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World's Amazing Pedestrian Bridges

Tuesday, 28 June 2011

World's Most Spectacular Pedestrian Bridges

Stroll the 1.3-mile Hudson River Walkway in Poughkeepsie, NY—taking in the exhilarating view of water, treetops, and sky—and you could almost forget that we live in a world designed for the automobile. Here, the environment belongs not to those who roar by at 70 mph, but to pedestrians like you.
The concept of pedestrian bridges isn't new—Venice's Rialto Bridge dates back to 1588, and even the Brooklyn Bridge architects made room for walkways alongside the car lanes. But just recently, since around the turn of the millennium, we've rediscovered the notion that regular people are important enough to deserve some spectacular feats of engineering.
Sure, these pedestrian bridges make a big impression with sweeping views and innovative features like solar-powered LED lighting or the ability to levitate and roll upwards into a wheel. But above all, they reward us for traveling, whether on foot or two wheels, with our own muscle power.

Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, British Columbia




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Blue River - Petermann Glacier

Friday, 28 January 2011

Petermann - the largest floating glacier in the Northern Hemisphere, located in north-western Greenland.

Glacier joins the Greenland ice sheet with the Arctic Ocean.Floating ice tongue has a width of 15 km and 70 km long, whose thickness varies from about 600 m at the base and about 30-80 meters on the edge.
Supposedly, according to rough estimates, approximately 80% of the mass of the glacier are melted water.

Expedition Greenpeace found that as soon as glaciers have lost up to 100 square meters. This amount is sufficient, to 10 years to supply water, a city like Sydney, which has a population estimated in 2006 was approximately 4.28 million.












































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Celadon Expansion

Monday, 24 January 2011

Is it possible to combine the art of an eerie and beautiful?It is these two definitions come to mind when you see the porcelain work Keith McDowell.Her attention to detail is breathtaking beauty.Yet many animals that she portrays, is already dead - almost on the verge of porcelain expansion.
 
If you think about our relationship with nature began even before the beginning of human history - the drawings of prehistoric people in the caves depict our closeness to nature.

Tens of thousands of years later, Kate McDowell decided to continue this tradition.

Yet all these thousands of years we hunted and gathered.We reserve rather idealistic impression of our union with nature in an era when our influence on the environment as never harmful and large.

McDowell works reflect this division - we stressor environment.We pollute, we change the climate and produce genetically modified products.

Our global community sometimes refuses to recognize that between our actions and their consequences is a connection, and this relationship Kate McDowell decided to extend through the porcelain.

Our relationship with nature gave a crack and now it's awkward and guilt.

And yet, adding to their work of the human body, McDowell said, so that our species - humankind - is also under threat.This is a case where the predator becomes the prey.

Nymph Daphne.In Ovid's Metamorphoses Apollo pursues her.Deciding that she would not give her honor, she turns to the gods for help.There is a transformation: numbness covers her body, bark covered breasts, her hair turned into leaves, her hands - in the branches, her feet - so fast just a second ago, become chained to the ground roots.Thousands of years later, McDowell's idea, a tree, in which she was turned, dropped to "smash" the nymph was released.

The composition of many of its masterpieces is very unusual.The apparent distance chaotic china when approaching turns into a wonderful scene.

Can it work portend a looming disaster, or each of us sees this metaphor in his own way.In any event, the atmosphere of her work smooths out the difference between animal and human world.And although we may well cause a cataclysm, we will still be in it participate.

Porcelain has been chosen by chance.It not only gives her compositions a sense of fragility, but also untouchable, almost pristine atmosphere.Life as fragile and beautiful.

Kate's work can easily cause unpleasant shivers on the back.In the horse the day, these figures are made as accurately as if they just died in front of us.As if we ourselves have made them an autopsy.In the photo: flower of life and beckon the viewer, and you're find yourself in a wreath
mortality. A great trick, besides, perfectly executed, and not without a sense of humor.

Ecosystem as bleeding from china. Art MacDowell demonstrates that we are inextricably linked with nature.However, her art also warns warns.But McDowell makes no claims, we must solve it ourselves.


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