Peter Klasen the “Scratch paper” It was on the initiative of the art critic Renaud Faroux that the members of the collective of the 9th Concept (Stephane Carricondo, Ned, Jerk 45) got in touch with the plastic artist Peter Klasen. It is for them the opportunity to link their productions…
Passenger rail transport is one of the principal means of transport in the People’s Republic of China, with rail passenger traffic exceeding 1.86 billion railway trips in 2011. It is operated by the China Railway Corporation(CR). The Spring Festival Travel Season is the peak railway travel season of the year.…
The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History), is an independent art-historical research institute in Germany. The institute resides in the former administration building of the National Socialist party near Königsplatz in Munich. The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) in Munich is the only independent art historical research institute in…
Museum of Tomorrow (Portugues: Museu do Amanhã) is a museum built in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The building, project of the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, was erected next to the Plaza Mauá, in the port area (more precisely in Píer Mauá). Its construction was supported by the…
From the latter part of the 15th century, Venice had a distinctive, thriving, and influential artistic environment. Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) and his brother Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507) and their workshops, the major artists of the Venetian school included Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), Titian (c. 1489–1576),…
New Classical architecture is a contemporary movement in architecture that continues the practice of classical and traditional architecture. The design and construction of buildings in these traditions is continuous throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, even as modernist and other post-classical theories of architecture have been more dominant. Since New…
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container…
The luminist school consisted of a group of painters who had settled in Sitges during the last quarter of the 19th century. They shared the idea of taking their easels out of the study, of ceasing to paint from memory and of seeking new forms of expression in the landscape…
Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis) is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product’s life from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling. Designers use this process to…
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France is the most impressive landmark in the world, and the spectacle is the most visited destination in Paris. The area around the Eiffel Tower, the area around the Champ de Mars, also full of attractive sites. Trocadéro gardens, Grand Palais, Champs-Élysées, Invalides… Huge skyscapes,…
The gardens that were in the upper terraces of the palace led to the cloisters. We have little information about this area. In fact, only a few graphic documents, nonetheless of great interest thanks to the amount of information theyprovide. In the centre of the main terrace there was a…
Palazzo Grassi is a Venetian civil building, located in the San Marco district and overlooking the Grand Canal. It is one of the most well-known lagoon buildings, in addition to being the site of art exhibitions worthy of particular interest: it is famous because it is defined as the last…
The United States of America, as the biggest economy in the world, entices foreigners with employment opportunities across the full range of skill levels and economic sectors. Like most countries, through, the U.S. has adopted immigration and visa laws designed to give preference to U.S. residents. Make sure you understand…
A colorant or color additive is a substance that is added or applied in order to change the colour of a material or surface. Colourants can be used for many purposes including printing, painting, and for colouring many types of materials such as foods and plastics. Colourants work by absorbing…
Rooms in Renaissance style, was designed as a hall of honor, intended to contain some of the most important works of the collection. Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli could not see it finished and Bertini continued its decoration after the death of the museum founder. Golden Hall The Golden Hall is…
The micro ribbon or miniature ribbon connector is a common type of electrical connector for a variety of applications, such as in computer and telecommunications equipment having many contacts. The connector contains two parallel rows of contacts within a shielded case having a characteristic D-shape similar to that used in…
Yarn bombing is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. It is also called yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting, or graffiti knitting. Motivation While yarn installations – called yarn bombs or yarnstorms…
Sabina Escola Parque do Conhecimento (popularly known as Sabina ) is a public institution under the Municipal Education Secretariat of the municipality of Santo André. On site, visitors are provided with interaction in scientific playful experiments, in addition to integrating laboratories, multimedia libraries and the Johannes Kepler Planetarium. The center…
Henry Bernard Chalon (1770 – 1849) was an English painter and lithographer. Son of the Dutch émigré and engraver Jan Chalon (1749–95), Henry studied at the Royal Academy Schools and then started specializing in sporting and animal painting. At the age of 25, Henry was appointed Animal Painter to the…
Chromaticity is an objective specification of the quality of a color regardless of its luminance. Chromaticity consists of two independent parameters, often specified as hue (h) and colorfulness (s), where the latter is alternatively called saturation, chroma, intensity, or excitation purity. This number of parameters follows from trichromacy of vision…
Emissions trading includes all the transactions by which some industrialized countries purchase carbon credits from others in order to partially comply with the Kyoto Protocol. “You can not sell anyone the right to pollute,” declared a US senator in 2008. However, in 2005 the European market for the right to…
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting). Scholarly interest in creativity is…
Thunderstorms are storms that involve lightning, thunder, rains, winds and, in some cases, hail. If you take precautions, thunderstorms are not as dangerous as cyclones and earthquakes, but if you do not take safety precautions thunderstorms can be life-threatening. Understand A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a…
Art from Southern United States, or southern art, includes southern expressionism, folk art, and modernism. Residents of the American South created works of art starting in 1607, however it was not until the early 1960s that southern art became recognized as a distinct genre. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art…
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Peter Klasen from 9eme Concept
Peter Klasen the “Scratch paper” It was on the initiative of the art critic Renaud Faroux that the members of the collective of the 9th Concept (Stephane Carricondo, Ned, Jerk 45) got in touch with the plastic artist Peter Klasen. It is for them the opportunity to link their productions…
Read moreRail travel guide in China
Passenger rail transport is one of the principal means of transport in the People’s Republic of China, with rail passenger traffic exceeding 1.86 billion railway trips in 2011. It is operated by the China Railway Corporation(CR). The Spring Festival Travel Season is the peak railway travel season of the year.…
Read moreZentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, Germany
The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Central Institute for Art History), is an independent art-historical research institute in Germany. The institute resides in the former administration building of the National Socialist party near Königsplatz in Munich. The Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) in Munich is the only independent art historical research institute in…
Read moreMuseum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Tomorrow (Portugues: Museu do Amanhã) is a museum built in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The building, project of the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, was erected next to the Plaza Mauá, in the port area (more precisely in Píer Mauá). Its construction was supported by the…
Read moreVenetian school of art
From the latter part of the 15th century, Venice had a distinctive, thriving, and influential artistic environment. Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) and his brother Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507) and their workshops, the major artists of the Venetian school included Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), Titian (c. 1489–1576),…
Read moreNew Classical architecture
New Classical architecture is a contemporary movement in architecture that continues the practice of classical and traditional architecture. The design and construction of buildings in these traditions is continuous throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, even as modernist and other post-classical theories of architecture have been more dominant. Since New…
Read moreGeocaching
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container…
Read moreThe luminist school of Sitges, Maricel Museum
The luminist school consisted of a group of painters who had settled in Sitges during the last quarter of the 19th century. They shared the idea of taking their easels out of the study, of ceasing to paint from memory and of seeking new forms of expression in the landscape…
Read moreLife-cycle assessment
Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis) is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product’s life from raw material extraction through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling. Designers use this process to…
Read moreGuide Tour of the area around Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France is the most impressive landmark in the world, and the spectacle is the most visited destination in Paris. The area around the Eiffel Tower, the area around the Champ de Mars, also full of attractive sites. Trocadéro gardens, Grand Palais, Champs-Élysées, Invalides… Huge skyscapes,…
Read moreThe terraces, Palau de Maricel
The gardens that were in the upper terraces of the palace led to the cloisters. We have little information about this area. In fact, only a few graphic documents, nonetheless of great interest thanks to the amount of information theyprovide. In the centre of the main terrace there was a…
Read moreGrassi Palace, Venice, Italy
Palazzo Grassi is a Venetian civil building, located in the San Marco district and overlooking the Grand Canal. It is one of the most well-known lagoon buildings, in addition to being the site of art exhibitions worthy of particular interest: it is famous because it is defined as the last…
Read moreWork and travel in the United States
The United States of America, as the biggest economy in the world, entices foreigners with employment opportunities across the full range of skill levels and economic sectors. Like most countries, through, the U.S. has adopted immigration and visa laws designed to give preference to U.S. residents. Make sure you understand…
Read moreColourant
A colorant or color additive is a substance that is added or applied in order to change the colour of a material or surface. Colourants can be used for many purposes including printing, painting, and for colouring many types of materials such as foods and plastics. Colourants work by absorbing…
Read moreEast Wing, Poldi Pezzoli Museum
Rooms in Renaissance style, was designed as a hall of honor, intended to contain some of the most important works of the collection. Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli could not see it finished and Bertini continued its decoration after the death of the museum founder. Golden Hall The Golden Hall is…
Read moreMicro ribbon connector
The micro ribbon or miniature ribbon connector is a common type of electrical connector for a variety of applications, such as in computer and telecommunications equipment having many contacts. The connector contains two parallel rows of contacts within a shielded case having a characteristic D-shape similar to that used in…
Read moreYarn bombing
Yarn bombing is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk. It is also called yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, kniffiti, urban knitting, or graffiti knitting. Motivation While yarn installations – called yarn bombs or yarnstorms…
Read moreSabina Knowledge Park School, São Paulo, Brazil
Sabina Escola Parque do Conhecimento (popularly known as Sabina ) is a public institution under the Municipal Education Secretariat of the municipality of Santo André. On site, visitors are provided with interaction in scientific playful experiments, in addition to integrating laboratories, multimedia libraries and the Johannes Kepler Planetarium. The center…
Read moreHenry Bernard Chalon
Henry Bernard Chalon (1770 – 1849) was an English painter and lithographer. Son of the Dutch émigré and engraver Jan Chalon (1749–95), Henry studied at the Royal Academy Schools and then started specializing in sporting and animal painting. At the age of 25, Henry was appointed Animal Painter to the…
Read moreChromaticity
Chromaticity is an objective specification of the quality of a color regardless of its luminance. Chromaticity consists of two independent parameters, often specified as hue (h) and colorfulness (s), where the latter is alternatively called saturation, chroma, intensity, or excitation purity. This number of parameters follows from trichromacy of vision…
Read moreEmissions trading measuring
Emissions trading includes all the transactions by which some industrialized countries purchase carbon credits from others in order to partially comply with the Kyoto Protocol. “You can not sell anyone the right to pollute,” declared a US senator in 2008. However, in 2005 the European market for the right to…
Read moreCreativity
Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed. The created item may be intangible (such as an idea, a scientific theory, a musical composition, or a joke) or a physical object (such as an invention, a literary work, or a painting). Scholarly interest in creativity is…
Read moreThunderstorm in travel
Thunderstorms are storms that involve lightning, thunder, rains, winds and, in some cases, hail. If you take precautions, thunderstorms are not as dangerous as cyclones and earthquakes, but if you do not take safety precautions thunderstorms can be life-threatening. Understand A thunderstorm, also known as an electrical storm or a…
Read moreSouthern art
Art from Southern United States, or southern art, includes southern expressionism, folk art, and modernism. Residents of the American South created works of art starting in 1607, however it was not until the early 1960s that southern art became recognized as a distinct genre. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art…
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