I don't really deserve thanks, I commented on a comment, not on the
image. Which is very nice by the way. I think the title should be
"Youth and Vanity vs Age and Acceptance". Not that the younger woman is
vain exactly, but she is certainly aware of her attractiveness.
On 11/7/2016 8:51 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Thank you, Larry, Malcolm, P.J., Marco, John, and
John-wherever-you-are-now for looking and commenting! ;-)
I am back home from the last week's conference travel, - and by this
time, people may have figured out that this picture has been taken at
"GUM" - "Upper Trading Rows", and iconic store in Moscow, Russia:
http://pug.komkon.org/16nov/slides/IR-%20IconicPlaces-Igor_IR34361.html
I am not sure if anybody read the Wikipedia linked below that image:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUM_%28department_store%29
It is a historic building with the first of its kind (at the time it
was built - more than a century ago) engineering design.
Yet another structure built by the same engineer is the hyperboloid
"Shukhov tower": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shukhov_Tower
(on the UNESCO's "Endangered Buildings" list).
Unfortunately, I don't have any of my own photos of it.
A few interesting engineering facts about it:
Shukhov invented hyperboloid towers (Patent of 1899, applied 1896).
The original design called for 350 meters height, and that would weigh
2200 tons (metric). For comparison, Eiffel Tower (324 meters) weighs
over 10 000 tons. Due to the shortage of steel, Shukhov's tower is
only 160-meters tall.
Based on this idea, in 2005-2009, a 600-meter-high hyperboloid Canton
tower was built in Guangzhou, China. (For a brief moment it was the
tallest tower in the world, taking over that title from the CN Tower
in Toronto.)
A curious fact:
In 1941, a postal airplane that was expriencing technical problems,
touched with its wing the cable that was going from the top of the
tower to the ground (at an angle), - a leftover from the construction,
which was hanging there for several years since the tower was built.
That torn off the winch that was at the ground end, but the tower
remained intact and did not need any repairs. The plane crashed into
the nearby house's yard.
Cheers,
Igor
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
"Oops, I did it again!" ;-)
Thank you, Larry. For you others who still cannot read URLs through
the brain-wave channel:
http://42graphy.org/galleries/2016-08-05-RedSquare/_IR34357.html
Cheers,
Igor
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
"2x2 = 4to"
Just a fun shot.
This photo is taken at an iconic place... The photo in the PUG will
be the clue of where this happened.
All comments and suggestions are welcome.
Igor
PS. I am aware of the boy and his leg.
There was no opportunity/time to move to the side and "hide" him
behind the man.
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