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The art on human body

Ivana — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:46:20 +0000

Here are a relatively modern type of art. As the cloth is used for imaging the human body, other material is required than color, a few brushes and a lot of imagination. The only thing that is a little harder to ensure it is free linen Body art is art made on, with, or consisting of, the human body. The most common forms of body art are tattoos and body piercings, but other types include scarification, branding, scalpelling, shaping, full body tattoo and body painting.
More extreme body art can involve things such as mutilation or pushing the body to its physical limits. It can even consist of the arrangement and dissection of preserved bodies in an artistic fashion, as in the case of the plastinated bodies used in the travelling Body Worlds exhibit.
Body art is also a sub-category of performance art, in which artists use or abuse their own body to make their particular statements.
In more recent times, body became a subject of much broader discussions and treatments that cannot be reduced to the body art in its common understanding. Important strategies that question the human body are: implants, body in symbiosis with the new technologies, virtual body etc. Scientific research in this area, for example that by Kevin Warwick, can be considered in this artistic vein.

Wonder of the world created by human hand: Eiffel Tower

Ivana — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:50:36 +0000

Eiffel Tower is one of 7 wonders of the world made by human hand. One can freely say that it is a symbol of human construction and architecture. Also free is the Eiffel Tower can be said about the pride of France.

The Eiffel Tower is a 19th century iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris that has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower, which is the tallest building in Paris, is the single most visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch for the 1889 World’s Fair.

The tower stands at 324 m tall, about the same height as an 81-story building. It was the tallest structure in the world from its completion until 1930, when it was eclipsed by the Chrysler Building in New York City. Not including broadcast antennas, it is the second-tallest structure in France, behind the Millau Viaduct, completed in 2004. And while the Eiffel Tower is an iron structure, and weighs approximately 10,000 tonnes, it actually has a relatively low density, weighing less than a cylinder of air occupying the same dimensions as the tower.

The tower has three levels for visitors. Tickets can be purchased to ascend either on stairs or lifts to the first and second levels. The walk to the first level is over 300 steps, as is the walk from the first to the second level. The third and highest level is accessible only by lift. Both the first and second levels feature restaurants.

The tower has become the most prominent symbol of both Paris and France. The tower is a featured part of the backdrop in literally scores of movies that take place in Paris. Its iconic status is so established that it even serves as a symbol for the entire nation of France, such as when it was used as the logo for the French bid to host the 1992 Summer Olympics.

The structure was built between 1887 and 1889 as the entrance arch for the Exposition Universelle, a World’s Fair marking the centennial celebration of the French Revolution. Eiffel originally planned to build the tower in Barcelona, for the Universal Exposition of 1888, but those responsible at the Barcelona city hall thought it was a strange and expensive construction, which did not fit into the design of the city. After the refusal of the Consistory of Barcelona, Eiffel submitted his draft to those responsible for the Universal Exhibition in Paris, where he would build his tower a year later, in 1889. The tower was inaugurated on 31 March 1889, and opened on 6 May. Three hundred workers joined together 18,038 pieces of puddled iron, using two and a half million rivets, in a structural design by Maurice Koechlin.

The risk of accident was great, for unlike modern skyscrapers the tower is an open frame without any intermediate floors except the two platforms. However, because Eiffel took safety precautions, including the use of movable stagings, guard-rails and screens, only one man died.
Eiffel Tower Construction view:
girders at the first story

The tower was met with much criticism from the public when it was built, with many calling it an eyesore. Newspapers of the day were filled with angry letters from the arts community of Paris. One is quoted extensively in William Watson’s US Government Printing Office publication of 1892 Paris Universal Exposition: Civil Engineering, Public Works, and Architecture. “And during twenty years we shall see, stretching over the entire city, still thrilling with the genius of so many centuries, we shall see stretching out like a black blot the odious shadow of the odious column built up of riveted iron plates.” Signers of this letter included Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Charles Gounod, Charles Garnier, Jean-Léon Gérôme, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Alexandre Dumas.

Novelist Guy de Maupassant—who claimed to hate the tower supposedly ate lunch in the Tower’s restaurant every day. When asked why, he answered that it was the one place in Paris where one could not see the structure. Today, the Tower is widely considered to be a striking piece of structural art.

One of the great Hollywood movie clichés is that the view from a Parisian window always includes the tower. In reality, since zoning restrictions limit the height of most buildings in Paris to 7 stories, only a very few of the taller buildings have a clear view of the tower.

Eiffel had a permit for the tower to stand for 20 years, meaning it would have had to be dismantled in 1909, when its ownership would revert to the City of Paris. The City had planned to tear it down but as the tower proved valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to remain after the expiration of the permit. The military used it to dispatch Parisian taxis to the front line during the First Battle of the Marne, and it therefore became a victory statue of that battle. The co-architects of the Eiffel Tower were Emile Nouguier, Maurice Koechlin and Stephen Sauvestre.

Top 10 Human Killers

Ivana — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:36:24 +0000

List of dangerous wild animals each year carry a large number of casualties, although some of them at first glance appear innocuous. Ten most dangerous, starting from the least dangerous to those who carry most of life, are:

1.Jellyfish

Jellyfish, to blame for 100 deaths a year, lives in the warm waters of the sea, and their body and tentacles can cause dangerous burns and tissue necrosis, and in extreme cases death consequences of failure of the heart or lungs.

2. Hippopotamus

Sea horse or hippopotamus, causing over 200 deaths each year on the African continent, known for its bad temper and a great force that pulls boats and smaller ships, and much faster than men so it is virtually impossible to escape.

3.Lion

Lion, king of the animals is one of the most strong predators on the planet and the best hunter the animal world, the annual Lions kill about 250 people when they are hungry because they do not choose prey.

4.Bee

Bee, an annual “killer” 400 people on the one hand maintains balance eco-system pollination of plants through pollen but also attack people without reason. Bees attack in Roy, especially when you approach hives.

5.African buffalo

African buffalo, one of the most dangerous African animal kills about 500 people a year, is moving in herds, and otherwise not attack people but I feel the slightest danger, will become the target of their sharp horns.

6.Elephant

Elephant, although popular and good-natured, elephants hiding the death of 600 people a year, as in Africa and South Asia, elephants can be found in urban areas who are afraid if you do not look at who is under their giant bodies. During mating, elephants are also very dangerous for the environment.

7.Crocodile

Crocodile, predator is not very different man from the animals, and the annual crocodiles kill about 2000 people. Unable to break away from the mouth krokodilovih that compared to five times stronger than bloodthirsty hyenas.

8.Scorpion

Scorpion, a murderer with eight legs “die” about 5,000 people a year, and kills victims of strong neurotoxins causing swoon, confusion, suffocation and death.

9.Snake

Snake, reptile cold is also a mass killer, and every continent inhabited by a dangerous charmer, the number of victims of poisonous snakes climb to over 100,000 casualties a year, a poisonous bite can cause death in one minute.

10.Mosquito

Mosquitoes, small boring insect, believe it or not, kill two to three million people each year and because mosquitoes carry dangerous infectious diseases such as malaria and a large number of dangerous tropical viruses for which no conventional medication.