Last night I went to see “the orphanage” this was for the second time in a week, the only difference being that this time I went with my housemate and also with the useful knowledge when to anticipate a scare moment!! And believe me if you watch this film without jumping once you are incredibly [...]
Archive for March, 2008
deja vu…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wall House by FAR frohn&rojas architects…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Architectural photographer Cristobal Palma has has taken the following photos from South America, this is a project in Chile that is a mixture of cave, house and tent.
Wall House, architects by FAR frohn&rojas, has four “delaminated” structural layers: a cave-like concrete core; an outer ring of shelving; a “soft skin” of polycarbonate panels and finally [...]
The Back-of-the-Envelope Design Contest…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i26/26b01401.htm
For millennia, great and not-so-great leaders have celebrated themselves in monuments. The ziggurats of Mesopotamia, the pyramids, the Forbidden City, the Louvre, and Monticello all convey their builders’ legacies, as did the many lavish palaces of Saddam Hussein.
Modern U.S. presidents have only their presidential libraries. Now that the George W. Bush era is almost over, [...]
juno…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
http://www.showroom.org.uk/cinema/filminformation.html
Juno, the third film I have seen in three day’s, to some this may seem extreme however the relaxed, enjoyable environs of the showroom cinema, Sheffield more than accomodating in the use of internet facilities and of table work space I can only dream of….the film was an up to date sharp and quick witted [...]
boat race…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Boat Race
2004 saw the first running of the Irish Universities Boat Race. The Race is held on the Lagan between Queen’s University Belfast and Trinity College, Dublin. The race is made to mirror the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race which is held annually on the River Thames. In 2004 the race was held over 3800 m, in [...]
Le Voyage du ballon rouge…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Flight Of The Red Balloon
Dir. Hsiao-Hsien Hou | France | 2007 | 1hr 53mins
Directed by Taiwanese master Hsiao-Hsien Hou, this follows a film student in Paris who is hired as a nanny for the seven-year-old son of a puppeteer (Juliette Binoche). As the nanny takes the boy for walks around the city, he’s followed by [...]
lay the keel…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A structural keel is a large beam around which the hull of a ship is built.
The keel runs in the middle of the ship, from the bow to the stern, and serves as the foundation or spine of the structure, providing the major source of structural strength of the hull. The keel is generally [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
education on the river…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
River Barges…Belfast…
Posted in Uncategorized on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
