- May 2016
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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rye and bluegrass
rye >>
bluegrass: there is 500 species of grasses
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Mr. Esernio cuts his lawn seeded with rye and bluegrass every five days, not once a week (''It's happier when it's cut every five days,'' he says), keeping it three and a half inches high. (''Any shorter, and the roots would burn out.'') He pushes a Sears 22-inch hand mower around the perimeter and in the pool area (''I need the workout'') and fertilizes with the Scott four-step program four times a year. (''The most important thing about lawns is feeding them.'')
Esernio way to take care his lawn.
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his is the really green, rolling, luxuriant one, the one with mowing lines like straight brush strokes up and down a fine piece of suede.
his style of property.
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www.archdaily.com www.archdaily.com
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the tabula rasa model
Tabula rasa, ( Latin: “scraped tablet”—i.e., “clean slate”) in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists attribute to the human mind before ideas have been imprinted on it by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects.
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When we were in Chicago at the end of June, the city launched its own bike share scheme. New York already has one. The docking stations bring tangible cycle infrastructure to the city streets. In-carriage and separated cycle routes have begun to proliferate. Disused railway lines are being harnessed as leisure trails, and in some cases these were working well for commuters too.
The city-cycling progress in Chicago.
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Boris Bike
London has some docking station for bike, you can easily hire the bike. This is called Boris Bike. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/cycling/santander-cycles/how-it-works
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desktopmag.com.au desktopmag.com.au
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Beyond The Glass Ceiling: an open discussion, Astrid Stavro, Elephant #6
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The National Education Association reports of 2011 estimated that 54% of all US designers in the profession are women. In the UK it is lower, although the Design Council research found that 70% of design students in the UK are women, but 60% of the industry is male.
comparison percentage of design workers or students in US and UK
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three hundred and twenty-three independent designers listed — twenty-two women.
scale of female and male graphic designers number.
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink,” from 1871-74, which is now in the Frick.
Oil on canvas 77 1/8 x 40 1/4 in. (195.9 x 102.2 cm) Framed: 86 7/16 x 49 7/8 x 1 7/8 in. Henry Clay Frick Bequest Accession number: 1916.1.133
http://collections.frick.org/view/objects/asitem/items$0040:283
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A mania for things Asian raged in England then, in concert with the aestheticist movement—a reaction, exalting unalloyed beauty, against the moralistic constraints of Victorian taste. Whistler was the trend’s leading light. The result was one of the most intoxicating decorative ensembles in the world:
a trend of room decoration at that time, but Whistler design and style has the most influence.
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blue-and-white Chinese porcelains
made from ceramics and known with chinoiserie decorative style / Chinese motifs.
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- Mar 2016
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Emanuel Leutze
An important figure in American art of the 19th century, the German-born painter
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-artists/emanuel-gottlieb-leutze.htm
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After years of detective work, an image of the frame was recently discovered in a 143-year-old Mathew Brady photograph.
it has a frame designed by Leutze and it was precisely the right frame for the painting with a graceful grandeur and abundance of carved symbols—the eagle
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It is heavy too, and will be getting heavier, because curators are currently assessing the best way to carve an elaborate new 3,000-pound basswood frame that would replicate the original, missing for more than a century.
the replica of the 3000-pounds gilt frame
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