NYE!!

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2010, New Year's Eve, NYE

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Lyon Fete des Lumieres

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2009, 2day, Art, Culture, En Francais, France, French, Image, Innovation, Jouons Avec les Temps, London, Lyon's Fete des Lumieres, Photography, Place des Jacobins

[Lyon's Fete des Lumieres reaches its climax on Tuesday, the night when in the 19th Century ppl commemorated the Virgin Mary by lighting candles in their windows. The modern 4-day event sees millions throng the streets 2 see illuminated buildings]

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[Jouons avec les temps plays on the fact that the French have the same word for 'weather' & 'time'. Illustrating the flow of seasons, the facades of the buildings around the Hotel de Ville are covered in ice, submerged in water, & melted under heat]

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[This year's Fete des Lumieres has 70 sites around the city - three times more than 2 decades ago. In the exotic garden@the Place Louis Pradel, immense plants made of light & metal  up to 11 metres high are scrutinised by ant-like humans]

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[4 Respirations, Marc Dumas drew on the church's irregular architecture & past as Lyon's oldest site, where Christians were martyred by the Romans in the 2nd Century. The facade comes alive with optical movements & appears 2 breathe]

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[The Place des Jacobins is plunged into the world of 1960s Italian cinema. The square reminded video designer Robert Nortik of the scene @the Trevi Fountain in Federico Fellini's film La Dolce Vita]

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[A battery of high-powered video projectors launch spectacular effects onto the front of the Saint Jean cathedral  a 10-minute soundtrack. Each stage of construction is depicted in a tribute to the builders, who took three centuries 2 finish the work]

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[The ferris wheel becomes a giant screen taking the viewer on a virtual tour of the collections of the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts. Egyptian sculptures, antique ceramics & details from old paintings are brought 2 life]

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[An accelerated vision of the changing seasons is played out in the Parc de la Tete d'Or, alongside the River Rhone. The visual display depicts a fairytale scene as snow begins 2 fall on the ground & trees & covers the entire landscape in seconds]

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dbl D #264

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2009, 2day, Chance, Change, Culture, Energy, Evolution, Haughty, Hope, Japan, Progressive, Proper, Reality, Remnant, Slang, Supernova, Suzaku Observatory, Visionary, Vocabulary, X-Ray, Youth

haugh⋅ty /ˈhɔti/  [haw-tee]  adjective, -ti⋅er, -ti⋅est.

1. disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.

2. Archaic. lofty or noble; exalted.

Synonyms: assuming, cavalier*, conceited, contemptuous, detached, disdainful, distant, egotistic, egotistical, high, hoity-toity, imperious, indifferent, lofty, on high horse, overbearing, overweening, proud, reserved, scornful, sniffy, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stuck-up, supercilious, superior, uppity
Antonyms: humble, meek, shy, timid

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[ A view combining infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory in the supernova remnant W49B.

Studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-U.S. Suzaku observatory have revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions.

After thousands of years gas within these Stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface]

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Yulia::Dance w/Me

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2day, Art, Beauty, Images, Lust, Photography, Random, Sexxxy, Yes!, Yulia

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