaniac trying to flaunt his wares at the expense of the public. It's an opportunistic journalistic trick. There's so much bad stuff being built that people don't address, so they fasten on the half of one percent that gets into uncharted territory for humanistic and idealistic reasons. There is ego involved; everyone has to have that, or they don't do much. But architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations, because people go on vacation and they look for it. When I go to Bilbao, they want to touch me. If I were an egomaniac, I'd just move there."
More than any architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, Gehry exerts a hold over the popular imagination. He has played himself in The Simpsons. Walt Disney Concert Hall, his Los Angeles masterpiece, appears on guidebook covers and in car commercials ("by the way, we don't get royalties for that!")--and on the History Channel's hit parade of Engineering Disasters. The glare from the shiny metal roof heated up nearby apartments and dazzled motorists, a pretty innocuous goof. "They fixed it for $40,000," Gehry says crossly. "I just sent some people over there with steel wool."
Frank Owen Gehry
East River Gugenheim
New York Times
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- TED Blog: Q&with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
- Jun 17, 11:24am (3 reviews) http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/qa_with_clay...
Social Justice 140 Characters at a Time
Human Rights in Iran
- . Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter .
- Jun 16, 7:31am (1 review) space-exploration, technology, nasa, lunar-orbiter http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission.html
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA
 "As a result of the rescheduling of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission for June 17, LRO and LCROSS are now set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, June 18. There will be three launch opportunities from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:12 p.m., 5:22 p.m. and 5:32 p.m. EDT "
"The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first mission in NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, a plan to return to the moon and then to travel to Mars and beyond. The LRO objectives are to finding safe landing sites, locate potential resources, characterize the radiation environment, and demonstrate new technology."
Why The Moon
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- Stories of Daily Peril
- Jun 15, 7:41am (1 review) humor, writing, blogs, arts http://www.dailyperil.blogspot.com/
Stories of Daily Peril
Real and Imagined
Julianna Holowka
 "I've decided to save the upcoming sequels to The Flashing for a later date, lest all this testicle and anal bead talk make me appear less than lady-like. Instead, and in the spirit of my upcoming birthday, I've decided to share a recently rejected Mean Card. Strangely, not everything I create is solid gold. You see, I developed an instant fascination with huffing (glue, paint, gasoline, what have you...) after I saw an episode of the television show Intervention on A&E. The episode featured a young woman addicted to inhaling cans of computer monitor cleaner--she was a wreck.
It was truly one of the most bizarre things I've ever witnessed, and the idea just sort of stuck in my craw. For a minute there, I thought it'd make a nice birthday card. I figured I write something on the inside like this:
Upon further reflection, and I hate to be so business-business--so bottom-line, I just don't feel there's adequate demand for huffing-related greeting cards. It's a very niche market . . . ."
Mean Cards
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- Asbestos, "Tagging Is the Life Blood of the City" | ALARM Magazine
- Jun 9, 9:13am (1 review) painting, arts, tagging, street-art, graffiti http://www.alarmpress.com/2889/art-inter...
Asbestos
Tagging is the Life Blood of the City
Alarm
"A city whose public is in a constant state of expression is a sign of freedom. This is the attitude of Dublin-based street artist Asbestos, who believes that the practice of graffiti and street art not only puts work into the public sphere, but also constantly challenges and defines what `public' is. "Tagging is the life blood of a city," he explains, "a `clean' city feels as if no one has any freedom, it feels as if a population has given up on expressing themselves." His moniker is taken from the poisonous material that, once identified, is considered an infestation. The same is true for street art. "It becomes a visual avalanche, you realize that it's all around you, art, paint, stickers, the more you look the more you see." From the simple and immediate tag that denotes `I was here,' to the more elaborate graffiti that graces the alleyways and crevices of city streets, these visual markings are evidence that a city is alive and pulsing."
The Art of Asbestos
Retreat of Reason
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- Onexposure - 1x.com - Raym&
- Jun 2, 9:01am (1 review) photography, arts, landscapes, iceland http://1x.com/member/17110/raymoacute/
Raymó
Photography
Neon
The Lighthouse
Black Beach
Falling
Gallery
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- The Triumph of Frank Lloyd Wright | History &Archaeology | Smithsonian...
- May 28, 9:31am (3 reviews) architecture, wright, history http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-ar...
The Triumph of Frank Lloyd Wright
Arthur Lubow, Smithsonian Magazine
"Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic building was also one of his last. The reinforced-concrete spiral known as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened in New York City 50 years ago, on October 21, 1959; six months before, Wright died at the age of 92. He had devoted 16 years to the project, facing down opposition from a budget-conscious client, building-code sticklers and, most significantly, artists who doubted that paintings could be displayed properly on a slanting spiral ramp. "No, it is not to subjugate the paintings to the building that I conceived this plan," Wright wrote to Harry Guggenheim, a Thoroughbred horse breeder and founder of Newsday who, as the benefactor's nephew, took over the project after Solomon's death. "On the contrary, it was to make the building and the painting a beautiful symphony such as never existed in the world of Art before.""
 "The Guggenheim traces its lineage to an unbuilt project--a spiral ramp Wright designed for a planetarium (sketch, 1924)."
 "Crowds lined up at the opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Oct. 21, 1959."
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
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