Fake Swimming Pool – Leandro Erlich:
The Swimming Pool has the size of 280x402x697cm (HxWxD), and the separating layers were made using two clear acrylic glasses about a foot apart and the space in between are filled with water.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Fake Swimming Pool
The Swimming Pool has the size of 280x402x697cm (HxWxD), and the separating layers were made using two clear acrylic glasses about a foot apart and the space in between are filled with water.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
death of John Lord
EARLY LIFE:
Jon Lord was born in Leicester on 9 June 1941 to Miriam (1912–1995, née
Hudson) and Reg. He studied classical piano from the age of five, and
those influences are a recurring trademark in his work. His influences
range from Bach (a constant connection in his music and his keyboard improvisation) to Medieval popular music and the English tradition of Edward Elgar. He attended Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys where he gained an A-level in music and then worked as a clerk in a solicitor's office for two years.He started his London band career in 1960 with jazz ensemble the Bill Ashton Combo. Ashton, now an MBE, became a key figure in jazz education in the UK, creating what later became the National Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Between 1960 and 1963, Lord (along with Ashton) moved onto Red Bludd's
Bluesicians (also known as The Don Wilson's Quartet), the latter of
which featured singer Arthur "Art" Wood. Wood had previously sung with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and was a junior figure in the British blues movement. In this period, Lord's session credits included playing keyboards on You Really Got Me (The Kinks 1964 classic)
In early 1967, through his roommate Chris Curtis of The Searchers, Lord met businessman Tony Edwards who was looking to invest in the music business. Ritchie Blackmore was called in and met Lord for the first time. But Chris Curtis' erratic behavior led the trio nowhere. Edwards was impressed enough by Jon Lord to ask him to form a band after Curtis faded out. Simper was contacted, and Blackmore recalled from Hamburg. Top English drummer Bobby Woodman was the initial choice for the drums, but during the auditions for a singer, Rod Evans of the Maze came in with his drummer, Ian Paice. Blackmore, who had been impressed by Paice's drumming when he'd met him in 1967, quickly ensured an audition for Paice as well. The band was initially called Roundabout, which by March 1968 had morphed into the "Mark 1" lineup of Deep Purple: Lord, Simper, Blackmore, Paice and Evans.
Lord also helped form Boz, which did some recordings produced by Derek Lawrence, featuring Boz Burrell (later of Bad Company), session guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, drummer Ian Paice, and bassist Chas Hodges (later of 'Cockney' pop group Chas & Dave).
English rocker Jon Lord, who founded Deep Purple and co-wrote their most famous song, Smoke On The Water, has died aged 71.
The Leicester-born keyboard player, who had pancreatic cancer, died in London today.
A statement on his website said he had passed “from Darkness to Light”.
The statement said Lord was “surrounded by his loving family” when he died
In early 1967, through his roommate Chris Curtis of The Searchers, Lord met businessman Tony Edwards who was looking to invest in the music business. Ritchie Blackmore was called in and met Lord for the first time. But Chris Curtis' erratic behavior led the trio nowhere. Edwards was impressed enough by Jon Lord to ask him to form a band after Curtis faded out. Simper was contacted, and Blackmore recalled from Hamburg. Top English drummer Bobby Woodman was the initial choice for the drums, but during the auditions for a singer, Rod Evans of the Maze came in with his drummer, Ian Paice. Blackmore, who had been impressed by Paice's drumming when he'd met him in 1967, quickly ensured an audition for Paice as well. The band was initially called Roundabout, which by March 1968 had morphed into the "Mark 1" lineup of Deep Purple: Lord, Simper, Blackmore, Paice and Evans.
Lord also helped form Boz, which did some recordings produced by Derek Lawrence, featuring Boz Burrell (later of Bad Company), session guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, drummer Ian Paice, and bassist Chas Hodges (later of 'Cockney' pop group Chas & Dave).
PERSONAL LIFE:
Jon Lord was married to Vickie Lord, the twin sister of Ian Paice's
wife, Jackie. The twin girls were the daughters of Frank Gibbs, owner of
the Oakley House Country Club, Brewood, Staffs. They both live in the
United Kingdom. He had two daughters, Amy, with Vickie, and Sara, with
his first wife Judith Feldman, to whom he was married from 1969 until
they divorced in 1981
DEATH:
The Leicester-born keyboard player, who had pancreatic cancer, died in London today.
A statement on his website said he had passed “from Darkness to Light”.
The statement said Lord was “surrounded by his loving family” when he died
It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Jon Lord, who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism today, Monday 16th July at the London Clinic, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jon was surrounded by his loving family.
" Jon passes from Darkness to Light"
Monday, July 16, 2012
USA UNIFORMS FOR OLYMPIC 2012
WASHINGTON -- Uniforms for U.S. Olympic athletes are American red, white and blue -- but made in China. That has members of Congress fuming.
(said by Rep. Steve Israel )"It’s not just a label, it’s an economic solution. Today there are 600,000 vacant manufacturing jobs in this country and the Olympic committee is outsourcing the manufacturing of uniforms to China? That is not just outrageous, it’s just plain dumb. It is self-defeating."
Reid’s frustration is echoed by many other lawmakers who are offended that the uniforms won’t benefit the American manufacturing sector. Two New York Congress members, Rep. Steve Israel and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, wrote a letter this morning asking that all U.S. uniforms be American-made in future years.
Some have called for more immediate steps. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio has asked the Olympic Committee to immediately find a domestic manufacturer to remake the team’s uniforms. Brown is the sponsor of some pending legislation that would strengthen “Buy America” requirements for items paid for by federal tax dollars. And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has also stated that she believes the Olympic team should wear American-made uniforms.
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Here is the other thing to know about Ralph Lauren clothing.Go to a outlet store or the the main high end fashion Ralph Lauren store look inside for the tag.What does it say where it is made? In China! Because it is sad that a lot of fashion designers get their clothing made in China because the workers work for very low wages.That is cheap labor and the conditions made be bad too. Just like the case with the Iphones.That is inturn you will have irregular clothing that are slight imperfect then they are sold to the outlet stores
In Milltown, N.J., residents found one more reason to knock the uniforms — for the barely visibile American flag on the Ralph Lauren logo patches.
"When you say the Pledge of Allegiance, they’re covering the Ralph Lauren logo,” 68-year-old Army veteran George Borgstede told the Star-Ledger. “The flag’s always supposed to go over your heart. The company logo shouldn’t be larger than the American flag. It is the U.S. Olympic team, not the Ralph Lauren team."
avatar 2
JAMES CAMERON just announced that he plans to shoot "Avatar 2" and the film's third installment using digital equipment that delivers 60 frames per second. While admiring the Lotr trilogy and "Avatar," which remains the state of the art in 3D, I believe their expanding ambitions come with risks.
The standard frame rate, for both digital and celluloid, is 24 fps. However, Stuart Kemp writes in the Hollywood Reporter: »
- Roger Ebert
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Jake Sully
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Zoe Saldana | ... |
Neytiri
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Grace Augustine
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release date:Audience members yearning to return to the exotically extraterrestrial locale of Pandora will have to wait for at least three more years, as James Cameron has confirmed that the first of his back-to-back Avatar sequels won’t arrive until Christmas of 2014.While Cameron’s original 3D sci-fi smash frequently changed release dates before it finally settled on December 2009, both Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 are less likely budge from their still tentative winter holiday dates in 2014 and 2015, respectively.  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Google Builds Artificial Brain
The Google X laboratory has invented some pretty cool stuff:
refrigerators that can order groceries when your food runs low,
elevators that can perhaps reach outer space, self-driving cars. So it’s
no surprise that their most recent design is the most advanced, highest
functioning, most awesome invention ever… a computer that likes
watching YouTube cats?
Stanford University computer scientist Andrew Y. Ng, led the Google team
in feeding the neural network 10 million random digital images from
YouTube videos. The machine was not “supervised,” i.e. it was not told
what a cat is or what features a cat has; it simply looked at the data
randomly fed to it. Ng found that there was a small part of the
computer’s “brain” that taught itself to recognize felines. “It
basically invented the concept of a cat,” Google fellow Jeff Dean told
the New York Times.
This research endeavors to explore how the decreasing cost of computing,
and the ability to network thousands of processors together, can
advance machine vision, speech recognition, translation, and perception,
and learning systems. Not only did the neural network teach itself to
recognize cats, it also doubled its accuracy in recognizing objects in a
list of 20,000 distinct items, performing better than any effort before
it. According to the New York Times, this is a pretty huge deal
Car Of 2012-2013
FORD FUSION(hybrid car):
The 2012 Ford Fusion Hybrid ranks
3 out of 19
Affordable Midsize Cars.
This ranking is based on our analysis of 36
published reviews and test drives of the Ford Fusion Hybrid, and our analysis of reliability and safety data.
It's easy to see why the Fusion is popular. It starts with smart
styling, a little aggressive in its thick-barred grille and squat
taillamps. It owes a little bit to the Ford 427 concept car from the
auto-show circuit, and it went on to influence designs like that of the
2010 Ford Taurus, now a full-sizer above the Fusion in the pecking
order. From the side, the Fusion's pretty traditional, almost plain, but
it's wearing well with age. The cabin walks the same tightrope, with a
simple design and some rich-feeling pieces woven into a cleanly laid out
set of controls. Almost everything looks good, in a traditional way,
and the textures look and feel swell. It may not be the extrovert like
the Kia Optima or Hyundai Sonata, but the Fusion still has a spring in
its styling step, six years down the road.
price:
$20,705 - $29,175
MPG RANGE:
17 - 36 mpg
BODYSTYLES:
SEDAN
Mermiad Story
Throughout history, people from nearly every culture have independently
described the same half-man, half-fish anomaly. What if there’s a kernel
of truth behind the legend of this mythic creature? Is the idea of
mermaids really so far-fetched? Maybe so, maybe not. The show itself,
though science fiction, is based on some real events and scientific
theory.
“The theory of ‘aquatic ape’ mentioned in the program is real and has been studied for decades,” says Charlie Foley, creator, writer and executive producer of the show, and SVP of Development. “Many events in the show have occurred — i.e. the whale beachings, Navy experimental sonar testing, The Bloop…”
“The theory of ‘aquatic ape’ mentioned in the program is real and has been studied for decades,” says Charlie Foley, creator, writer and executive producer of the show, and SVP of Development. “Many events in the show have occurred — i.e. the whale beachings, Navy experimental sonar testing, The Bloop…”
Find out what you believe when Mermaids: The Body Found comes to Discovery Channel this Sunday night at 9PM e/p.-
Sunday, July 15, 2012
ELECTRIC CARS
Electric cars are something that show up in the news all the time. There are several reasons for the continuing interest in these vehicles:
- Electric cars create less pollution than gasoline-powered cars, so they are an environmentally friendly alternative to gasoline-powered vehicles (especially in cities).
- Any news story about hybrid cars usually talks about electric cars as well.
- Vehicles powered by fuel cells are electric cars, and fuel cells are getting a lot of attention right now in the news.
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