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The Wall - 13,000 Oil Barrels, Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany, 1998-99
Photo: Wolfgang Volz
The Gasometer, one of the largest gas tanks in the world, 360 feet (110 meters) high by 223 feet (68 meters) in diameter, was built in 1928 to store the gas (a by-product of the industrial production of iron ore). Christo and Jeanne-Claude were invited by IBA Emscher Park Organization (founded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1989 to improve the infrastructure of the Ruhrregion), to exhibit in the Gasometer in Oberhausen.
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“A series of hollowed-out television sets frame beguiling scenes imagined in Xiangxi’s works, begun while studying sculpture at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art.
Situated in a small creative community in Hei Qiao Cun on the northeastern edge of the city, his studio is littered with second-hand appliances like washing machines, which become the sites of miniature worlds inspired by locations such as his old workspace in Guangzhou, the workers’ dormitory he once lived in, his parent’s sitting room, the interior of a train carriage—even his dream home. They are replicas rendered faithfully, but playfully, often using the cement, brick, glass, stone or paper materials found in their life-sized equivalents.”
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Heat Cloak. A series of concentric rings lets heat propagating from left to right across a metallic sheet flow more readily around a thermally isolated disk than toward its center, leaving no sign of the disk in the temperature distribution on the right side. The colors represent temperatures measured with an infrared camera and are superimposed on a photo of the structure before the rubbery insulating material was added to the holes and gaps. The white lines connect points at the same temperature.
Credit R. Schittny/Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech.
Source: Invisibility Cloak for Heat (American Physical Society)
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Piling is one of the crucial steps for making Yellow tea unlike any other. After the high heat drying, the leaves are now very dry. The stems are still moist. Piling the leaves together allows the water in the wet stems to travel to the dry leaves- a process of drawing out the moisture in an ingenious way. After a day of piling, medium heat rotation is again applied. Then, piling with a fabric to keep out any additional air from influencing the final drying process. After that, one more round of high heat drying one week later ensures that the Yellow tea is the dryest tea of all time, thus the least perishable of all green teas!
This whole process was invented by this village. Trade secrets few green tea makers know or bother with. All this work to make a few renminbi, says the high roller Dragonwell merchants! Truly, this wonderful gem of Yellow tea is completely unknown and there is no market for, and skilled artisans like Mr. Dai, the last one standing, continues to make this tea out of sheer determination to preserve this vestige of pride from his village.Loading... -
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Yellow tea drying is a daunting feat of skill, experience, and back breaking work.
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I scored some wild green tea from the other side of the mountain. Mr. Dai’s friend managed to make just a bit for us all to try at the harvest party. This mountain turned out to be one of the original indigenous areas of the guanmu bush type Camellia sinensis. Not only are many tea bushes ancient and thousands of years old, there are numerous wild tea bushes all over in the topmost areas of the mountain. Just paying the teapickers to hunt and find and harvest these sparse bushes though makes it difficult, but it’s not yet prohibitive. I plan to procure as much as they can make so such treasures do not go to waste!
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Mr. Dai’s family of 4 brothers, his mom, various kids and wives gather to cook dinner at the family hearth. Green garlic from their hillside, water from the mountain stream, vegetables from their neighbor… It’s a far cry from the scary food stories coming out in the Chinese news everyday. Living in such a remote farm is rough, I haven’t been to a hole in the ground outhouse for a while. But the air is fresh and clean, too chilly and high up for mosquitoes, the food and the tea will be wood fired…..all is good.
#green tea #china village
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