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M.C. Escher Animated

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© Prakash Mathema / AFP :: The Little Mermaid - A Hindu devotee takes a bath in the Bagmati River to the festivities of Shravan.

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SITE OF THE DAY

Link: http://www.poladroid.net/

Download the free POLADROID application and launch it.Drag & Drop your photos.Shake the picture.Then look at or print your POLADROID picture.

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Rower flies the flag of Uruguay

Rower flies the flag at the Opening Ceremony

Although Rodolfo Collazo Tourn is competing at his third Olympic Games, London 2012 is extra special for him as he had the honour of carrying the flag for Uruguay at the Opening Ceremony.

The Olympic Rowing Regatta traditionally starts the day after the Opening Ceremony, so many rowers do not attend. However Collazo says that because his country sent a small delegation of athletes, he felt it was important to represent Uruguay. “It is a privilege,” he says.

Taking part in the Opening Ceremony also gave Collazo the opportunity to meet several athletes he had not seen since the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Rowing is held in high regard in Uruguay, as it is the sport that won the most Olympic medals for the country (three bronze medals and one silver medal between 1932 and 1952), but it is not yet popular in terms of participation. This makes it challenging to find sponsorship, so Collazo’s family have supported his rowing career since 1996.

Collazo is understandably very close to his family. “Three weeks before the Games I received a phone call telling me that I was going to be carrying the flag at the Opening Ceremony. It was spectacular! I was surrounded by my family and we all cried and hugged,” he said smiling, “It was very emotional, just fantastic.”

While Collazo’s wife has not been able to travel to Great Britain to watch him race, his parents will be in the grandstands to watch their son start his first race in Heat Four of the lightweight men’s double today.

Collazo is delighted to be competing at his third Olympic Games: “When I qualified at the Latin American Qualification Regatta it was very emotional. It was incredibly satisfying. You cannot buy that feeling.”

Via: http://www.worldrowing.com/

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Amazing scenery in Bridges Park, Irlanda

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VIDEO OF THE DAY (Saturday)

"Destino" Destiny , is the animated short created by Salvador Dali and produced and animated byDisney Estuidos

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‎Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney - In the house of Dalí in Port Lligat Espanha1957

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Opening Of The XXX Olympic Games

In London held an official opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2012 year. Right to light the Olympic flame has been granted seven young athletes, and the ceremony itself was one of the most striking and memorable in the history of the Olympic movement.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY (Friday)

Scaphandrier

“Deep-sea diver” is the first short film realized by Eighty Five. The movie pulls us in the blue of the depths, for a dreamlike journey

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THE OLIMPICS START TOMORROW, BUT URUGUAY FOOTBALL TEAM PLAYS TODAY

The 2012 Olympic Games, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad, also known informally as London 2012, is scheduled to take place in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July (when the opening ceremony is held) until 12 August 2012. The first event, the group stages in women's football, began two days earlier on 25 July. Over 10,000 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are expected to participate.

Following a bid headed by former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe and the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, London was selected as the host city on 6 July 2005 during the 117th IOC Session in Singapore, defeating bids from Moscow, New York City, Madrid and Paris. London will become the first city to officially host the modern Olympic Games three times, having previously done so in 1908 and in 1948.

Construction in preparation for the Games has involved considerable redevelopment, particularly themed towards sustainability.The main focus of this is a new 200 hectare Olympic Park, constructed on a former industrial site at Stratford in the east of London. The Games also make use of many venues which were already in place before the bid.

Mascots

The official mascots for the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games were unveiled on 19 May 2010; this marks the second time (after Vancouver) that both Olympic and Paralympic mascots were unveiled at the same time. Wenlock and Mandeville are animations depicting two drops of steel from a steelworks inBolton. They are named Wenlock, after the Shropshire town of Much Wenlock, which held a forerunner of the current Olympic Games, and Mandeville, afterStoke Mandeville, a village in Buckinghamshire where a forerunner to the Paralympic Games were first held. The writer Michael Morpurgo wrote the story concept to the mascots, and an animation was produced; it is intended that this will form part of an ongoing series concerning the mascots in the run-up to the Games in 2012. Two stories have been created about the mascots: Out Of A Rainbow, the story of how Wenlock and Mandeville came to be, and Adventures On A Rainbow, which features the children from Out Of A Rainbow meeting the mascots and trying out many different Olympic and Paralympic sports.

Medals

Approximately 4,700Olympic and Paralympic medals have been produced by the Royal Mint.They were designed by David Watkins (Olympics) and Lin Cheung (Paralympics). Virtually all the gold, silver and copper was mined in Salt Lake County. Each medal weighs 375–400g, has a diameter of 85mm and is 7mm thick, with the sport and discipline engraved on the rim.The obverse, as is traditional, features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, stepping from thePanathinaiko Stadium that hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, with Parthenon in the background; the reverse features the Games logo, the River Thames and a series of lines representing "the energy of athletes and a sense of pulling together". The medals were transferred to the Tower of London vaults on 2 July 2012 for storage.

Test events

Many test events will be held throughout 2011 and 2012, either through an existing championship such as 2012 Wimbledon Championships or as a specially created event held under the banner of London Prepares. Some events are closed to the public, others are ticketed. Basketball and BMX were the first events to be tested within the Olympic Park.

Torch relay

The Olympics torch relay runs from 19 May to 27 July 2012, before the games. Plans for the relay were developed in 2010–11, with the torch-bearer selection process announced on 18 May 2011. The Olympic Flame arrived on flight BA2012 on 18 May 2012 from Greece. The relay will last 70 days, with 66 evening celebrations and six island visits, involving about 8,000 people carrying the torch a distance of about 8,000 miles (12,800 km), starting from Land's End in Cornwall. The torch had one day outside of the United Kingdom when it visited Dublin on 6 June. The relay is focusing on National Heritage Sites, locations and venues with sporting significance, key sporting events, schools registered with the Get Set School Network, green spaces and biodiversity, Live Sites (city locations with large screens), festivals and other events.

Opening ceremony

The Opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics will be held on 27 July 2012 and be called "The Isles of Wonder". Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle will be the artistic director for the opening ceremony and the music directors will be Rick Smith and Karl Hyde of the electronic music duo Underworld.

The games will be officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A short film starring Daniel Craig as secret agent James Bond will be screened during the television coverage of the ceremony. Sir Paul McCartney has announced he will perform at the end of the ceremony.

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Olympics will start on 12 August 2012. The ceremony will include a handover by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, to Eduardo Paes, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, the host city of 2016 Summer Olympics. The Spice Girls are rumoured to be reuniting for the first time since 2008 to perform in the closing ceremony.

URUGUAY DELEGATION:

http://www.london2012.com/athletes/country=uruguay/index.htmx

MORE INFO: http://www.london2012.com/

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Olympics 2012 Designs

As London Olympics 2012 is hot event which is going to start by tomorrow and many of us stick to TV to backup their countries and teams.

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SITE OF THE DAY

Our Site of the day is Place Cliché

Place Cliché - Is a Professional photo and video studio.

Link: http://placecliche.com/

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Architecture of the Day

LTVs, the new winery of Chateau Cheval Blanc by Christian de Portzamparc

In the French region of Bordeaux, famous throughout the world for its wines, rises the new winery of Château Cheval Blanc, designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc (Pritzker Prize ’94).

In the French region of Bordeaux, famous throughout the world for its wines, rises the new winery of Château Cheval Blanc, designed by architect Christian de Portzamparc (Pritzker Prize '94).

Inaugurated in 2011, this "wine atelier" is like a bridge between ancient and modern: an enormous sail in white concrete looking over the vineyards of Saint Emilion. Empty spaces alternating with glass and wooden blocks on a surface of over 6600 square yards.

A structure developed on two levels: the ground floor with 52 vats in raw cement for the fermentation of wine and a tasting room, and the underground aging cellar, which is kept at low temperatures.

A low, sinuous cloud, that rises like an artificial hill and sensually dialogues with the surrounding vineyards and adjacent 18th century building.

The mashrabiya walls facilitate natural ventilation, illumination is sober, with no intent to display or decorate. With HQE certification, each element has been studied so as to limit the consumption of energy, thanks to the presence of a green terrace and a filtering mechanism to reuse rainfall. At Château Cheval Blanc the art of wine making is preserved also in aesthetic and with respect towards the environment and the future.

Photos via chdeportzamparc.com

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Imagination | Commercial

“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso

Just a litte project i wanted to visualize.

Wasn´t it nice when we were kids? :)

More Stuff and contact information for working together at www.fabio-arnold.de

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SITE OF THE DAY (wednesday)

kaya-web is our site of the day

Link: http://www.kaya-web.fr/

Kaya is an independent team composed of specialists from web

FOR YOU TO ENSURE WEBSITES and Tripods Digital AND STRATEGIES TO MEETYOUR PROJECT. / OUR FIELD OF SHARES

Council to create or redesign websites manageable: strategic consulting, webdesign,webrédaction, development, hosting, SEO, web marketing campaigns, community management and online reputation.

Kaya suits your needs by assisting you to self-management of your Internet tools (Spip CMS, WordPress Blog).

Independence, in Kaya, is sacred!

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Architecture of the Day (wednesday)

The house is situated in Thorpeness, England on the Suffolk coast, replacing an existing building at the site. The house is a holiday house for rental and is part of Living Architecture.

To get a planning permission it was important to relate to the existing, typical, British seaside strip of houses. The roofscape, the bedroom floor, somehow plays with the formal presence of these buildings, and also brings into mind a romantic remembrance of holidays at bed- and breakfasts while traveling through the UK.

More Info: http://thisispaper.com/JVA-Dune-House

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Image of the Day (wednesday)

Liu Heung Shing, Portrait of a Country

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VIDEO OF THE DAY ( Wednesday)

The new Apple Adv. with Martin Scorsese

Siri helps Mr. Scorsese change up his jam-packed schedule on the fly.

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Google Doodle Celebrates Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart would have been 115 today had she lived through her ill-fated attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. Earhart was the epitome of female inspiration in the face of seemingly impossible odds. While her disappearance remains a mystery, her iconic status still inspires women everywhere to break gender boundaries in pursuit of their dreams. Google has chosen to celebrate Earhart’s birthday with a Doodle befitting this impressive woman.

Born July 24, 1897 , Amelia Earhart grew up very different from other girls of the day. Her mother didn’t believe in raising “nice little girls,” and dressed her daughters in bloomers rather then skirts. Amelia was raised in an educated environment and taught that nothing was out of her grasp, even if she was a woman. An avid reader, homeschooled till the age of 12, Amelia proceeded unhappily through public school and into university, keeping a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of women who succeeded in male-dominated fields such as law, medicine, and film. She never felt that she was challenged enough in the schools that she attended.

At the age of 10, Amelia’s first view of a plane left her quite unimpressed. The 1908 Iowa State Fair , had a display of an old biplane, which Earhart later described as “a thing of rusty wire and wood and not at all interesting.” It wasn’t until she had gone to Toronto to live with her sister during World War One, acting as a Red Cross nurse, that she saw another aviation exhibit at the Canadian National Exposition . That day she saw an “ace” fly, and she was instantly hooked. Amelia took her first flying lesson on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field near Long Beach, CA. Nearly two years later on October 22, 1922, Earhart broke the female world altitude record by flying her plane to 14,000 feet. On May 15, 1923, Earhart became only the 16th woman to ever receive a pilots license.

Inspired by Charles Lindbergh ‘s successful solo transatlantic flight in 1927, Earhart was asked to be the first woman to achieve the a similar feat. She was billed as a pilot of the transatlantic flight in 1928, but as she had no experience flying by instrumentation alone, it was her co-pilot who did most of the flying. Despite her disappointment, she was received with a ticker tape parade upon her return and promised that someday she would do it herself. It took her another four years, but on May 20, 1932, at the age of 34, Amelia Earhart took off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. With nothing more then a dated local newspaper (to prove her flight’s origin), she flew solo for 14 hours and 56 minutes before she landed in a pasture in Culmore, north of Derry, in Ireland. Having been the first woman to fly transatlantic solo, Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Congress , the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor from the French Government and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Herbert Hoover . As her fame grew, so did her adventures. She was the first person to successfully fly solo from Honolulu, HI to Oakland, CA. Between 1930 and 1935, Earhart had set seven women’s speed and distance records and was already a household name across the country.

Amelia Earhart’s legacy is that of perseverance and intrigue. While her lasting fame in pop culture might be fueled by the circumstances of her disappearance, there is no doubt that during her life she was the epitome of female courage, independence and ability to stay cool under pressure. Her goal-oriented personality has been an inspiration for women across the world to pursue their dreams of entering male-dominated fields and fight for female equality in all aspects of life. Earhart inspired a new generation of female aviators, including more than 1,000 female pilots of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). These women flew training, transport and service flights during World War Two and beyond.

It’s likely that Amelia Earhart’s mystery will never fully be solved, but even if it is, her legacy will last for many years to come.

More Info:

http://www.museumofwomenpilots.com/index.html

http://wingsacrossamerica.us/wasp/

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Architecture of the Day

Casa Vale Do Lobo by Arqui+

This house is situated in Vale do Lobo, a luxury golf and beach resort in Southern Portugal. 6,450 square foot residence with incredible cantilevered infinity swimming pool. The villa has been developed in a U shape around a central courtyard space helping to create a sense of scale and containment within the open surroundings. The main living spaces of the villa have been developed in an L shape. The villa is a continuous play of solids versus transparency, which ultimately create a very interesting play of light versus shadow.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY

New York Park

After some magic happened with gravitation in Buenos Aires, the Inception Park migrated to New York. Directed by Fernando Livschitz.

MORE INFO: http://motioncollector.com/

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Image of the Day

A man reacts while walking past an uprooted tree after Typhoon Vicente hit Hong Kong. A severe typhoon hit Hong Kong on Tuesday, disrupting business across the financial hub, with offices and the stock market to remain closed for at least part of the morning after the city raised its highest typhoon warning overnight. (Mirror Online) Click image to zoom.

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SITE OF THE DAY

Our site of the day is The BOom and The Arty

A little something from Paris. Strangely atmospheric and ecclectic, the Boom is an original music, graphic, digital and analog portfolio of work housed in a beautiful Flash-driven online atmosphere. Everything about the Boom, and the music made by the artist, is highly twitchy and very detailed, making for a beautiful visual platter and a delicious audio treat.

Link:http://www.theboomandthearty.com/project.html#!thegrid

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