Quote from: Parasaurolophus on Today at 07:13:25 AMFinish checking,then gotta make a start on finding commentators for a conference.
Quote from: financeguy on Today at 09:11:21 AMTwo things can be true at the same time. If it is the case the plagiarism has occurred but only uncovered due to an outside actor with a different agenda, what do you propose? Let it slide due to the method of discovery?
QuoteRichard Serra, Who Recast Sculpture on a Massive Scale, Dies at 85
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
QuoteSchunnemunk Fork, a site-specific commission, is installed in a ten-acre rolling field with a natural border of nearby woods, which, at the time of the work's construction, was the southern edge of the Storm King property. When Richard Serra surveyed Storm King's grounds and chose the site, it had never before been considered for its artistic potential. He arrived at his final composition through a complex process that involved consulting both topographical maps and a surveyor, as well as walking the grounds with his wife, Clara Weyergraf-Serra. The work consists of four weathering steel plates set lengthwise and inserted into the ground at designated intervals. Each plate is eight feet high and two and a half inches thick; lengths vary from thirty-five to almost fifty-five feet. Roughly a third of the length of each rectangular plate is visible; the remainder is buried in the earth. The visible angles correspond to eight-foot drops in the terrain. The title refers to the four-pronged scheme of the piece and references nearby Schunnemunk Mountain.
QuoteDavid Breashears, 68, Who Braved Everest to Capture It on Film, Dies
He risked death on the slopes of the world's highest mountain to produce the highest-grossing IMAX documentary of all time.
Quote from: Parasaurolophus on Today at 11:49:36 AMQuote from: Langue_doc on Today at 11:41:30 AMQuoteAlive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read. In 1972 an aircraft carrying an Uruguayan college rugby team crashed in a snowy wilderness high in the Andes. When searchers failed to find them, the survivors faced months of struggling against avalanches, blizzards, and more with nothing like adequate clothing or other gear. They had no food, and had to force themselves to eat the bodies of their friends who had perished in the crash. Eventually two of them made a desperate trek out of the mountains to get help.
I recall reading about this book, but didn't have the stomach to actually read it. You might like Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, an account of the ill-fated 1996 Mt. Everest expeditions.
There was a movie about the Alive story, also called Alive.
On Krakauer: a good counterpoint is Anatoli Boukreev's The Climb. Boukreev is Krakauer's villain, but nobody on his expedition died and he went back several times to save others. Krakauer, on the other hand, (as I recall) refused to share his oxygen.