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Amazing Model of Futuristic City Made of Stacked Staples

Have you ever wondered about how New York or some other giant city could look in hundred years? If you have no idea about how it would look like, then, you should see the city model made by Peter Root.

Peter Root made this amazing city model using a bunch of stacked staples. He decided to call it Ephemicropolis.  As you can see, he needed a plenty of patience and time to create such magnificent model.

There is a whole ‘forest’ of buildings and skyscrapers of different size.  He made this model of city from about 100,000 staples on the surface of 18 square meters.  I really believe that, if technological development continues to grow as equal as in previous years, this model could become real, one day but I am afraid that this civilization has slowly reaching its peak.

Amazing Animal Sculptures by Native Alaskan Roy Peratrovich

 Alaska native Roy Petrovich is a Tlingit Indian and member of the Raven Clan. He works in bronze sculpture, making spectacular pieces often telling tales of his heritage and/or childhood through them. Proud Alaska natives, his mother and father were the ones who spearheaded the first anti- discrimination law in the U.S. before civil rights or anyone else in Alaska. Roy's mother and father even had a park named after them, decorated with a monument made by Roy to honor his parents.

Flight of the Raven

 This was the model for the monument (first photograph), which tells the legend of the raven, very special to Tlinglet belief. In many ways, the natives were the first "environmentalists" through their belief that every living and inanimate thing had a reason to be. According to Tlinglet legend, the raven is seen as the creator who brought light to the world by stealing it from an ancient chief who kept it hidden in a box. But the raven used his famous trickery, finally seizing the light in his beak. As he escaped through the smoke hole at the top of the chief's tent, the rising smoke turned his feathers black. The sculpture is of bronze that was later patinae'd, and the sun is an orb of polished quartz.

 The Sea Three

 Dolphins are known for their leaping and bowriding and the joy they seem to share when at play is contagious, and a pleasant connection to the inhabitants of our sea world. Says Roy: "Bowriding is a remarkable marine phenomenon that I have observed many times. The dolphins burst in on the beam of a fast moving vessel and position their flukes so that the upwelling water from the bow pushes the animals forward with very little effort on their part. The dolphins then plane along ahead of the bow wave, comfortably supported by the rush of water under their pectoral fins." Roy's son used to lean over and stroke the backs of the dolphins as they rode the bow waves. The base of the sculpture is shaped as a windlass, further connecting the dolphins and boats.

Whale Riders

 Whale Riders" was inspired by a story his grandfather told Roy, one of traveling 200 km in heavy seas with his father on a war canoe to meet and settle differences with another tribe. Roy imagined what dream a child might have sleeping in the bow of the canoe, and since Orcas are respected but not feared in Tinglit culture, the piece interprets the dream as the family getting a free ride on the mighty Orca tail while the children sleep in the bow. The patina work is visually stunning, the process is done by applying different chemicals to the bronze, which then give a thin layer of colored metal. There are artists who specialize in patina at the direction of the sculpture.

 The Council of Elders

 The artist tells the story of this piece in his own words: "This sculpture is a lighthearted representation of the two great Tlingit clans: Eagle and Raven. My friends and relatives in the Eagle clan have long been urging me to make an Eagle sculpture. As a Raven, I found this an irresistible opportunity to include a little Tlingit humor. I have made Eagle to appear his most regal and self-important, as he listens wisely and patiently to brother Raven's perhaps unsolicited advice. Eagle's wings and back display traditional totemic designs to reflect his lofty position in our Tlingit culture, while Raven is shown as his typical crafty self."

Learning Curve

 Roy loved to watch the otters at play both as a child and an adult. They really enjoy sliding down snow hills rather as we do but they don't use a toboggan for it! This piece shows mom at the bottom giggling and enjoying her run while dad is in the middle and the child otter is a little nervous at the top, about to take his turn.

Raven Dance

 The blanket on the raven is a traditional Chilkat blanket ceremonial robe and he is dancing in it. The blanket had originally been made for the bust of the artist's mother but didn't work there so was given to the raven for his dance.

On Top of the World

The mighty and awe inspiring Orca, this piece is named On Top of the World to show it is found in waters at both the north and south poles. Art is personal to the artist, a personal expression of emotion, world views and beliefs. Roy Peratrovich has done a wonderful job of translating his Native history and legends into spectacular bronze sculptures.

Incredible Rock Balancing Art

Bill Dan is a sculptor and performance artist specializing in rock balancing. He creates seemingly impossible, temporary balanced sculptures from un-worked rock and stone in public spaces near his home in San Francisco.

London's Highgate Cemetery Through the Eyes of Audrey Niffenegger

 Bestselling writer Audrey Niffenegger has joined the ranks of the famous and infamous faces at London’s Highgate Cemetery. The author of "The Time Traveller’s Wife" isn’t interred here, but was put to service as a guide as part of research for her latest novel "Her Fearful Symmetry". The book is a ghost story based around the Victorian cemetery.

 Speaking at a discussion on the history of the cemetery and its famous inhabitants, Audrey explained how the initial ground work for the novel began at her home in Chicago several years ago, before continuing at the cemetery itself where she gained so much knowledge on the subject that she was able to volunteer for the conservation group the Friends of Highgate Cemetery as a guide on public tours.

She even admitted that spending so much time working in the cemetery became second nature to her. Dressed casually and at ease expounding on the cemetery’s beginnings, Audrey talked at length on her reasons for setting "Her Fearful Symmetry" there rather than at a cemetery closer to home.

She said: “The cemetery was going to be one of the great Chicago cemeteries like Graceland. I thought Graceland’s really great, but what’s the best cemetery?”

The author decided on Highgate with its eerie Victorian sculptures and elaborate gravestones.

 In Victorian times, death was big business. Early death was common and infant mortality rates were high, so death became an innate part of the culture. In life, and in death, status was an important thing for the rich, and their graves and burial spots had to reflect that, so funerals were lavish and Highgate Cemetery became the place to be buried.

 As well as having highly detailed graves and statues, Audrey said that some
residents of the cemetery also requested that their addresses in life be listed on their gravestones as a mark of their importance at being able to own property in prestigious parts of London.

Many famous people are buried at Highgate from the likes of Karl Marx, the father of Communism, to 19th-century-writer George Eliot and poet Christina Rossetti.

“I bet she had a morbid imagination,” Audrey jokes. “I would have loved to meet her.

 Other notable burials include physicist Michael Faraday; muse and wife of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddel, and author Mrs Henry Wood.

More recent additions to the cemetery include the author of "The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy" Douglas Adams, Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko and comedian Max Wall.

It's not only the rich and famous that have a final resting place here though as Audrey stresses: “You can see it in the way the cemetery is laid out. There are posh sections and then you reach parts of it that no one ever sees with mass graves and unmarked graves for criminals.”

Audrey explained that at the time of her research, she hadn’t had any books published and had no writing credentials at all. Perhaps spending time amongst the graves of so many wealthy, successful and famous of the cemetery’s patrons has rubbed off on her. Now she’s a best-selling author, had her debut novel turned into a Hollywood film and has since published three graphic novels.

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