world’s most incredible agricultural engineering project

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:46:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: tourism is also thought to be responsible for the start of what could be a slow death of the terraces for a couple of reasons. firstly, the new generation of locals see the hospitality industry created by the terraces as a far more appealing line of work than the constant farming and attention needed to sustain the terraces themselves. secondly, water isn’t as readily available as in the past due to the effects of an earthquake in 1990 and the new demand for water itself from the tourist industry.

for that reason unesco has placed the terraces on a list of world heritage sites it believes to be ‘in danger’

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Two hundred miles north of Manila, on the island of Luzon in the
Philippines, terraced rice paddies rise like giant stairs from the valley
floor to an altitude of 5,000 feet along the steep contours of the
Cordillera mountain range.

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approximately 3′000 years ago the people of cordillera took on one of mankind’s most impressive landscape modification projects in order to farm effectively on the surrounding mountainsides and slowly transform the region into what some now call the eighth wonder of the world. due to the sheer scale of this farming system it’s hard to disagree: the rice terraces of the philippine cordilleras, if laid out end to end, would stretch halfway round the globe.

the rice terraces of the philippine cordilleras

graffiti artist murals transform drab buildings

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:50:09 GMT

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Most graffiti artists are condemned for painting on public buildings but one New Yorker is being paid thousands

Artist Eric Grohe has produced spectacular murals on building across the U.S. transforming the grey, drab exteriors into vibrant, 3D scenes

Before: The building in Bucyrus before Grohe got to work

After: This painting on a building in Bucyrus, Ohio,

He uses special German paint called keim mineral paint which can last 130 years

This depiction of Niagara Falls on a shopping mall rivals the real thing

He is currently getting requests for his artwork from all over the world.

The master at work: Eric Grohe believes art should involve, challenge and inspire the viewer

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world’s most incredible agricultural engineering project

graffiti artist murals transform drab buildings