Thursday, September 10, 2009

A Couple Interesting Signs

Do not challenge the gate...
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surfing and Islam

clipped from www.daylife.com
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15:  Sydney artist Phillip George poses among his surfboard exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Art Gallery on December 15, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. George designed the range of 30 'Inshallah' or 'God Willing' boards in response to his trips to the Middle East, and to the Cronulla Race Riots in 2005, in an effort to create a lesser divide between East and West. As an artist, he decorates the boards with Islamic motifs and iconography from the historic mosques he visite
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surfing and Islam - a response to racial divide

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15:  Sydney artist Phillip George poses among his surfboard exhibition at Casula Powerhouse Art Gallery on December 15, 2008 in Sydney, Australia. George designed the range of 30 'Inshallah' or 'God Willing' boards in response to his trips to the Middle East, and to the Cronulla Race Riots in 2005, in an effort to create a lesser divide between East and West. As an artist, he decorates the boards with Islamic motifs and iconography from the historic mosques he visite
Sydney artist Phillip George
designed the range of 30 'Inshallah' or 'God Willing' boards in response to his trips to the Middle East, and to the Cronulla Race Riots in 2005, in an effort to create a lesser divide between East and West.
he decorates the boards with Islamic motifs
exhibited at the Casula Powerhouse arts centre in an exhibition called 'Borderlands', with all boards facing to Mecca.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Where the hell does this one go???

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Friday, September 4, 2009

Dream Team AFL 2009 market watch

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AS THE dust settles
no bigger winner than North Melbourne’s Liam Anthony
Fremantle’s elevated rookie, Greg Broughton
Brisbane Lions ruckman Mitch Clark,
West Coast midfielder
Tom Swift.

Top 10 movers
1. Liam Anthony (NM) $366,100 (+$279,500)
2. Greg Broughton (Fre) $327,900 (+$252,600)
3. Dayne Beams (Coll) $320,300 (+$233,700)
4. Mitch Clark (BL) $431,100 (+$213,300)
5. Jason Davenport (PA) $298,900 (+$211,400)
6. Tom Swift (WCE) $297,100 (+$210,500)
7. Andrew Collins (Rich) $293,600 (+$207,000)
8. Robin Nahas (Rich) $289,300 (+$205,000)
9. Daniel Rich (BL) $299,900 (+$173,300)
10. Nathan Grima (NM) $258,800 (+$172,200)

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

The Incredible Hanging Temple of Hengshan

reach those dizzy heights!!

Similar, in a way, to the Hanging Houses of Cuenca, the Hanging Temple of Hengshan is an amazing display of architecture.

The Hanging Temple of Hengshan literally hangs on the side of Hengshan Mountain, sustain by only a few wooden poles. You would think this kind of a building couldn’t for hundreds of years, but it is believed the temple was built during the late Northern Wei Dinasty (386-534AD), by a monk called Liao Ran. It was restored during the 1900s.

The gravity-defying Hanging Temple of Hengshan is comprised of 40 chambers, liked through a network of passageways, and hosts not one but three religions. Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism are all worshiped here, in harmony.

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