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| "Targeting civilians": junk mail collage |
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Remarkable architectural photos
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| Studio Zhu Pei's Yangliping Performing Arts Center, in Dali, China. |
The year's best architectural photographs have been revealed, highlighting the beauty of sleek geometry, abstracted silhouettes and industrial textures from around the world. I love architecture and good friend, Carrol Wolf is an architect, so I know at least two of us will enjoy this?
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| Jadgal Primary School in Seyyed Bar, Iran, by architecture firm Daaz Office |
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| Open Architecture's Chapel of Sound, an arts venue near the Great Wall of China. |
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| David Chipperfield's Museum of Cultures of Milan in Italy. |
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| Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport. |
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| A cyclist outside the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders House in Berlin, Germany. |
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| Stephane Navailles' "Architecture 1" |
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| Hong Kong's densely populated Quarry Bay neighborhood |
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| installation "Air," created by artist Kenzo Digital for SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, |
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| Yuyuan Garden Station on the Shanghai Metro. |
(I've only shown my favorites, for more go here.)
It's Sumo Time.
A basho (tournament) happens six times a year for fifteen consecutive days. Today was Day 6. I am such a fan that I try to schedule so I can see all four daily broadcasts of that days bouts. I am so thankful for NHK, Japan's English channel, channel #812 on Cox Cable. I wasn't going to mention Sumo this basho but I opened the José Naranja blog this morning, to find his title, Yokozuna wannabe.
I have featured José Naranja before, here, here and here. Each of Naranja’s notebook pages are packed full of his own writing, illustrations, stamps, and photos, all of which beautifully document the life of this well-traveled artist.
Naranja sells an edited compilation of his best work in an elaborate, multilingual book called The Orange Manuscript. Find out more on his website, and follow the artist on Instagram for daily updates from his sketchbooks.
Just because ...
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| Shoebill Stork |
The shoebill stork
is a tall bird, with a typical height range of 43 to 55 inches and some
specimens reaching as much as 60 inches long from tail to beak can
range from 39 to 55 inches. The wingspan is 7 ft -7 inches to 8 ft 6
in. The species is aggressive. They may be big, but they can fly if they want to. Granted, Shoebills don't fly very far, and long flights are rare, but flying is no mean feat considering their size. They
eat big fish like lungfish, eels, and catfish, and also crazy stuff
like Nile monitor lizards, snakes, and baby crocodiles. This bird eats crocodiles!
* (I don't usually add details to the just because, but he fascinated me enough to look him up.)
Smiles for Saturday ...
Thanks for coming by today
4 comments:
Jacki, these architectural photographs are marvelous. So we are at least three of us who enjoyed them.
Happy Sunday, Jacki!
Thanks Elenor, Have a lovely weekend.
Spot on with your depiction of what is happening in the Ukraine. I always think about what you create and then what i write. When I add a smiley face I often think the smiley face does not go with the theme of your work. The theme is serious. Just know the smiley face to directed to you the artist not necessarily the work. It seems strange to give a smiley face to such a difficult and painful theme. :-)
I loved the stork and all the facts you discovered , your birds are always wonderful, I grew up with a younger brother that loved birds too, parakeets gave way to raising baby owls and hawks, they were awesome. Love you , Lois O.
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