Aurora, Incredible Polar Lights
The Aurora is an incredible light show caused by collisions between electrically charged particles released from the sun that enter the earth’s atmosphere and collide with gases such as oxygen and nitrogen. The lights are seen around the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. Auroras that occur in the northern hemisphere are called ‘Aurora Borealis’ or ‘northern lights’ and auroras that occur in the southern hemisphere are called ‘Aurora Australis’ or ‘southern…
Tulip Fields, Holland
The striking colors of the flowering tulip bulbs are a typical sight in Holland during the spring. Part of Holland is transformed into a vast sea of colorful flowers from mid-March to mid-May. It starts with crocus season in March, which is followed by daffodils and hyacinths. Finally the tulips show their gorgeous colors, from mid-April through the first week of May. Tulips basically bloom between 3 and 7 days. People can see tulips north…
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, LA, California
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which will be situated in the current place of Wiltshire May Company building, Los Angeles, California, is designed by Pritzker-Prize winning architect Renzo Piano with Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Gensler. The larger portion of the museum, which will take in the May Company Building, is being renovated and upgraded to hold a mixture of galleries, temporary exhibition spaces, event venues, and a small 144-seat theatre. …
Traditional Clothes of Iranian Ethnic Groups
Although the majority of Iranians are Persian, Iran has a varied population that includes different ethnic groups, each with their own language, tradition, and clothes, all of which add to the richness of the country’s culture. Traditionally marked in women’s clothes, it’s easy to identify which region or tribe the person belongs to, based on the colorful fabrics, embroidered patterns, decorative jewelry, and style. Ethnic groups living in different…
Refik Anadol's Media Arts
Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach. Particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence.…
