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Photographer Angela Kelly is yet another creative who is harnessing the current cold to create something special. Her newest photoseries came about when she mixed up a homemade bubble solution (a recipe which calls for dish soap, Karo syrup and water) with her 7-year old son Connor, and braved the early morning cold of Arlington, Washington to see what would happen to the bubbles in the frigid air. Of course, Kelly also brought her camera to document her experiment.

The resulting shots, a combination of high-definition close-ups and macroshots, capture the bubbles as they freeze into glass-like, fragile spheres. While some whither and shrink (like naturally-occurring cold balloons), others gently dropped to the ground like small crystal balls, while others cracked into shards. Says Kelly, “Sometimes in our quest to appreciate beauty, we take for granted even the simplest treasures that can be found in our own back yard.”

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Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata has been creating beautiful light art while aboard the International Space Station. Using long exposure photography and a spiral top equipped with LED lights designed by light artist Takuro Osaka, Wakata produces light paintings in an atmosphere of zero gravity. In 2009, Wakata flew as a crew member of the ISS where he first experimented with the Osaka’s spiral top (also pictured here). In 2011, Wakata was assigned as a Flight Engineer for ISS Expedition 38 and the Commander of Expedition 39. Wakata is the first Japanese astronaut to command the ISS. You can check out more of Wakata’s incredible space photos on his Twitter feed. (via i09)

  

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Although most of America (currently enduring one of the worst winter cold snaps in nearly two decades) would like to ignore this fact in for favor of bundled layers and heated blankets, sometimes even the dire cold, snow and ice can provide the tools and inspiration for those who brave it’s elements.  Famed land and installation artist Andy Goldsworthy (previously here and here) has often utilized ice, frost, snow and frozen earth to create his trademark land interventions. And rather than avoiding the elements, Goldsworthy is only able to create these delicate and precise sculptures by embracing the cold.

In Goldsworthy’s 2004 documentary, Rivers & Tides, several scenes document the difficulty in attempting to harness the cold’s elements. One scene shows the artist, braving the winter elements for hours at a time in finger-less gloves (so as to be able to properly feel and hold the materials) fusing together icicle chunks together with warm water, holding them in place while they freeze together into naturally-made though unnatural shapes. The smallest temperature changes, light, and even chance cause the ice sculpture to collapse, repeatedly, which is all part of Goldsworthy’s process. Says the artist, “Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that  I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.”

Goldsworthy’s process is only captured through the use of photographs, and the often detailed notes (below) which the artist uses to document the difficulties and triumphs of each individual piece.

ICE ARCH

left to freeze overnight
before supporting pile of stones removed
(made in a field of cows – tense wait)
pissed on stone too frozen to come out
fourth attempt successful
other three arches collapsed or melted
Brough, Cumbria
1-2 December 1982

Ice on Ice. Ilkley, Yorkshire. January 1980.Ice Ball. Hampstead Heath, London. December 1985Ice Arch. Hampstead Heath, London. December 1985.

Snow Shadow. Brough, Cumbria. January 1985.Snow Compacted Into Series of Joining Arches. Helbeck, Cumbria. January 1984.

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Kevin Cooley creates Controlled Burns, a series of striking images that showcase swirling and imposing clouds of black, white, and gray smoke. Inspired by the communicative purpose of smoke signals during Papal conclave, the series focuses on ideas and actions dealing with communication, specifically human interactions with nature.

Cooley creates and manufactures the images himself, the smoke is real, and so is the fire creating it, but the artist here is rendering an image, controlling it and taking charge of something that can potentially be uncontrollable. The project is indicative of something we are well aware of, particularly our impotence yet possibility to control natural, powerful elements in our world. The paradox makes us contemplate on something we know, but do not really think about often.

Fire is a powerful natural force that we harness for greater good, and it is the only Classical element that we can create on demand. Yet, when out of control, it has the potential for grave destruction. Controlled Burns is a visual representation of this inherit duality, symbolic of our desire to conquer and control, reminding us that sometimes we must fight fire with fire.

Beginning January 11th, 2014, the Kopeikin Gallery will present Cooley’s work in UNEXPLORED TERRITORY, an interdisciplinary exhibition that explores “the limits of human exploration and our desire to conquer and control nature.” Themes range from colonial exploration of the American West, harnessing fire in the form of combustion to launch rockets into space, to anthropomorphic actions of everyday objects such as box fans, and helium balloons.

 

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Or the art to make stereographic Gifs using pencils. More on his website. 

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In the past, artist Mark Khaisman has used his signature style of translucent packing tape, acrylic paint/film panels and lightboxes to create an extension of drawing which focused on decorative objects (such as rugs, chairs and fabric patterns), luxury items (handbags) and portraiture (previously here). For his most recent series, Stills, the Ukranian-born, Philadephia-based Khaisman channels Hollywood’s Classic Era and Film Noir into layers of tape, hand-rolled and variously removed so the light shining through each image creates lines, texture and shading.

Although Khaisman freely sources images from a shared historical film lexicon, his work also takes on a thoroughly modern, almost pixelated feel and reference, particularly in his more colorful works. Says the artist of his signature process,

“The tape is the message. A parody on Marshall McLuhan’s famous quote could explain the superficial motives, which make up the work. Subjects are categorized into different groups: fragmented stills from classic cinema, iconic objects from art history, portraits. The works are exploring the familiar as our shared visual history; made of a familiar material formed into a familiar image, asking the viewer to recognize and complete the work, stimulating both memory and interpretation in the process.” 

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Для ферм, коттеджных поселков, и производственных площадок рядом с маленькими речками.
Стильно, модно молодежно экологично, недорого, надежно.

Выглядит вот так завораживающе:


Или вот так:




работает зимой подо льдом, любима рыбой за отсутствие травматизма и аэрацию.
Под катом - текст и фоточки

Плотина тоже весьма необычна на вид. Это бетонный цилиндр, к которому вода подходит по касательной, обрушиваясь в центре в глубину. Так в центре цилиндра образуется водоворот, который и закручивает турбину.



Преимуществ у такой схемы мини-ГЭС очень много:
Во-первых, КПД преобразования энергии падающей воды в ток достиг 73%, что очень хорошо. При этом был использован не самый эффективный электрический генератор.

Во-вторых, скорость вращения турбины оказалась довольно низкой, так что для рыбы, попавшей в водоворот, лопасти колеса опасности не представляют. Тем более что лопасти эти не рассекают воду, а поворачиваются синхронно с водоворотом.

В-третьих, водоворот перемешивает загрязнители, одновременно хорошо аэрируя воду, что способствует интенсивной работе микроорганизмов, очищающих её естественным образом.

Это свойство станции восстанавливает процессы, идущие в обычной реке, которой присущи многочисленные повороты. В больших спрямлённых руслах каналов и водохранилищ почти ламинарное течение приводит к исчезновению аэрации воды и, как следствие, потере её способности к самоочищению.

В-четвёртых, водоворот способствует терморегуляции в водоёме. Увеличенная площадь контакта воды с воздухом приводит к её охлаждению за счёт испарения жарким летом.

Зимой же ГЭС продолжает работать подо льдом. Все дело в том, что наиболее плотная вода (с температурой в 4 градуса) тяготеет к центру водоворота. По краям цилиндра образуется ледяная корка, которая выступает в роли утеплителя, не дающего слишком сильно охладиться центру.

Фактически водоворот действует как машина, стремящаяся, в некоторой степени, привести температуру протекающей воды зимой к 4 градусам, что, по идее, может оказывать некое благоприятное влияние на жизнь ниже по течению.

Для сильно замерзающих рек, с сильным ледоходом по весне, есть несколько изменённая конструкция которая является know how. Она же является более эстетичной так как неизменяет природный ландшафт берега реки.

На этом достоинства не исчерпываются. При строительстве эта станция обошлась дешевле, чем аналогичная по мощности мини- ГЭС, построенная по классическому образцу. Так же конструкцию отличает лучшая ремонтопригодность, значительно большая простота и малая периодичность обслуживания и ещё много других технологических преимуществ.

Такая схема наиболее оптимальна для возведения ГЭС мощностью до 150 киловатт. Причём конструкция начинает превосходно работать (показывает хороший КПД турбины) уже при перепаде высот воды всего в 0,7 метра

АПДЕЙТ:

Спасибо smart_lab за ссылку, тоже самое на языке родных осин:

Всем тем, кто уцепился за 70-106 килоевро.

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Los Angeles-based painter Justin Bower makes portraiture a glitched metaphor, literally and figuratively, to the present and future of a combined human and computer existence. Bower “…paints his subjects as de-stabilized, fractured post-humans in a nexus of interlocking spatial systems. His paintings problematize how we define ourselves in this digital and virtual age while suggesting the impossibility of grasping such a slippery notion.”

Absorbing different movements and styles (visually one could see a connection to the paintings of Francis Bacon, Jenny Saville, Op Art, as well as early 90′s Cyberpunk and post-Millenium Glitch aesthetics), Bower creates large-scale works that seem almost pained, frustrated or weariness, but with a computer-like void of any tangible, specific emotion. This is balanced delicately by the controlled, digital-referencing malfunctioned backgrounds, combined with loose, painterly brush work, affirming the power and communicability of the paint medium.

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