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Issues relating to biofuels
There are various social, economic, environmental and technical issues with biofuel production and use, which have been discussed in the popular media and scientific journals. These include: the effect of moderating oil prices, the “food vs fuel” debate, poverty reduction potential, carbon emissions levels, sustainable biofuel production, deforestation and soil…
Read moreArchitecture of Dominican Republic
The architecture in the Dominican Republic represents a complex blend of diverse cultures. The deep influence of the European colonists is the most evident throughout the country. Characterized by ornate designs and baroque structures, the style can best be seen in the capital city of Santo Domingo, which is home…
Read moreSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York, United States
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist,…
Read moreColor triangle
A colour triangle is an arrangement of colours within a triangle, based on the additive combination of three primary colors at its corners. An additive colour space defined by three primary colors has a chromaticity gamut that is a color triangle, when the amounts of the primaries are constrained to…
Read moreUparkot Caves
Junagadh Buddhist Cave Groups are located in Junagadh district of the Indian state of Gujarat. The so-called “Buddhist Caves” are not actually caves, but three separate sites of rooms carved out of stone to be used as monks’ quarters. These caves were carved from Emperor Ashoka’s period up to 1st-4th…
Read moreRemodernist film
Remodernist film developed in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 21st century with ideas related to those of the international art movement Stuckism and its manifesto, Remodernism. Key figures are Jesse Richards and Peter Rinaldi. Manifesto and philosophy On August 27, 2008, Jesse Richards published a…
Read moreEmotion recognition
Emotion recognition is the process of identifying human emotion, most typically from facial expressions as well as from verbal expressions. This is both something that humans do automatically but computational methodologies have also been developed. Scientific Definition Emotion An emotion has to be differentiated from the concept of feeling, mood…
Read moreWilanów Palace Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Wilanów Palace or Wilanowski Palace (Polish: pałac w Wilanowie) is a royal palace located in the Wilanów district, Warsaw. The Palace in Wilanów remained in its intact form from the period of the Second World War. Situated slightly off the main track, Wilanów remained almost intact and today you can…
Read moreGovernment contract flight
A government contract flight is a type of charter airline operation contracted with a government agency. In the United States, the massive mobility requirements during World War II proved that military transport could not meet all the logistical needs that might arise. As a result, the Civil Reserve Air Fleet…
Read moreHong Kong CENTRESTAGE 2019 Designers’ Collection, China
CENTRESTAGE is Asia’s premier fashion event, organised annually by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), offering a promotion platform for fashion brands and designers to showcase their talent, at the same time helping to strengthen Hong Kong’s position as one of Asia’s fashion capitals. CENTRESTAGE to provide a comprehensive…
Read moreSweet Death, Guatemala Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015
The theme exhibition “Sweet Death”, curated by Daniel Radini Tedeschi, represents Guatemala Pavilion in the 56 Venice Biennale 2015. The theme of the exhibition inspired by the book of Thomas Mann, the film of Visconti, from the opera by Britten, but mainly deals with the concept of “death-finitude” understood as…
Read morePhotomontage
Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that a final image may appear as a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one…
Read moreBlue colour in Culture
Blue is one of the three primary colours of pigments in painting and traditional colour theory, as well as in the RGB colour model. It lies between violet and green on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450…
Read moreMen’s fashion in 1850s
The man’s clothing in 1850s develops slowly; the color is covered and the fit becomes slightly looser. The costume consists of tight pants, a striking vest, and a jacket or jacket with shorter pieces. The pants are a different color than the jacket. The dressing gown is typical of this…
Read moreFidel Aguilar Marcó
Fidel Aguilar i Marcó (Jul 20, 1894 – 1917) va ser un precoç escultor gironí que tot i morir amb només 22 anys va aconseguir un cert reconeixement en l’àmbit de l’escultura. He was born 20 of July of 1894 in the street of the Cort Reial of Gerona, although…
Read moreReview of HKJMA 2013-2016, International Jewelry Show of Hong Kong Jewelry Manufacturers’ Association, China
HKJMA has been organizing the JMA Hong Kong International Jewelry Show since 1995. First held with only dozens of exhibitors at the HKJMA office, the show has expanded into a sizeable international exhibition in HKCEC in the last 20 years, becoming a major Jewelry event in Asia. Because of the…
Read moreArchaeological and Ethnological Museum of Cordoba, Spain
The Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Cordoba (MAECO), located in Cordoba (Spain), is located in the old Palace of the Páez de Castillejo and in a new annex building. In its interior a great collection of pieces exists that go from the Prehistory until the Average Age. The Archaeological and…
Read moreFrottage art
In art, frottage (from French frotter, “to rub”, Rubbing) is a surrealist and “automatic” method of creative production developed by Max Ernst. “… All sorts of materials that could be in my field of vision: the leaves and their ribs, the frayed edges of a canvas bag, the brushstrokes of…
Read moreThemes of sustainable development
The sustainable development is a new concept of economic growth, thought immediately with a view to long-term and integrates the constraints the environment and the functioning of society. As defined in the report of World Commission on Environment and Development of the United Nations, said Brundtland Report, where this term…
Read moreThe story of scissors, China Sword and Scissors Museum
The knife is mainly used for cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, and it is inconvenient for cutting soft things such as cotton and silk. When people use two knives to cut relative to each other in practice, scissors are produced. Unlike a knife that is unilaterally applied, a scissors is a…
Read moreGuide Tour of Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Playboy Mansion is the former home of Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner who lived there from 1974 until his death in 2017. The mansion became famous during the 1970s through media reports of Hefner’s lavish parties which were often attended by celebrities and socialites. The Playboy Mansion estate located…
Read moreFrederic Marès Book Museum, Library of Catalonia
In this magnificent room, called the Via Crucis and dating to the end of the 17th century, there is a selection of almost 2,000 documents – manuscripts, scrolls, prints, engravings and bookbases – by the sculptor Frederic Marès i Deulovol (1893-1991) donated to the Library of Catalonia. Located in the…
Read moreDiving emergency ascent
An emergency ascent is an ascent to the surface by a diver in an emergency. More specifically it refers to any of several procedures for reaching the surface in the event of an out-of-air emergency, generally while scuba diving. Emergency ascents may be broadly categorised as independent ascents, where the…
Read moreAn Everywhere of Mirrorings, Singapore Biennale 2016
Space and place are explored and glimpsed through mirrors and cartography, conjuring symmetrical and asymmetrical parallel worlds where the real, surreal, abstract and imaginary overlap. Paracosmos (2016) by Harumi Yukutake The ‘membrane’ of hand-cut mirrors dissolves the definition between foreground and background by dissipating the single image into an explosion…
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