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Thursday, 13. April 2006

Charles Pfeil Photography

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Moon - Colorado - Denver

Arrow Photos by Charles Pfeil.


Welcome to my website where I present to you my view of the world! For over twenty-two years I have been taking photos to capture the wonder of nature, the beauty of mountains and lakes, and to satisfy my fascination with the moon. As you look through the nearly 1000 photos on this site, I hope you too will experience the peacefulness of a majestic landscape, the joy from a humorous animal, or the thrill of seeing the rising full moon!

Posted at 13.04.06 @ 11:11 | Category Photography & Pictures |


The Art of Japanese Masters

Kiyokata KABURAKI
Born in Kanda, Tokyo, in 1878. He was mentored by Toshikata MIZUNO, an ukiyoe painter, and exhibited works at exhibitions such as the Bunten. When the Teiten exhibition was established in 1919, he was appointed juror. Was a member of Geijutsuin (1923) art group and Teikoku Geijutsuin (1929) art group. He is also know for his elegantly flowing essays about days gone by. He received the Order of Cultural Merit in 1954.

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The Art of Japanese Masters

Check out this beautiful site!

The Qing dynasty closed China to maritime trade in 1757, just at the moment when European nations were expanding their international commerce. Guangzhou (Canton) was the only legal port for trade between China and the outside world until 1843. This south-eastern region, which includes modern Guangdong province, was commonly referred to as Lingnan, and produced some of the most important political thinkers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, who advocated replacing the imperial system with a constitutional monarchy, and Sun Yat-sen, who established China's first republic in 1911.

Art Revolution in Modern China - The Lingnan School of painting 1906-2006


Posted at 13.04.06 @ 11:00 | Category Art & Culture |


Recipe Atlas

In the section Swiss Recipes you'll find the "Aargauerrueblitorter Recipe" - lol - ok, he or she can not speak Swiss German ... this is the correct title: Aargauer Rüblitorte. Means "Argovia Carrot Cake".

Ingredients:
1 1/8 pounds Carrot -- shredded
2/3 pound Butter
7 1/8 ounces semolina
7 1/8 ounces Eggs -- only yellows
3/8 cup milk
7 1/8 ounces hazelnuts, blanced
7 1/8 ounces egg whites
3 1/2 ounces semolina
3/4 pound flour
7/8 ounce baking powder
3 1/2 ounces apricots marmalade
7 1/8 ounces white confectioner's coating
2 tablespoons lime juice


Recipe Atlas - World Recipes. Yummie!!

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Very strange is the Eskimo Recipe: Oogruk Flippers Recipe.

1. Cut the flippers off from the oogruk.
2. Put the flippers in fresh blubber. Let them stay there for about two weeks.
3. Take the loose fur off the flipper.
4. Cut flipper into small pieces and eat the meat.


sick

Posted at 13.04.06 @ 10:49 | Category Food & Drinking |


Incredible Machines

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Chain reaction machines. "Rube Goldberg type machines made in Japan":

Incredible Machines 1

and

Incredible Machines 2


I love such stuff!


Update 23.49 Uhr: The comment from Patrick says all!


Posted at 13.04.06 @ 10:40 | Category Clips & Pics |


AllBall

Groupings of 3 or more of the same ball to break them apart.

Use mouse for direction - and click!

AllBall

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Posted at 13.04.06 @ 10:31 | Category Games & Toys |


Phi - The Golden Number

There are many examples of the Divine Proportion found throughout the design of the universe and everything in it, but let's take a look at one of the most important things first: You!
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Let's start with something simple. Take your hand off your keyboard or mouse and look at the proportions of your index finger.
Hold your hand up to the screen. Don't be shy!

Each section of your index finger, from the tip to the base of the wrist, is larger than the preceding one by about the Fibonacci ratio of 1.618, also fitting the Fibonacci numbers 2, 3, 5 and 8. By this scale, your fingernail is 1 unit in length.

Curiously enough, you also have 2 hands, each with 5 digits, and your 8 fingers are each comprised of 3 sections. All Fibonacci numbers!

The ratio of your forearm to hand is Phi. Your hand creates a golden section in relation to your arm, as the ratio of your forearm to your hand is also 1.618, the Divine Proportion.


Phi - The Golden Number

Exellent!


Posted at 13.04.06 @ 10:22 | Category Knowledge & Science |


Rock Art of the Southwest

This website presents photographs of the rock art of the Anasazi of the Four Corners Region of the United States: Utah, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado.

The Anasazi are perhaps the most romanticized of the prehistoric Southwestern pueblo cultures. They lived thousands of years ago in arid, yet beautiful canyon country. They 'disappeared' or migrated to the larger southwestern Hopi, Zuni and other pueblos in about 1300 AD and left behind thousands of rock art paintings [pictographs] and carvings [petroglyphs] along with the stone dwellings and graineries [storage bins].


Rock Art of the Southwest



(via Jaf Project)

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Posted at 13.04.06 @ 10:15 | Category Knowledge & Science |


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