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December 27, 2011: Erfurt, Thuringia KrÄmerbrÜcke December 17, 2011: Pinakothek - Munich Charles Wilp / Afri Cola Campaign / Nuns / 1968 Charles Wilp / Afri Cola Campaign / Sarah Hunt / 1968 In 1962 I was a sidewalk painter in Amsterdam. And I had painted a huge picture with a sinful, voluptuous Mary Magdalene. Suddenly there was a tourist in yellow socks and sandals with a bottle who said: Put some of the Mary Magdalene between the breasts. The man was the Afri-Cola producer Karl Flach. It was raining, the colors ran and flowed around the bottle. This fascinated us both. This has brought us together for 15 years and was ultimately the model for the advertising with the nuns. Flach later told me that Bavarians lie under rhododendron bushes in the spring and from this came the rhododendron noise.. From this I made the Afri-Cola noise. He wanted to make this garden-variety drink a cult product for the young in Europe and America. And this he has done.Charles Wilp December 17, 2011: BMW Welt - Munich Designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au At the heart of BMW Welt is vehicle delivery, which forms both the spatial hub and the functional backbone of the building, and the processes connected with this function extend over almost all levels. The new vehicles are delivered to the lower floors via their own loading yard. Here there are carwashes, mechanics workshops, final paint inspection sites and final cleaning sites as well as a one-day storage facility, an automatic high-rise storage unit with a capacity for 250 cars.Coop Himmelb(l)au December 17, 2011: Pasing Arcaden - Munich Designed by Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects Ecco advertisement December 17, 2011: Deutsches Museum - Munich Fraunhofer's prisms These prisms mark the beginning of a new era in the history of optics. Fraunhofer ground them out of melts from the Benediktbeuern glassworks. The prisms served to determine the refractive power and the homogeneity of the molten glass. Prior to Fraunhofer, two essential problems regarding the continuous production of optics using exactly calculated data remained unsolved: (1) The quality of glass depended much on good luck. Any single melt varied greatly in its homogeneity, preventing for example the constrution of large astronomical lenses. (2) The optical properties of the glass could not be determined exactly in terms of its refractive power of the different wavelengths of light. A necessary basis for the calculation of optical component parts did not exist. Operational airfield in World War I The diorama shows an operational airfield that was typical for 1917-18. It consists of a collection of tents and individually painted aircraft. The scene is dominated by Albatros DV biplanes of No. 5 Fighter Squadron and the Fokker Dr. I triplanes of No. 6 Fighter Squadron. THe aircraft were sheltered and serviced in the tents. Such an airfield could be rapidly dismantled and re-erected. This mobility increased the operational use of the fighter squadrons as they could be rapidly transfered to where they were most needed. Effelsberg radio telescope The largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world started its observations in 1972 in the Eifel. The location of the valley serves as protection against part of the Earth's perturbing radiation. The large area of the reflector makes it possible to evaluate even very weak signals. The telescope has been used to prove the existence of molecules in space, to investigate objects in our Milky Way, as well as galaxies, quasars, radio galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the cosmic background radiation. 40 of the 100 supernova remnants in the northern sky were discovered using this telescope. Photography Technology Exhibit Calculating Machine by Johann Christoph Schuster 1820 December 17, 2011: Munich Train Station Wall of sushi December 17, 2011: Wild Wild West Exhibit - Young Belgian Architects Exhibit at ArchitekturSalon Munich JDS Architects / VM House / Copenhagen, Denmark Wim goes architectuur 1:1Architecture B-ILD OLDER >>		Monica is an aspiring architect, current student, painter, artist, residing for a year in Germany. Here she collates her photos with evocative quotes she encounters. I tell you: one must have still chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche They rode out on the high prarie and slowed the horeses to a walk and the stars swarmed around them out of the blackness. They heard somewhere in that tenentless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was. They rode out on the round dias of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it. And which carried them and bore them up into the swarming stars so they rode, not under them, but among them. And they rode at once both jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric. Like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing. Cormac McCarthy Archives: 2011: November October September Themes: art architecture photography theory philosophy ecology innovation imagination