никакой иронии, одна лепота

"A couple of years ago, Ninette Murk started the 'Beauty Without Irony' movement - a movement about beauty for the senses, for the instinct, something we recognize as beautiful by natural law, for example symmetry, nature, love, etc. Within this movement she gathers creatives from all over the world to project their vision of Beauty Without Irony."





ps: если кто-то вдруг знает, что за музыка там играет в бэкграунде, то я бы был очень признателен за делёжку этим знанием.

[PER] Подсмотрел у подсмотревшего подсматривание

Даже думал на юзерпик пустить; пока не пустил.

[PER] Каспаров о шахматах, и не столько

"Thirty years ago at the Soviet Junior Championship I played my first major chess event at the national level. Twenty years ago in Moscow I became the youngest World Champion in history. Last week in Spain I played my final serious games of chess, winning the Linares super-tournament for the ninth time. After three decades as a professional chess player, the last two ranked No. 1, I have decided to retire from professional chess". - Garry Kasparov, The Great Game

хорошая статья

 

[PER] tic-tac

The mail room of the Dutch parliament was evacuated for over an hour because of a suspicious package which turned out to contain a kitchen timer.

"Around noon we evacuated the mail room and several adjoining rooms after a suspicious package was found," said police spokesman Frans van Rijnswou. "The package turned out to contain a kitchen timer ... As members of parliament do not often need kitchen timers for their work we are investigating who sent it," Van Rijnswou said.

The inner courtyard of parliament, normally open to the public, was also evacuated and a bomb squad and security forces were called in.

 

[PER] О национальной гордости . . .

Цветовая гамма - точнёхонько сезона весна-лето 2005.

[PER] The Tzar Letters

Никто не знает, что означают эти буквы? Фотография из альбома "XLIIй Выпускъ Воспитанницъ Паричскаго Женскаго Училища. 1913 г."

Это как бы загадка, но я не знаю ответа, так что не плюйтесь потом, что я типа зажал ответ.

[PER] Blue Pattern

© Viviane Faguay, Blue

А вот кто угадает, что это такое и для чего так делается? Это не мой снимок, но подсказка - он сделан в Голландии.

upd: Совершенно неожиданно для меня novikov взял и всё отгадал.

Вот объяснение автора снимка:

"In the Netherlands mussels are mainly grown in floor culture on the mussel plots. Here in Bruinisse, our village with a rather important fishing harbour, the mussels are also experimentely grown in the so-called "Hangcultuur'.

In spring, the seed (spat/larvae) collectors are prepared and deployed in seed producing areas. At this time the Sleeving process begins.
Sleeving (seeding) is the operation by which juvenile or seed mussels are loaded onto mesh sleeves.

By the fall of the year the mussel seed will have grown to a size of 5 to 20 mm and socking season begins. The mussel seed are stripped from the collectors, de-clumped and graded into uniform size classes before being places into plastic mesh sleeves/tubes called socks.

The socks containing the mussels are then hung from longlines and the longlines suspended below the surface for over-wintering - Here hanging under these blue barrels - The mussels hang high in the water, where the food offer is optimum and the mussels need no silt or sand.

Because of this the mussels will grow fast and get them sticking out a flesh weight and and more fine taste and absolutely without any sand.

During the spring and summer of the year following the socking, the mussel farmer is busy adding floatation to the longlines as the crop grows and the mussel socks gain weight." - Viviane Faguay, Blue