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Emmanuel Florac

The Bronze Trade Origins of Cities - by Arpit Gupta

#history #archeology #agriculture #Bronze #urbanisation

..it took about as much time between the origin of agriculture and the emergence of the first true cities, in the 4th millennium BC, as has elapsed since then. When cities did first arise, you saw the near-synchronous emergence of urban centers in the Bronze Age characterized by internal stratification and elites across Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and Central Asia. Why did it take so long for these cities to form, and what explains the timing? Why did they start up so quickly all over the world?

It’s a foundational question at the heart of urban economics, politics, and trade, and a new paper by Matthias Flückiger, Mario Larch, Markus Ludwig, and Luigi Pascali provides a provocative answer: the key to the emergence of cities in the Bronze Age was, well, Bronze.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-140951818

The Bronze Trade Origins of Cities

Why Metals Explain The Rise of Civilization

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

Since Monday afternoon I am staying in Stonemill to check on Peter for 5 days while Katharina is in Darmstadt, Germany... I am preparing his breakfast, giving him his medicamentation and am cooking his supper... he is quite weak and has become extreme forgetful... although I do love him very much it is quite arduous.

The #sculpture is one of Peter's #bronze #art... #ya #photo

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

this morning went down to my smithy to forge some soundsticks for Andrea; the first pair from last week do not sound that good as I drilled the holes not in the right place. today I managed the steel ones, hammered them cold, and they sound fabulous, and then I tried a pair out of forging bronze, had to light fire as the original diameter of the forging-bronze bar is 30mm... they give an interesting sound.

#ya #forging #steel #bronze #sound #sticks #sound-sticks #klangstäbe #photography

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catsofcommons@pod.geraspora.de
Cats of Commons

The statue of Panteleimon, a grey Persian cat, is located in Kyiv, opposite the restaurant "Пантагрюель", where the cat lived. When a fire broke out in the restaurant, the cat suffocated from the smoke. 😢 Regular customers donated money to restore the restaurant and erect a monument to the faithful cat. The statue was installed in 1998 and is made by sculptor Bohdan Mazur.

Photo by Ogre, Public domain

#CatsOfCommons #cat #catcontent #sculpture #art #bronze #kyiv

File:Statue to the cat Panteleimon in Kiev.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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Brooks + Scarpa releases concept for Holocaust memorial in Florida

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LA studio Brooks + Scarpa has released designs for a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust to be constructed outside of the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee.

The firm designed the project to address different aspects of the tragedy in the context of Florida. The state has the highest number of living Holocaust survivors in the US, and five museums and memorials dedicated to the victims.

Brooks + Scarpa's sculpture was recently chosen to be built by the Holocaust Memorial Review Committee, formed by the state government in 2015.

Brooks + Scarpa Holocaust Memorial FloridaBrooks + Scarpa won a competition to design a Holocaust memorial for the Florida State Capitol

Lawrence Scarpa, who grew up in Florida, says that the design was personal. "Half of my cousins were Bar/Bat mitzvah’d and Jewish culture was always part of my life" he said. "Additionally, many of my direct relatives were killed in the holocaust."

"I feel like by winning the competition and being the designer of a memorial with such a historical significance, that in some way, by being able to design the memorial it also memorializes my own family’s grief, suffering, survival, hope and success," added Scarpa.

Called Passage of the Heart, the memorial will be placed in the Florida State Capitol complex, designed by Edward Durell Stone. The sculpture, composed of triangular stone forms, was designed so that visitors could walk through it.

Brooks + Scarpa Holocaust Memorial FloridaThe sculpture will have a limestone exterior and a bronze interior

The objective of the design is "to become a symbol of the celebration of life, but also a journey of transition and hope, where the visitor travels thru the memorial, back in time while contemplating the future," said Brooks + Scarpa in the description for its submission.

The Florida limestone exterior is meant to symbolise stones placed at the graves of the dead, with the Hebrew word for "stone" carved in the face of the material. At the base will be etchings of the names of all the largest concentration camps.

Brooks + Scarpa Holocaust Memorial FloridaRandomised numbers cut into the bronze will symbolise the tattoos forced on victims

Inside, a bronze-clad interior will be divided into 22 panels, symbolising the number of countries directly affected by the Holocaust.

On these panels, random numbers akin to those assigned to prisoners at the camps will be cut into the metal surface. The numbers will cover the entirety of the bronze panels to show "the magnitude of the loss of life".

The panels will be backlit at night so that the numbers shine through even in the dark, as a symbol of "enduring life thru tragedy".

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"We want to prompt visitors to think about their moral and ethical responsibilities when they see injustice," said Brooks + Scarpa.

Interactive aspects are also incorporated into the design. Digital projections will be projected on the stone face for educational purposes and small gaps will be left between the walls of the memorial where visitors can leave mementos.

Brooks + Scarpa Holocaust Memorial FloridaVisitors will be able to walk through the sculpture

In 2018 an additional memorial recognising the victims of American slavery was also approved for the Florida State Capitol Complex, although the current status is "unclear" according to a release on the project.

Memorials for the victims of the Holocaust remain extremely relevant. Last year, Daniel Libeskind, the designer of the Jewish Museum of Berlin as well as the planner of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex, completed a memorial to the Dutch victims of the Holocaust in Amsterdam.

Imagery is courtesy of Brooks + Scarpa.

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Brooks + Scarpa releases concept for Holocaust memorial

Brooks + Scarpa has released designs for a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust to be constructed outside of the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee.

catsofcommons@pod.geraspora.de
Cats of Commons

Bronze sculpture of a smiling, elderly woman selling sunflower seeds. Next to her, on the ground, are two bags of seeds, a rat, and a sleeping cat. One of the bags has a hole for coins, labeled "Good luck".
The sculpture depicts Liudmyla Banchenko, a real market seller of the area.
The sculpture is by the Ukrainian-Azerbaijani artist Seyfaddin Burbanov. It is (was?) located near the main entrance to the Central Market, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Photo by Завгородня Вероніка, CC BY-SA 4.0

#CatsOfCommons #cat #catcontent #Art #Bronze #Sculpture #Sunflower #SunflowerSeeds #Kharkiv #Ukraine

File:Пам'ятник жінці, що продає насіння 01.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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