Day 4323: Rotating Sculpture, Australian Mary River Turtle.

        

    

 

"Panic": photo, junk coollage, digital.

  

Want music?

 

    

Click : Aretha Franklin, Day Dreaming.

 

  

 

 

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Rotating 42-Layer Sculpture 

of Franz Kafka’s Head by David Cerny

Located in a busy shopping center in Prague, this twisting and reflective sculpture depicting the head of writer Franz Kafka is the latest kinetic artwork by controversial Czech artist David Cerny. Installed in 2014, the enormous mirrored bust is comprised of 42 independently driven layers of stainless steel and weighs in at some 45 tons. The piece brilliantly reveals Kafka’s tortured personality and unrelenting self doubt that plagued him his entire life. The layering of objects is a common motif for Cerny who built a similar rotating head that also functions as a fountain titled Metalmorphosis.

* 3 min.video,  here

      Threatened: A Green-Haired Turtle

This Australian turtle is making headlines around the world, the weird-looking star 

on a new list of threatened reptiles issued by the Zoological Society of London.

This one with the green “mohawk” hair (actually algae), formally known as the Mary River turtle, is an Australian species that split from other living species about 40 million years ago. It has special organs in its cloaca that allow it to draw oxygen from the water. It can stay underwater for up to three days.

(more information, here).

Throwback Thursday ...

Some of Genbu-Kai Costa Mesa Dojo Adults 

at Birthday Party, Villa Park, CA. on December 11, 2011

Duke Olrich, Kathy Roberts, me,  Roberto Torres Jr., Cathy Lenzi, Kristie Koch Adamson, David Gassen, Roy Center

 

 

 

 

  

 

A 1+  minute video, Sheep-herding,  here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

  

baby Blue Heron

 

 

Thursday's Smiles ...