Cabs Take Flight

Talks late at night

Cabs take flight

Amazing Ant Architecture

This is an incredible video about the underground worlds ants create for themselves and their amazing architecture. Researchers located an abandoned ant colony and filled it with 10 tons of cement. It took three days to fill the underground megalopolis. They let it sit for about a month and then excavate it. Absolutely beautiful!

Thanks to my Dad for sending me the link to this one. He found here it at Kim Komando's video of the day site.

We will be back from Canada late tonight.

Solar Decathalon 2007

Check out this green building competition with teams from around the world: U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, Germany and Spain are competing this year in Washington D.C..

The Solar Decathlon joins 20 college and university teams in a competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house.

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is the primary sponsor of the Solar Decathlon. DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) sponsors and manages the event. The American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), BP, and Sprint are title sponsors.

Turning the Place Over

'Turning the Place Over' is an amazing art installation in Liverpool, England created by Richard Wilson. It is an 8 metre ovoid cut from the facade of a building in Liverpool's city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions by attaching the facade to a giant rotator at an angle. It is in constant motion during daylight hours. The official running date of the installation is 20 June 2007 through the end of 2008.

Richard Wilson is one of Britain’s most renowned sculptors. It is evident that he draws heavily from the worlds of engineering and construction.Wilson is often recognized for his 20:50 installation at the Saatchi Gallery in London.



To see an accelerated view and to gain an understanding of how 'Turning the Place Over' is done check out the Liverpool Biennial site.

"The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool’s city centre literally inside out. One of Wilson’s very rare temporary works, Turning the Place Over colonises Cross Keys House, Moorfields, and will be launched in June 2007 and will run through until end of 2008."(Liverpool Biennial)

'Turning the Place Over' is co-commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company and Liverpool Biennial, co-funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency and The Northern Way, and facilitated by Liverpool Vision.

Gothic Architecture

You must take a look at the other pictures Ellen posted (20 December 2006) of Sedlec Ossuary on her blog: Nonchalant Natter of the Sleeping Pirate.

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{Picture by Ben Hutchison}

"It is a Christian Chapel embellished (Baroque style) by 40,000 sets of human bones. Sedlec, is a suburb in the outskirts of the Czech town Kutna Hora."

To read about/view more images from Sedlec Ossuary check out these links:

http://sleepingpirate.blogspot.com/2006/12/sed.html

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~silver_p/kutna.html