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thunderstruck9 · 3 months
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John Lavery (Irish, 1856-1941), The Bridge at Grès, 1901. Oil on canvas, 89.1 x 148.3 cm. Ulster Museum, Belfast
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huariqueje · 1 year
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House in the Sun on the river,  Nemours   -   Henri Le Sidaner , 1919.
French,  1862-1939
Oil on panel, 33 × 40.5 cm.
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Hall of the Château de Hulay in Gretz-sur-Loing, Gâtinais region of France
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womblegrinch · 1 year
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Robert William Vonnoh (1858-1933) - Beside the river (Grez)
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1890.
18 x 22 inches, 45.7 x 55.9 cm. Estimate: US$25,000-30,000.
Sold Shannon’s, Milford, Connecticut, 27 Oct 2022 for US$68,750 incl B.P.
Depicts the old bridge in Grez-sur-Loing where Vonnoh lived for a time alongside other American impressionists. I’ve posted another painting by Vonnoh previously, looking the other way from the top of the ramp on the other bank. The accompanying photo shows the garden wall is still there.
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sambuchito · 5 months
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de una forma una mini pimer es como una cinturonga …
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chunlo · 26 days
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I like Dune: Part 2 PRINTS
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snowlattes · 25 days
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later, winter ❄️ greetings, spring 🌸
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average friend group of ppl in their mid to late 20s consists of someone who just got married and bought a house, someone’s who’s already a divorcee with a kid, and someone who still hasn’t recovered from that one thing that happened when they were 12
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lo-55 · 1 year
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Me: I should write something
me : … or I could spent 78 hours straight making a miniature library with a working LED chandelier
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reasonsforhope · 20 days
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As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
Earlier this month, the future fell on Los Angeles. A long band of moisture in the sky, known as an atmospheric river, dumped 9 inches of rain on the city over three days—over half of what the city typically gets in a year. It’s the kind of extreme rainfall that’ll get ever more extreme as the planet warms.
The city’s water managers, though, were ready and waiting. Like other urban areas around the world, in recent years LA has been transforming into a “sponge city,” replacing impermeable surfaces, like concrete, with permeable ones, like dirt and plants. It has also built out “spreading grounds,” where water accumulates and soaks into the earth.
With traditional dams and all that newfangled spongy infrastructure, between February 4 and 7 the metropolis captured 8.6 billion gallons of stormwater, enough to provide water to 106,000 households for a year. For the rainy season in total, LA has accumulated 14.7 billion gallons.
Long reliant on snowmelt and river water piped in from afar, LA is on a quest to produce as much water as it can locally. “There's going to be a lot more rain and a lot less snow, which is going to alter the way we capture snowmelt and the aqueduct water,” says Art Castro, manager of watershed management at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. “Dams and spreading grounds are the workhorses of local stormwater capture for either flood protection or water supply.”
Centuries of urban-planning dogma dictates using gutters, sewers, and other infrastructure to funnel rainwater out of a metropolis as quickly as possible to prevent flooding. Given the increasingly catastrophic urban flooding seen around the world, though, that clearly isn’t working anymore, so now planners are finding clever ways to capture stormwater, treating it as an asset instead of a liability. “The problem of urban hydrology is caused by a thousand small cuts,” says Michael Kiparsky, director of the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley. “No one driveway or roof in and of itself causes massive alteration of the hydrologic cycle. But combine millions of them in one area and it does. Maybe we can solve that problem with a thousand Band-Aids.”
Or in this case, sponges. The trick to making a city more absorbent is to add more gardens and other green spaces that allow water to percolate into underlying aquifers—porous subterranean materials that can hold water—which a city can then draw from in times of need. Engineers are also greening up medians and roadside areas to soak up the water that’d normally rush off streets, into sewers, and eventually out to sea...
To exploit all that free water falling from the sky, the LADWP has carved out big patches of brown in the concrete jungle. Stormwater is piped into these spreading grounds and accumulates in dirt basins. That allows it to slowly soak into the underlying aquifer, which acts as a sort of natural underground tank that can hold 28 billion gallons of water.
During a storm, the city is also gathering water in dams, some of which it diverts into the spreading grounds. “After the storm comes by, and it's a bright sunny day, you’ll still see water being released into a channel and diverted into the spreading grounds,” says Castro. That way, water moves from a reservoir where it’s exposed to sunlight and evaporation, into an aquifer where it’s banked safely underground.
On a smaller scale, LADWP has been experimenting with turning parks into mini spreading grounds, diverting stormwater there to soak into subterranean cisterns or chambers. It’s also deploying green spaces along roadways, which have the additional benefit of mitigating flooding in a neighborhood: The less concrete and the more dirt and plants, the more the built environment can soak up stormwater like the actual environment naturally does.
As an added benefit, deploying more of these green spaces, along with urban gardens, improves the mental health of residents. Plants here also “sweat,” cooling the area and beating back the urban heat island effect—the tendency for concrete to absorb solar energy and slowly release it at night. By reducing summer temperatures, you improve the physical health of residents. “The more trees, the more shade, the less heat island effect,” says Castro. “Sometimes when it’s 90 degrees in the middle of summer, it could get up to 110 underneath a bus stop.”
LA’s far from alone in going spongy. Pittsburgh is also deploying more rain gardens, and where they absolutely must have a hard surface—sidewalks, parking lots, etc.—they’re using special concrete bricks that allow water to seep through. And a growing number of municipalities are scrutinizing properties and charging owners fees if they have excessive impermeable surfaces like pavement, thus incentivizing the switch to permeable surfaces like plots of native plants or urban gardens for producing more food locally.
So the old way of stormwater management isn’t just increasingly dangerous and ineffective as the planet warms and storms get more intense—it stands in the way of a more beautiful, less sweltering, more sustainable urban landscape. LA, of all places, is showing the world there’s a better way.
-via Wired, February 19, 2024
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madneyslifeline · 4 months
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I hope Andre knew how much joy he brought all of us 🥺❤️
Edit: Statement from Mike Schur and Dan Goor - “Like everyone who was fortunate enough to know Andre, we are heartbroken by the news of his passing. He was one of the most talented dramatic actors in history, and then he decided to try comedy, and he was instantly one of the funniest people ever to do it,” read the statement. “But even greater than his acting talent was the happiness and joy he brought to those around him. And his smile… he had the greatest, brightest, most wonderful smile. Our thoughts and love go to his beautiful, amazing family, whom he loved more than anything. We are grateful for the time we had with him.”
Edit 2: Statements from Joel and Joe 😭
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Edit 3: Chelsea 💔
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Edit 4: Melissa
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lomakes · 4 months
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Changing of the Guard✨
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Los Angeles!!! Pay attention!!!🚨🚨🚨Do your research. VOTE TRUE BLUE. Remember Rick Caruso? We didn’t let him get away with it. Don’t let anybody else.
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1997 Book market in Souppes-sur-Loing, Gâtinais region of central France
French vintage postcard
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womblegrinch · 2 years
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Francis Picabia (1879-1953) - Untitled (Le Loing à Nemours)
Oil on canvas. Painted in 1908.
23.5 x 28.9 inches, 59.6 x 73.4 cm. Estimate: £30,000-50,000.
Sold Christie’s, London, 27 May 2022 for £163,500 incl B.P.
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seddenostalgia · 3 months
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me and the mutuals when we're online ♡
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