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Sacred Sex Frozen In Stone

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:49:00 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: The best pictures I've ever seen of these sacred temples.

Located in the fertile Gangetic plains of Madhya Pradesh, the sprawling Khajuraho temple complex is a fascinating monument to the sanctity of human sexuality. The central theme of the temples is the celebration of womankind, her form, for her beauty and her temperament.

The complex, built by the Chandela rulers between 950 and 1050, is a one of the finest example of Indo-Aryan architecture. It was built during a period of peace and prosperity, where creativity flourished under royal patronage. The Chandelas commissioned 85 temples, but only 22 are remaining today.

Khajuraho, or Khajur-vahika, derives its name from the golden date palms (khajur) that ones adorned the gate of the great city. The engravings were not built merely for aesthetic value, as they also served to teach young virgins all they needed to know about sexuality.

listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, and the The Archeological Survey of India is entrusted with preserving these temples

The Amazing Bookcase/Staircase

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:39:16 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: The weird treads bother me.

Clip Source: www.apartmenttherapy.com

The flat occupies part of the shared top floor of an existing Victorian mansion block. Our proposal extended the flat into the unused loft space above, creating a new bedroom level and increasing the floor area of the flat by approximately one third. We created a 'secret' staircase, hidden from the main reception room, to access a new loft bedroom lit by roof lights. Limited by space, we melded the idea of a staircase with our client's desire for a library to form a 'library staircase' in which English oak stair treads and shelves are both completely lined with books. With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome. The stair structure was designed as an upside down 'sedan chair' structure

that carries the whole weight of the stair and books back to the main structural walls of the building. It dangles from the upper floor thereby avoiding any complicated neighbour issues with the floors below.

I believe

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:51:26 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: "I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do.
I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive.
I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly.
I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

Neil Gaiman

Clip Source: www.goodreads.com

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.

I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.

Tags: neil gaiman, quotes

Grand European Theaters: pics #1

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:19:12 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.younggalleryphoto.com

Garnier Opera. Paris, France 2005

Coliseo Cinema. Madrid, Spain 2004

Olimpia Theater. Valencia, Spain 2005

Chatelet Theater. Paris, France 2005

Champs Elysées Theater. Paris, France 2005

Mariinski Theater. Saint Petersbourg, Russia 2005

Opera & Ballet Theater. Saint Petersbourg, Russia 2005

Royal Opera House. London, England 2005

Escalante Theater. Valencia, Spain 2005

Maison de la Poésie. Molière Theater. Paris, France 2005

Manzoni Cinema. Milano, Italy 2005

Music House. Moscow, Russia 2005

Principal Theater, Valencia, Spain 2005

Olivier Theater, London, England 2005

Press Palace, Madrid, Spain 2005

Raúl Belinchón was born on 29 November 1975 in Valencia (Spain), where he lives and works. He won the third place of this year’s World Press Photo Prize/Arts and Entertainment Stories.
in 2004 he also won the First Prize of the Fuji Euro Photo Awards.
In 2004 he has shown in Murcia, Madrid and Valencia. In February 2005 he will hold his first individual exhibition in Milan, at the Davide Di Maggio Galler

Tags: photos