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Door of Perception

Hans Bellmer

Here’s a link to the OED portal via Pratt.edu. When you click the link, you’ll be directed to enter your Pratt OneKey user name and password. They should be the same credentials you use for MyPratt.

A good way to begin exploring the etymologies and historical usage quotations is to look up your keywords. When you arrive at an entry, be sure to click the button below the search term that says View as: Full entry.

Another good resource for etymologies, as mentioned in class, is the Online Etymology Dictionary.

Good writers use resources like these, to better understand their materials.

Found on the exhibit floor claimed by Merkur Gaming, twin machines -- dubbed the Ozone -- caused many to stop and gawk. Single-occupant immersion balls, they allow players to completely shun the social nature of casinos and focus single-mindedly on the experience (read: winning). Players sit down and then swing the gaming terminal towards them, blocking off almost all sight and sound aside from those coming from the game.

The unit features two 21.5" wide-screen monitors and envelops the player in sound, including a subwoofer under the seat.

A representative tells us the pods began as Internet bays, but with the continued advent of mobile phones, they came up with alternate applications. First, they programmed them for arcades which makes a lot of sense, but then they set their focus on breaking into the casino industry. While the pods can't be found on any gaming floor right now, who knows what the future might hold. Sure, casinos will never be a sea of pods, but could some properties -- especially the quirky ones -- offer a handful of the balls for kicks? We don't know about you, but we could totally see that happening.

#solidarity #gambling #addiction #virtualreality #entertainment #vacation

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Architecture. Speculative Futures. Cultural Narratives. Ethereal Drawings

#speculative #future #drawings #examples

1. Abandoned Salt Mine, Romania We'll start in Cluj County, Romania. The following epic photographs were taken by Marius R. inside the old closed Turda Salt Mine (Google Earth coordinates: Lat: 46°33'51.92"N - Long: 23°46'7.22"E) (Middle-Earth coordinates: Mines of Moria) - click to enlarge images.

#salt #mine #abandoned #infrastructure

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QUARANTENA SCI-Arc Undergraduate Thesis 2011 Student: Robby Gilson Advisor: Devyn Weiser

#Vimeo #sci-arc #undergradthesis2011 #quarantena #robbygilson #devynweiser

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#Vimeo #echolab #gavinlittle #onursenturk #silo-1 #motiongraphics #abstract #surreal #3dsmax #realflow #aftereffects #liquid #organic

Extreme Salt Mine - Ethiopia

Northern Ethiopia's Afar depression—also called the Danakil depression—is one of the hottest places on Earth. Parts of the region are more than 300 feet below sea level, forming a cauldron where temperatures reach above 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and active volcanoes roil. (Read more about the geology of the Afar region.)

The colorful and extreme Afar is also home to a valuable commodity: salt. For centuries the Afar people have mined rich salt deposits left behind from Red Sea floods in the region—most recently, 30,000 years ago. Today, workers cut slabs of salt from the earth and pack them on to camels for a days-long journey across the desert to a market town where the slabs are sold to merchants and loaded on to trucks. (Read more about the Afar people and the salt trade.)

Here a man walks across a crusty landscape of sulfur and mineral salt near Dallol, a town that has been called the hottest inhabited place on Earth. (See George Steinmetz's aerial photography of the Afar Depression.)

—Katia Andreassi

A man readies a single block of salt, called an amole, for the market in Mekele, Ethiopia. As in many other parts of the world, salt was once used as a form of currency in Ethiopia.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/pictures/130525-salt-ethiopia-mining-extreme-volcano-heat-transportation/#/01-ethiopia-salt-man-walking_67824_600x450.jpg

#salt #mine