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Close up of face on Mars

by okesoft on 30. Jul, 2010 in Science, Uncategorized

A photograph taken by the American Viking 1 Orbiter in July 1976 appeared to show a hill in shape of a human face on the dusty surface of Mars. But a new photograph released today, which was taken with Nasa’s high-definition HiRISE camera, finally shows the Face on Mars for what it really is: just a large, rocky hill in the middle of the Martian desert. (Source: CRIonline)

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Exhibition furniture giant

by okesoft on 30. Jul, 2010 in Art, Uncategorized

Robert Therrien was born in Chicago in 1947 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among other venues. Most recently his work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY and at the Kunstmuseum Basel.[ 1 ] [ via ]

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Cool Examples Of Cooling Tower Art

by okesoft on 30. Jul, 2010 in Art, Funny, Uncategorized, cool

Cooling towers have come to symbolize power plants – nuclear or not – around the world. Standing hundreds of feet tall with a distinctive hourglass profile, some of these “towers of power” show an unexpected side: they’ve become colossal curvaceous canvases upon which an astonishing variety of art has been displayed. Most uses of this image have been used in a sarcastic, almost sardonic fashion by anti-nuclear bloggers or to illustrate left-leaning articles on the nuclear power industry. Is putting a Happy Face on the most visible part of a nuclear power plant really so wrong?

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