Met another Snake in Quickplay
Casting director: we need the voice of pikachu to be a recognized name. It’s going to be tough to find a respectable actor wh
Ryan Reynolds: ME
Ryan Reynolds: I’LL DO IT
Ryan Reynolds: PIKA PIKA MOTHER FUCKER
This is the Ginzkey Carpet, designed by Alphonse Mucha for the 1900
Paris World’s Fair (Exhibition Universelle). The company, Ginzkey, won
the Grand Prize for their six woven pieces that they entered. Pictured is the sketch for the piece by Mucha, and the actual display below. (pics from here & here)
Élégante sur la plage (Elegant on the beach), Georges de Feure, circa 1901-05
gouache and pencil on paper
49.4 x 35.7 cm (19 ½ x 14 ⅛ in.)
You would be forgiven for thinking that this was a photo of an ice shelf. But, alas, it is not.
It is actually a sprawling limestone formation called “Pamukkale” or “cotton Castle” in southwest Turkey. Over the past 400,000 years, a complex of seventeen separate hot springs have been depositing snow white travertine limestone in a series of terraces and waterfalls. The formation is over 2,700 metres long, 600 metres wide and 160 metres high. The springs are present due to the many cracks and fissures in the earth’s surface here as a result of high tectonic activity. The temperature of the spring water as it emerges at the surface ranges between 35–56°C (95–133°F). Flowing at a rate of 510 litres per second, the water is saturated with calcium carbonate. As it reaches the surface, carbon dioxide is released allowing the water to deposit the calcium carbonate until the carbon dioxide levels reach an equilibrium with the air. Initially deposited as a jelly-like substance, the calcium carbonate eventually hardens into travertine. The result is this beautiful landscape which is one of the major tourist attractions in Turkey.
-Jean
For more photos; follow link:http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/01/pamukkale-turkeys-cotton-castle.html
Image Courtesy of Vasily Goizhevskiy.
