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tenth-sentence · 6 months

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Meanwhile, the land was changing.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair" - C. S. Lewis

#book quote #the chronicles of narnia #the silver chair #c s lewis #changing landscapes

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jeronimoloco · 6 months

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A lone tomb, a memory of Syonan Shipyard, and their links to Keppel House

Much has been made about the “mysterious” solitary Japanese tomb sitting on the southern slopes of Mount Faber. The tomb, which could be thought of as a memorial to a painful time in Singapore’s history, contains the remains of a member of staff of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) Kobe shipyard, a naval architect by the name of Komoto Ekasa (or Omoto Egasa). Komoto was among an group of 94 MHI…

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thatrandomace · 10 months

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I used to be a desert

Kept dry and aching

But never knowing

What I was missing

A landscape of never

Ending sand and heat

Scraping by because

I didn’t know

Anything different

Then the rain started

And I began to hope

But some forget

That when you’ve never

Had it before

Rain can hurt

It can drown

It flooded me

Leaving me gasping

For air and wishing

For a return

Of what I once knew

But then something changed

The rain began to slow

And roots began to

Dig themselves deep

Into my dirt

Yes, dirt now

No longer sand

Everything had shifted

With the rain

And I had been too busy

Drowning

To know

So now, as the sky clears

I am still left

Gasping for air

But now instead

Of crushing

Or drowning me

I find that

the water sinks in

And I am left hoping

If just maybe

I could bloom

#poetry #my words #growth #changing landscapes

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sexypinkon · 2 years

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S E X Y P I N K

I can’t post this enough

#sexypink/Sherlann Peters and Maria Diaz #sexypink/Sculpture #sexypink/Trinidad and Tobago Sculptors #tumblr/Sculpture #Changing Landscapes #Port-Of-Spain #sculpture #Sherlann Peters #Maria Diaz

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itscrystql · 2 days

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i’m unfit and i

don’t care to fix it

don’t want privilege of appearing decent

could i find something more beautiful than the waves of the shiny blue waters

glimmering when the sun hits, endless curves of pristine light

only to be found in clean, shallow pools

could i find something deeper than the darkness

that surrounds the trapped in the caves

for all those daydreaming in the night,

dancing in the obsidian air in a deluded high

if only to prolong how far my knowledge goes,

how much more time do i have

before my mistakes stain the landscape

i only wanted to do what felt right.

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reasonsforhope · 2 months

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"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterﬂy.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

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8pxl · 4 months

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my favorite art pieces i've made in 2023 buy a wallpaper or leave a tip / twitter / instagram / shop

#pixel art #artist on tumblr #landscape #pixelart #year in review #year end review #illustration #aesthetic #sunset #moon #space #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #long post #when did they change it to you can upload 30 pics at once???? wild lol

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haverwood · 9 months

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Les Métamorphoses du paysage Éric Rohmer France, 1964

#Les Métamorphoses du paysage #Éric Rohmer #1964 #1960s #documentary #short #title card #Les Métamorphoses du paysage: l'ère industrielle #Changing Landscapes

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dustedmagazine · 11 months

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Arthur King — Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) (AKP)

Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) by Arthur King

The Zompopa, or leaf-cutter ant, lives in large, complex societies, organized into a caste system, with different types of ants taking on different roles in maintaining the colony. Like humans, they are agriculturalists, fertilizing and cultivating various types of fungus which, in turn, feeds their populations. Peter Walker — not the flamenco-influenced guitarist but the ambient composer from Los Angeles at the center of Arthur King — spent time in the Costa Rican rainforest, recording the sounds of this insect society. With David Ralicke and Mia Doi Todd, he then improvised music over these recordings for a haunting set of tracks.

Through Arthur King and other projects, Walker explores the act of listening as a spiritual practice. In an interview with 15Questions, he describes his affinity with the writings of Carl Jung. “Jung suggests that by aligning and opening our senses away from our usual, intellectual filter, we can experience the vast world of the unknown, the unconscious, and even the numinous,” he said. Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) is, indeed, a deeply affecting listening experience, melding the twittering, chittering serenity of the tropical wild with angelic vocals (Mia Doi Todd in particularly lovely form), electronics and other instruments.

The disc begins in a lingering drone, the high wordless singing of Doi Todd floating weightlessly over it, a slow gathering of timbres coalescing in serenity and meditative contemplation. This is “La Reina” the cut dedicated to the ant colony’s queen, and it is very subtly laced with a high, scraping, percussive sound that must be some magnified version of the sound that Zompopa ants produce.

Walker is frank about the limits of entering an alien world through sound. We don’t hear what the ants hear because we’re not ants. We don’t have the same equipment for sensing vibration. And yet, there is something very immersive and foreign about these musical piece, even embellished as they are by recognizable human elements—blasts of synthesizer, delicate chimes and bells, even a saxophone wandering through these eerie landscapes. “March Into the Colony” stirs into action on a propulsive, glitch-like beat; you only realize in retrospect that its rhythms are constructed out of insect sounds. The long closer “Funeral de Zompopa” brings these sounds the furthest into the forefront, so that Doi Todd’s melodic musings and dream-like drifts of trumpet drift over a bed of intricate, unfamiliar scratchings.

As humans, we don’t like ants very much. The idea of hundreds, thousands, even millions of them coordinated in their own purposeful existence, growing food, protecting against enemies, reproducing, might well give you the willies. Changing Landscapes (Zompopa) brings us into alignment with this strange, unexplored world and lets you feel connection with a species you might not have considered otherwise.

Jennifer Kelly

#arthur king #changing landscapes #zompopa #akp #jennifer kelly #albumreview #dusted magazine #ambient music #field recordings #leaf-cutter ants #costa rica #peter walker #mia doi todd #david ralicke

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soracities · 8 months

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we NEED more cleaners and bricklayers and scaffolders and delivery drivers in MFA poetry programs. like. immediately.

#the art of the novel is being radically transformed in the shape of a convo between two cleaning ladies in an office after hours.#a mechanic somewhere is dropping the most astonishing lines linking the landscape of wires & tubes to the tendons on their gfathers hands #when they taught them their first oil change or something but its happening entirely internally while theyre on their back under a hopeless #honda civic and thin lizzie is blaring on their boss' radio and they're going to forget about it this time tomorrow.......#or have another equally beautiful thought #@oliverisms and i just know this WE KNOW IT IN OUR BONES #p #idir lúibíní

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psykopaths · 5 months

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The Hidden Life of Trees, (2020)

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itscolossal · 1 year

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In ‘Dyal Thak,’ Photographer Kin Coedel Offers an Intimate Glimpse of Life on the Rapidly Changing Tibetan Plateau

#photography #tibet #landscapes #culture #climate change

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jeronimoloco · 1 year

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Bird Paradise, photographs of Mandai's newest attraction

I had the opportunity to have a first look at Bird Paradise, Mandai Wildlife Reserve’s latest attraction. Set on a 17 ha site close to the Mandai Road end of Mandai Lake Road, the successor to Jurong Bird Park will — at least at first glance — have what it takes to build an identity of its own. While it may not have a single iconic feature, which its predecessor had in its Waterfall Aviary, the…