She gessoes them, draws the image in graphite, paints with oils and varnishes. Generally, she depicts miniature portraits from the watercolor on ivory era (17th-18th century more or less). She expresses are dissatisfaction by essentially painting portraits of aristocrats and social elites on trash.
Sewell Mining Town is particularly notable for its contribution to the global spread of large-scale mining technology. Soon, more than a hundred multi-coloured buildings arose that housed the miners. At its peak, Swell had 15,000 inhabitants. By the end of the 1960s, the copper industry was nationalized and became the property of the State. In 2006, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mine however still functions and El Teniente now produces 3% of the worlds' copper....
The rock is absolutely flat and narrow, like the sail of a ship, and hence its name. It is about 30 meters tall and 20 meters long but only a meter thick. Contributing to its image lies the fact that this rock is perpendicular to the coastline. From far away, it looks like a boat with a massive sail has come ashore. Near the base of the monolith is a peculiar hole of unknown origin....
This part of Taiwan is rising because of the subduction of Philippines Sea Plate under the Eurasian Plate. Eventually, the erosive power of Liwu River carved a path through the marble to create Taroko Gorge. Photo credit Until the 1950s only a trail ran through the gorge. Today the Central Cross-Island Highway runs across the wall of the gorge. Despite its name, the Central Cross-Island Highway is a narrow and winding mountain road with numerous bends....
The churning water created a deafening noise that could be heard from 30 km away. By October 27, 1982, the reservoir was fully formed and the falls had vanished.
His story is well known. A photograph of Christopher McCandless recovered from his camera. He started using the bus as a hunting shelter and began to live off the land. He poached porcupines, squirrels, and birds, such as ptarmigans and Canada geese. Making a crossing was out of the question. McCandless lived in the bus for a total of 113 days. When he was found, he was starved to death, weighing just 30 kilos....
British firm Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT have designed and completed a new moving footbridge in Paddington, London, that opens and closes like the blades of a traditional Japanese hand-held fan. The bridge consist of five steel beams, stabilized with counterweights, that rise and fall in sequence to create a fan-like effect. The first rises to 70 degrees, while the last lifts high enough to create a clearance space of two and a half meters over the surface of the canal over which it spans....
But the chandelier at Scotts Square is easily his most recognized work. The chandelier was first installed in 1999, at which time, it was more modest. The chandelier is 27 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter and is made of blown glass. Dale Chihulys glassworks can be found in more than 200 museum collections worldwide. (Photo by Nick Ansell/PA Wire)
And its not just cars. All airplanes, trains and all public transportation stop moving. No music plays over the radio, television stops broadcasting, and all shops and businesses remain shut down. For one day, Israel resembles a scene from a post apocalypse movie. The air smells good, the visibility gets better and the distant roar of traffic is comfortably absent. Residents take advantage of this day and goes out for walks along the empty city streets....
Some human behavior never change, such as the urge to doodle in the margin of a book. See more doodles onErik Kwakkels blog. A man and a woman engaged in a game of bowling, circa 1300. Pen trials from Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. c. 66 (15th century). Doodle discovered in a 13th-century law manuscript (Amiens BM 347). Conches, Bibliotheque municipale, MS 7 (main text 13th century, doodle 14th or 15th century)....
The house was re-built with haste, and possibly without care, using unseasoned green oak wood. When the wood dried, the house buckled but it stood its ground. Since then Market Cross House became known as the Crooked House of Windsor. The passageway was also used for delivering produce from the market directly to the kitchens of Windsor Castle. Source:Thisoldhouse/Food and Drink Guides/Crooked-House(official website)
Pacific walruses spend their winters in the Bering Sea. As temperatures rise in summer, the edge of the sea ice recedes north. The phenomenon was first spotted on the US side of the Chukchi Sea in 2007. Walruses had also been gathering in large groups on the Russian side of the Chukchi Sea. Once the walruses gather on the beach, the young ones become vulnerable to stampedes. Stampedes can be triggered by a polar bear, human hunter or low-flying airplane....
Brooklyn-based artist Clement Valla scours Google Earth looking for anomalies. This is why Valla is so fascinated with them. Attempting to wrap the 2D image over these tricky surfaces result in these surreal images. “It just happens to be sort of an edge condition,” he says. “Thats what I like about these. The computers doing exactly what it should be doing.” Source:Postcards from Google Earth
