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29.9.10
House your hens in style
A modern chicken coop that looks more like sculpture. The nogg transcends ideas of what a chicken house usually looks like. It is designed to encourage domestic farming while adding a touch of playful elegance.
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28.9.10
Egg Orchids
Sparrow’s Egg Lady’s Slipper(Cypripedium passerinum)
Yellow Lady's Slipper(Cypripedium parviflorum)
Photos by Ron
27.9.10
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24.9.10
Egg, Serpent and Fire
The Serpent Mother, 2006Photo by Waldemar Horwat, in Nevada Magazine
The Serpent Mother is a sculpture of a skeletal serpent coiled around and protecting her egg. Propane fueled flame effects light up the top of each vertebra. Six foot high jets of flame shoot from each vertebra when participants push buttons near the base of the sculpture or by computer control. The neck and jaw are operated by pneumatic cylinders. The top of the arch of her back is 6 m off the ground. Each of her teeth is lit from within by fire and her underbelly is lit by undulating computer controlled LEDs. The egg has a finely worked copper shell. It opens and shoots colored liquid methanol flame effects. The whole piece burns approximately 2 tons of propane per evening.
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Over a hundred people at a time can stand inside the area enclosed by her curving body, being kept warm and entertained by the fires burning around them.
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Over a hundred people at a time can stand inside the area enclosed by her curving body, being kept warm and entertained by the fires burning around them.
Flaming Lotus Girls is a collaborative art group that creates large-scale fire art, founded in 2000 by artits working on a sculpture for the Burning Man Arts Festival in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
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22.9.10
Egg in Uterus
[...] De Conceptu et Generatione Hominis (1554), by Jacob Rueff, represents the continuation of the Aristotelian-Thomist view of the male seed causing the mother's blood to coagulate in the uterus,the Aristotelian theory of the male semen and the female blood coagulum in the uterus.
The uterus first appears to be filled with the menstrual blood upon which the semen progressively acts, building up the vessels and shaping the body's organs. After approximately forty or ninety days (male and female conceptus, respectively), the fœtus appears as formatus . [...] More details
Jacob Rueff (c. 1500-1558) was a surgeon and obstetrician in Zurich.
His treatise on human generation is first published in German in 1553 before being translated into latin in 1554 : ""De conceptu et generatione hominis et iis quae circa haec potissimum consyderantur libri sex", Tiguri : Fraschoverus, 1554.
His treatise on human generation is first published in German in 1553 before being translated into latin in 1554 : ""De conceptu et generatione hominis et iis quae circa haec potissimum consyderantur libri sex", Tiguri : Fraschoverus, 1554.
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