Il cubo nero è arrivato a 100. Abbiamo scritto di un sacco di cose, forse troppe cose, ma la curiosità, si sa, non ha limite. E allora continuiamo a crederci finché dura e poi chissà.
Nel frattempo, volenti o nolenti, questa prima stagione è finita.
A settembre.
Another version traces the origin of the temple to the renowned sage, Vilvamangalam Swamiyar, who became annoyed with an invisible child, which was constantly disturbing his penance and meditation. He threw the child aside rudely but the child left the sage telling him that it could be again found only at Ananthankadu.
The grief stricken Swamiyar went in search of Ananthankadu, guided only by the tinkling of the bells of the waist-belt of the invisible child. When he reached Ananthankadu, a huge illuppa tree (bassia longifolia) came down with a loud crash and Lord Vishnu appeared before reclining on Adishesha with His four arms, extending from Thiruvallam to Thiruppapur, a distance of about eight miles.
The God then forgave the Swamiyar and assumed a smaller form. Later a temple was constructed at the place. Even today, a successor of the Swamy performs daily worship at the temple. A small idol made of a portion of the original idol carved from the iluppa tree is also kept in the temple.
It is said that the coconut shell in which the Swamiyar offered rice oblation to the deity is now represented by a golden bowl of the same shape in which rice offering is made daily to Sri Padmanabha Swamy.
Of great antiquity, the temple of Sri Padmanabha Swamy, one of the 108 shrines sacred to Vaishnavas, is held in high veneration. There is a tradition that the God of the temple is believed to have been worshipped by Chandra and Indra. Nammalvar, who flourished in the 9th century, has sung eleven verses in praise of this place and Lord Padmanabha.
Different versions are in vogue about the origin of the temple which stands in an area formerly known as ‘Ananthankadu’. One account has it that a Pulaya (backward class) woman was weeding a field when she heard the piercing cry of a baby. She found the infant and fed it.
After she went back to her work, a five headed cobra is said to have removed the child to a hole in a tree and sheltered it from the sun with its hood. The news reached the then ruler, who ordered a temple to be constructed at that place.
From 1969 to 1989, Cultural Park Plänterwald was East Germany’s premiere amusement park.
This park was located not far from the city center in the harmonious surroundings of Plänterwald leisure area. It offered 30 carousels and other fairground rides, including the little Britzer train with its warning bell, big dippers and a big wheel with a fantastic view of Berlin.
During it’s heyday in the DDR the park attracted nearly two million visitors per year. However, after the reunification of Germany in 1991, the park, now known as Spreepark, started down the path of a long, dark decline. The concept of the park was changed to more closely resemble Western amusement parks. However, it seemed that people did not like the non-DDR version of Spreepark as much as the original, and by 2001 only 400,000 people per year visited the park and it’s debts eventually forced it into insolvency, after Norbert Witte, the park’s operator, picked up and left for Peru (he ostensibly left the country to open a new theme park in Lima).
Witte and his son Marcel were later arrested for trying to smuggle 167 kilograms of cocaine ($14 million worth) back to Germany inside the “Flying Carpet” carousel.
The park officially closed in 2002, and has since become a destination for urban explorers from all over the world. The huge 45 meter tall Ferris Wheel still stands above the remnants of the park, towering over a seemingly random assortment of overturned fiberglass dinosaur statues, lying about on their sides like outtakes from some low budget knock-off of “Jurassic Park”. The remainder of the rides that are still present in the park are little by little being overtaken by the Plänterwald and in some areas the forest has totally regained control.
Nature will overcome.
About Kojo Tanno. Just making anime.
Questa è la biografia lapidaria che si trova sul sito dell’artista giapponese. Un paio di banner per la vendita di magliette con le sue immagini e qualche video ben fatto.
Con “Wilderness” Kojo Tanno rivisita in maniera alquanto patetica una tematica ben cara ai sentimentalismi dell’estremo oriente. Tuttavia il risultato è molto interessante. Una battaglia tra il protagonista e dei corvi mostruosi non può che essere affascinate.
Godetevi il video e date un’occhiata al sito.
The Schwebebahn Wuppertal (pronounced “Woopertall”) is the most important public transport system in Wuppertal. Mounted on a 13.3-kilometer long, 7- to 13-meter tall iron bridge, the monorail provides a nice view to all who ride on it. Despite looking like something out of the future, the suspended monorail is quite old. Originally proposed in 1824, the cars were to be pulled by horse teams on the ground. While a prototype was built, the full system was never constructed for political reasons. But in 1898 the idea of a suspended monorail was dusted off, this time to be powered by electricity. Building started in 1901, and by 1903, at a cost of 16 million Goldmark, the monorail was open. Emperor Wilhelm II took the inaugural ride. On July 21, 1950, in an attempt to promote its upcoming show, Althoff Circus loaded Tuffi, a young, multi-ton elephant, onto the monorail. This was a mistake. During the ride, Tuffi panicked and burst through the side of the train, falling some 9 meters. Lucky for her, the train was above the Wupper River at the time, and she went splashing into the water. The elephant (along with two journalists and one passenger who were hit by Tuffi on the way out) received only minor injuries. And Tuffi went on to live another 39 years. The spot where Tuffi fell is now marked by a painting of an elephant on a nearby building, and there’s an illustrated children’s book about the incident, Tuffi und die Schwebebahn, as well as a local milk brand which still uses the name “Tuffi.”
Convinti che nel 2012 arriverà l’apocalisse (o che, comunque, sia il caso di specularci sopra) i responsabili della statunitense Vivos stanno costruendo dei rifugi di lusso nelle vicinanze delle maggiori città americane; potranno ospitare in tutto 4.000 persone per la durata di un anno intero.
Un migliaio di persone ha già versato la cifra di 50.000 dollari necessaria a riservarsi uno spazio in questi eleganti bunker, ognuno concepito per accogliere una comunità di circa duecento persone.
Un’occhiata al sito, invece, non vi costerà nulla.
No story on the making of 88-note piano rolls would be complete without proper recognition of J. Lawrence Cook, considered by many to be the “King” of American roll arrangers.
Cook started in this activity in 1921, and he arranged literally thousands of music rolls. The vast majority of the music rolls cut during the 1930’s and 1940’s are the work of J. Lawrence Cook.
J. Lawrence Cook is indeed a legendary name in the Player Piano industry. His first QRS recording was issued in 1921, and he has been recording music rolls ever since.
Born in Athens, Tennessee, he was orphaned at the age of three. Raised by relatives who provided him with piano, violin and clarinet lessons, he began composing his own songs. At the age of fifteen, he purchased a home roll perforator and began punching his own rolls in the hope of attracting the attention of a music publisher. His skill and knowledge thus acquired landed him a job in the arranging department of the world’s largest manufacturer of Player Piano Rolls, the QRS Music Company. His incredible talents enabled him to survive over five decades of changing musical styles.
In the 2002, a new CD called “Tiger rag” has been released on the Shellwood label, featuring new recordings of J. Laurence Cook rolls performed by Julian Dyer, Dan Wilson, Philip Legg, and Shellwood’s own Mike Lorenzini.
Player piano will survive.
The company counts 1,000 artists among its 4,000 workers, and occupies a 144,000-square-yard campus in Pyongyang. The sculptors work in a warehouse and use scaffolding to reach the tops of statues, according to Pier Luigi Cecione, a curator and writer in Florence who represents Mansudae in Europe and the U.S.
The money earned from these construction projects is managed by the No. 39 Department. Some of these dollars are used for domestic governance, while the rest go to secret accounts in Switzerland or Macau to become Kim Jong Il’s secret funds.
So, what about a statue in your garden?
Mansudae Overseas Projects is an organization primarily dedicated to the idolization of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il through public works, one whose construction of edifices such as the Juche Tower and Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang has added to the status of the country.
It has also been building revolutionary monuments in African countries such as Ethiopia since the 1970s in order to maintain cordial relations with socialist states, but in the early 2000s started doing work in African countries and Mansudae has built dozens of statues and monuments for cash-strapped African countries in order to earn foreign currency as well. Botswana cut the ribbon on a memorial to three tribal chiefs in 2005. Neighboring Namibia boasts a bronze of its founding president wielding an AK-47.
